A Week @ the Museum Summer Camps 2023

Linear Layers

Art speaks with lines, patterns and colours. Did you know art can portray ideas and stories? Search for stories in art and objects that inspire you. What ideas are you trying to portray in your art?

Throughout the week camp participants will explore our exhibits, including Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest and gain inspiration for creating their own artwork.

Looking for Single Days? We offer single day camp options for $50/day. Register online for single days here or for double-days here (art project is 2-day requirement). Call us at 587-797-4040 to inquire.

Payment is due at the time of registration. *If you are in need of making payment arrangements to help your child(ren) attend any of our camps, please contact us prior to registering. This week-long camp runs July 24-28, 2023 with single days on 24, 25 & 28. Double-days 26-27.

Art Project List for week/single days:

MONDAY 24th – Mural Madness!

Campers will create a teamwork mural with prompts from the leaders. Campers will use a variety of materials and paints to work as a team with music and dancing! Garden watercolours! Campers will harvest and collect leaves and other plants outside and learn a simple way to print make on their watercolour paper!

TUESDAY 25th – Mirror Me!

Campers will try exercises of blind contour drawings in pastels and watercolours to layer portraits of themselves and experiment with line and colour, while creating silly and exciting abstract portraits paintings. Collage Hybrid Cards! Campers will use collage to create hybrid animal human creatures to make cards to be used for any silly occasion!

WEDNESDAY 26th/ THURSDAY 27th (two day process) – Cardboard Rock Band!

Campers will create musical groups where they will learn to build their own instruments out of cardboard such as a guitar, and microphone in 3D! Then they will get to play karaoke with their instruments! Guest Artist Holly Mayoh with her mystery project!

FRIDAY 28th – Piggyback Paintings!

Campers will learn about landscape painting in pairs where they will switch canvases back and forth helping each other create paintings, while learning about teamwork, space, composition and impressionism artists of the past! Create meaningful and fun masks with paper mache and recycling milk jugs! Focusing on history, tradition and symmetry and of course getting messy and creative!

A Week @ the Museum Summer Camps 2023

Expressions

Be expressive in art and play. Express you unique style in art and learn to be expressive in portraying people, places, or things through mark making and storytelling.

Throughout the week camp participants will explore our exhibits, including Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest and gain inspiration for creating their own artwork.

Payment is due at the time of registration. *If you are in need of making payment arrangements to help your child(ren) attend any of our camps, please contact us prior to registering. This week-long camp runs July 10-14, 2023. Full-week registration only (no single days).