Full Day Pottery Camp
June 21-25 and July 12-16
8:30 am-4:30 pm
For students entering grades 3-8
Group size: 16
Back by popular demand a full day, week long pottery camp! In addition to all the usual fun of the half day pottery workshop, we will fire some of our pottery in our barrel kiln, dig for our own clay and explore a variety of sruface decorating techniques in clay. Of course we’ll have to take some time out for picnic lunches, beach day and free time. This will be heaven for clay addicts!
Guest Artists
Drum Circle TBA
Yoga TBA
Pottery with Claysia
Theater Improv Games TBA
Zen Doodle and Wish-a-licious Art Camp
June 28-July 2, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
For students entering grades 3-8
Group size: 16
Turn your Doodles into works of art! Each morning, enjoy the relaxed focused feeling of “getting into the zone” while you learn to create mandala patterns with your doodles. You will literally be able to draw for hours in our peacefully playful garden. Favorite doodles will then be transferred to clay tiles, soft metal tiles and temporary body art. Afternoons will be Wish-a-licious as we explore the magic of making a wish through three dimensional art (e.g. dream catchers, wish boxes). Have you ever wished upon a star? Did you make a wish before you blew out your birthday candles? Have you ever heard the phrase “be careful what you wish for”? Wishes are the desires of your heart. Let’s show it with our art!
“All our stories are about what happens to our wishes.”
—Roberta Seelinger
This camp will be most enjoyed by students who enjoy drawing for extended periods of time and believe in the power of a wish.
Guest Artists
Friday Drum Circle TBA
Yoga TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
Denim Diva’s Art Camp
July 19-23 • 8:30 am-4:30 pm
For Pre-Teen Girls
Group size: 16
Speak your truth. Love your friends.
This Pre-Teen Girl’s camp will be led by two high school artists, Savannah Leja (Madison, WI) and Erica Light (Decatur, Alabama). Our week-long focus will be on Friendship Building and Artistic Expressions of Self. The mornings will be devoted to self portrait sketches drawn in Anime (Japanese animation) style. Afternoons are reserved for three dimensional art. Blue jeans will be painted. hemp will be knotted and beaded. Sandals will be transformed. T-shirts will be designed. Speak it loud!
Guest Artists
Anime Drawing with Erica Light
Fashion Design with Savannah Leja
Friendship and Community Building with Savannah and Erica
Yoga TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
Building Faerie Houses with the Green Man!
Aug. 2-6, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Who is the Green Man? Have you seen his leafy green face in gardens and forests? The Green Man will lead us in our nature explorations this week as we construct faeire houses from natural materials. This camp includes a special field trip to the Overture Center to see a large willow/grapevine structure built by local artist and teacher, Barbara Westfall. Barbara will give us a personal tour of her work and lead a very special art project for our group.
Guest Artists
Art Ecology with Barbara Westfall
Yoga
Theater Improv Games
“Village Builder’s” Camp
August 16-22 M-F, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
For students entering 3rd-8th grade
Group Size: 16 students
We’ll create both large scale and small scale dwellings in this constructive camp. Last summer we constructed a tunnel out of willow in our little woods. This year we’re going to make it LONGER! We’ll also make teeny tiny villages beginning with the construction of a plaster house. We’ll then embellish our buildings with natural materials...sticks...dried flowers...moss...bark...pinecones...seed pods...stones...or whatever you can scavenge. Imagine The Little People moving right in to your village! Of course we’ll have games every day--village building games. Let’s BE a village.
Guest Artists
Little Villages with Nancy Welch
Friday Drum Circle TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
Yoga TBA
Special Camp Activities
Wednesday Beach Day
Weather and water conditions permitting, we will walk 3 blocks to the Spring Harbor Beach on Lake Mendota to wade, swim, hang out and do body art. A lifeguard is on duty from 12:30-4:30. Parental permission required. See Registration form.
Body Art
Your child will have an opportunity to participate in an herbal henna body art project (contains powdered henna from the plant, lemon juice, eucalyptus oil and espresso). Depending on the application process the body art could last for up to 2 weeks. We also have theater quality body watercolors available. Parental permission required. See Registration form.
Gallery Friday, Full Day Art Camps Only
Students will prepare a gallery presentation of the week’s work. Parents, family and friends are invited to visit the gallery exhibit from 3:30-4:30 on Friday. All art work will go home at the end of the show.
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Pottery Workshops
For students entering 1st grade
through adult
All pottery workshops are appropriate for people entering first grade and older. That includes teens and adults! Take some time off and enroll with your child. Who needs this the most, anyway? Our workshops are small and embrace all learning styles.
What Can I Make?
Play in the Mud Studio has 8 wheels as well as hand building tables to accommodate any size project that will fit in our kilns. At Play in the Mud Studio you get to make what YOU want to make. There will be an instructional demonstration and inspirational objects presented each day, but all students will be free to follow their own creative journey. This is a process-oriented experience which frequently results in the accumulation of many pots and clay objects!
Glazing and Firing
During summer workshops we “once fire” our work. This makes it possible for students to glaze their own work on the last day of the session. Students must attend on Friday in order to glaze as no make-up sessions are available. Pottery will be ready for pick up in one week. All firing, glazing and materials are included in the cost of the workshop.
Special Activities
Wednesday Beach Day
Weather and water conditions permitting, we will walk 3 blocks to the Spring Harbor Beach on Lake Mendota to wade, swim, hang out and do body art. A lifeguard is on duty from 12:30-4:30 . We’ll spend about half our workshop time at the beach on this day. Parental permission required. See Registration form.
Body Art
Your child will have an opportunity to participate in an herbal henna body art project (contains powdered henna from a plant, lemon juice, eucalyptus oil and espresso). Depending on the application process the body art could last for up to 2 weeks. We also have theater quality body watercolors available. Parental permission required. See Registration form.
Tea House Friday
(Pottery Workshops Only)
Tea Ceremony and Art Appreciation |
