A Summer of Fun to Last a Lifetime
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This year more than 500 students registered for a summer of creativity! If your family has never participated in this fun-filled program, call the Art League to talk to our camp staff so you and your youngster can see what is available for next summer.
Summer Art Adventure is an intensive "thematic" art education experience for gifted and enthusiastic students ages 5-17. A dedicated faculty of art education professionals has provided outstanding instruction in a studio environment for 13 years. Weekly themes are carefully designed around age-appropriate projects that include drawing, painting, crafts and sculpture.
For teens there is jewelry making, ceramics, painting, printmaking, drawing and painting from observation and portfolio preparation. A new offering this year for teens features woodworking and functional art.
A salon-style art show concludes each weekly experience. Students are engaged in a variety of art processes which foster individual growth and creative expression. The Summer Art Adventure program provides learning opportunities for art students of all ages to create, discover and grow!
Recycle, Reconstruct, Re-Imagine
In the Early Childhood program students transformed old shoes into unique birds and creatures. Colorful cities emerged from cereal boxes and paper towel tubes. Our youngest artists made vegetable prints and turned ordinary plastic bottles into unique animal creatures. The 9 year olds (also known as the "mad scientists") took on the role of artists using nature to provide them with the materials and colors to create one-of-a kind hand dyed natural relief landscapes. They also sculpted robots and created constructions in the style of artist Louise Nevelson. Eight and 10 year old students drew from nature and learned about the botanical studies of Leonardo Da Vinci. The gridded self-portraits also challenged them to explore contrast. They tried their hand at designing Ceramic Tile Mosaics based on nature. Pre-teen students saw the link between art and physics as they created Marble Mazes out of recycled materials. Trial and error and experimenting with gravity, movement and design concepts were part of their creative process. It was a week filled with seeing everyday objects in new ways.
Art Around the World
In our multicultural art themed week, students learned about art that came from all over the world. Design was the focus in several projects such as woven baskets using colorful yarns molas and animal prints based on South American cultures. Various masks were constructed using paper and mixed media. Chinese paper cuts, brush painting and Japanese scroll painting exposed students to Eastern art. Sculpting and painting food sculptures were a lot of fun too. Egyptian artifacts were recreated through the mummy box project which involved constructing both the box and the mummy. Students also had the chance to work with clay. Oaxan folk sculpture provided the inspiration for simplified geometric animals made out of wood. The week was filled with different approaches to create art with a focus on the third dimension.
Animals on Parade
In the animal week, students observed animals closely and drew from a lizard, fish and rabbit. They learned about wild cats and created sculptures of tigers and lions. Mixed media safari projects, arctic animal sculpture, endangered animal illustrations and jungle constructions provided students with the opportunity to draw, paint, sculpt, and illustrate. In their own words, students described their experiences:
"I really liked the way we got to work with animals. We could make sculptures and drawings, and silk paintings too." - Sydnie W., age 11
"I think people should go to this camp because it inspires them about art." - Olivia B., age 8
