9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

1:30 - 4:30 p.m.

All day program and a half day program is available.

AGE 5-12

Summer Camp CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

 

Week 1. (June 18 - 22) TEA CEREMONY - Students will explore Zen philosophy and art.  Students will create their own “tea bowl” in ceramics and paint Japanese calligraphy to use in a tea ceremony the last day of class.

 

Week 2. (June 25 - 29) GREEN PROJECT – Students will learn how to keep our earth green and create art by using recycling materials.

 

Week 3. (July 9-13) TRADITIONAL WATER COLOUR PAINT – experimenting the traditional water color paint and study High Renaissance art and impressionism.

 

Week 4. (July 16 - 20) If we study SURREALISM…. -  Students will look at Surrealism and artists like Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Joan Miro. We will then explore the genre through a variety of media—drawing, collage, ceramics, and painting.

 

Week 5. (July 23 - 27) I can do PORTRAITURE -  Students will learn tips and techniques for rendering people on paper and will create diverse art forms from their drawings.  The practice will be intensely focused on the study of portraiture.

 

Week 6. (July 30 - August 3) FOLK POTTERY -  Students will create their own functional pottery using hand building techniques.  We will make “face jugs”, cups, bowls, etc.  At the end of class party, we will use our creations to eat off of.

 

Week 7. (August 6 - 10) COMICS -  We will look at comic books and strips for inspiration, and then develop our own characters and stories.  We will also model a character in clay.

 

Week 8. (August 13 - 17) COLOUR STUDY – The class is designed for the fundamental understanding of colour in objects in our life and art forms in paint, print, digital images, and glazes.

 

Week 9. (August 20 - 24) BE A POP ARTIST – What is cool about pop art? We will learn the concept of pop art and the contemporary art influenced by Andy Warho l’s work and the design. Students will learn print making process.

 

Week 10. FUN WITH FABRIC (August 27 - 31) – Using recycling clothes to make fun art projects. Students will learn the basic sewing skills.

For more detail please call Mi-yeon at 773-715-4171.