Artsplace Summer Camps
Monday-Friday, June 26-June 30, 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Wizarding World Art Camp (Grades 4-8) Your magic wand awaits you. Enjoy a week of magical art experiences. Imagination is your most important tool! Create stories with drawings, paint clay and fabrics. Heighten your wizarding skills. Study “herbology” and learn about incredible plants. Find how one object can transform into another. Mix magical potions and discover their uses. Make a soft companion creature using needle-felting. Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842371-A Fee: $315 for Residents or $325 for Non-residents |
Wednesday-Friday, July 5-July 7, 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Animal Fiber Art Camp (Grades 4-8) Animals wear coats that can be shorn or brushed. Explore the techniques that turn these fibers into something about or for animals. Dogs, cats, sheep, alpacas and rabbits are some of these animals. Learn to spin and make yarn. Weave a leash, belt or tie using a back-strap loom. Needle-felt a pet to follow you anywhere. Create a felted bird house or a wall hanging of your favorite animal or bird. Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842372-A Fee: $200 for Residents or $210 for Non-residents |
Monday-Friday, July 10-July 14, 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Crazy Creatures Art Camp (Grades 4-8) Students will design and then draw a variety of creatures (dragons, unicorns, trolls, mermaids, elves, faeries, griffins and mermaids) before transforming their chosen drawing into a three- dimensional character. Students will work with choice of clay, plaster, fabric, paper mache and recycled materials. Instructor will provide an overview of mythical creatures in art history and the myths “crazy creatures” have inspired since. Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842373-A Fee: $315 for Residents or $325 for Non-residents |
Monday-Friday, July 10-July 14, 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Let's Get Sewing Camp (Grades 3-6) Yes, kids can safely sew on a machine! Kids will learn all about how a machine works, threading, operating and troubleshooting. Begin machine sewing by tracing simple lines on thick fabric, learning how to sew forward and backwards. We’ll also learn hand stitching utilizing embroidery thread and soft felt to create cute animals like a teddy bear, dogs and cats. Embellish with fun buttons, sequins, fancy stitches and bling! Projects will include pin cushions, small pillows, LOTS of stuffed animals, bags and more. You will be speeding along in no time! Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842373-B Fee: $265 for Residents or $275 for Non-residents |
Monday-Friday, July 17-July 21, 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Sharks & Mermaids Art Camp (Grades 2-6) Summer is all about water and waves, and what better fin-tastic hosts to launch us into a week of artmaking than fintastic characters from Myth and Legend, the Mermaid and the Shark? We’ll plunge into mythology to discover when Mermaids became the captivating characters they are, and we’ll look at some of our favorites (Ariel, Ponyo) for character design inspiration. We’ll take a deep dive into Shark biology, and use this info for our own drawings, as we reference our favorite animated sharks (Bruce, Destiny) in order to design our own cartoon characters. A “small craft(ing) advisory” will be in full effect as we create seaside towns, complete with waves, boardwalks, beaches and several beachgoing characters and accessories (messages in bottles, beach balls). Clean recyclables will be used for our “towns” to launch discussions about keeping the ocean clean and its inhabitants safe. Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842374-A Fee: $315 for Residents or $325 for Non-residents |
Monday-Friday, July 24-July 28, 9:00 am-2:00 pm
Superheroes & Villains Art Camp (Grades 2-6) The idea of good versus evil is never more apparent than in the clashes between our favorite superheroes and villains. We’ll talk about what makes a good Superhero good and what makes a Villain oh-so-evil and then design our own! In this character design camp we will learn about: “thumbnails,” “style sheets,” “turnarounds” and “splash pages”. We’ll discuss costuming and logos and learn why color combinations have played such key roles in defining heroes’ and villains’ looks in the past as we design costumes for our own original characters. With this new knowledge, we’ll create our own comic books! In the latter part of the week we’ll turn our attention to the phenomenon that is cosplay (aka “costume play”), crafting key components from our hero or villain to become that character through costuming, cosmetics and acting. For our last day, we’ll put on a mini “Comic Con” in order to share our comic books with our families, and to show off our cosplay characters. Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842375-A Fee: $265 for Residents or $275 for Non-residents |
Fairytopia Camp (Grades 1-4) ~ 5 days
Monday-Friday, July 24-28, 9:00 am-2:00 pm Enter the magical world of Fairies! We will create flower fairies with beads and wire, then give them a special world using plaster, paint, clay and stones. We will also create our own fairy costumes of wings, tiaras, wands and skirts using wire, beads, decoupage, watercolors, gems and of course lots of glitter! The whole week will end with a chance for your fairy to shower herself with our special fairy dust and display all her creations at our fashion show on Friday afternoon. Join us for this glitter filled week of story telling and fun! Bring a bag lunch and snack. #842375-B Fee: $265 for Residents or $275 for Non-residents Instructor: Deb Lasher |
Monday-Friday, July 31-August 4, 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Magical Kingdom Art Camp (Grades 2-6) Students will dive into the magical world of some of the most beloved animated movies of all-time including Toy Story, Enchanto, The Little Mermaid and Peter Pan by creating inspired projects using different multi-media and materials. Throughout the week they will design and create their own projects including building castles out of paper mache, paint and recyclable products and designing characters from The Little Mermaid using Sculpey clay. #842376-A Fee: $315 for Residents or $325 for Non-residents |