Summer Studio Kids Ages 8-11

Cabinet of Curiosities: Creating a Collection of Small Treasures (Summer 2013)

Before there were museums, a few fortunate people collected treasures from nature, historical artifacts, and art objects for their own amusement. Construct a compartmental chest and fill it with treasures that you create!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Jul 1 - Jul 3
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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Fabulous Forts and Secret Spaces: A Kid-Sized Installation You Can Get Into! (Summer 2013)

This week we'll have a blast transforming our studio into a warren of kid-sized forts and secret spaces we create–complete with doors, windows, wild sculptural elements, and perhaps a tunnel or secret compartment or two!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jul 8 - Jul 12
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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STAMP! Joyous, Inventive Printmaking (Summer 2013)

Do you love color and pattern and making stuff you can use? This week, we'll experiment with a wide variety of stamps–some we find and some we'll make. Then, we'll use our smorgasbord of stamps to create cool patterns on fabric using colored inks. From this fabric, we'll sew crazily creative banners for our rooms and another project: Perhaps a one of a kind bandana for you or your pet, a pillow cover, a belt or scarf or a project of your own design.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jul 22 - Jul 26
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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The Unquenchable Curiosity of Leonardo da Vinci: Art-Making and Discovery (Summer 2013)

Leonardo Da Vinci is celebrated for his wildly inventive imagination. In addition to being one of the greatest painters of all time, Da Vinci was a scientist, musician, architect, engineer, and inventor. All the way back in the 1400s, he imagined and sketched a flying machine, a helicopter and solar power, in addition to his painting and fascination with nature and anatomy.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jul 29 - Aug 2
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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A Passion for Painting! From the Teeny Weeny to the GigANTIC! (Summer 2013)

Do you love to paint and love the excitement of discovering intriguing new colors? Join us this week as we experience the wonder and power of color through painting.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jun 17 - Jun 21
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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Castles and Dragons: The Magic of Medieval Painting, Collage, and Sculpture (Summer 2013)

Join us as we blast back to the days of yore. Projects include designing and sculpting unique tabletop-sized castles from scrap wood, cardboard, wire, and string, and creating our own mammoth, mythological beasts–think dragons, unicorns, and more!

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jul 15 - Jul 19
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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Girls Rock Fashion Goes Bling!: Turning Fashion on Its Head (Summer 2013)

Throughout history, people have ornamented themselves using such materials as paint, flowers, feathers, beads, precious metals and gemstones, and now, bling! This week, we'll look into the ways this ornamentation becomes amazing art forms.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jul 8 - Jul 12
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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Imaginary Homes for Imaginary Critters: Sculpting, Painting, and Collage (Summer 2013)

Let's spend a week letting our imaginations soar as we paint and collage cool portraits of engaging animals that we invent. Will yours be a brilliantly-colored new species of bird, a slimy serpent, or mythological creation?

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jun 24 - Jun 28
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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The Green Life! Art for Animal- and Earth-Loving Kids (Summer 2013)

What might your favorite wild animal tell us if it could speak for itself? Through sculpting imaginative masks and costumes, we'll transform ourselves into the wild animals we love.

Who will you become? A polar bear? A dolphin? A tiger or a grey wolf? Our animals will have the chance to speak out through us, tell what they love about their lives and habitats, and what actions they need us humans to take to preserve them.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Jun 10 - Jun 14
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (with a half-hour lunch)
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