SEE YOUR WORLD IN A NEW WAY
Learn photography, make new friends!
Sura is an Arabic word for photograph. AANM’s SURA Arts Academy – a 2008 winner of the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award from the President’s Committee on Arts and the Humanities – helps students learn to interact with an increasingly diverse world through photography.
The program offers the use of a digital camera and classroom instruction by photographers and teaching artists over the course of a semester. Students will develop skills in composition, color, lighting, image storytelling, and social media sharing.
The curriculum includes: visual presentations, photographic and writing assignments, discussions, critiques and guest artist visits. Using photography and AANM’s digital community history lab, students will tell stories about their lives, community, and culture.
Students' work is later exhibited at AANM's Student Photography Exhibition.
SURA Arts Academy Summer Camp 2017 (Ages 10-15)
Two camps available:
Summer Camp I: July 17-21
Summer Camp II: July 31-August 4
Monday - Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m
The program offers the use of a digital camera (provided by AANM) and classroom instruction by professional photographers and teaching artists. Students will develop skills in composition, color, lighting, image storytelling and media sharing. The curriculum includes: visual presentations, photographic and writing assignments, discussions, critiques, guest artist visits and daily field trips around metro Detroit. Using photography and AANM’s digital community history lab, students will tell stories about their lives, community and culture. Students’ work will be celebrated in the annual SURA Student Photography Exhibition in Spring of 2018. Bring a bag lunch and get ready to shoot away. There will be a pizza celebration on the last day of each session.
Fee: $150 AANM Members; $180 general public
Register: Summer Camp I | Summer Camp II
Scholarships awarded based on financial need + availability
Registration deadline: 5 p.m. Friday, June 16, 2017