Does your child want to learn woodworking? Let the Woodworking Bus teach them how! The January/Feburary on-site Woodworking classes are booking now. Workshops take place at Side Street Projects’ Pasadena headquarters—the only mobile & sustainable community art center in the US. Tuition is $195 per child. New and returning students welcome.
- HOME SCHOOL SESSION 3 - 6 Mondays, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Jan 4 - Feb 8 (2010) SOLD OUT
- AFTER SCHOOL SESSION 2 - 6 Fridays, 4pm - 6pm
Jan 8 - Feb 12 (2010) Only 4 Spots Left!
What is the Woodworking Bus? Since 1997, over 15,000 kids in LA County have thrived aboard our Woodworking Buses — mobile wood shops on renovated transit buses where kids age 5-11 learn about art & design using only hand tools, raw materials, and their imagination. The Woodworking Bus has 10 height-adjustable workstations custom made for children. Each station is equipped with hand saws, hand drills, screwdrivers, supplies and materials: everything needed to create a multitude of projects using white pine as the primary material. There are two artist-teachers per bus, providing a 5:1 student/teacher ratio at all times.
Our goal is to teach children how to use tools safely, effectively and (ultimately) independent of adult assistance. Kids make a variety of projects that increase in complexity as they progress through the program. They accumulate a working knowledge of techniques like as sanding, sawing, shaping, drilling, setting screws, using clamps, hammering, and incising. After only a few sessions on the bus, kids are confident and competent enough to create projects of their own unique design. This is the program’s ultimate goal.
Appropriate for elementary and middle school students. Classes are mixed age groups. The program is challenging, but allows kids to progress at their own pace, regardless of experience. Children must be at least 5 years old. Closed toed shoes required. For safety and insurance reasons, parents are not allowed on the bus during class times, but may observe from the rear emergency exit door. Kids must be on time for all classes, especially the first day.
student designed projects by 2nd & 3rd graders (from left)
Alternate Routes: Education on Wheels — “The Woodworking Bus” is made possible by the Leonard I. Green Foundation, The City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Pasadena Arts League, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Rowe and Gayle Giesen Trust. Special thanks to Shelia Dawson.
Every holiday season, we open up the vault and offer rare selections from our print archives for a very limited time. This year, we’re pleased to present the absolute last 3 signed Cathy Opie prints available for sale. This is the official “portrait” by Cathy of our Mobile Headquarters, commemorating Side Street Projects’ 16th Anniversary (aka, our SweetSixteen). Proceeds from all print sales directly support Side Street Projects’ programs for kids and artists throughout LA County.
Catherine Opie Side Street Projects Sweet 16 Aniversary Print Untitled – Side Street Projects’ Mobile HQ (2008)
Archival Pigment Print (From a Digital Photo)
Archival Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Paper (20″ x 16”)
Limited Edition of 50
Signed & Numbered by the Artist
$1,000 (only 3 available)
Every holiday season, we open up the vault and offer rare selections from our print archives for a very limited time. This year, we’re pleased to present 5 unique cyanotypes by LA’s very own Walead Beshty. These are the absolute last 5 Beshty cyanotypes available for sale. Each is unique and handmade by Walead. Proceeds from all print sales directly support Side Street Projects’ programs for kids and artists throughout LA County.
Walead Beshty Untitled (2009)
Cyanotype
6″ x 8″
Limited Edition of 100 Unique Cyanotypes
Hand-Indexed by the Artist
$1,000 each (only 5 available)
Every holiday season, we open up the vault and offer rare selections from our print archives for a very limited time. This year, we’re pleased to present the absolute last 2 John Baldessari prints that will ever be made public again. John created this fabulous edition for us back in 1997 to commemorate Side Street Projects’ 5th Anniversary. These are the last two available, save for the 1 copy in Side Street’s permanent archive.
John Baldessari Side Street Projects’ 5th Anniversary Print I Saw It (1997)
Lithograph
16″ x 20 ”
Limited Edition of 100
Signed and Numbered by the Artist
$2,000 (only 1 left as of 12/17/09)
Bookmeat has a meaty and marvelous name,
and a meaty and marvelous mission.”
- NBC Los Angeles
“This is something really special.”
- LA Weekly
For our friends who couldn’t make it out to Culver City for our Bookmeat fundraiser on November 21st, we’re having a showing & sale of some really interesting (and still available) Bookmeat books at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena:
All proceeds benefit Side Street’s education programs for kids and artists in LA County. Click here to download the pricelist. To arrange a private viewing, please contact Side Street Projects via email, or call (626) 798-7774.
We’d like to thank all the artist, writers, curators who contributed their time, treasure, and talent to help make Bookmeat such a success. We’d also like to thank our steering committee and all the volunteers who helped make it all happen. For a complete list of folks, please visit the Bookmeat page.
These are solar-powered contraptions designed and built by 3rd grade students in Los Angeles aboard Side Street Projects’ Woodworking Bus. Students were shown examples of historical & contemporary kinetic/contraption art, including Jean Tinguley, Alexander Calder, Tim Hawkinson, and Martin Kersels. The following footage is from the “group show” the students put on for their families and classmates.
The following are examples of student-designed projects built aboard Side Street Project’s Woodworking Buses — mobile wood shops aboard renovated transit buses where kids age 5-11 learn about art & design using only hand tools, raw materials, and their imagination. These are not “woodworking kits” mind you, these are unique designs that kids envisioned and fabricated by themselves from raw pine stock.
What is the Woodworking Bus? Since 1997, over 15,000 kids in LA County have thrived aboard our Woodworking Buses — mobile wood shops aboard renovated transit buses where kids age 5-11 learn about art & design using only hand tools, raw materials, and their imagination. The Woodworking Bus has 10 height-adjustable workstations custom made for children. Each station is equipped with hand saws, hand drills, screwdrivers, supplies and materials: everything needed to create a multitude of projects using white pine as the primary material. There are two artist-teachers per bus, providing a 5:1 student/teacher ratio at all times.
Our goal is to teach children how to use tools safely, effectively and (ultimately) independent of adult assistance. Kids make a variety of projects that increase in complexity as they progress through the program. They accumulate a working knowledge of techniques like as sanding, sawing, shaping, drilling, setting screws, using clamps, hammering, and incising. After only a few sessions on the bus, kids are confident and competent enough to create projects of their own unique design. This is the program’s ultimate goal.
Appropriate for elementary and middle school students. Classes are mixed age groups. The program is challenging, but allows kids to progress at their own pace, regardless of experience. Children must be at least 5 years old. Closed toed shoes required. For safety and insurance reasons, parents are not allowed on the bus during class times, but may observe from the rear emergency exit door. Kids must be on time for all classes, especially the first day.
student designed projects by 2nd & 3rd graders (from left)
Alternate Routes: Education on Wheels — “The Woodworking Bus” is made possible by the Leonard I. Green Foundation, The City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Pasadena Arts League, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Rowe and Gayle Giesen Trust. Special thanks to Shelia Dawson.
Does your child want to learn woodworking? Let the Woodworking Bus teach them how! The January/Feburary on-site Woodworking classes are booking now. Workshops take place at Side Street Projects’ Pasadena headquarters—the only mobile & sustainable community art center in the US. Tuition is $195 per child. New and returning students welcome.
What is the Woodworking Bus? Since 1997, over 15,000 kids in LA County have thrived aboard our Woodworking Buses — mobile wood shops on renovated transit buses where kids age 5-11 learn about art & design using only hand tools, raw materials, and their imagination. The Woodworking Bus has 10 height-adjustable workstations custom made for children. Each station is equipped with hand saws, hand drills, screwdrivers, supplies and materials: everything needed to create a multitude of projects using white pine as the primary material. There are two artist-teachers per bus, providing a 5:1 student/teacher ratio at all times.
