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SUMMER YOUTH STUDIO PROGRAMS AND SUMMER ART CAMPS guide young artists (Ages 7 - 17) through age-appropriate explorations of various mediums and processes. Field trips to art galleries introduce students to historical and contemporary artists, and hands-on studio time develops technical skills and a personal style.
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729 Youth Studio Intensive (Ages 14 - 17)
This program allows students ages 14 -17 years old to explore their imagination with a hands-on approach in traditional and contemporary methods and ultimately find their own voice through the arts. Through (life) drawing, painting, sculpture/object-making, collage, assemblage, and mixed media, students learn technical skills, knowledge of contemporary visual arts, art history, and are encouraged to develop their own personal creative process. Field trips to museums and galleries as well as exhibition and performance opportunities are also an integral part of the program.
Date: July 7 to 11 and July 14 to 18
Time: Week 1: Monday, July 7 to Thursday July 10, 9 AM – 3 PM, Friday July 11, 9 AM – Noon
Week 2: Monday, July 14 to Thursday July 17, 9 AM – 3 PM, Friday July 18, 9 AM – Noon
Tuition: $590 | Materials: $65
Instructor: Tina Oehmsen-Clark
ART CAMP 691 Mix It Up: Drawing, Collage and Mixed Media (Ages 10 - 13)
This fun and challenging course for 10 to 13 year olds offers young artists an exciting opportunity to develop and expand their drawing skills and to explore collage and mixed media processes. Each class will be structured with drawing fundamentals taught primarily in the morning sessions (quality of line, contour, gesture, basic shapes, tonal drawing, perspective) and then each afternoon, expand the drawing experience to include collage and mixed media. The classes will also investigate expressive and experimental mark-making as well as drawing and collage from fantasy imagery. Students will work with a wide range of drawing materials (such as charcoal, oil pastels and conte), ink and paint media as well as intriguing found imagery and materials for collage. Throughout the week, will investigate drawing, collage and mixed media through a wide range of subjects and themes such as favourite objects and the still life, flowers, foliage and natural specimens, the human figure, landscape and weird and wonderful imaginary worlds.
Date: July 7 to 11
Time: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 3 pm
Tuition: $320 | Materials fee: $50
Instructor: Donnely Smallwood
ART CAMP 693 Life Drawing for Teens (Ages 14 - 17)
This course focuses on exploring materials and techniques in acrylic painting including: painting with washes, transparent layers, impasto, staining and adding mediums to acrylics. The class will also explore mixed media approaches and painting on various surfaces including a range of papers, wood and canvas (both gessoed and raw). Students will work from observation as well as respond to imaginative and abstraction-based prompts. They will be exposed to a range of modern and contemporary artists, whose works will help fuel their own explorations. Projects are open-ended, designed to incorporate the approaches of other artists, though to always stem from students’ own creative choices.
Date: July 21 - 25
Time: Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM
Tuition: $320 | Materials fee: $65
Instructor: Paul Turner
ART CAMP 694 Sketch and Sculpt (Ages 10 - 13)
This course is designed for 10 to 13 year olds and will offer a variety of materials (wood, paper, wire, clay etc.) to build, construct and sculpt 3-dimensional objects, sculptures and masks. The process of idea finding as well as documenting the finished artwork will be done through sketching and drawing using various media (charcoal. ink, markers etc.) including working in a sketchbook. Through demonstrations and examples the students will learn a variety of techniques as well as historic and contemporary context.
Date: August 11 to 15
Time: Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM
Tuition: $320 | Materials fee: $40
Instructor: Tina Oehmsen-Clark
ART CAMP 695 Painting Explorations (Ages 10 - 13)
This course focuses on exploring materials and techniques in acrylic painting including: painting with washes, transparent layers, impasto, staining and adding mediums to acrylics. The class will also explore mixed media approaches and painting on various surfaces including a range of papers, wood and canvas (both gessoed and raw). Students will work from observation as well as respond to imaginative and abstraction-based prompts. They will be exposed to a range of modern and contemporary artists, whose works will help fuel their own explorations. Projects are open-ended, designed to incorporate the approaches of other artists, though to always stem from students’ own creative choices.
Date: August 18 to 22
Time: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 3 pm
Tuition: $320 | Materials fee: $65
Instructor: Val Magarian
ART CAMP 692 Illustration and Cartooning Techniques (Ages 10 - 13)
Discover the exciting world of illustration and cartooning! Learn how to design and illustrate comic or adventure characters plus develop dynamic cartoon storyboards. Illustrating stories will also be covered and many drawing and rendering techniques will be demonstrated.
Date: July 28 to August 1
Time: Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 3 PM
Tuition: $320 | Digital lab fee per term: $40
Instructor: Malcolm Cullen
