Summer Art Camps

Elementary Art Camp will take place June 1st-5th from 9:00am-12:00pm in the studio Monday-Thursday, and from 1:00-3:00pm at the Nasher Sculpture Center on Friday. The following activities will take place on the dates listed below:

 

Monday: Handbuilding Coil Vessels with Mineral Clay: Campers will learn how to roll, assemble, and build small vessels using air-dry mineral clay, sponges, and clay tools. Decorating, painting, and sealing will take place Thursday morning. 

 

Tuesday: Masters of Abstraction: Campers will study the works of Jackson Pollock, Walissy Kandinsky, and Helen Frankenthaler and their methods of painting. Campers will then create three separate compositions using techniques and styles reflective of these featured artists using acrylics, watercolor, and oil pastels.  

 

Wednesday: Cubist Still Life Drawings: Campers will study the works of Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, and Georges Braque and then use the technique of breaking down and reassembling an image using Cubist techniques in marker and colored pencil. 

 

Thursday: Yayoi Kusama Paintings & Clay Vessel Finishing: Campers will study the works of artist Yayoi Kusama and create unique dot-paintings inspired by Kusama's technique using acrylics and Posca paint markers. The campers' clay coil vessels will also be decorated and sealed on this day, with students having the option to continue Kusama's dot style onto their sculpture.

 

Friday: Camp at The Nasher: Nic Nicosia & Roy Lichtenstein: Campers will explore the exhibitions of artists Nic Nicosia and Roy Lichtenstein at the Nasher, as well as the Nasher's public collection in the indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture garden. Gallery discussions and small-scale art making activities will be featured during the visit. 

 

Camp will take place from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday through Thursday in the studio, and from 1:00-3:00pm at the Nasher Sculpture Center in downtown Dallas. Parents must drop off and pick up their camper to the studio and museum on time. 

 

Tuition for campers is $300.00. All materials, snacks and drinks, and museum resources are included. Deadline for camp tuition payment is May 16th.

 

Let me know if you have any questions or if you're interested in signing up! Spots are filled on a first come first serve basis, so let me know as soon as possible if your child will be attending the camp!   

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Secondary Art Camp will take place from 9:00am-12:00pm in the studio Monday-Thursday, and from 1:00-3:00pm at the Nasher Sculpture Center on Friday during the following weeks:

• June 15-19

• July 13-17

• July 27-31

 

The following activities will take place on the following dates: 

Monday: Exploring Casting & Surface with Marisol Escobar: Campers will bring in a small plastic toy or other durable object to cast in Alja-Safe cast-material molds, then the molds will be broken, revealing a plaster cast of the object. This object will be painted and placed on a 2-D surface designed by the camper to create a 2-and-3- dimensional incorporated art piece. The work of Marisol Escobar will also be featured and discussed in this lab. 

 

Tuesday: Introduction to Crocheting with The Woobles: Campers will receive a beginner kit featuring a small animal to crochet. Crochet skills will be demonstrated and applied to these pieces, and students will be able to take their pieces home to finish if they're not completed by the end of the lab. 

 

Wednesday: Outdoor Gutai Painting: Campers will learn about the Gutai art movement of early 1950's-early 1970's Japan, its philosophy, and aesthetics. Campers will then create large Gutai-style paintings using the body and actions of the body without marking tools such as paintbrushes, sticks, and pens. Clothing that is compatible with very messy art making will be required for this lab, and both the painting process and cleanup will take place outdoors. Paintings that are not dry at the end of the lab can be picked up on Thursday.

 

Thursday: Printmaking: Gel Block Print Journals and Prints, and Relief Printmaking: This lab will cover two different types of printmaking. Students who have previous experience with relief printmaking will work with the gel block printmaking process, and students who have previous experience with gel blocks will work with relief printmaking. If the student has not had previous experience with either, they may make a selection of what they would like to try during registration. 

 

Friday: Camp at The Nasher: Nic Nicosia & Roy Lichtenstein: Campers will explore the exhibitions of artists Nic Nicosia and Roy Lichtenstein at the Nasher, as well as the Nasher's public collection in the indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture garden. Gallery discussions and small-scale art making activities will be featured during the visit. 

 

Camp will take place from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday through Thursday in the studio, and from 1:00-3:00pm at the Nasher Sculpture Center in downtown Dallas. Parents must drop off and pick up their camper to the studio and museum on time. 

 

Tuition for campers is $320.00. All materials, snacks and drinks, and museum resources are included.

 

Let me know if you have any questions or if you're interested in signing up! Spots are filled on a first come first serve basis, so let me know as soon as possible if your child will be attending the camp!