Art Center Camps/Week Long Intensive Day Classes
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The Currier Museum Art Center hosts week-long Vacation Art Camps for children ages 5-14 years during the winter and spring school vacation holidays. Multimedia art activities include painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, pottery and art appreciation. This program is popular with families who are seeking an enrichment experience for their children while school is out of session. Enrollment is limited, so register your child promptly!
The Currier Art Center also offers Vacation Week Art Intensives for Teens. These classes are open to students ages 14 to 18 at all levels of ability. These classes are also perfectly suited for students wishing to develop a portfolio and looking for greater challenges in the studio.
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K = Kids (ages 5-12)
Children ages 6 to 12 (1st grade +) register for a full day, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
Children ages 5 and 6 (entering Kindergarten – 1st Grade in the fall) have the option of mornings only, from 9:00 am to 12 noon.
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 | Session 6. Monuments of FUN (August 9 - 13) | 5 days | Session 6. Monuments of FUN (August 9 - 13)
Design your own cityscape to include unusually shaped buildings, monuments to people you know, and amusement parks you would love to visit. Be inspired by Calder's whimsical sculptures, Daniel Chester French's many outdoor sculptures, David MaCaulay's amazing cities, and more. Just how tall can you build without it falling over?
Prices range from $126.00 to $250.00 | Reserve |
 | Session 6. Comics Camp! | 5 days | Session 6: August 9 – 13
Comics Camp!
Instructor: Marek Bennett
9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Maximum 15 students
Ages: 10-15 yrs.
$300
Come explore the infinite world of graphical storytelling! Learn to draw exciting, expressive comics with rich casts of characters to hook your readers' attention, then self-publish your original stories for all the world to read! Each participant creates an original mini-comic and contributes to class feedback sessions and mini-comics. We will conclude the week with a Comics Convention for families and friends on Friday from 2-3 pm! (Bring a lunch.)
Prices range from $270.00 to $300.00 | Reserve |
| Session 6. Animal Mosaics | 5 days | Session 6: August 9 – 13
Animal Mosaics
Instructor: Patti Benson
1:00 – 4:00 pm, Maximum 8 students
$200
Study the ancient art of mosaics. Apply your own dynamic visual ideas to the art of mosaics while incorporating glass pieces into your own animal mosaic panel. Be inspired by a visit to the Currier Museum Historic Court's mosaic floor and Winter Garden mosaic wall panels.
Prices range from $180.00 to $200.00 | Reserve |
 | Session 6. Watercolor, Drawing & Painterly Prints | 5 days | Session 6: August 9 – 13
Watercolor, Drawing and Painterly Prints
Instructor: John O'Shaughnessy
9:00 am – 12:00 noon, Maximum 10 students
$200
Working from both life and your imagination, explore watercolor as it relates to drawing. Students will work with watercolor combined with ink and colored pencil, while exploring various techniques of watercolor painting. The class will also have a chance to work on fine painterly prints on heavy rag paper using the new technology water based inks. This is a perfect way to learn water media and mono-printing together.
Prices range from $180.00 to $200.00 | Reserve |
| Session 6. Drawing & Painting from the Mind's Eye | 5 days | Session 6: August 9 – 13
Drawing and Painting from the Mind's Eye
Instructor: John O'Shaughnessy
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Maximum 10 students
$200
Here is a chance to develop your work and share ideas together as a class in order to discover the ways we see two-dimensional art. Students will work from various contemporary approaches to art-making, including abstraction, surrealism, conceptualism, and formalism.
Prices range from $180.00 to $200.00 | Reserve |
| Session 6. Weaving the Inner Landscape | 5 days | Session 6: August 9 – 13
Weaving the Inner Landscape: Adult Weaving Intensive
Instructor: Cheryl Holbert
9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Maximum 10 students
$320
Discover the unique shapes, lines and colors that feed your personality and imagination, while experiencing the enjoyable supportive environment that only a weaving workshop can provide! This week-long intensive will give students the opportunity to fully explore their weaving potential, while working on the Art Center's wonderful Mirrix tapestry looms. Students will learn and begin to refine tapestry techniques, while creating pieces that reference their own 'inner landscapes!' Open to beginning and experienced Fibers students. (Bring a lunch.)
Prices range from $288.00 to $320.00 | Reserve |
