Summer Camp as it should be – fun, exciting, different, a chance to learn something new, play and make new friends!
Our camps focus on art! – process, technique, many different mediums, and a chance to explore. We even have international themes.
Learning to use the right side of their brain is a huge gift you can give your kids! And the opportunity to be free to create, to enjoy their creative side, use wild imagination, and make art, is just priceless.
We offer many different camp themes so there is choice about mediums and topic. But we are also very flexible about what a camper would like to pursue. We like to offer our young artists options that appeal to their style and interests.
As always, portfolio development is available all summer for those high school students pursuing higher education at an art school.
SUMMER CAMP SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION
Full Day 9:30-4:30 - $550 | AM Session 9:30-12:30 - $275 | PM Session 1:30-4:30 - $275
All Camps are for 7-18 year olds except Fine Art Frolics, which is for 4-7 year olds
June 24-28 | July 1-5 | July 8-12 | July 15-19 | July 22-26 | July 29-Aug 2 | Aug 5-9 | Aug 12-16 | Aug 19-23
June 24-28
AM Camp Options
Cartoon: Manga/Dragons/Fairies
Learn to tag, ink, write, make storyboards, manga style, or your own style. Character creation is yours, as you make a cartoon cel and create a manga animation wheel.
Watercolors
Learn the theory and practice of watercolor-palette and color work, brush use, pigments, techniques galore! Discover the bright & vibrant and the soft subdued aspects. Then we’ll add inking to the mix!
PM Camp Options
Drawing A to Z
Observe the way artist’s eyes do, using ink, graphite, charcoal, pastels, & colored pencil. Proportion, light, shadow, shading, perspective, line & tone will make your drawings spring to life.
Fine Art Frolics
Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.
July 1-5
Please note that this is a 4-day camp - camp will be closed on July 4th.
AM Camp Options
Mini Paintings Oils/Acrylics
Where would you like to be – a city, a beach, the country, Paris?? Pick your favorite places and use oils and acrylics to while you learn the techniques and secrets to beautiful landscape painting.
Fine Art Frolics
Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.
PM Camp Options
Wire Sculpture/Solder and Twist
Draw with it, sculpt with it, bend, twist and shape it, form it and solder it…so much fun to work with wire! Wall hangings, wire drawings and more.
Hyper Realistic Drawing
Observe the way artist’s eyes do, using ink, graphite, charcoal, pastels, & colored pencil. Proportion, light, shadow, shading, perspective, line & tone will make your drawings spring to life.
July 8-12
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
Classic WC & Acrylics Landscapes
Learn about color mixing/pigments, palette set up, composition, additives & techniques, working from still life/photo, use glazes and more while we create gems of paintings!
Build THIS!
How do you make a kaleidoscope of colors? Have you ever made a copper mobile? A picture frame? A clock? Well, bring your ideas, & desire to learn to build, along with your creative hands, & let’s get going!
PM Camp Options
Art/Science
Scientists and artists were once one – think and create art the way they did – do experiments with making paint, study and sculpt insects, make ice sculpture, and more. Hands on and very exciting!
Contemporary/Abstract/Graffiti Art!
Art that does not represent an accurate depiction of reality but instead use shapes, colors, forms to achieve its effect. Throw the rules out the window and focus on balance, color, rhyme and balance.
July 15-19
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
Fashion Design/Fashion Bag
Design your own clothing & accessories! Learn the exciting ins & outs of the Fashion industry while working with your own story boards, colors & fabric choices for your season clothing designs & illustration croquis.
Varied Painting
Explore application of watercolors, acrylics, gauche & tempera paints. Creativity, imaginative use of the medium, composition, and color palette are focal points.
PM Camp Options
Fine Art Frolics
Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.
ALL Animal Art (incl your pets!)
Observe the way artist’s eyes do, using ink, graphite, charcoal, pastels, & colored pencil. Proportion, light, shadow, shading, perspective, line & tone will make your drawings spring to life.
July 22-26
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
Paper/Clay/Stone Sculpting
The simple definition of sculpture -turn one thing into something else! Work with Paper, Clay, Stone, Wood, involving texture, color, movement and more.
Master Painting
Incorporate the traditional way of realistic painting including lighting, glazes, composition and content, using Renaissance inspiration. Lots of fun, much to learn, beautiful work to take home.
PM Camp Options
Create Your Own Illustrated Book
Not only create the actual book but wrote a short story and illustrate it. Style of the story is up to the young artist. And no, spelling doesn't count!
Draw/Paint Humans & Portraits
An exciting intro to human proportion. Working from macquettes, photos and occasionally a student model, learn about all aspects of drawing with regard to fabric, skin tones, shadows, musculature, hair patterns, etc.
July 29- Aug 2
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
GRAPHICS
With fast paced social media, we’ll explore trends in art that support the ‘quick” art hit. Using a variety of materials, the young artists will be presented with situations to solve, around creativity and their style.
Paint BIG!
Working really LARGE - learn about proportions, how to grid up, techniques of scaling up. You will work on an acrylic painting the size of a table - this is going to be HUGE fun!
PM Camp Options
Mosaics
Learn the techniques and process of using tesserae to create mosaic mural work. Your kids can learn and create art while they study Mosaic Art with a modern twist
Fine Art Frolics
Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.
Aug 5-9
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
Walk in the WILD (Animal) Week
Observe the way artist’s eyes do, using ink, graphite, charcoal, pastels, & colored pencil. Proportion, light, shadow, shading, perspective, line & tone will make your drawings spring to life.
Architectural Design
Create interiors and exteriors in simple but true manners. Perspective and sketching will be taught to harness ideas, then final work in the design and presentation arena.
PM Camp Options
Leatherwork
Learn the theory and practice of watercolor-palette and color work, brush use, pigments, techniques galore! Discover the bright & vibrant and the soft subdued aspects. Then we’ll add inking to the mix!
Chalk Pastel Art
Lots of fun as you use vibrantly colored pastels. Work from still life and imagination, mix these pastels with glue, transfer liquids or other mediums. You won’t believe the masterpieces you make!
Aug 12-16
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
Mixed Media
Work with a bit of everything - draw, paint, sculpt, printmaking, & calligraphy! All these exciting mediums reinforce the basic rules of art. Experiment with mixed media, combining different mediums to create your own art.
Cartoon/Anime Story
Learn to tag, ink, write, make story boards, manga style or your own style. Character creation is yours, as you make a cartoon cel and create a manga animation wheel. Develop your own cartoon story using your character!
PM Camp Options
Textiles!
Discover the beauty of working with fabric. Learn the techniques for Batik, Silk Painting, and Theorem Painting, completing a piece of each style.
Sketch Like An Artist
More than just learning to sketch, this camp will teach you to design settings with correct perspective, figures with the right proportion, basic figure drawing, contour vs. mechanical drawing, & more, all in a variety of mediums.
Aug 19-23
Full Day Option Available
AM Camp Options
Fine Art Frolics
Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.
Handcrafts
Think you’re all thumbs? No you’re not! We will show crafts such as how to carve wood, form copper into art, make a stab binding book and create your own Ukrainian dyed egg with incredible patterns, among other exciting art!!
PM Camp Options
Polymer Clay/Mini Foods
A fast-paced camp that works with making miniature foods, beads, insects, armatures, animals and using some additives to enhance your sculptures. You’re going to love working with your hands to make a lump of clay come alive!
Multi Cultural Art
Travel the world with us as you create art such as Egyptian sculptures, “red figure” Greek pottery, Roman mosaic, Asian batik, African masks, Italian frescoes, Japanese netsuki and more!