New Media Arts

ABOUT NEW MEDIA ARTS

New Media Arts offers a variety of classes and events that blend the traditional visual art disciplines with video, and animation. The New Media Arts curriculum is designed to support young adults as they create and learn new tools and pathways for personal expression. Our curriculum is founded in UDL principles, and been tested across many environments over 10+ years. It offers a variety of project based lessons, both group and individual, where students learn storytelling through video, graphic design, product design, photography, stop-motion animation and many more. Each project is presented as a series of steps, a process for thinking through their art-making, which offers students a structure for academic learning and reinforces higher order thinking.

Upcoming Classes

Register now for Spring 2025 classes!

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Storytelling through Animation

Saturdays, March 29th - May 10th (10-12:30 pm)
(6 weeks) Explore storytelling through Stop-Motion Animation. This program is developed for students with intellectual disabilities that want to learn more about animation, while also developing their story writing skills. **Each class we will build skills learned the previous week, so attending all 6 weeks would be ideal.
Register for Storytelling & Animation

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Spring Break Photography Internship
March 17-21st, 10am-2pm (ages 15-22)
Art Spark Texas is looking for young adults with disabilities interested in our photography internship!  To be considered participants should apply by March 1, have 1 reference letter and a strong interest in Photography. Once chosen, those students who complete the entire 20 hour internship will receive a $50 stipend. Limited space is available!
Register for Spring Break Photography

Visit our YouTube channel to view our New Media Arts videos by creative young adults.

Art Spark Texas (formerly VSA Texas) has worked for the past 10 years with a diverse group of young adults ages 15 and up to design, develop and pilot our New Media Arts curriculum. The transitioning youth came from Austin ISD’s Go! Project, AISD Crockett High School’s Life Skills classes, and partnerships with Odyssey School and Texas Parent To Parent. This effort was led by Carol Stensrud, Ed.D, CTRS and Jerry Slayton, BFA, with assistance from the following, in no specific order: Lucia Ornelas, Alicia Maher, Hannah Lamb-Vines, Dona Davis, Richard Melnick, Carol Gilson, Abby Hahn, Meganthrie Pillay, Jane Comer and Lynn Johnson. Thank you everyone for your dedication to this project!

Administration, Teacher and Family Feedback
Family: All she talks about is this class! She is so thrilled and excited, every day. What you do is wonderful and we cannot thank you enough!

Parent of Peer Mentor: He is so motivated! Up early and eager to get going every class day! This job has been so challenging and motivational for him.

Grand parent: You guys have done wonders with my grand daughter, she just talks and talks about the class and activities.

Teacher: They have learned and benefited soooooooo much and so have we!

Email Jerry Slayton or call 1-866-489-8412 to request a copy of the curriculum or receive more information.

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