The Walker’s summer teen workshop, Fake It, For Real, has started and the students are doing some pretty cool things. Largely based on film, video, and new media, the workshop is led  by  Tectonic Industries duo Lars Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow. The workshop kicked off with introductions, an awesome tour of the Tectonic Industries studio, and the first assignment, a potrait without self. 

The following class day, the students brought in the projects and we looked at what everyone had made. Drawings, videos, animations and photography were just a few of the different mediums the teens worked with. Looking at contemporary artists whose work addresses the same ideas, both in the galleries and books, allowed them to get inspired for further investigating their projects. That day ended with a work time to start the next project using video cameras, cell phones, voice recorders, and other neat technologies. 

Check out our flickr for photos of the workshop!