Chatsworth Media Arts Studio

The Chatsworth Media Arts Studio is a shared “breakout” space between the Chatsworth library and art room that physically connects these two spaces. Designed as a collaborative learning space that combines media arts, fine arts and literacy, the Media Arts Studio is a place where students will learn by doing, enabling and encouraging team work, problem solving and critical thinking while improving students’ understanding of knowledge, connecting them to literature and helping them create personal meaning. The Chatsworth Media Arts Studio grant helps outfit the studio with unique arts media and tools, iPad accessories and mobile and flexible furniture that directly support this creative effort. Some examples of Media Arts Studio projects that will be undertaken using the items provided by this grant include making puppets that reenact stories; a variety of videography work from recording and editing videos, digital drawing and animation to recorded book trailers and book talks; creating claymation versions of stories; sewing props and costumes to use in dramatizations; book and button making; constructing 3D sculptures; initiating graphic design projects and more. As students explore, make literacy connections and conceive of projects in different and exciting media, they have an opportunity to take chances and express their ideas and knowledge in innovative ways.

Grantees: Laura Brune, Michelle Arango