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2010 SUMMER CAMPS
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Pre-School Camps Ages 4 - 6 9 AM - 12 PM Tuition: $110 + Materials: $15 = $125 May 24 - 28 Functional Pots for Tots This is the week for budding potters to get their hands in the clay. The week will include a variety of functional pottery projects. Campers will create one-of-a-kind clay pieces and decorate them with colored clay slips. We’ll even see how clay spins on the wheel for some hands-on gooey fun. Sarah Visser FULL June 1 - 4 Funky Folk Art The freshness of a child’s perspective lends itself beautifully to the folk art style. Projects this week will include dot-painting, clay masks, and the decoration of a real clay face-jug. 4-DAY CAMP - Tuition: $88 + Materials: $15 = $103 Katie Shipley FULL June 7 - 11 Pirates and Parrots Argghhh! There be plenty of swashbuckling fun this week with nautically themed projects, clay sharks, desert islands, and more. Sarah Visser June 14 - 18 All Aboard! Model train enthusiasts will adore this week of locomotive excitement. We’ll make clay train cars, clay tracks, and even stations, tunnels, and scenery that will work with their favorite wooden model sets. Katie Shipley June 21 - 25 Fossil Hunters Campers this week will blend the science of fossil formation with some very accessible clay forming techniques. From duck-billed dinosaur eggs to fossil fish, plants and dino tracks, campers can satisfy their natural fascination with paleontology while getting their hands dirty in the clay studio. Sarah Visser FULL June 28 – July 2 Volcanoes Kids will make clay models of volcanoes, geysers, and other geological wonders that really erupt for a week of art and science exploration. Sarah Visser July 5 - 9 Young Naturalists This week will feature a special visit from the naturalists at Sandy Creek Nature Center. We will make art projects inspired by their visit: clay animal sculptures, masks, figurines and large animal drawings and paintings. Katie Shipley July 12 - 16 Hard Hat Area We will use clay and other art projects to examine architecture from around the world. We’ll build log cabins, igloos, and mud huts, and even design our ultimate fantasy play-spaces. Katie Shipley July 19 - 23 Down by the Seaside Art projects inspired by the ocean and beach will be the theme for this week. Colorful clay fish, spiny echinoderms, and funky sandcastles are just some of the fun that’s in store. Sarah Visser July 26 - 30 Garden Art for Little Sprouts Campers will explore such wonders of the garden as seed germination, pollination, soil building and more. This week will be a blend of art, science, and hands-on gardening. Campers will even create their very own planting in their clay planters. Katie Shipley August 2 - 6 Rainforest Adventure The plants, animals and people of the rainforest will inspire this week’s art projects. Animal masks, hot cocoa mugs, and ceremonial bowls are just some of the projects in store. Sarah Visser August 9 - 13 Pottery Fun Kids will enjoy a sampling of different pottery-making techniques including pinching, coiling, slab-building, and even the potter’s wheel. Katie Shipley Youth Camps Ages 7 - 10 9 AM - 1 PM Tuition: $140 + Materials: $15 = $155 May 24 - 28 From Turning to Burning This ceramic survey class will include handbuilding techniques and wheel throwing, as well as outdoor Raku and stoneware firings. Jen Davidson June 1 - 4 Drawing and Painting Using a variety of graphic techniques and drawing media, campers will learn fundamentals to help them translate their imagination and perception of the natural world into two dimensions. (4-DAY CAMP - Tuition: $112 + Materials: $15 = $127) Sarah Visser June 7 – 11 Mythological Beasts This week will draw on the wonderful hybrid creatures that populate so many myths and legends. Centaurs, chimaeras, and harpies will inspire both paintings and clay sculptures, and we’ll finish the week by creating our own mixed-up characters and the legends behind them. Jen Davidson June 14 - 18 Clay Slab Construction Working with sheets of clay both soft and stiff, textured and smooth, we will create all kinds of sculptural and functional forms. Slab-building is immediate, flexible and fun, and we’ll get a nice overview of construction, embellishment, and surface treatments. At the end of the week, we’ll even combine slabs with some simple wheel-thrown components. Shelia Bradley June 21 - 25 Sculptural Servers and Fantasy Food Our stomachs will growl as we design special dishes for our favorite foods and make sculptures of cakes, fruits and other tasty treats that look good enough to eat. We will even create a special mug and ice-cream bowl on the potter’s wheel. Katie Shipley June 28 – July 2 Aliens and UFO’s What would life on other planets look like, and what kinds of remarkable spacecraft might let the aliens visit us? These questions will inspire all kinds of creative sculptural ideas for a week of clay modeling, character development, and storytelling. Jen Davidson July 5 – 9 Animal Sculptures Students will spend the entire week working toward a final sculpture project depicting their favorite animal. This will involve a number of steps, from sketching and model making to the actual creation of components and assembly. Jen Davidson July 12 - 16 Asian Pottery The ceramic history of China, Korea and Japan will inspire this week of pot making exploration. A variety of hand building, wheel throwing, firing and decoration techniques will be covered. We will learn about stoneware glazing and fire up the Raku kiln on Friday for some crackled and iridescent results. Jen Davidson July 19 - 23 Art for the Garden We will use ceramic and other sculptural materials to make gargoyles, garden gnomes, bird houses and funky planters. (Children over 10 may join this class, space permitting) Jen Davidson July 26 - 30 Shelter Campers will explore the many ways people the world over put a roof over their heads. We’ll make pots inspired by buildings, create clay ‘log’ cabins, explore arches and domes and much more in this week of architecture, anthropology, and art. Jen Davidson August 2 - 6 Beyond Round Campers with prior experience on the wheel (e.g. youth wheel classes, ‘Turning and Burning’ or ‘Pottery around the World: Asia’ camps, etc.) will be challenged to find new ways to create pottery by assembling parts, darting and altering, and combining throwing and handbuilding techniques. Although good foundational techniques will be covered, the emphasis will be on exploration and fun with clay on the wheel. Shelia Bradley August 9 - 13 Turning to Burning II This ceramic survey class will include handbuilding techniques and wheel throwing, as well as outdoor Raku and stoneware firings. (Children over 10 may join this class, space permitting) Shelia Bradley Teen Camps Ages 11 – 18 9 - 1 PM Tuition: $140 + Materials: $25 (unless otherwise specified) = $165 May 24 - 28 What a Relief! Students will learn both additive and subtractive ways to create relief in clay. Projects will include both individual relief tiles and relief scenes that span multiple tiles. Depending on student interest, some plaster mold-making, sprigging, and stamp carving will get incorporated into the projects. Shelia Bradley June 1 – 4 Musical Clay We will create sculptural whistles that really work, ceramic tone drums, udu drums, and ocarinas. No musical ability required, just an interest in sound and how it’s created. Rob Sutherland (4 DAY CAMP - Tuition: $112 + Materials: $15 = $127) June 7 – 11 Pottery on the Wheel Students will learn the ins and outs of wheel throwing in this one week intensive. The last class will feature a firing extravaganza in our Raku kiln. Graduates of the class may enroll in summer wheel classes or independent studio with permission. Shelia Bradley June 14 - 18 Fused Glass Fun We will experiment with fusing layers of colored glass in the kiln to create shimmering chimes, pendants, ornaments, and coasters. The interplay of color and light makes fused glass a very exciting medium that is surprisingly accessible for beginners. Kim is developing a number of new projects to keep things interesting for repeat youth fusers. (Materials: $50) Kim Sutherland June 21 - 25 Fusing and Slumping: Enter the 3rd dimension After creating patterns and shapes in colorful fully fused glass, students will slump their pieces into 3-D forms during a second firing. Projects will include dishes, night lights, candle shelters and more. (Materials: $75) Kim Sutherland June 28 – July 2 Dinnerware We’ll create funky, festive dinnerware sets this week using both wheel and handbuilding techniques. Students will be encouraged to develop their own personal set of design motifs to be applied via paper resist, relief stamping, and sgraffito techniques. Shelia Bradley July 5 – 9 Folk Art Fun, funky art projects will use recycled and found objects. Dot painting, scrap assemblages, collage, and face jug decoration will keep the students’ creative juices flowing throughout the week. Jen Davidson July 12 - 16 Figurative Clay Sculpture Students will experience the entire creative process of creating medium to large-scale ceramic sculptures. Beginning with sketching and maquettes, students will design figurative pieces that overcome the constraints of gravity by using hollow and sectional construction techniques. Emily Tatum July 19 - 23 Revolutionary Pottery The potter’s wheel will be center stage this week, but we’ll push the clay creations to new heights by stacking, combining, and altering the thrown forms. A variety of surface decoration and firing options will be available. Shelia Bradley July 26 - 30 All Fired Up We’ll spend the entire week making pieces designed to take advantage of the exciting crackled and iridescent glazes of the Raku kiln. Students will take part in the exciting firing process that involves transferring hot pots to a smoky post-firing reduction vessel. What kid wouldn’t love this camp? Rob Sutherland
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