July Classes
July 6-10
Muddy Days: Clay Session I 
(ages 7-10)
Deborah Bazer
Do you love having delightfully muddy hands, and can’t get enough of clay, that gorgeous squishy stuff that comes from the ground? Here is a class for kids who want to seriously explore the art of clay. Clay, you can push it, pull it, poke it into just about anything you can imagine. We’ll learn about where clay comes from, how it fits into our daily lives and into history. Then we’ll learn how to make incredible art with it. We’ll learn coil, pinch, and slab techniques, and then finish our work with colorful slip (liquid colored clay) and glaze. We’ll also have plenty of time for exploring some other malleable materials, playing games, as well as hearing and telling stories of magical and muddy places. All artwork from this session will be fired and ready for pick up a few weeks after class. Please bring a lunch, water, and a snack. 
July 6-10, Monday-Friday, 8:30am -3:30pm
Camp Full- Please email us to be added to the waiting list
Camp Full
July 6-10
Look, Up in the Sky:
Become Your Own Superhero (ages 5-10)
Lahri Bond
While such characters as Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Spiderman have captured imaginations in popular movies and cartoons, their origins are in the simple line drawings and fertile imaginations of young artists. We will explore the art of visual storytelling, first by learning to draw some of our favorite cartoon and comic characters, then by inventing our own. Over an action-packed week, we will illustrate multi-paneled stories, and then make our own masks, symbols, utility belts, and super-gear to become the actual superheroes we have drawn. Artmaking, snacks, lunches, and noncompetitive games will be spent outside under the shaded solar canopy and exploring the beautiful woods of the Hampshire College campus. Please bring a lunch, water and a snack.
July 6-10, Monday-Friday, 8:30am -3:30pm
$375.00 - price includes materials
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July 13-17
A Faeries Garden
(ages 5-9)
Deborah Bazer
 Join us for a week of painting, drawing, sewing, and sculpting all things faerie! We will create our own portable faerie dish gardens and magical garden lights, using clay, bark, stones, seeds, and plants. Then, we’ll draw and paint faerie images of our own, as well as design ourselves a pair of fabric faerie wings, flower crown and wands. We’ll also explore the work of such artists as Brian and Wendy Froud, Arthur Rackham, and Alan Lee, who love to draw and sculpt faeries. While we work, we’ll hear and tell stories of those gentle and magical creatures of the good green woods. At snack and lunch times, it’s off to the woods and fields, for imaginative play, faerie house building and non-competitive games. If we look carefully, perhaps we’ll even see some tiny visitors. Please bring a lunch, water, and a snack. 
July 13-17, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
$375.00 - price includes materials
July 13-17
Beastly Fun:
An Intro to LARP-ing for Younger Kids
(ages 7-10)
Lahri Bond
For centuries, children spent significant time outdoors playing make-believe, with no need of digital stimuli. LARPing or Live Action Role Playing is a fun and healthy way of creating fantasy worlds through roleplaying and artmaking. Beasts, elves, faeries, mythological creatures and wizards, as well as knights and warriors will be brought to life with costumes, masks and magical implements made from paper maché, cloth, pool noodles and cardboard for imaginative play. Emphasis will be on adventure over battle. There will also be plenty of time spent in the green spaces and woods, for finding dragons hidden in the landscape, building faerie forts, and making magical habitats in nature, as well as hearing magical stories of Fionn Mac Cumhail, King Arthur and other Celtic heroes. Please bring your lunch, water, snack, cape, and your imaginations.
July 13-17, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Camp Full- Please email us to be added to the waiting list
Camp Full
July 20-24
Nature Art Studio for Older Kids
(ages 11-16)
Deborah Bazer
Have fun, while honing new artistic skills and learning about different materials in this class for older kids who’d like a more serious focus on art. We’ll begin by sampling drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, and fiber arts, then  choosing what mediums to focus more closely  on. We will also spend our time exploring  the woods and fields, interacting with the  environment and documenting our explorations and observations in our beautiful handmade sketchbooks. Using natural materials, as well as a wide variety of traditional art supplies, we’ll create art individually and together in a group. Choices might include improving drawing skills, creating our own inks, or discovering the joy of dying wool with plants for use in weaving, felting or knitting. Choose what kind of art interests you the most and enjoy a week of exploring it more fully. There will be plenty of time to share stories of all kinds, while we work. Bring your enthusiasm, your open mind and your imagination.
July 20-24, Monday -Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
$380.00 - price includes materials
For
Ages
11-16
July 20-24
Fabulous Felines & Cantankerous Kitties
(ages 5-10)
Lahri Bond
We’re not kitten, when we say this class will have you feline good. Students will draw, paint, make masks and three-dimensional cats in paper maché, while hearing remarkable tales of human-kind’s other “best friend.” Come be whiskered away as we hear paw-sitive stories, meow-velous myths, and hiss-terical folk tales of ferocious felines, cantankerous kitties, and terrific tabbies, while creating fabulous furry creations. An equal share of the day will be spent playing noncompetitive games and exploring the beautiful woods of the Hampshire College campus. Please bring a lunch, water and a snack. A won-fur-full good time is guaranteed fur all.
July 20-24, Monday -Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
$375.00 - price includes materials
July 27-July 31
Muddy Days: Clay Session II 
(ages 7-10)
Deborah Bazer
Do you love having delightfully muddy hands, and can’t get enough of clay, that gorgeous squishy stuff that comes from the ground? Here is a class for kids who want to seriously explore the art of clay. Clay, you can push it, pull it, poke it into just about anything you can imagine. We’ll learn about where clay comes from, how it fits into our daily lives and into history. Then we’ll learn how to make incredible art with it. We’ll learn coil, pinch, and slab techniques, and then finish our work with colorful slip (liquid colored clay) and glaze. We’ll also have plenty of time for exploring some other malleable materials, playing games, as well as hearing and telling stories of magical and muddy places. All artwork from this session will be fired and ready for pick up a few weeks after class. Please bring a lunch, water, and a snack. 
July 27-31, Monday-Friday, 8:30am -3:30pm
Camp Full- Please email us to be added to the waiting list
Camp Full
Wizards, Sorceresses & Warriors:
Live Action Role-playing
(ages 11-16)
Lahri Bond
LARPing or Live Action Role Playing is a fun and healthy way of creating fantasy worlds through roleplaying and artmaking. Students will begin by designing a character that they wish to inhabit for the whole week. Wizards, trolls, dwarves, Hobbits and sorceresses play as important roles as knights and warriors in these games. Emphasis will be on adventure, teamwork and strategy. We will establish mutually agreed upon rules of engagement, before making the various magical tools the characters need. Implements might include wands, boffer swords, armor, leaf crowns and heraldic shields, all made with paper maché, cloth, pool noodles, cardboard and a wide range of recycled materials. There will also be plenty of time spent in the green spaces and woods, to fully immerse ourselves in the magical worlds we’ve created, as well as time for hearing magical stories of Fionn Mac Cumhail, King Arthur and other Celtic heroes. Please bring your lunch, water, snack, cape, and your imaginations.
July 27-31, Monday-Friday, 8:30am -3:30pm
$380.00 - price includes materials
July 27-July31
For
Ages
11-16
