What is...a Human: A Creative Exploration (Ages 12-16)

In this workshop, students will investigate one of the oldest and most elusive questions: What is a human? Rather than approaching the question through anatomy, behavior, or language, participants will explore humanity as an abstract condition – an idea, an energy, a presence, or a relation. This class is not about learning art as an end in itself. Instead, art becomes a means of inquiry – a way to think, feel, and encounter complexity through creative process. Students will use artistic expression not to perfect technique, but experience how making can itself become a form of exploration. Through guided discussion and creative exercises, students will be challenged to think beyond the physical form of the human being and consider what remains when the body is set aside. They will then create non-representational, mixed-media art using color, texture, and shape to explore what is human in a language without words. This session cultivates conceptual thinking, emotional intelligence, and aesthetic experimentation. It invites participants to confront the limits of definition and to discover new ways of expressing understanding – without the reliance on words or recognizable imagery. This class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays for 2 weeks STEP UP students – follow this link to register:http://www.anthrogenics.com/general-4