Summer 2009 Camp Descriptions
Art Camps For Kids 6-8, 9+ and Teen
Tuition per weekly camp is $175
Projects subject to change
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Creative Kids - Ages 4-6
Classes for Teens
Adult Classes
Mythological Creatures
This one is pure fantasy and proud of it. Immerse yourself in exotic lands with creatures you invent from your own mythologies. Enjoy clay, collage, drawing and wild adventurous paintings in this camp of myth and legend. Created especially for all you fairy and dragon lovers out there.
Horse Camp
Revel in the majestic power and beauty of equines. Visit a very beautiful private Lakewood barn for a day and Paint ON a horse, take pictures, draw and play, gathering inspiration to take back to the studio. We’ll make a clay horse and while it’s being fired, create magical costumes for her. Barley’s own Tennessee Walking Horse, Birdie (shown) will be in attendance! We have also planned a dreamcatcher project using horseshoes.
Drawing - Classical
Learn to see with an artist’s eye! Develop the hand/eye connection through a traditional, yet exciting, approach to drawing. Our projects are designed to impart skills quickly with enthusiastic results. Explore many mediums and subject matter with framable results. Projects include creating an accordion book with plexi covers, and drawing from live butterflies.
Animals In Clay 2
Do you love animals? Honor them with clay creations that will explore the tiger or giraffe in you. Grrr!!! Young artists can fashion a pet portrait, create an animal teapot that really works, and make an animal kingdom mosaic ready for the frame.
Mud For The Wheel
Throw it down, spin it 'round, make yourself some pots! Learn the basics or further develop your skills in a week long throwing camp. Four days of muddy fun on the potters wheel making mugs, bowls and pottery vessels embellished with hand built decorations and a final day of glazing artistry.
Build It!
Your Mad Scientist constructs a found object Robot to do your bidding. Budding Architects design and create a ceramic birdhouse built-to-suit. Young Urban Planners imagine the perfect utopia and assemble a model city of the future. If you "Build It" they will come...
Cartoon
Write an original comic book complete with storyboard, then ink and color your creation. If you have characters you’ve been designing, here’s their big chance at stardom! Perfect for the future video game designer or anime master. New side projects every summer. This class yields a VERY impressive project to hand in for TAG school admissions.
Mudworks - Teen Wheel Camp
Experience advanced throwing and trimming techniques. Make vessels with fitted lids, pulled handles, and cups to match. Hand-build self-designed projects when not on the wheel. Limit 6 students. Each student will get approximately eight hours wheel time. With Lynn Armstrong.
Oil Painting
We will investigate specific techniques of using water–based oil paint, encouraging students to express themselves with their own style while developing use of color, value, design and composition. Lovely new projects every year! With Chris Wyatt.
Drawing And Painting Goes Green
Hand-make beautiful paper from junk mail. Cut sticks to use as stylus and brush. Create your own pigment from earth, using it in inventive and experimental ways. Printmaking and Collage will also incorporate the use of recylcables in their making. It’s eco-friendly art!
Painting 101
We will PAINT A LOT…on paintings big and small; spending time focusing on how to really use paint. Mix it, draw with it, over paint and under paint, work from imagination and life. Students will learn to utilize many forms of painting media for more impactful art. You will be ready for your own studio when done!
Creative Kids
Simple, yet ornate projects for kids, ages 4-6, that introduce basic and beautiful art materials to small hands with big imaginations!
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Classes for Teens
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