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.
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.
Still can’t get over that this is even possible… we just milled this semester’s worth of lumber for the Woodworking Bus courtesy of that big yellow thing in the sky (and 12 panels and 4 batteries). For those of you not in the Pasadena area today… it be hot, like really hot. Somehow, we managed to run the AC and the table saw simultaneously. I think we’re breaking some laws of physics here or something. All in a day’s work @ Side Street Projects. See for yourself:
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.
