Full Day Pottery Camp
Grades 3-12
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 do a RAKU firing and explore a variety of surface 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
Fiber Arts Camp
Grades 3-12
We'll be working with wool, both new and recycled. Bring two old wool sweaters to use for your projects. Needle felting, wool felting and sewing are all a part of this camp. Perhaps you'll make your own mittens, a bag or stuffed animal!
Guest Artists
Friday Drum Circle TBA
Yoga TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
Girls Art Camp
For pre-teen girls, grades 5-8
Speak your truth. Love your friends.
This Pre-Teen Girl’s camp will be led by two high school artists, Forest Kilmer Johnson and Savannah Leja. Here's an invitation in their own words:
"We want to invite you to this summer's edition of the Preteen Girls Art Camp! We will be seniors in high school this fall and we both love to do art with amazing friends. So right before school starts we want you to come to the Studio and make Tie dye shirts, do Drawings, learn to Book bind, do Henna temporary tattoos, Play Games and Decorate your new School Supplies! We are so looking forward to making art, relaxing on the beach, and just being girls on their summer vacation. Hope to see you in August!"
Guest Artists: Forest and Savannah
Yoga TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
Experimental Painting
Grades 3-12
Colors colors colors! What happens when you mix, roll and squirt and splatter? You will create amazing, interesting and surprising paintings in this fascinating camp.
Guest Artists
Drum Circle TBA
Yoga TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
“Village Builder’s” Camp
Grades 3-12
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 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
Friday Drum Circle TBA
Theater Improv Games TBA
Special Camp Activities
Wednesday/Thursday 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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Experimental Painting
Grades 3-12
Colors colors colors! What happens when you mix, roll and squirt and splatter? You will create amazing, interesting and surprising paintings in this fascinating camp.
“Village Builder’s” Workshop
Grades 3-12
We’ll create small scale dwellings in this constructive camp. Let your imagination go wild with these teeny tiny villages. We'll use 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!
Half Day Pottery Workshops
Grades 1-12
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
Tea Ceremony and Art Appreciation each week.
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