Creativity in Action for Adolescents
Coyote admits students regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, disability, or gender identity.
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ACTING & IMPROVISATION!
Build your acting skills through professional theater training: improvisation, theater games, and scene work – just what actor s do when training! Working with two amazing actors, you’ll develop your characters in real space & time. On the last day, you’ll wow a live audience, whomever you invite. Beginning & experienced actors, welcome!Session WINTER: Teacher: Hannah Victoria Franklin, Jane Nichols
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition
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BIKES; BEATERS to CUSTOM!
Select a beat up bike to make into your own one-of-a-kind ride. You’ll sand and paint the frame, give it your original style, and put it back together like new. Using wrenches, grease, and your own hands, you’ll overhaul your brakes, hubs, headsets and more. Then it’ll be your custom bike to ride home!Session SPRING: Teacher: Max Bernstein
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/28 - 6/16 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
FULL Session WINTER: Teacher: Max Bernstein
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $60 lab fee
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BREAKDANCING - Advanced!
You've danced with Hocine before -- he's ready to build on your already awesome break dancing skills. Spend another term with this Massive Monkees star and you're guaranteed to hit the next level! He’s planning some serious routines for you and he knows that you are up for it!Session SPRING: Teacher: Hocine Jouini
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/29 - 6/17 ; 1:00pm-2:30pm
Session WINTER: Teacher: Hocine Jouini
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
1/29 - 4/15 ; 1:00pm-2:30pm
$150 tuition
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BREAKDANCING!
With a member of the world-renowned Massive Monkees Crew you'll learn the basics for becoming a b-boy or b-girl. From top rockin', drops, floor rocks and freezes, you’ll learn the fundamentals of the dance. You’ll put them all together, learn some serious routines and create some of your own. Circle-battles included.Session SPRING: Teacher: Hocine Jouini
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/29 - 6/17 ; 11:30am-1:00pm
Session WINTER: Teacher: Hocine Jouini
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
1/29 - 4/15 ; 11:30am-1:00pm
$150 tuition, $40 lab fee
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CARTOON ANIMATION!
Make your own animated video cartoons in a jam-packed production lab. With stop-motion, cut-paper, classic drawn, & claymation, you’ll work solo & team up to create cartoon shorts. You’ll edit, add music & voice-overs, just like in the industry. You’ll end it all with a premier theater screening and go home with a polished DVD.Session WINTER: Teacher: Clyde Peterson, Web Crowell
Saturdays
Henry Art Gallery
1/28 - 3/24 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $60 lab fee
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COMICS & CARTOON DRAWING!
Learn the basics of cartoon drawing with a professional cartoonist. You’ll sharpen your skills as you turn out the essential elements: character design w/ expressions, motion, body positions; story development; page layout; penciling and inking techniques, and editing. Call the process getting real serious about the funny stuff. Classic American, Manga, graphic fiction or non--- it’s a whole new level of your becoming a cartoonist.Session WINTER: Teacher: Lin Lucas
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/31 ; 1:30pm-4:00pm
$195 tuition, $25 lab fee
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COOKING with a PROFESSIONAL!
In Coyote’s professional kitchen you’ll pick up the tools, techniques, and complex ingredients that chefs all count on. As you’ll build up your own basic cooking techniques, you will create and present four or five delicious courses in each class. Your chef will offers excellent choices of menus & welcomes yours. End the term with one fine feast, showing off your talents!Session SPRING: Teacher: Kathleen Khoo
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/29 - 6/17 ; 2:00pm-5:00pm
Session SPRING BRK: Teacher: Kathleen Khoo
M - F
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/16 - 4/20 ; 9:00am-1:00pm
Session WINTER I: Teacher: Dawnula Koukul
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 9:30am-12:30pm
Session WINTER II: Teacher: Kathleen Khoo
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/12 - 4/1 ; 2:00pm-5:00pm
$195 tuition, $50 lab fee
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DANCING that FEELS GOOD!
This dance class is for anyone who wants to get their dance moves down from here on out, though high school and beyond. Your instructor, a hip hop and contemporary dancer, will use basic techniques of modern dance to bolster street dance styles. These basics can spread all of the way from modern dance like Latin and jazz to street dance like hip hop, crumpin’, and popping & locking. What’s guaranteed? You’ll be real good on any dance floor.Session WINTER: Teacher: Chris Daigre
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/25 - 4/14 ; 3:00pm-5:30pm
$195 tuition
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DESSERT as ART!
A professional pastry chef invites you to focus on the art of turning desserts into visual gems, You’ll really get to know chocolate, fondant, fruits, sauces & butter cream; themes, patterns, color and garnishes will guide your thinking! Whether you’re sculpting animals, creating flowers, or turning out intricate patterns and trims, you’ll be making art to eat!Session SPRING: Teacher: Kristina Bartleson
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/28 - 6/16 ; 1:30pm-4:30pm
$195 tuition, $40 lab fee
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DESSERTS! DESSERTS! DESSERTS!
A professional chef invites you into Coyote’s professional kitchen to create delectable desserts worthy of fine menus in fancy restaurants. Think of chocolate wonders, luscious cakes, scrumptious tortes & elaborate crèmes. The 2nd best part of the experience: you’ll learn to present them like pros.Session BREAK : Teacher: Dawnula Koukul
Monday - Friday
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/16 - 4/20 ; 1:30pm-5:30pm
Session WINTER I: Teacher: Dawnula Koukul
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 1:30pm-4:30pm
Session WINTER II: Teacher: Dawnula Koukul
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/5 - 3/25 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $45 lab fee
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DIGITAL ANIMATION with AFTER-EFFECTS!
With this powerful program for special effects & motion graphics, you can create effects like shooting lasers from your eyes or holding an energy ball in your hand. You’ll learn the fundamentals of digital animation as you navigate through the program to make a series of short animations & create your own wild special effects. You’ll end up with a DVD of everyone’s creations.Session WINTER: Teacher: Reilly Donovan
Saturdays
911 Media Arts Center
2/4 - 3/24 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $65 lab fee
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FASHION ILLUSTRATION!
Create your own fashion concepts and designs as you build a fashion portfolio of what you think fashion could be. Inspired by visual imagery and a designer’s know-how, you’ll learn important drawing techniques and learn to use tools of the profession, such as highlighting, proportion, and exaggeration. Presented on drawings of the human figure, your ideas will intensify & come to life.Session WINTER: Teacher: Britt Rynearson
SATURDAYS
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $25 lab fee
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FASHION: DESIGN & SEW!
Think fashionably as you choose styles, fabrics & a whole series of decorative techniques to make your own wearable gear and clothes. You’ll learn the basics of design, pattern construction, hand & machine sewing & surface treatment. The techniques are endless & the supplies inspiring. You’ll become a fabric construction artist as you design & sew. A dress, skirt, pants, or jacket –they are all possibilities. News flash: boys are joining!Session SPRING: Teacher: Angela Flowers
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/28 - 6/16 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
Session SPRING BRK: Teacher: Angela Flowers
M - F
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/16 - 4/20 ; 9:00am-1:00pm
Session WINTER: Teacher: Angela Flowers
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 1:30pm-4:30pm
$195 tuition, $55 lab fee
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HIP HOP MUSIC PRODUCTION!
Serious fans of music, musicians, and the computer savvy, create your own tracks and beats! A professional recording artist/producer will lead you through digital recording software and production techniques used throughout the music industry. You’ll create top notch beats, bass-heavy dance tracks, electronic samples, and original compositions using Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and GarageBand. It’s fine if you play music or fine if you are a master listener of it!Session SPRING BRK: Teacher: Trevor Ridge
M - F
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/16 - 4/20 ; 1:30pm-5:30pm
$195 tuition, $50 lab fee
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JEWELRY: SHOWCASE YOUR OWN!
By metal smithing in brass, silver, and bronze, you'll create your own personal showcase of jewelry. You’ll work with a professional jeweler to turn out your style for earrings, pendants, rings, bracelets, buckles, or cuff bracelets. You’ll learn techniques to punch, saw, hammer, drill, texture, and file and you’ll love the professional look even more when you figure out how to etch and use patinas to add that final statement of style.Session WINTER: Teacher: Jennifer Bennett
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/5 - 3/25 ; 2:00pm-5:00pm
$195 tuition, $40 lab fee
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MAGIC PERFORMANCE!
You will learn the secrets that started Houdini, Blackstone and David Copperfield on their roads to fame. It’s magic with coins, cards, silks & ropes, plus mind tricks, levitation, & great escapes. You’ll puzzle over videos of performances by great magicians of all time. Practice & perform together & by the end, you’ll amaze & astound a live audience.Session SPRING BRK: Teacher: Ruben Barron
M - F
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
4/16 - 4/20 ; 1:30pm-5:30pm
$195 tuition, $20 lab fee
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PHOTOGRAPHY: DIGITAL!
With laptop computers and PhotoImpact software, you’ll shoot assignments, gather inspiration, & enhance, manipulate, overlay, crop, rotate, resize, & edit your shots. Your favorite work will be produced in a photo album and handed over as a professional book of photographs. Bring a digital camera or contact Coyote if you need one.Session WINTER: Teacher: Jeanne Dodds
Saturdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $45 lab fee
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ROCK BAND ESSENTIALS!
If you’d like to play in a band, make your own music, or learn how to rock the stage, here is your chance! Any musician, rock or classical, you’re welcome to join! This professional recording and performing artist will teach you how to trade and organize musical ideas, prepare for performance, interact onstage and rock the audience every time! You’ll work up a performance at a Seattle live music venue, either the Nectar Lounge, Poncho Concert Hall, or Chop Suey. Bring your instruments! Drummers, bassists, guitarists, & singers, you’ll hold it down. Orchestral musicians, you’ll make it very interesting!Session WINTER: Teacher: Trevor Ridge
Mondays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
1/30 - 4/9 ; 3:30pm-5:30pm
$195 tuition, $5 lab fee
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SOAPBOX DERBY CARS!
Here’s your chance to design and build your own LIFESIZE soapbox derby car. In a fully equipped woodshop at Pratt Fine Arts Center, you’ll have all of the power and hand tools that you'll need to design and build your own version of a perfect, gravity-powered wooden-chassis car. You can test it on Greenlake’s regulation track!Session WINTER: Teacher: Brent McDonald
Sundays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/5 - 3/25 ; 10:00am-1:00pm
$195 tuition, $60 lab fee
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SWING DANCE!
You’ll dance to the latest and to traditional rock and roll and learn to swing with cool rhythms, steps, and moves. Add the lindy, cool boogies, and show-stopping steps. You’ll learn from a former professional dance instructor turned popular 8th grade teacher at WA Middle School. Alums & new dancers are welcome.Session SPRING: Teacher: Karl Schmitz
Tuesdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
3/27 - 6/5 ; 3:00pm-5:00pm
Session WINTER: Teacher: Karl Schmitz
Tuesdays
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
1/10 - 3/20 ; 3:00pm-5:00pm
$195 tuition
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WEB DESIGN w/ FLASH & PHOTOSHOP (at 911)!
You’ll enter the field of Graphics Design as you learn about open-source tools available free on the net (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and blogs). By discovering many tricks and tools in Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash, the boundaries are yours to push as you build your own website.Session WINTER: Teacher: Nichole Rathburn
Saturdays
TBD
2/4 - 3/24 ; 1:30pm-4:30pm
$195 tuition, $65 lab fee
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WELDING!
Using MIG welders, metal saws, cold bending systems, and grinders, you will master the basics of welding and metal fabrication. Building from a series of structured projects, you will have the skills to create metal pieces as art (table sculpture or garden art), as function, (small bench, box…) or as functional metal art (as in door markers or faux eye glass frame.Session WINTER I: Teacher: Vance Wolfe
SATURDAYS
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 9:00am-12:00pm
Session WINTER II: Teacher: Vance Wolfe
SATURDAYS
Coyote @ 23rd & Cherry!
2/4 - 3/24 ; 12:30pm-3:30pm
$195 tuition, $65 lab fee