BE CREATIVE

What is New in 2023▸ Architectural Sketching Class

When: Fall 2023, Tuesdays 4:15 to 5:45
Who: Grades 8 thru 12
Where: In Class or on Zoom, your choice:
Semester Price: $225
Physical Classroom is Andrews University's Architecture and Interior Design, 8435 E. Campus Circle Dr, Berrien Springs, MI.
Zoom link available after registration

How it Works▸

In this Fall 2023 Course, Renaissance Kids Director, Professor Mark Moreno, engages youth grades 8th through 12th in-person and online with activities that begin with curiosity, wonderment, and a love of learning to draw. Click on the sketch above for the syllabus.

Email Mark Moreno, mmoreno@andrews.edu, to register.
Class sizes are limited to assure quality.

Prof. Moreno Bio ▸

Professor Moreno's academic scholarship focuses in several areas, including Placemaking, Person/Environment relationships, kitchen and bath design, creativity, and children’s education. His teaching methodologies emphasize hands-on experiences. He lectures at national and international conferences, and in 2011 he received the Daniel Augsberger Excellence in Teaching Award.

He shares his professional expertise widely within his community, sitting on boards of directors at local non profit organizations and engaging orbganizations that seek design engagements for promoting service to humanity, quality sense of place, and a passion for creative scholarship.

He co-authored, "Architecture For Kids: Skill Building and Activities."
Co-author: Siena Moreno

EDUCATION: Masters degree in Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 1991
Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington 1985

Camp Activities

Principle Goals: Creativity From Home

  • tackle activities w/ ideation & design techniques.

  • learn drawing & model building skills.

  • look at challenges from varied vantage points.

  • use our hands & tools as much as possible. 

  • make physical things for more holistic understandings.

  • work together, critique together, & more!

  • engage in community services.

    Note: Save up on paper scraps like cereal boxes, toilet paper, and paper towel rolls, and any other found objects for constructing models. Students will always be free to creatively interpret projects from their own resources.


Renaissance Kids aspires to make complex ideas accessible to young minds by providing activities and tools for exploring relationships between people and the physical world.

PAst STUDIO PROJECTS

Projects built in the studio for all age groups involve exploring and solving problems by looking from multiple vantage points. We are working together in a loving environment, using tools and a wide array of materials, making drawings and building models with our hands.


Past COMMUNITY BUILD PROJECTS

These projects were all made with the kids hands, and some were designed by kids. all hope to make the world a better place.

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This is a casual conversation on Professor Garth Woodruff’s sweet designerly blog. Fun times.