The Overbrook Art Center

Over the course of six weeks Philadelphia's High School students have worked hard to beautify the Art Center and get popularity. I am happy to say that we have accomplished our goals for the summer and we are celebrating with a party Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 12:00 -2:00 pm located at the Overbrook Art Center. We plan to display the mural on the side of the Art Center, which was painted by other workers of Education Works including Joel Clymer. We will also be displaying our biggest project here at the Overbrook Art Center, the mosaic that all of us High School students worked on with the help from Mosaic Artist Patricia Metzner-Lynch. We will also be displaying a movie that was created by the students, with the help of media expert Todd Matte, who will also be attending the party this Friday. During the time here we have all accomplished so much while working cooperatively together. We are all proud and happy to have made a difference in our community and hope that others will join the Art Center when it is complete. Although the Mosaic is not a finished piece, most of work has been done in the duration of six week and is planned to be completed this fall. In the future, the Art Center will be open to the community as a third home for all. There will be a cafe open, free wifi Internet, art classes, music classes and yoga classes and it will also be a place to just chill and hang out. We are hoping that the Art Center will have an overwhelming affect on the Overbrook community and the term "third home" will really take affect.

Saturday at the Overbrook Art Center. Ms. Trish and some other volunteers came out to work on the mural. Now we are almost finish .

On Wednesday, we started grouting the Mosaic. We had to first mix the grout together and then spread it on the wall with the sponges.

Yesterday, we started scrapping the grout off of the tiles and glass. Also, we started to make the tiles and glass shiny.

Week 5

Today at the Overbrook Art Center we finished our letters to mayor Michael Nutter hoping he will visit our center.We also finished our power points, cover letters, and resumes. So now all we have to do is finish the mural.

Publish Post

The concept of this docrumentary is to inform teenagers and the Overbrook Community about ther Overbrook Art Enviorornmental Center.We want people in the Overbrook community to know that they can make the overbrook art center a third space.By third space we mean a place after than your average two spaces such as home and work.The third space can be a place such as recreation center, church,or a friends residence.The third space is a place that makes you feel stress free.The Overbrook Art Center is perfect for a third space becuse it welcomes other to a variety of things to occupy your time such as food,drinks,art,air conditioning ,free wi-fi internet,and basically free time to yourself.The docrumentary also includes an exclusive close up and personal interview with Mr.Jerome Shabazz,which includes him talking about his intentions for the Art Center such as him offering jobs for teens,when and why he started the art center ,his plans for the center and etc...

Interview With Jerome Shabazz

This is an interview with Jastech executive director Jerome Shabazz. Learn what his inspiration was for starting the Overbrook Art Center and what it has in store for the West Philadelphia community. Stay tuned for more amazing interviews!

The following is video of Khadijah giving a tour of the mosaic worksite!

MOSAIC DAY 1

Today we started on gluing the tile and the mirrors on to the wall out front. We are so proud to begin the process of transforming this bare and vandalized wall into something beautiful. We were so happy to have accomplished the hard part of the mosaic. All of the tile, mirrors, glass and cups are so greatly appreciated and will be part of the beautiful work of art that we're creating. Already, today someone from the neighborhood volunteered to help out. We encourage those in the community to come and help out and be apart of this creative movement.
So far the Art Center has been a good atmosphere for me and other teens that work with me. It makes me feel good to know that I am apart of something to better my community and the neighborhood I live in. I've made great friends working here and I've had fun times within the little time I've been here. I can't wait until the Art Center is complete, then people in my community can feel the same affect of a third home as I feel when I'm at the Art Center.

This is a video is explaining the way the art center looks now and how people can help make it better by making generous donations of unused, broken, or unwanted COLORFUL ceramics, tile, or glass for our mosaic mural. It would be very much appreciated.

This video is basically what we are working on today and the progress we are making.

Today at Overbrook art center, alot of things are going on. First off, the mosaic group are contiuning their materials preparation project. The Media group is brainstorming the diffrent ideas on their media presentation , They also are also making a soundtrack for their movie production, and last but not least the best of the best the outreach group that's me, we are constantly documenting what progress we and everyone else makes in this program.

Its a hot summer day here at the Overbrook Art Center but we do have air conditioning
and we are doing plenty of exciting things . Today the Media group are interviewing Jerome Shabazz about how and why he started the Overbrook Art Center. It looks like they are having a good time interviewing Mr. Shabazz .

While the Mosaic group are breaking tiles , plates , glass , and cups for the mozaic that there making on the outside wall of the Overbrook Art Center. We also need plenty more items such as more pottery , plates , ceramic lamps , leftover tiles ( colorful , not white) Please note , All pottery must be glazed and / or shiny ! To donate an object please stop by the art center Mon - Fri 8:30 - 5:30 or contact Trish Metzner-lynch: www.meadeinmosaic.com or Joel Clymer : tua61664@temple.edu

Overbrook Art Center Commercial

We made this commercial to teach ourselves how to shoot and edit a movie. We are planning to make a documentary film about the Art Center that will premiere in late august when we unveil the mosaic mural.

This is the Overbrook Art center. This summer we are working on two projects. One group is working in media development , they are making a documentary movie about the art center. The other group is making a Mosaic Facade for the front of the art center. We are the outreach group and what we do is reach out to the community and inform them about the various ways they can help or participate with our programs.