ADVENTURES IN ART!
Adventures in Art is a series of thematic week-long sessions focusing on art-making through observation, imagination, materials and techniques.
Join us for up to 8 weeks to explore painting, drawing, clay and more! Explore art materials and techniques! Discover art and artists! Encourage creativity and imagination!
Programs include all materials, snacks and outdoor recreation. Students bring their own lunch. Please dress for mess. Each student receives a free Adventures in Art t-shirt on the first day of each week-long program.
Extended Day Programs are available until 5:30 p.m. Please see the right sidebar for details and pricing.
AGES 4–6
Adventures in Color YP31SU13
Explore color mixing, watercolors, pastels, splatter painting, spin art, collage, and rainbows. Please note that this week’s program is for ages 4-10.
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, June 17 - 21
5 days: $200; members: $180
Seashore YP32SU13
Create art inspired by the beach: oceans, fish and marine life; sun, sand, seashells; sand casting; boats, merfolk and more.
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, June 24 - 28
5 days: $200; members: $180
Birds, Bugs and Butterflies YP33SU13
Make art inspired by wings, antennae, eggs, chrysalis, nests; symmetry, feathers, spots and stripes. (No program Thursday, July 4.)
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, July 1 - 5
4 days: $160; members: $144
Farms and Gardens YP34SU13
Create a garden of art inspired by farm animals, barns, farmers, fruits and veggies, plants and flowers.
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, July 8 - 12
5 days: $200; members: $180
Fairy Tale Fun YP35SU13
Projects inspired by castles, royalty, puppets, mythological creatures, wands, and more magical art projects.
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, July 15 - 19
5 days: $200; members: $180
Dinosaurs! YP36SU13
Prehistoric fun - fossils, eggs, volcanoes, rocks, caves; plant eaters and meat eaters; T-Rex - Roar!
Instructor: Catherine Lendler
Monday, Friday, 9am - 1pm, July 22 - 26
5 days: $200; members: $180
Outer Space YP37SU13
Art inspired by sun, moon, planets, glowing stars, aliens, robots, spaceships and rockets. Out of this world!
Instructor: Catherine Lendler
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, July 29 - August 2
5 days: $200; members: $180
Jungle and Rainforest YP38SU13
Make art all about the jungle: birds, snakes and reptiles, canopy, habitats and ecology.
Instructor: Jennifer Van Elswyck
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, August 5 - 9
5 days: $200; members: $180
GRADES 2–5
Adventures in Color YP31SU13
Explore color mixing, watercolors, pastels, splatter painting, spin art, collage, and rainbows. Experiment with shapes, color combinations, patterns, brushwork, and rolling, dripping and stamping paint. Create abstract art, portraits and more. Emphasis on fun and individual expression! Please note that this week’s program is for ages 4-10.
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday - Friday, 9am - 1pm, June 17 - 21
5 days: $200; members: $180
Potter’s Delight - June Session YP42SU13
Get ready for a week of CLAY, CLAY, CLAY! We will focus on hand-building techniques. We will create many fun pieces using coil, slab, and pinch methods. Students will paint and/or glaze pieces. There will be new projects for continuing students. Please note that clay requires firing and glazing time. There will be a pickup time later in the summer.
Instructor: Alice Chittenden
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, June 24 - 28
5 days: $325; members: $293
Shine, Spin, Sparkle YP43SU13
Brilliant, just brilliant, all week long. EVERYTHING will reflect, sparkle and shine with glitter, foil papers, “gems,” metallic paint, pencils and metallic pastels. Projects include drawing and painting with metallic pastels, jewel encrusted paintings, papier-mâché geodes, and bejeweled portraits. (No program Thursday, July 4.)
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 1 - 5
4 days: $248; members: $223
Myths, Legends and Stories YP44SU13
Artwork will be created in response to exploring traditional stories from diverse cultures. Projects in drawing, painting and sculpture include scrolls, small shadow puppet screens and characters, tunnel books and sculptures of traditional animal and human storytellers. Enhances literary connections.
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 8 - 12
5 days: $302; members: $272
Potter’s Delight - July Session YP45SU13
Get ready for a week of CLAY, CLAY, CLAY! We will focus on hand-building techniques. We will create many fun pieces using coil, slab, and pinch methods. Students will paint and/or glaze pieces. There will be new projects for continuing students. Please note that clay requires firing and glazing time. There will be a pickup time later in the summer.
Instructor: Teresa Del Vecchio
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 15 - 19
5 days: $325; members: $293
Built from Nature Art YP46SU13
With natural resources as the primary art materials, a variety of explorations and projects will be created such as building animals and tiny furniture with twigs and painting with sticks. We will make a model karesansui (Japanese rock garden) and sand covered found objects.
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 22 - 26
5 days: $300; members: $270
Printing, Printing, Printing YP47SU13
Printmaking is fun with new projects in stamp printing, stencils, monoprints, relief printing, handmade books, note cards, marbled paper and more. Learn how to make your own paper and create many fun projects using printing techniques on both fabric and paper.
Instructor: Judie Cavanaugh
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 29 - August 2
5 days: $304; members: $274
Art and Yoga YP48SU13
Especially designed for this age group, this is a week of secular, mindful art with kid-friendly yoga poses, breathing-relaxation techniques, visualization and music listening. Creativity will be explored through charcoal, pencil and ink drawing, painting, suminagashi (Japanese paper marbling), collage, sculpture and mandala making. The instructor is both a yoga practitioner and artist. Students should bring a floor mat or blanket for yoga.
Instructor: Judie Cavanaugh
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, August 5 - 9
5 days: $300; members: $270
GRADES 6–8
Off the Wall Printmaking YP52SU13
Printmaking fun with a twist. Included are projects in stamp printing, stencils, monoprints, relief printing, handmade books, marbled paper and more. The projects will go beyond prints to hang on the wall. We will use prints to create small and large three-dimensional art such as sculpture, screens, origami, mobiles and more.
Instructor: Catherine Lendler
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, June 24 - 28
5 days: $305; members: $275
Freedom, Flags and Figures YP53SU13
Explore American folk art drawn from the tradition of Uncle and Aunt Sam with motifs of stars and stripes. Projects include a whirligig sculpture, twig/branch figure sculptures, wearable stovepipe hats and felt quilts. Enhances knowledge of American folklore and traditions. (No program Thursday, July 4.)
Instructor: Catherine Lendler
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 1 - 5
4 days: $240; members: $216
Potters Delight, Two - July Session YP54SU13
Calling all potters! Join us for a week focusing on hand-building and an introduction to wheel techniques. We will create many fun pieces using coil, slab, and pinch methods. Students will paint and/or glaze pieces. There will be new projects for continuing students. Please note that clay requires firing and glazing time; there will be a pickup time later in the summer.
Instructor: Alice Chittenden
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 8 - 12
5 days: $325; members: $293
Art and Yoga YP55SU13
A week of secular, mindful art with kid-friendly yoga poses, breathing-relaxation techniques, visualization and music listening. Creativity will be explored through charcoal, pencil and ink drawing, painting, suminagashi (Japanese paper marbling), collage, sculpture and mandala making. The instructor is both a yoga practitioner and artist. Students should bring a floor mat or blanket for yoga.
Instructor: Judie Cavanaugh
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 15 - 19
5 days: $300; members: $270
Pinhole Camera/Photo YP56SU13
Are you curious and enthusiastic about photography? Learn all about the 35mm camera and how to develop your photographs in a darkroom. Make some fantastic frames for your new photos and create fun photograms, create and use your own pinhole camera, sun prints and photo-collages. Bring a 35mm camera if you have one; if not we will provide one for you to use in class. The cost of film and photo paper is included.
Instructor: Kris Wetmore
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 22 - 26
5 days: $315; members: $284
Me, Myself and I YP57SU13
Self-portraits can be made many ways with many materials. Explore the variety of ways to portray yourself in portrait paintings, drawings, with Manga, as pixel art, collage, sculpture, me-masks and hand-colored photocopies.
Instructor: Kris Wetmore
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, July 29 - August 2
5 days: $300; members: $270
Potters Delight, Two - August Session YP58SU13
Calling all potters! Join us for a week focusing on hand-building and an introduction to wheel techniques. We will create many fun pieces using coil, slab, and pinch methods. Students will paint and/or glaze pieces. There will be new projects for continuing students. Please note that clay requires firing and glazing time; there will be a pickup time later in the summer.
Instructor: Gul Rukh Selim
Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm, August 5 - 9
5 days: $325; members: $293
GRADES 8–12
Teen Drawing Intensive YP68SU13
Study basic drawing elements including line, shading, texture, form, composition. Explore a variety of media including pencils, charcoal, black ink and pastels. Create a process portfolio of abstract, still life, figure and landscape drawings. Every student will be given a portfolio case to hold their work.
Instructor: Young People’s Faculty
Monday - Friday, 10am - 1pm, August 5 - 9
5 days: $161; members: $145
Jewelry/Metalsmithing for Teens YP78SU13
Learn basic metal working techniques to create jewelry and mini sculpture. Saw, hammer, fold, twist, cut, stamp, rivet, solder and shape copper sheet metal and wire. Students will use hand tools to manipulate metal and a torch (one-on-one with instructor) to make metal malleable and solder pieces together as needed. Two and three-dimensional forms will be explored, including organic pods, leaves, spheres, circles, etc.
Instructor: Connie Pfeiffer
Monday - Friday, 1:30 - 5:00pm, August 5 – 9
5 days: $190; members: $171
SIGN UP FOR BOTH!
Teen Drawing Intensive PLUS Jewelry/Metalsmithing for Teens
YP88SU13
Combined Price: $325; members: $293
COURSE INFORMATION
Please enroll by June 10. All classes have limited enrollment. You can register NOW by mail or on our website. You may also register by telephone or in person at CAW between 9 and 5, Monday through Friday. A $3.00 handling charge will be applied to all registrations. All registrations will be processed in the order in which they are received. Please note that your place in a class is only secured with the receipt of your payment. The decision to cancel a class which does not meet its required minimum enrollment is made as close as possible to a week before the class begins. Students are only notified if a class is full or canceled. It is expected students will regularly attend all classes for which they are registered.
The decision to cancel a class which does not meet its required minimum enrollment is made as close as possible to a week before the class begins. Students are only notified if a class is full or cancelled. It is expected students will regularly attend all classes for which they are registered.
The Workshop is accessible to individuals with disabilities. Please let us know of any special needs you might have and we will try to accommodate them.
The Workshop periodically documents classes through still photography and video for publicity purposes. Registration in a course at CAW includes permission to photograph you and/or your artwork and to use your image in its publicity materials unless you inform the photographer that you do not wish to have your photograph taken. If you do not want CAW to photograph your child, please notify us at the time of registration.
Cell Phone Policy
Your child is welcome to bring a cell phone to CAW programs to use during breaks. However, for everyone's maximum enjoyment, we ask that the phones be turned off and put away. Otherwise, the instructors will collect them at the beginning of each day. Parents can always reach their child by calling the CAW front desk at 203.562.4927.
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