Dear Visitor:
Thank you for your interest in my educational programming opportunities.  I believe that it is extremely important for professional, working artists to spend time teaching and mentoring young people; giving them encouragement in their own development as artists, and being an example of someone who is successful in a "non-mainstream" business.  I also believe that everyone is an artist - that one must simply learn to "see" the way an artist does in order to feel successful in visual arts.  I look forward to working with you.
Yours,
Alfredo

Scroll down for descriptions of standard programs, or contact me to collaborate on a customized program.
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A Day with a Portrait Artist

Workshops in Basic Drawing for grades K-8
Up to five class hour workshops for individual classes, working with students in drawing human likenesses through imitation, basic caricature techniques, and four-panel cartooning.

$400 plus supplies

This is Where I Draw the Line

Five-Day Residency for grades K-8
Students learn basic drawing techniques (line, focus, light source, texture, etc.) as well as how to look at things from an artist's perspective, how to compare and contrast objects and people for the purpose of drawing them, and how to incorporate humor in art.   At the end of the residency, students have created some combination of the following projects:  Cartoon, Caricature, Metamorphosis, Still Life, and Abstract.

$1500 plus supplies

$400 plus supplies

Creating A Wall Mural
*A top 3 choice since 2000*

Five-Day to Ten-Day Residency for grades 5-12
Students create and produce a wall-size mural, from the first step of deciding the subject(s) to plotting a scale plan of the project to the final painting and unveiling of the finished product.

$1500 - $3000 plus supplies

Five-Day Residency for grades 3-8
Students spend a week learning about Folk Art and Folk Artists and discovering the folk artist within themselves. Emphasis is placed on Appalachian and Latin Folk Art.

$1500 plus supplies

Five-Day Residency for grades 5-12
Students create their own Compact Disc cover, with song titles, run times, project and band names, and creative graphics.  This project incorporates math, creative writing, graphic art and music, and is a great tie-in to a joint project with language arts, music, and multimedia, where students can create actual songs to include on their CD.

$1500 plus supplies

Five-Day Residency with two artists for up to 100 students, 5-8.  
Students work together to create and produce a comedy about rural Kentucky life in the 1940's, using as a springboard their own prior research in the local history of their geographic area.  Concepts in dance, music, art and theater are addressed.

$2500 plus supplies

Five-Day Residency with two artists for grades 8-12.  
Students research and explore trends in dance and art from the early 1900's through today, discussing major changes in society and the resulting changes in artistic expression.   Clear exploration of these changes, and experience in the artistic forms, allow students to evaluate the trends in their own lifetimes in the larger context of the past 100 years.  Students finish the week with a dance presentation and 8'x8' mural to share with the community.

$2200 plus supplies

Note: Schools booking Alfredo Escobar and Jennifer Rose for the same time period will receive a significant discount. Contact us for details. Also not that prices listed above do not include travel & lodging.