3/16 and 3/23: Visual Arts Visiting Artist: Christina Simons

Photographer Christina Simons joined the Visiting Artist/Visual Arts class for some very fun shadow puppet construction and filming! The students created incredible shadow puppets out of construction paper, bubble wrap, colored cellophane, Christmas lights and more. Christina provided a fantastic set up with an overhead projector and screen for the kids to experiment with their puppets as well as some fancy tricks with the overhead projector (including a tub of water, dye, and oil).

Watch the whole film on our YouTube channel complete with some fun shenanigans at the end and a guest appearance by Christina's cat!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7E3CzX3s2A

Here are some stills from their beautiful film:

3/2 and 3/9 VDO Visiting Artists: Film/Video: Colin Howard and Visual Arts: Taylor Giali and Mitch Cox

For the past two weeks, the Valle del Oro Nomad crew worked with visiting artists Colin Howard, Taylor Giali, and Mitch Cox to create animated loops and collages using images of the neighborhood they shot themselves.

Cartoon Network animator Colin Howard was the first visitor of our brand new Film/Video Visiting Artists lab and his class was such a success it extended for an extra hour both days. All participants of Film/Video are also in Alfredo's Beat Lab and created their own music tracks for their animations which you can watch here:

as well as this one, which refuses to upload properly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AylnSg0pI

 Though we don't have any photos of Colin teaching, there is photographic evidence of him doing crunches with the kids in lieu of dance class since our poor dance teacher was out sick.

Taylor Giali and Mitch Cox returned for their 2nd visit after helping us kick off the Visual Artists Visiting Artists Lab in Fall 2012. This time around, they provided the participants with disposable cameras which they used to document the complex. The next week, the kids created some great collages out of their own material. Hopefully we'll have scans of the collages up soon but in the meantime, here are some photos Taylor and Mitch took of that process.

2/16 & 2/23 VDO Visiting Artist: Pedro Lavin//class & kites

Flying some kites after a Visiting Artist drawing class with Pedro Lavin (with only two tree run ins and one crash landing in the pool).

Nomad Lab at Printed Matter's L.A. Art Book Fair

The Pop-Hop has loaded some Nomad Lab zines onto their table at the first L.A. Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary !!

For more information about this event, visit: http://laartbookfair.net/