After our successful 2007 and 2008 art summer camps, we decided to do it again. However due to fundraising limitations, we have been forced to change the previous format.
“Fine Art Summer Camp 2009” is fine art summer camp available, but not limited, to residents of the Southwest suburbs of the City of Cleveland. The program offers fine art instruction to children ages 8-14. The program is hosted in the Southwest suburbs of Cleveland, at The Little Red Schoolhouse Center for the Fine Arts in Berea. Professional artists and instructors from Southwest 7 Arts will manage and deliver fine art instruction in the following disciplines: drawing and painting, ceramics and graphic arts.
The summer day camp program will be comprised of five individual and unique weeks of art instruction. Participants can attend one week, or all weeks. Students will not need previous instruction to attend any week.
Every mini-program/week will be a hands-on, step-by-step guide full of professional tricks and tips to help students create art pieces of superior quality in an open studio environment, where experimentation, finding new ways of expression, and peer-to-peer respectful and constructive reviews are encouraged and shared within the collective. Live demonstrations will be the method of teaching to be used. Every skill and concept will be taught through completion of projects.
The program will run each weekday from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm from July 6th to August 7th 2009.
Art is messy. Students should dress in appropriate clothes.
In order to assure an enjoyable experience and pleasant environment to create art, we will only accept a limited number of students per week. (no less than 4 students and no more than 12 students per instructor) Registration Form
Fine Art Curriculum
Make Art to PRINT
Week 1 (July 6-10, 2009) Age group: 8-14
Create posters, place-mats, note cards, stationery, or Art as a fine-print edition for friends & family. The variety of applications in this Graphic Media Workshop will allow the student artist, at any skill level, to draw, paint, cut, paste, explore and mix ideas to print more than one copy of an art piece on paper. If you like it, print more (That's the fun part!). Media will include a variety of relief printing techniques or silkscreen. All supplies are included.
Drawing and Painting Program
Week 2 (July 13-17, 2009) Age group: 8-14
Landscape Drawing and Painting: Students will learn the basic drawing skills and acrylic painting techniques to complete landscape paintings.
Portrait and Manga Drawing and Painting: Students will learn the basic drawing skills and acrylic painting techniques to complete portrait paintings and to develop a Manga character.
Clay/Ceramics Program
Week 3 (July 20-24, 2009) Age group: 8-14
Students will explore the ceramic medium from concept to completion. Several projects will be made by the students from low-fire earthenware clay. The pieces will then be bisque fired and the students can decide how they will decorate their creations. Due to the time involved with completing the entire process, students may need to return later to pick up their finished work. The camp will concentrate on the hand-building construction techniques of slab, coil and pinchpot. Wheelwork will be addressed but is not the focus of these sessions. All materials included.
Pinhole Camera & Photography Workshop
Week 4 (July 27-31, 2009) Age group: 8-14
Make your own camera. Make your own photographs. The technology of picture-making today is AMAZING, but this week-long workshop rediscovers a historic tradition-- take a box, put a hole in it, take & make a picture. The process was discovered nearly 2 centuries ago and is still popular today the world over. The creative discoveries are fun and exciting. All supplies are included.
Artist Trading Card (ATC) Workshop
Week 5 (August 3-7, 2009) Age group: 8-14
Create Artist Trading Cards, miniature Art pieces to share with friends and other artists. ATC trading has gone GLOBAL in a world-wide trading fascination of this 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" art form. How you design and make your cards is totally up to you. They will be as unique as you are. This is a creative workshop of multi-media for all abilities. All supplies are included.
Program Instructors and Managing Staff
The Berea Little Red Schoolhouse Foundation will hire the services of Southwest 7 Arts, Llc. to manage and deliver the fine art summer camp. Southwest 7 Arts, Llc. currently manage and deliver the fine art instructional programs at The Berea Little Red Schoolhouse Center for the Fine Arts in partnership with the Foundation.
Tuition Fees:
Due to the capacity of our facility, the program will only reach a maximum of 12 students each week. Camps might be canceled if a minimum of 4 students are not signed up.
