Amigos Furrever (13+)

While the furry/fursuit community as a whole is welcoming to young fursuit cosplayers, many online spaces for furries are geared towards older teens and adults. In this ongoing club, students can meet in a safe and age-appropriate space to discuss their fursonas, share their feral and anthro furry artwork, and exchange tips and tricks on creating a fursuit or other furry-related cosplay! Whether your focus is on anthro/feral art or on costuming/cosplaying, this club provides an opportunity to meet other students who share your creative interests. Class topics will be student-led, but will include: getting started as a furry cosplayer, creating a fursona, developing a signature furry/anthro art style, where to find resources for costuming, how to choose between making your own suit and purchasing a premade suit, and fun art challenge like "draw it in your style." 

Students are welcome to attend class in regular clothes or in whatever degree of fursuit cosplay they prefer. Some students may wear ears and tails, others may have modified raptor masks, while some may have partial or full fursuits. All are welcome! No student should feel required to dress in cosplay or will be made to feel their cosplay is inferior to a complete fursuit. The focus is on fun and socializing, not competition. One of the best parts of the furry community is the way they support each other and bolster each other's confidence! 

Weekly meetings have student-directed content, but we will start each week with an introduction of the students and their fursonas, an opportunity for students to share new artwork or costuming they have created or commissioned since the previous meeting, and then will transition into student-led discussion and socializing. We will host "draw it in your own style" activities every where students can swap pictures of their fursonas and draw their classmates' artwork in their own unique art style. We will place more emphasis on cosplay and fandom safety—both online (on platforms like Discord) and in person (at meet-ups or conventions)—as student in this age group are more likely to attend in-person events and have more access to online platforms (TOS age requirements for most sites is 13+), and will address ways to deal with situations that feel unsafe.