Are you looking for a fun, exciting and creative way for your child to spend some time this summer?
Summer FUNdamentals Art Camps offer enriching, creative experiences for campers in PAFA's beautiful galleries, the art studios of the school, and around the city. 24 different week-long fun and creative sessions are available beginning July 12 and running through August 20, 2010. Sessions are designed to appeal to all levels and interests of young artists, ages 6-15 years.
Artmaking experiences such as these provide excellent opportunities for children to explore and develop their creative and artistic spirit. Campers need only bring their imagination!
- Each camp session runs for one week, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- A FREE pre-camp session is available each morning, 9 to 10 a.m.
- A post-camp session is available 3 to 5 p.m. for $60 weekly or $15 daily per child.
- On Fridays at 2 p.m., families and friends are invited to a special exhibition and reception of the art projects created that week.
SUMMER FUNDAMENTALS ART CAMP 2010
four different camp sessions to select from each week (scroll down to view all 24 sessions):
Week 1 - July 12-16, 2010
Camp 1: Drawing FUNdamentals Please note: this camp session is FULL
In the Academy galleries, studios, and on location, young artists will develop and expand their visual ideas and creative skills. Explore the FUNdamentals of drawing, including composition, perspective, basic anatomy, and creating volume and space. Try drawing figures, animals, nature and landscapes with a variety of drawing media, including pencil, charcoal and pastel. Instructor: Tad Sare (ages 6-12)
Camp 2: Divine Design
Discover fun decorative techniques that will enable you to design chic, unique furniture and other decorative accessories for your own room. Learn basic skills to design your room - create a color story board, a floor plan, and meet an interior decorator. Try out faux finishes, decoupage, stamping, stencils, painting and other techniques on small accessory projects, then prepare your furniture and use decorative techniques to create your own furniture masterpiece. Please note: Campers need to bring at least one small piece of unfinished wood furniture. Instructor: Teresa Atkins (ages 8-14)
Camp 3: The Grand Falloons Circus Please note: this camp session is FULL!
Join up with The Grand Falloons, a celebrated theater company from New York City, to put on a one-ring circus performance. Learn basic circus skills - juggling, acrobatics, clowning, plate spinning and other skills. Create crazy costumes, silly sets and artistic backdrops and take part in a rollicking circus performance. Instructor: Steve Ringold and Peter Straus (ages 7-14)
Camp 4: Painting
Develop your painting skills, exploring painting techniques, composition, color and a variety of painting styles. Experiment with painting in the style of great artists throughout history. Try painting luminous landscapes, poetic portraits and luscious still lifes. Instructor: Patricia Taylor (ages 11-15)
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Week 2 - July 19-23, 2010
Camp 5: Cartoons and Comics Please note: this camp session is FULL
Learn the basics of cartooning and comic strips. Explore anatomy, gesture, use of color, body language and character expression. Sharpen your wit while exploring new, creative techniques and ideas to create cartoon characters, and caricatures. Discover the history of comic strips and create a variety of types of popular strips – adventure, gag, fantasy, anime, alternative and graphic strips. Cartooning techniques to be covered include: character development, inking with wash, use of watercolor, composition, lettering and storytelling. Instructor: Lance Hanson (ages 6-13)
Camp 6: Doll Town Please note: only 3 spots left
Try fun and creative techniques to make a collection of your own original, artistic dolls. Combine fabric, collage and found objects to create papier mache dolls, fabric dolls, paper dolls and clothes pin dolls. Construct a home for your doll family and build a friendly doll neighborhood. Finally, produce a video bringing your completed dolls to life when they interact with their new friends next door. Instructor: Teresa Atkins (ages 6-14)
Camp 7: "Choose your own Adventure" Basic Animation Please note: only 4 spots left
Learn the secrets of making still images come to life or become “animated”. Create flip books, zoetropes and other forms of early animation. Work in groups to create your own stop-action, collage or cartoon animated adventure stories. View your works in a premiere screening and take home a DVD of all campers' works. Instructor: Tad Sare (ages 7-14)
Camp 8: Printmaking
Discover a variety of basic printmaking materials and techniques, including monoprints, collagraphs, screen prints and other techniques. Sharpen your drawing and observation skills creating prints from still lifes, landscapes, figures and your imagination. (ages 11-15)
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Week 3 - July 26-30, 2010
Camp 9: Painting FUNdamentals Please note: this camp session is FULL!
Explore painting techniques, composition, color and a variety of painting styles. Experiment with painting in the style of great artists on display in the museum galleries. Try painting luminous landscapes, poetic portraits and stylish still lifes. Instructor: Elizabeth Nickles (ages 6-12)
Camp 10: Mural Painting
Learn to create effective murals incorporating many different techniques including painting, design, composition, perspective and glazing. Learn what type of paint to use, what type of surface to paint on and methods for transferring your image design onto your surface. Paint your own mural to take with you and work together to design and paint a mural to be installed on-site. Instructor: James Dean Erickson (ages 10-15)
Camp 11: Funky Fashions Please note: only 5 spots left
Discover fun techniques to create unique works of wearable art. Each day try a new project. Experiment with stamping, painting and other techniques to create beautiful clothing, jewelry, hats and bags. Bring in your old and tired jeans and t-shirts and transform your recyclables into new works of wearable art. Put on a fun and funky fashion show for friends and family. Instructor: Jennifer Lingford (ages 7-14)
Camp 12: Street Art Please note: this camp session is FULL!
Produce Street Art, including mural and graffiti art, comic and cartoon art, tattoo art design, t-shirt designs, and folk art forms such as sign painting and hobo art. View various forms of Street Art and learn about this dynamic contemporary style. Try out unconventional techniques using non-traditional artistic materials, such as house paint, duct tape, ballpoint pens, scrapboard, and found objects to create your own personal statements. Instructor: David Solan (ages 12-15)
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Week 4 - August 2-6, 2010
Camp 13: Dream Buildings Please note: this camp session is FULL!
Do you dream of designing large skyscrapers, magnificent mansions, or beautiful villas? Learn fundamental architectural techniques to design, build a model of your fantasy building, and decorate and furnish your model. Meet with an architect, design a floor plan and construct an architectural model. This is your chance to bring your dream to life. Instructor: Mallory Malkasian (ages 7-14)
Camp 14: Water World
Experience the wonder and mystery of the deepest oceans, travel the world through the eyes of a sailor and explore life aboard a pirate ship. Build unsinkable ships, hunt for sunken treasures, make your own whale bone carvings, learn maori tattoo designs, construct mermaids and sea monsters and sing sea shanties. Instructor: Donna Backues and Lisa Koerner (ages 6-11)
Camp 15: "Matinee Movie Madness" Basic Filmmaking - Please note: This Camp session is FULL
Lights! Camera! Action! Discover your hidden talent as a filmmaker. Produce, direct, star in, and work behind the scenes in your own original matinee movie. Learn basic filmmaking techniques including scriptwriting, special effects, editing, and sound effects and mixing. Instructor: Tad Sare (ages 7-14)
Camp 16: Drawing
Sharpen your ability to effectively and creatively draw what you see and feel. Explore perspective, composition, anatomy, and creating volume. Draw figures, animals, nature, and landscapes with a variety of materials including pencil, charcoal, and pastel. Instructor: Patricia Taylor (ages 11-15)
Week 5 - August 9-13, 2010
Camp 17: Sculpture FUNdamentals - Please note: only 2 spots left
Explore sculpture techniques inspired by works of master sculptors throughout history, including Michelangelo, Rodin and Calder. Learn to sculpt figures and animals using modeling clay and polymer clay and fabricate constructions with wood, wire and other materials. Instructor: Elizabeth Nickles (ages 6-12)
Camp 18: Animal Safari
Go wild while developing your artistic skills. Learn about the inhabitants of the great outdoors and view great artworks of animals and nature. Draw, paint and sculpt wild, endangered, extinct and domestic animals both in the studio and on location. Learn about anatomy, creating form, texture and tone using a variety of materials. All of your creations will culminate in a wilderness of animals to share with family and friends. Instructor: Jamie Navone (ages 6-12)
Camp 19: The Grand Falloons Circus II
Join up with The Grand Falloons, a celebrated theater company from New York City, to put on a one-ring circus performance. Learn basic circus skills - juggling, acrobatics, clowning, plate spinning and other skills. Create crazy costumes, silly sets and artistic backdrops and take part in a rollicking circus performance. Prior performing experience preferred. Instructor: Steve Ringold and Peter Straus (ages 7-14)
Camp 20: Comic Magazines
Write and illustrate your own Comic Magazine ("Mad" Magazine style). Develop a variety of creative skills, including panel-to-panel storytelling, page layout and composition, use of color, markers and watercolor, lettering and high contrast, film-noir style. Projects will include parodies, gag strips, political cartoons, caricatures, fold-overs, and movie spoofs. Instructor: Lance Hanson (ages 11-15)
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Week 6 - August 16-20, 2010
Camp 21: Anime Please note: this camp session is full
Check out favorite Manga books and anime movies and learn how to draw your favorite characters such as Dragonball, Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon. Activities will center on the effective use of color and shape in design, gesture, emotions and expression. Learn to create complex cartoon characters using simple shapes and classic techniques. Conceptualize and create your own comic and cartoon narratives with instruction on story creation and comic storytelling. Use pen and ink to draw your characters in action with backgrounds, villians and cool cats. Finally assemble them into a Manga book of your own. (ages 7-13)
Camp 22: Avatar - Alternate Worlds Please note: only 4 spots left
Let your imagination soar! Create an alternate futuristic or fantasy world and identity beyond your imagination. Discover dream worlds created in art, movies, music and stories and build new life forms, new worlds, new people and new places. Create digital murals, fluorescent costumes, fantastical sculptures, and dream collages. Instructor: Patricia Maunder (ages 6-12)
Camp 23: Puppets in Wonderland
Travel down a "rabbit hole" into your imagination, right into the middle of a wonderful wonderland. Create wildly imaginative fantasy hand puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets and found object puppets. Work together to create a fantasy story and puppet performance complete with a wonderworld setting, lighting, music and special effects. Instructor: Leslie Rogers (ages 6-11)
Camp 24: Bookmaking and Illustration
Write and illustrate your own books. Try out some drawing, painting and printmaking illustration techniques to illustrate your stories. Learn how to do a variety of fun book binding structures such as pamphlets, accordions, and stab bindings to name a few. Also make one of a kind artists' books and a small edition of a photo-copied 'zines that can be exchanged with other students. Bring your story ideas, your favorite picture book and your imagination. (ages 10-15)
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Questions? - Call Museum Education Department -- 215-972-2061 for more information.
Enrollment is limited.
2010 Camp Fees and Registration
PAFA Members take advantage of discounts on registration fees! Become a household member ($75) and take advantage of members’ discounts.
Prices are per camp, based on the number of camps per family. If you decide to sign up for additional camps at a later date, the discount still applies!
# of camps per family Academy Members Non-Members
1 camp: $200 $220
2 camps: $195 per camp $215 per camp
3 camps: $190 per camp $210 per camp
4 camps: $185 per camp $205 per camp
5 camps: $180 per camp $200 per camp
6 camps: $175 per camp $195 per camp
More than 6 camps: $170 per camp $190 per camp
After-camp activity session fee: $60 weekly per child or $15 per day per child
Fees include all materials, snacks, field trips, and other activities. Campers must bring a lunch each day.
A limited number of partial scholarships is available. Click here to download a scholarship application or call the Education Department at 215-972-2061.
PAFA reserves the right to cancel programs and only under these circumstances are fees refundable.
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