Click for more Art School: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-fs Have you ever wondered about the public art you see around town? Do you know how to find the meaning of outdoor sculptures and paintings? Join an adorable six-year-old host on a journey to discover monumental public artworks throughout San Francisco. Public art is all around us, but sometimes we don t even notice it! Get some insight about the famed Bow and Arrow by the bay by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, and Ruth Asawa s bay-framing fountain sculpture across the street. Then grab your hiking boots and head for the woods to see Andy Goldsworthy s all-natural installations in The Presidio. Learn how to read these public artworks and many more, brought to you by the cutest curator in town. Do you have a favorite public artwork in your town? Snap a photo and share it with us on Twitter @KQEDArtSchool. Artwork credits in order of appearance: Alan Fleming Keith Haring Clarion Alley Mural Project Josué Rojas Armand Vaillancourt Precita Eyes, Cory Calandra, Laura Campos, Brenda Miller and Patricia Rose Mark di Suvero Sirron Norris Guarina Lopez Tony Bennett/Hearts in San Francisco Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cupid’s Span Ruth Asawa, Aurora Lawrence Noble Lawrence Halprin Ruth Asawa, Aurora Andy Goldsworthy/For-Site Foundation, Spire Kristin Farr Chris Johanson/SFMOMA Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn Hung Yi George Warren Rickey Ugo Rondinone Henry Moore Andy Goldsworthy/For-Site Foundation, Woodline Colette Crutcher Clarion Alley Mural Project San Francisco Student Artwork/Powell Street BART Station Clarion Alley Mural Project Andy Goldsworthy/For-Site Foundation, Woodline

We visit the studio of KQED Art School creator Kristin Farr, who is also a painter of geometric rainbow designs that she calls "Magic Hecksagons," which are inspired by folk art, nature and sacred geometry. Check out Kristin demonstrating how to paint your own "Magic Hecksagon" here: http://youtu.be/9gpnmZc7F9M Find more videos like this on our homepage! http://www.KQED.org/ArtSchool

Artists are able to create the illusion of light by being able to produce a wide variety of values. In our fifth episode on the Elements of Art, we explore how artists produce and use different color and tonal values.

Click for more: http://ww2.kqed.org/artschool/ Oakland high school student Zachary Fernandez made it to the finals on the first season of Project Runway Junior, then headed straight back to Oakland School of the Arts to continue his education as a designer. His newest collection, Kathmandu, was inspired by recovery efforts in Nepal after the devastating 2015 earthquake. Art School followed Fernandez s process as he sketched, sourced fabric, and designed his new project, revealed at a culminating fashion show in spring 2016. Hi, my name is Zachary Fernandez and I m currently a fashion student. So I am starting my Kathmandu 2016 collection. My collection s gonna be debuting at my school fashion show, and so I have little under seven weeks to get this all put together. So our school assignment was to pick a city that we wanted to be inspired by for this collection. I ended with Kathmandu, Nepal, all of the trouble that they went through last year was really inspiring and I was able to take those ideas of imbalance and the destruction of culture and apply that to this new collection. These are the pieces that I ended up designing. They re ever-changing and they kind of just are always in flux. My sketching process involves a lot of images, a lot of mixed medias, I like to do collages, watercolors, acrylic paste, it s a real reflection of what my mind looks like. Here you have the final sketches that I ve done. The sketching process for me is really a major step between just ideas and kind of this fantasy world that I ve created in my mind to really functional wearable pieces. Fabric sourcing is one of my favorite things to do. It s really like a group activity, like meet a couple of friends, we ll just go, we ll explore the city, we ll get inspiration. So I m looking for like a very pale blue that s almost like very silverish, and then I m gonna be looking for a very deep, rust orange color. Okay, so I need to find this, but more grayish blue. The fabric store is one of those places that you go in with one idea and one concept and one thought, and you come out with like 500 more. This is it. - This is it! - This is it. - [Girl] Dude! - Hey! Yes! So I spend the majority of my time draping and it s definitely a part that will make or break a piece. I take a piece of muslin, which is just a really basic blend fabric, and I started sculpting it to the dress form. And then those mock-ups that I make of the dress form are then fitted to the model, and sometimes I try them on a model, I m like, this is hideous, I don t know why, it just overpowers her or something happens and that leads to even better ideas and even more just, creativeness. When you design while you create, I just think it takes so much longer and you like pressure yourself so much more. So, my design mind is turned off. And it s just about sewing, and sewing, and sewing, and sewing, and sewing. So after I finish draping, I take a part of that mockup and I totally seam rip it and I re-pattern it, and then I cut out of my real fabric. It s always really nerve-wracking cause a lot of times the fabric s all that you have, either the budget doesn t allow for you to get more fabric, or there s simply not anymore left. It has this like box-like structure in it. The box is actually lined with horse-hair so that it can kind of take the shape and that s why I m kind of trying to like manipulate it right now cause it just takes on whatever shape you really need it to. The show, oh the show. Six days, and I m still cutting up fabric like, I don t think that s normal. There s always going to be that last minute hurry up and finish like state of being. I have a picture in my mind about how this is supposed to go, but who knows if it actually go that way. I think that there can be a lot of different ways to read the look. Obviously you look for like the main things like color, silhouette, is this an evening piece, is this a day piece and you just kind of put the garment and choose certain categories and that really helps people read fashion out, by the time the piece is on the runway I m already thinking about a whole new collection and I m really thinking something totally different, but it doesn t really hit me that these people, for them it s the first time that they ve seen this. I ve spent months and months planning and sketching and putting it together. If I see all these different things in these pieces, but no one else does, then it s kind of sad, but then it s also part of what makes fashion art, is because people see it in so many different ways. We are in my home, studio, bedroom combination in Berkeley, California. I have this look from Project Runway Junior, which was the first episode, and this look for my most recent collection. They really mean a lot to me cause they show how much progress I ve made within the last four, five months.

Graffiti writer Neon describes the five basic formats of graffiti. Also, check out our video on the early days of San Francisco Bay Area Graffiti: http://youtu.be/9WS6_pvyuIo And find more art videos at http://www.kqed.org/artschool.

Favianna Rodriguez is a visual artist and community organizer who merges her artistic practice with political activism. Through her bold, vivid artwork, she has become a leading voice in raising awareness about immigration, women s issues, globalization and economic injustice. www.kqed.org/artschool

Click to learn more: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-dX Jocquese Whitfield is a Vogue legend in San Francisco, a choreographer and performer who teaches the popular “Vogue and Tone” class at Dance Mission Theater. He has held the winning title at the Miss Honey Vogue Ball multiple times and is also a judge for dance and drag competitions. In the latest episode of Art School, Jocquese breaks down the five elements of Vogue and discusses how the dance form became a lifestyle. Learn the basics from this master known as Sir JoQ, and recognize that, when it comes to Vogue, it’s all about sass and attitude. Find out more about Jocquese and his classes here: https://www.facebook.com/VogueTone

Click to learn more: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-cp San Francisco s Ben Venom creates punk quilts for everyday rockers who want to be cozy, as well as quilts that are a little less functional and sit more comfortably in a framed-art context.

DJs Celskiii and Deeandroid have been staples of the Bay Area hip-hop scene for over 15 years. Products of the fertile turntablism movement of the late-90s, Celskiii and Deeandroid have been tour DJs for KRS-One and have twice competed in the US DMC Team Battles, placing second in 2010. Since 2003 they ve also fostered a space for other DJs to collaborate and advance their craft with the monthly event Skratchpad. In this episode of Art School, we visit Celskiii and Deeandroid in their Vallejo studio. Listen in as they talk about their Bay Area influences, their responsibility to their audience, and why vinyl records still reign supreme. For other Art School episodes: http://www.kqed.org/artschool

Ranu Mukherjee creates "Hybrid films" using layers of video, paintings and collage to create moving images. See more at www.KQED.org/ArtSchool.

Click for more: http://ww2.kqed.org/artschool/2015/06/30/art-activism-with-sanaz-mazinani/ Sanaz Mazinani is an artist with a background in political activism who uses art to inspire dialogue about perceptions of cultural identity. In the latest episode of Art School, she describes her current art practice and the intentions behind her recent installation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Click for more info: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-ex In this episode of Art School, Apexer explains the foundation of lettering and demonstrates the progression of writing in a tag style, to a more three-dimensional form, to fully abstracting letterforms. He also explains the connection between street art sketching and spray painting.

Click here for more info: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-em In this episode of Art School, take a trip to the California Academy of Sciences with Jane Kim as she draws inspiration from their collection and talks about an early obsession with teddy bears that led her to a life of using art to give the natural world a stronger voice.

Documentary Photographer Paccarik Orue demonstrates how to scan, clean and color-correct medium format film, showing the necessary steps for digitizing color film negatives. See more videos, including an interview with Orue at www.KQED.org/ArtSchool.

Documentary Photographer Paccarik Orue demonstrates how to scan, clean and color-correct medium format film, showing the necessary steps for digitizing color film negatives. See more videos, including an interview with Orue at www.KQED.org/ArtSchool.

Click to learn more: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-dO Artist Evah Fan makes drawings, zines and more in a style that is influenced by wordplay and folk art techniques. She tells visual stories through her interpretation of words she finds tantalizing with their multiple meanings.

Artist Kristin Farr demonstrates how to paint your very own "Magic Hecksagon," which is a colorful, geometric design inspired by folk art. See our interview with Kristin Farr here: http://youtu.be/OX1r-3-VK-0 Check out more videos like this on our homepage: http://www.KQED.org/ArtSchool

Share your art with us: https://wp.me/p4AWsA-eJ Boldness, accessibility, visibility and reproducibility are just a few of the qualities that help make political art stand out and reach new audiences. Take these five steps to create your own political art, and let your work shout a message from the rooftops!