Engage your imagination, develop new skills, and connect with young media makers across the city.

Wide Angle offers flexible and fun fall media making workshops for middle and high school students. Our classes typically take place in person, but we're offering the same high quality experience through remote instruction this fall. Wide Angle’s programs offer opportunities to explore your creative side through various interactive activities led by skilled media instructors. Each workshop is developed to suit the academic and social-emotional needs of specific age groups, and to compliment group sessions with independent remote learning. We offer classes on various days to help you find a time and medium to cultivate your creative passions, regardless of schedule.

Applications are closed for fall 2020.

AGES 10-14

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Middle school workshops help students in grades 6-8 explore their creative voice through a variety of new media and develop a deeper understanding of their community and their role within it.

Baltimore Speaks Out: Storytelling Media Sampler

Teachers: Beth Holladay & Darian Jones

Mon/Wed & Tue/Thu Classes, Sep 21 - Nov 12;

5:00 - 5:45 PM

Over this 8 week virtual course, you will explore four storytelling mediums: Video, Audio, Photography, and Illustration in order to create original art. You will recognize and define each medium; relate it to your own consumption, interests, and values; gain an understanding of the ways stories are told through media; compare various methods/tools used in these mediums and create original works.

Virtual Platforms: Zoom, Email, Eduflow

AGES 14-20

HIGH SCHOOL

High School workshops help students in grades 9-12 develop their artistic voice, creatively advance social justice causes through media, gain fluency in media literacy and build skills that will better prepare them for career and college.  Students can expand their media portfolios, develop their leadership abilities and gain more experiences that will set them on their future pathways.

Virtual Event Planning

Teacher: Destiny Brown

Fall semester, Tue/Thu, 5-6 pm EST, Sep 21 - Nov 14

As a student in this class, you will learn the steps to create an engaging virtual event to celebrate the Wide Angle’s 20th birthday in November. Develop your leadership skills and amplify your voice by creating an event that reflects what you want to see. Create promotional social media video content using stock/royalty-free footage; build high-level graphics and incorporate your own images; learn how to hold communications meetings and relay your vision and decisions to other sectors of Wide Angle. Practice leadership and teamwork by delegating and leading tasks within the cohort and feel confident in contributions creatively and technically to the event.

Virtual Platforms: Remo, Zoom, Miro, Canva

Graphic Design & Media Literacy

Teacher: Ahmad Abdullah

Academic year program. Fall semester, Mon/Wed, 5-7pm EST, Sep 21 - Dec 11; Spring 2021, TBD.

Together, we will embark on an introduction to digital graphic design and project management. In honing your design skills, you will also develop the means to communicate perspectives through digital art projects. You will gain a fundamental understanding of the hardware and software used in the design process; study and apply principles of design for personal and client projects; and develop a personal lens for understanding media’s social impact.

Virtual Platforms: Slack, Google Drive, Trello, Zoom, Email, Eduflow

About Ahmad: Ahmad is a Baltimore-born graphic designer and digital arts educator. He is a staunch advocate for art and design as vehicles for interpreting social issues, and prompting restorative justice. Ahmad works as a media instructor.

Design Studio

Teacher: Becky Slogeris

Academic year program. Fall semester, Mon/Wed, 5-7pm EST, Sep 21 - Dec 11; Spring 2021, TBD.

Design Studio students work with real-world clients to produce media campaigns that make Baltimore better. You will receive advanced training in graphic design and the design thinking process; research a social issue and present findings; generate design ideas in response to client needs; communicate effectively with clients throughout the design process; and use design software to create projects for clients.

Virtual Platforms: Adobe Creative Suite, Zoom, Email, Trello, Google Drive, Slack

About Becky: Becky is a social designer and educator who believes in the power of young people to make their schools and communities better through design. At Wide Angle, she works to advocate for youth voice, shift power from adults to young people, and support young people in finding their passion and purpose. When she’s not at Wide Angle, you can find her advancing equity and social justice through design at MICA’s Center for Social Design.

Documentary Video, 101

Teacher: Maceo Lester

Fall semester, Wed, 4-5:30pm EST, Sep 21 - Dec 11 ; Spring 2021, TBD.

Over this introductory course, you will explore the fundamentals of non-fiction and documentary filmmaking; learn the basics of DSLR cameras, lighting, shot composition and audio; gain basic video editing skills; and, practice how to properly critique your peers’ work, as you receive constructive feedback to refine your vision during the creative process. 

Virtual Platforms: Zoom, Email, Eduflow