YOUNG PEOPLE'S
PROGRAM
Adventures in Art is a series of one-week sessions
in which students can explore painting, drawing, clay, and more.
There are programs for 4-6 year olds, young people entering 2nd
-5th grades, and 6th-8th graders. Note that our Adventure
in Art programs have increased to eight weeks!
Summer Art Classes are
offered for young people ages two through teens. Classes
meet once, twice or three times a week for 3-6 or more sessions
during the summer. Students may enjoy attending one or more
Adventures in Art programs as well as taking an art class during
our summer program.
Please enroll by June
9
• Material costs are included in class fees.
• Old clothes or a smock are strongly recommended.
• You may enroll by mail or online now.
• All classes have limited enrollment.
• Please register early to avoid class cancellations. The decision
to cancel a class that does not meet its required minimum enrollment is made
approximately one week before the class begins.
• We do not confirm registration. Students are notified if a class
is full or cancelled.
• Only registered students can attend classes.
• No
classes or programs on Friday July 4th.
ADVENTURES IN ART WEEKLONG PROGRAMS
EACH STUDENT WILL RECEIVE AN ADVENTURES IN ART T-SHIRT
WHEN SIGNING UP FOR WEEK-LONG PROGRAMS!
4-6 YEAR OLDS
ADVENTURES IN ART YP27SU08a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h
Monday through Friday, 9:00-1:00
Explore painting, drawing, clay, collage, and mixed media within
broad themes. Students are encouraged to observe and interpret
the world around them with imagination and individual expression.
We will also explore the work of at least one artist every week.
Get creative and have fun! Includes stories, mid-morning snack,
and outdoor recreation. Students bring their own lunch.
a COLOR, June 16-20, five days: $192; members:
$173
Instructor: Eva Scopino
b ARTISTS, June 23-27, five days: $192; members:
$173
Instructor: Eva Scopino
c NATURE, June 30-July 3, four days: $154; members:
$139
Instructor: Eva Scopino
d AROUND THE WORLD, July 7-11, five days:
$192; members:
$173
Instructor: Eva Scopino
e FOUR SEASONS, July 14-18, five days: $192; members:
$173
Instructor: Eva Scopino
f ANIMALS, July 21-25, five days: $192; members:
$173
Instructor: Jennifer van Elswyck
g IMAGINATION, July 28-August 1, five days: $192; members:
$173
Instructor: Jennifer van Elswyck
h SHAPES, August 4-8, five days: $192; members:
$173
Instructor: Jennifer van Elswyck
*An optional two hours of child care from 1:00-3:00pm will be
available on a limited basis at $85 per week, and $65 per week
for June 30-July3. You must sign up for the entire week.
PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Entering 2nd-5th grades
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00
Includes mid morning snack, students bring their lunch.
PLAYSCAPE IN MONET’S
GARDEN YP33SU08
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (June 16-June 20)
Colorful and imaginative summer gardens and playful spaces come
to life through projects in painting, sculpture and mixed media.
Five sessions: $289; members: $260
POTTER’S DELIGHT YP34SU08 a or b
Instructors: Anita Griffith and Bob Parrott
a Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (June 23-June 27)
b Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 21-July 25)
CLAY, CLAY, CLAY—that’s what this week will be! We
will focus on hand building techniques and also have a spin on
the pottery wheel. We will create many fun pieces using coils,
slab and pinch methods. Students will glaze pieces and they will
be fired. There will be new projects for continuing students. Please
note that working in clay takes drying and firing time. There
will be a pickup time later in the summer. Five sessions:
$294; members: $265
FOLK ARTS OF RUSSIA YP28SU08
Instructors: Judie Alderman and Nellie Shevelkina
Monday through Thursday, 9:00-3:00 (June 30-July 3)
Be a Russian folk artist for a week! Hugely popular last summer,
we bring you new projects. Folk art in Russia decorates homes
and every day objects. Ideas from nature especially trees are
used by woodcarvers, painters, weavers, potters, and makers of
ingenious toys. Using paint, wood, clay, aluminum, paper maché and
cloth we will make objects such as a decorated box, toys, cloth,
plates other items found in a Russian folk home. Four sessions:
$231; members: $208
TRIPLE PLAY: PAINTING,
PAPIER MACHÉ AND
WIRE YP29SU08
Instructors: Martha Savage and Jennifer Van Elswyck
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 7-July 11)
Three fabulously fun materials come together in a variety of
sculpture projects big and small. We will twist and weave to
make animal sculptures, build and paint a paper maché Koshare “clown” Kachina,
make a wire mobile, blend and splatter with paint and more. Eye
protection for wire handling provided, however, you may bring
your own if desired. Five sessions: $289; members:
$260
BUON GIORNO ITALIA YP30SU08
Instructors: Judie Alderman and Nellie Shevelkina
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 14-July 18)
Take an imaginary grand tour of the arts and culture of Italy.
From the mask traditions of Venice to the frescoes of Rome, let
Michelangelo and Leonardo be your guides. We will use a variety
of materials including paint, plaster and paper maché.
Five sessions: $289; members: $260
SCULPTURE SURPRISE YP31SU08
Instructor: Kelley Kapfer
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 28-August 1)
Surprise even yourself with imaginative projects that transform
recyclables into unexpected works of art and fantasy. Build your
very own “castle in the sky!” This class
is limited to 12 students Five sessions: $289; members:
$260
PRINT, PAINT AND SPLATTER YP32SU08
Instructors: Violet Harlow and Martha Savage
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (August 4-August 8)
Guaranteed to be messy and fun, for those who really like to
get “into” their art, we will print, paint and splatter
everything from clothing to sculpture. Five sessions: $289; members:
$260
PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Entering 6th-8th grades
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00
Includes mid morning snack, students bring their lunch.
Enrollment limited to 12 students unless otherwise
noted.
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS YP36SU08
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (June 23-June 27)
Who would think that rocks really rock? You can paint them and
paint on them, arrange them in patterns, press them into plaster,
use them in sculptures, draw and collage their shapes with fascinating
colors and iridescence. We will learn about and make Chinese
Scholar rocks thought to be like landscapes. We will also create
petroglyphs and pictographs. Five sessions: $289; members:
$260
DOUBLE EXPOSURE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING YP37SU08
Instructor: Kris Wetmore
Monday through Thursday, 9:00-3:00 (June 30-July 3)
Everyday, we will explore some photography and some painting
in a variety of media and methods. Sometimes we will combine
the two. Paintography anyone? Four sessions: $240; members:
$216
MASTERSTROKE YP38SU08
Instructor: Violet Harlow
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 7-July 11)
Just how did Vermeer paint such perfect perspective? How are
three-dimensional effects created, folds in fabric, reflections
in glass, the tiniest detail achieved? Did you know that Constable
built little scenes to paint and used broccoli for trees? We
will try many of the methods of the Masters. Will they work for
us as well? Five sessions: $289; members: $260
ARMOR & ADORNMENT YP39SU08
Instructor: Kris Wetmore
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 14-July 18)
All through time, people have tried to improve and elaborate
upon their appearance and we will do the same by painting, sculpting,
using paper maché, beads and other materials. We will
explore armor from Japan and Europe and jewelry from Egypt and
Aztec Mexico, as well as decoration direct from our imagination.
Everything we make can be worn. Five sessions: $289; members:
$260
TAKE TWO: PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE YP40SU08
Instructor: Kris Wetmore
Monday through Friday (July 21-July 25)
Every day we will explore some photography and some architecture;
some times alone and some times combined. Anyone for photogritecture?
Five sessions: $294; members: $265
POTTER’S DELIGHT, TWO YP35SU08
Instructors: Anita Griffith and Bob Parrott
Monday through Friday, 9:00-3:00 (July 28-August 1)
CLAY, CLAY, CLAY, Advanced—that’s what this week
will be! We will focus on hand building techniques and also have
a spin on the pottery wheel. We will create many fun pieces using
coils, slab and pinch methods. Students will glaze pieces and
they will be fired. There will be new projects for continuing
students. Please note that working in clay takes drying
and firing time. There will be a pickup time later in the summer.
Limited to 24 students.
Five sessions: $294; members: $265
SCULPTURE SHOCK YP41SU08
Instructor: Kelley Kapfer
Monday through Friday (August 4-August 8)
Wait. Don’t throw that box and plastic bag in the garbage.
It can be used to make a fabulously amazing, shockingly fantastic
work of art! Spend a week playing around with ordinary things
you may throw out daily and instead of contributing to the local
landfill, contribute to the cause of creativity. Five sessions:
$289; members: $260
SUMMER ART CLASSES
2&3 YEAR OLDS WITH PARENT
NEW EXPLORERS: CLAY & PAINT YP01SU08
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Tuesday afternoons 4:00-5:00 (June 17-July 22)
Squish, poke, drip, swirl, splatter! Explore the wonders of painting
and clay together. Includes snack and all non-toxic materials.
Dress for messy fun. Six sessions: $58; members:
$52
STORIES & ART YP02SU08
Instructor: Jennifer Van Elswyck
Monday afternoons 4:00-5:00 (June 16-July 21)
Discover and explore! Each week we will read a story, look at
pictures and explore the magic of paint, collage, clay and more.
Includes snack and all non-toxic materials. Dress for messy fun.
Six sessions: $58; members: $52
AGES 4-6
SMART @ ART: SUPER SUMMER SAMPLER!YP03SU08
Instructor: Judie Alderman
Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 18-July 23)
Explore different art materials and techniques each week! Draw
with cray-pas and chalk, paint with tempera and watercolor, create
with clay, make collages and puppets, and build wood/mixed media
constructions. Have fun in this process-oriented, open-ended
class. Imagination and individual expression encouraged. Six
sessions: $84; members: $76
CHILDREN & NATURE YP04SU08
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Thursday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 19-July 24)
Create with clay, make sand-paintings and sand-castings. Paint
with watercolors. Make fun insects and sea creatures, leaf
prints, seashell creations and more. Imagination and individual
expression encouraged. Six sessions: $84; members:
$76
MUSIC & ART YP05SU08
Instructor: Catherine Lendler
Friday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 20-July 25)
Create your own rainstick, a box guitar you can really pluck,
and papier maché maracas! Paint and decorate your projects
with feathers, glitter and more. We will also draw and paint
to different types of music. Rhythm and blues, red and yellow!
(Note: no class on July 4). Five sessions: $84; members:
$76
1ST-2ND GRADE
CLAY PLAY YP06SU08
Instructor: Violet Harlow
Monday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 16-July 21)
Children will be exposed to basic hand-building, modeling and
glazing techniques as they work from their imaginations. Projects
will include animals, figures, pots, abstract sculptures and
more. There will be new projects for continuing students. Six
sessions: $88; members: $79
MINIATURE WORLDS: SUMMERSCAPES YP07SU08
Instructor: Anna Scarff
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, 3:30-5:00 (June 17-July 3)
Create fun artwork inspired by summer, gardens, the seashore,
and Mother Nature. Students will work with natural materials
including clay, sand, twigs, wood, and seashells to make collages,
constructions, mobiles, and dioramas. Six sessions: $84; members:
$76
COLORIFIC: MIX IT UP! YP08SU08
Instructor: Anna Scarff
Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons, 3:30-5:00 (July 8-July 24)
Have fun, make a mess, and play with colors. Explore and create
with drawing, painting, and collage, and make colorful constructions
and mobiles. Materials will include clay, fabric, paint, beads,
wood, tissue paper, glitter and more. Six sessions: $84; members:
$76
AMAZING ANIMALS YP09SU08
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Friday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 20-July 25)
Draw and paint animals both real and imaginary. Explore tempera
paint, watercolor, oil pastel, and chalk, and have fun creating
animals from clay, cardboard, and papier maché. Children
are encouraged to use their imaginations. (Note: no class
on July 4). Five sessions: $70; members:
$63
3RD-4TH GRADE
HOORAY FOR CLAY YP10SU08
Instructor: Violet Harlow
Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 18-July 23)
Children will explore hand-building, wheel-throwing, modeling
and glazing techniques as they work from their imagination and
develop skills. There will be new projects for continuing students.
Six sessions: $88; members: $79
MAKE IT POP YP11SU08
Instructor: Creative Arts Faculty
Monday and Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (July 14-July 23)
Like Pop artists, Warhol, Thiebaud and Oldenburg, change ordinary
objects into fun and vibrant works of art. Imagine a bright purple
and green ice cream cone painting, a Campbell’s® soup
can with your own unusual soup variety, or a penny the size of
a bicycle wheel. A variety of bright and colorful media will
be used. Four sessions: $56; members: $50
MAKE YOUR OWN DOLL YP12SU08
Instructor: Eva Scopino
Monday and Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 16-July 9)
Make a soft doll, for keeping or giving. Students will design,
sew and stuff a soft doll from cotton, yarn and other materials.
It can be sweet, homely, silly, funky. Some hand stitches
will be taught, and some machine-sewing will be completed by
instructor. The doll will be ready to take home by the last class.
No previous sewing experience necessary. Limit eight
students. Eight sessions: $123 members:
$111
DRAGONS: EXTREME MYTHICAL CREATURES! YP13SU08
Instructor: Creative Arts Faculty
Friday afternoons, 3:30-5:00 (June 20-July 25)
Fierce or friendly; fiery or fancy! Create clay dragons and a
dragon shadow puppet. Learn ways to draw and paint dragons. Make
a fantastical 3-D papier maché dragon from recyclables,
cardboard, paint, tissue paper, etc. (Note: no class
on July 4). Five sessions: $70; members:
$63
5TH-7TH GRADES
CARTOONING THE EZ WAY YP14SU08
Instructor: Chris Highsmith
Friday afternoons, 5:30-7:30 (June 20-July 25)
Both experienced and new to the art of cartooning will find a
variety of projects and cartooning styles to explore. Easy to
learn characters, animals, monsters, heroes, villains and custom
cars inhabit city settings in hand drawn and digitally imaged
stories. (Note: no class on July 4). Five
sessions: $93; members: $84
BITS AND PIECES YP15SU08
Instructor: Nellie Shevelkina
Monday and Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 16-July 9)
The idea is to make art from many small parts and there are endless
ways to do that. Collage, three-dimensional collage cubes, Japanese
Washi eggs, paper mosaic, sculptures made of wood pieces and
other small objects, prints composed of many small prints creating
patterns, collections of similarly colored bits and pieces in
a shadow box and art made by joining many of the same thing such
as a sculpture made from painted clothespins are some of the
projects we will do. Eight sessions: $112: members:
$101
PRINT ‘N’ PAINT
PANDEMONIUM YP16SU08
Instructor: Judie Alderman
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (June 17-July 10)
Join a fantastic adventure of excitement, surprise and experiment
in splatter, stamp, stencil and wacky printmaking. Beware: this
might get messy! Eight sessions: $112; members:
$101
PAINTED FURNITURE/FINISHING TOUCHES YP17SU08
Instructor: Martha Savage
Monday and Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (July 14-July 23)
Become a designer and change an ordinary piece of furniture into
a useful and original work of art. We will sand, prime and experiment
with faux painting techniques, stenciling and other fun looks
and unexpected finishing touches. Bring a chair or small table
and we will supply everything else. Four sessions: $56; members:
$50
CLAY ANIMATION YP18SU08
Instructor: Ben Hecht
Saturday, 9:00-3:00 (July 12 and 19)
Create sets, stories and characters and make into an original
short animated digital movie. Two sessions: $116; members:
$104
8TH-12TH GRADE
ARTIST ON THE GOGH YP19SU08
Instructor: Violet Harlow
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, 4:00-5:30 (July 15-July 24)
Sketch and paint in the legendary Moleskine® notebook used
for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers, including
Van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway. Take it wherever you travel,
around town or places exotic. Techniques, tips and practice in
using a watercolor pocket sketchbook en plein air. Sketchbook
included. Four sessions: $56; members: $50
TEEN PHOTOGRAPHY YP20SU08
Instructor: Chris Volpe
Tuesday afternoons, 3:00-5:00 (June17-July 22)
This class will introduce the basic technical and artistic elements
of photography. Every student will earn how to use a manual camera,
the fundamentals of processing film, and making prints. We will
discuss the importance of lighting, composition and the unique
creative possibilities of photography. A 35mm manual type
camera is preferred. Students will need to purchase film and
paper. For new and continuing students. This class is limited
to 7 students. Six sessions: $123; members:
$111
BEGINNING/ INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY YP21SU08
Instructor: Chris Volpe
Tuesday evenings, 5:00-7:00 (June 17-July22)
Step out of the darkroom into the world of color photography
and desktop printing. This is a class for beginning and intermediate
level students who wish to explore new photographic technology.
We will cover camera basics, file formats, and digital printing.
Students will be introduced to Adobe Photoshop to crop, tone
and improve their pictures just like professional photographers
and artists. A digital camera is required; a
home computer and desktop printer is recommended. Note:
This class will be held at the Educational Center for the Arts.
Six sessions: $167; members: $150
TEEN CLAY YP22SU08
Instructor: Scott Herman
Thursday evenings, 5:00-7:00 (June 19-July 24)
An exploratory survey of sculptural and pottery forms and techniques,
including hand-building and wheel-throwing, slip decoration,
and glazing. Open to beginning and continuing students, with
work adapted to each student’s interest. Students may elect
to create high-fired works for which there will be an additional
charge of $2.00 per pound for each item fired. Six sessions:
$120; members: $108
TEEN DRAWING AND WATERCOLOR PAINTING YP23SU08
Instructor: Lily Kok-Forbush
Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-6:00 (June 18-July 23)
This course will be an introduction as well as a continuation
for those teens with some drawing and watercolor experience.
We will focus on composition, perspective and proportion. Attention
will be given to the development of ideas, style and expression.
We will study images and color through landscape, still life
and figure drawing. We will discuss materials, techniques, composition,
and the effects of light and shadow on color. Weather permitting,
we will work outdoors. Six sessions: $122; members:
$110
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