ssg activity book (april/may 2016)

SSGACTIVITYBOOK

Use this book to explore the artwork. Inside you’ll find games, drawing activities and things to think about. Keep this book as a souvenir of your visit! Thank you!

APRIL/MAY 2016with work byIN CREATIVE UNITY:featuringASYLM, DEFER, SWANK and TAZROC

WORDS AS ART

Some murals artists like DEFER and TAZROC use secret “codenames” for the work they make. They also find fun and inventive ways to write those names – they look more like pictures than words.

Fiind letters in DEFER’s paintings? Can you find words too? How many?

Does looking at the titles of the paintings help you find letters? List

what you find below.

In the box, draw some of the letters, words and shapes you see in DEFER’s paintings.

Make up a codename for yourself:

Draw your codename in big letters:

Draw your codename in CRAZY letters!

PORTRAITS & MORE

ASYLM and TAZROC like to paint portraits of people. Sometimes they are famous people, sometimes they are people they know, sometimes they are made up people. They also like to add things like crowns, birds and flags to the pictures of people.

Look at the big pictures of people in the gallery and see if

you can find these things:

A crown? Draw it here:

CAN YOU FIND:

A bird? Draw it here:

A flower? Draw it here:

Draw a made-up person with lots of added things!

Draw a picture of yourself and add things in!

ART IN THE WORLD

The ICU artists make a lot of work that is out in the world - on buildings, on walls and even on buses!

ASYLUM and TAZROC painted murals at The Bridge building here in Charlottesville.. Now you draw a mural on The Bridge building!

SWANK designed a city bus that you’ll see all over Charlottesville

Now you draw what you want to see on a city bus!

Draw where you live and what mural you would want to paint on it.

KEEP THINKINGABOUT THE SHOW!What 5 words describe the show?

What was your favorite thing in the show?

Draw something you think belongs in the show:

For more about each artist, including interviews and podcasts, visit secondstreetgallery.org

SECOND STREET GALLERY /// 115 Second St SE, Charlottesville VA 22902secondstreetgallery.org @SSGCVILLE @secondstreetgallery

SSG is a 501c3 nonprofit art space dedicated to bringing the best of contemporary art and creativity to central Virginia. Our outreach projects are supported in part by the Bama Works Fund and the LEAW Family Foundation. Special thanks to Aaron Eichorst and Ryan Trott.THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!