Camps

In the attempt to create some ease in navigating through the tragic destruction of our Altadena neighborhood. We would like to collaborate with you to subsidize tuition for a family in need. We have quite a few families who lost everything in the fires but we would also like to reach out to families who may not be familiar with us, so please spread the word. If you know a child who would benefit from this please put their name in the notes section along with the families contact email. 

In the attempt to create some ease in navigating through the tragic destruction of our Altadena neighborhood. We would like to collaborate with you to subsidize tuition for a family in need. We have quite a few families who lost everything in the fires but we would also like to reach out to families who may not be familiar with us, so please spread the word. If you know a child who would benefit from this please put their name in the notes section along with the families contact email. 

Join us for a day of art making, and walking through the neighborhood, a picnic lunch and outside free play time. We will have some open invitation art making as well as a teacher led art project. 

In this week we will be celebrating spring, exploring bugs and flowers. We will be drawing and painting and doing some printmaking. We will be creating individual art projects and collaborative ones. 

The mornings are free choice time until around 10:00 then a snack. We will then work on a larger art project, hike through the neighborhood looking for materials to use or do a treasure hunt.  The rest of the day will be reading, playing games and finishing up art projects.

This will be a messy week of making paper mache ice cream cones complete with sauces and sprinkles. We will also take a look around the neighborhood for different kinds of cacti and choosing which one to form. We will use a few different kinds of papermache and paper clays. This is a week for those who don't mind getting their hands dirty, I mean VERY dirty. 

Kids will learn the tabby stitch, soumak stitch, looped tabby stitch, rya knot, lark’s head knot and  how to add tassels to different kinds of weavings and wall hangings. We will use wood and loops for looms. This is great for either a beginner but we will also have some new projects for those who have taken the class before. 

Houses that float, houses on stilts, ones  built from clay and ones from cardboard. Kids will use many kinds of sculptural materials to create structures and talk about places that people live in the world.  

This week we will be exploring all kinds of printmaking techniques and layering them with collages and painting. We will make our own stamps and printing plates to print on fabrics to make banners, on cardboard to make sculptures. We will do mono-printing, foam printing and printing from everyday objects.

Cutting, cutting, cutting magazines and decorative papers to make little scenes and portraits. We will also be making a sculpture from paper and wood. 

This is a great week for those who enjoy 2-D techniques of drawing, collage and printmaking. We will learn some simple bindings to make accordion books, flip books, pop up books and more.

Hats, crowns, masks and jewelry will be made in this class. We will be doing a lot of painting and gluing and weaving using fabrics; prints, fake furs, duct tape, feathers and more to make all kinds of art you can wear.

We will be drawing mostly from life this week, sometimes heading out into the neighborhood to sketch. We will use a variety of materials, charcoal, pencil, watercolor, chalk pastels to make narrative drawings, still-life drawings. We will also use string and tape to make lines for our drawings. 

Milk cartons, water bottles, tp tubes, wood scraps, bottle caps, egg cartons and fabric will be the materials for this weeks campers. We will be creating paper mache creatures and animals, collages and sculptures through manipulating materials. 

Exploring paint and its many forms will be the subject of this short week, watercolor paint, tempera paint, sumi ink, powdered paints, kids will make large scaled paintings, collaborative paintings, still-life paintings, abstract paintings, black and white paintings. We'll also explore color by mixing our own paints. 

We will make worlds inside of shoe boxes and mint tins, underwater worlds, garden worlds, outerspace or ancient worlds. This is a great week for those who love to draw from images and from their imagination. 

Students will have the opportunity to use a variety of materials from everyday objects to natural materials and turn them into tiny treasures, a matchbox will become a suitcase or a birdhouse, bottle caps will become pies or a cakes, an acorn cap might become a planter for tiny mushrooms. A thread spool might become a table.