Summer 2012 Guide to Arts + Rec

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Drawing, Painting & Printmaking AGES 5-10

AGES 6-7

Summer Art Camps

Paint Box

Join us for one or more of our creative arts adventures. These

Open the paint box and find a world where your imagination will

theme-based arts sessions are designed for children ages 5-10.

lead you to discover new and exciting ways to use paints. Use

Age-appropriate activities emphasizing both individual and col-

tempera, acrylic and watercolor paints combined with drawing

laborative creativity. From creating your own prehistoric world

to develop a sense of composition, color and design. Learn more

to singing and acting like a caveman. All this in one day! Visual

about creating depth in your paintings, reducing complex subjects

art, theatre and music will integrate activities around a common

to a simpler form and creating texture with pattern and repetition.

theme. Children bring both snacks and a lunch plus drink each day.

Students repeating this class will have extended projects that pro-

Wear comfortable clothes.

vide further independent growth and development in the medium.

INSTRUCTOR : Lisa Taft, Tracy Randolph

INSTRUCTOR : Sue Scott

LOCATION Youth Art 1, Shadelands Art Center

LOCATION Youth Art 1, Shadelands Art Center $74: 8 classes

Art in the Land Before Time

Class 19930

Fri

3:30pm-4:30pm

6/22-8/10

If you are wild about dinosaurs, this is the class for you! Study and create prehistoric creatures and lands. Use different art media to make dinosaurs, fossils, volcanoes and oceans to create your own

AGES 6-8

prehistoric world. How do you think a caveman would act? What

Air Dry Clay Sculpture

would he sing? What type of instruments would he play? We will

Like immediate results when working with clay? This class ex-

create their life through visual and performing arts.

Class 19377

Mon-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm

plores a self-hardening clay medium which doesn’t require a kiln. The polymer clay comes in a variety of colors and is easily shaped

$212: 5 classes

7/23-7/27

and formed. Once the sculpture is completed, it can be baked in an oven, giving it a ceramic like finish. Projects include whimsical

Art Camp ZooZical

creatures, free-form sculpture, and more. We’ll also do elements of

Create animals in their habitats. Help these animals perform their

jewelry making such as beads and bracelets.

very own ZooZical, with acts, music and song (based on a sweet new rhyming story titled ‘ZooZical’ by Judy Sierra and Marc Brown). Start by reading the story and then decide which animals and what they will do for performance.

Mon-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm

LOCATION Youth Art 2, Shadelands Art Center $67: 5 classes

Class 19949

$212: 5 classes

Class 19378

INSTRUCTOR : Karen Kelly

Fri

2:00pm-3:30pm

7/13-8/10

7/30-8/3 AGES 6-8

Cartooning: Basic Drawing Skills

Art Across the Seven Seas Ahoy mates! Get on board your specifically made ship, be a captain, be a pirate or be a merperson and sail around the world making sea creatures and ocean scenes. How does a pirate talk? How do they walk? What does your merperson look like? Can you make a fantastic sea creature?

Mon-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm

ters and stories that are the foundation of successful cartooning. Expressive faces and bodies in action will be explored, along with creative viewpoints and settings. Media include pencil, pen and ink, brush painting, markers and watercolor. Repeating students

$212: 5 classes

Class 19379

Learn the basic drawing skills needed to create cartoon charac-

will have the opportunity to create and work on projects with 8/6-8/10

instructor. INSTRUCTOR : Tim Hancock

Mystery Spy Art

LOCATION Youth Art 3, Shadelands Art Center

Everyone loves a good mystery and art is full of surprises. Learn to make a straight line curve or a flat picture look like you can walk inside space? Can you learn to balance on paper on the ground?

$74: 8 classes

Class 19952

Tue

3:45pm-4:45pm

6/19-8/7

How do actors make things seem to happen? Can you make a play fight? How can you make music from a bottle of water? $212: 5 classes

Class 19380

Mon-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm

8/13-8/17

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