The Ruffing After School Crafts, Arts, and Language Society (aka RASCALS) is a new multi-session after-school arts initiative led by local artist and Ruffing parent, Mic Fox.

At RASCALS, students will have the opportunity to design, build, produce and collaborate in a less formal Montessori environment.

Session THREE
11/2 thru 11/18
Wild Wooden Walleyes!

In the last round of RASCALS, we made a scrappy stop-motion movie. Students wrote quick sketches, made paper characters, painted backgrounds, and did their own voice-over work. While this project functioned as a crash-course in collaborative story-telling, we found ourselves wondering what would happen if we let our characters dig a little deeper …

In this session of RASCALS, students will focus on character development and details through the lens of a …

Fish.

That’s right, each student will paint a fish on a piece of wood, cut out that fish (the kids will cut cardboard … Mic will help with the woodwork), create a backstory for their fish, and record that backstory as a short movie.

By putting up light guard-rails, students will need to find a way to channel their out-of-the-box-thinking into their character (a 2ft wooden fish), rather than taking on the daunting task of a fully-open-ended story-line. This class is about playing with boundaries and seeing opportunity in limitations – finding joy in the subtleties. Character development is all about the funny little details.

This class is for students 1st-5th grade and will run from 3pm-5pm on Mondays and Wednesdays between 11/2 and 11/18. That’s six sessions over the course of three weeks.

3pm-5pm (Pickup at 5pm)
11/2 and 11/4
11/9 and 11/11
11/16 and 11/18

Session Three is currently FULL!
But there will be more opportunities in the future, I promise. Please reach out to Mic with any questions at all.

PS. Please complete the payment form following the information form to secure your spot. We can’t see incomplete transactions on our end so, please be sure your payment has processed.

Thanks!

Hilarious Halloween Night

Wildminds


  • Mic Fox is an artist an author based in Lakewood, OH. His love for making big whimsical art stems from his desire to see more big whimsical art in the world. If he’s not working on a book or a play or a big painting via Fort Famly Playhouse, you can find him helping others facilitate their artistic vision or cruising around on his bike.