This page links to works developed during the Kokrobitey Art Institute's Digital Workshops, June 2006, with visiting artist Christopher Robbins.
This series of collaborative cross-cultural and cross-media artmaking workshops was made possible because by the generous funding of the Stein Family Summer Experiential Prize Fund, through the Rhode Island School of Design, and of course by the support of Rene Neblett, Founder of the Kokrobitey Institute, and their wonderful and dedicated staff.
Thank you.
The Digital Workshops
Christopher Robbins, a visiting digital artist from the USA, is seeking interested artists for a New Media Art Jam. If you paint, draw, dance, sing, tell stories, take pictures, sculpt, film, design or are interested in learning more about the creative use of technology, please come by. Bring some of the things you have made and the tools or instruments you use. Chris will be there with a scanner, camera, computer and animation software. Together, you will combine your creative skills to make a mix of art that uses different media and technology. The goal of this workshop is to introduce artists to some of the possibilities of digital arts and to start the first step in making some art that combines traditional and digital skills.
If you would like to attend one of these workshops, download the pdf information sheet for this workshop here.
You can view the handout from the Kokrobitey Digital Workshop here
In addition to the artist's workshops above, we also organized several workshops with nearby schools and Kokrobitey Institute staff.
Sunbeam School
In the workshop with the Sunbeam School of Kokrobitey, we created a simple Flash animation telling the story of Kweku Ananse, or how the spider got skinny in the middle.
Kokrobitey Staff
The workshops with Kokrobitey Institute staff focused on mouse proficiency, and opening and saving documents. Here is the first thing created on a computer by one student:
Ants, cans and leaves
This workshop at the Kokrobitey Institute introduced a dozen Ghanaian artists to animation using Flash. Each artist brought the materials they usually use in their art - ants, cans and leaves in this case - photographed their materials, and brought them into the computer as fodder for some basic flash animations.
Kofi Dawson used groundnut-ants, Akirash, Ato and Nanart added some crushed cans to the mix, and Victor made an assemblage of his scanned leaves.
Artist visits
Miscellaneous