SUMMER ART CAMP 2008
Let your child’s creativity blossom this summer in our two-week-long sessions in a variety of media. We offer gifted teachers, exciting courses and excellent facilities. As the only independent, fully accredited professional art and design institution in Memphis, we are uniquely qualified to guide your children, nurturing in them a love for the arts and an appreciation for lifelong learning.
Summer Art Camp provides a nurturing and supportive environment that encourages children to discover, create and appreciate visual art. We believe that making art is a process from which every child can benefit. We teach them that art can be both challenging and fun.
The Basics:
- Monday - Friday
- Session I : June 9 - 20
- Session II : July 7 - 18
- Full day 9 - 4 / Half day 9 - 12 or 1 - 4
- Ages 5 – 16
- Registration begins April 7
Tuition
Tuition is due in full at the time of registration, and includes supplies and snacks; lunch is provided for full day campers. A family discount of 5% is available to families enrolling more than one student per summer.
Full day: $580 per session
Half day: $295 per session
Before/After Care (8 - 9am and 4 - 5pm): $50 per session
Courses
Ages 5 - 10
- Drawing & Painting
- Explore the basic building blocks of image-making such as line, shape and color through fun experimentation.
- Silly Sculptures
- Discover various sculpture media and methods in this fun approach to three-dimensional art-making
- 3D Creatures
- Imagine, invent and fabricate your own creatures in this introduction to artistic design principles
Ages 11 -16
- Animation
- Play around with simple animation techniques and produce your own animation
- Clay
- Pinch, coil, slam and twist this versatile material into fantastical shapes and practical pieces
- Comic Book Design
- Design and create your own comic book with emphasis on character and storyline development
- Darkroom Photography
- Shoot and process quality photos using a variety of techniques
- Digital Photography
- Shoot, enhance and have fun with the digital image (students provide their own digital cameras)
- Drawing
- Learn to see like an artist and discover the basics of three-dimensional world on paper
- Metals Casting
- Discover several small metals casting styles used by metal smiths and jewelers
- Painting
- Play with color and light while discovering the elements of good design essential in art-making
- Pop Printmaking
- Practice printmaking techniques popularized by Andy Warhol and study his works in a special exhibition at the Brooks Museum of Art.
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