Asheville Art Museum Summer Camp

Summertime fun with the Asheville Art Museum continues!

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The first few weeks of Summer Camp at the Museum have flown by! We’ve enjoyed seeing both new and familiar faces in our June and early July camp sessions, where campers in kindergarten through 8th grades have enjoyed Exploring Puppetry and Mask Making, Cartooning Is Cool, Let’s Draw + Paint and many more exciting activities!

Each summer, the Asheville Art Museum offers eight weeks of Summer Camp fun to rising kindergarten through 12th grade students. Classes are held in the studio of the Museum’s WNC Art Resource Center. A few spaces are still open for registration including: Digital Photography + Mixed Media (for 9th -12th grade students the mornings of July 25 - 29) and 3-D Adventure (for 3rd - 5th grade students the mornings of August 1 - 5). Be sure to visit the Museum’s website for more details about the sessions remaining in this year’s Summer Art Camp. Full camp descriptions can be found here.

Summertime fun with the Museum continued this past weekend during the Family Art pARTy!, held in conjunction with The Big Crafty on Sunday, July 10th. Thank you to everyone who participated in our fun afternoon activities!

For more information about these and upcoming family fun, kid-friendly programs and activities at the Museum, contact Sharon McRorie, Education Program Manager at 828.253.3227 ext. 122 or smcrorie@ashevilleart.org or Erin Shope, School + Family Programs Manager at 828.253.3227 ext. 121 or eshope@ashevilleart.org.

Arts Extravaganza with Jennifer Lipsey-Edwards

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Let's Draw and Paint with Celia Gray

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Explore and Experiment with Celia Gray

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Drawing and Painting with Delena Jay

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Sculpture with Jeff Kinzel

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Visual Journaling with Elizabeth Ballard

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Art Adventure with Delena Jay Week 4

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Mixed-Media Madness with Elizabeth Ballard week 4

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The third week of camp is full of great stories!

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The morning session,"Cartooning is Cool", was taught by Jeff Kinzel. The students had the opportunity to write their own plot lines for their very own cartoons. They created super heroes and action adventures.

The class was able to learn the principles of traditional cartooning and apply it to their own action filled stories.

Jeff took the class to view an Illustration Exhibition to talk with them about how different artist's handle communicating their stories visually.

In the afternoon, "3-D Adventure", was led by Kelly Baisley.

One of the projects was musical and artistic, using recycled materials to create rain sticks.

Making their own colorful building blocks!

Summer Art Camp in Full Swing!

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Our second week of summer art camp with our Kindergarten through 2nd graders was brought into full swing with Dorothy Hanbright's class "People, Places and Things".

Building a home...

... and learning to paint with watercolors.

Here the class is learning the artistic process of critique with their night-scape paintings. Each student has an opportunity to talk about their piece of art work as well as offer encouragement to their classmates.

Here is the class in front of their paintings after a full morning of making art work!

In the the afternoon session, the class "Color Your World" was led by Celia Gray.

A young artist with his well balanced sculpture.

One of our magnificent summer interns, Lindsay, assisting the students with some very fun and very messy materials.

Three-dimensional and colorful; the students had the opportunity to build and then to color their very own world!

All About Sculpture!

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The first week of this year's Asheville Art Museum Summer Art Camp was all about sculpture with our Kindergarten through 2nd graders! In Dorothy Hanbright's class "Buildin' Art", the student's began their journey into sculpture by creating a relief sculpture using a paper shaping technique along with glue and paint. The effect was a woven, colorful, relief sculpture.

Excited to show off their three dimensional bird and fish mobiles during art critique.

The afternoon class was "Mixed Up and Messy", taught by Nora Mosrie. The students worked on making some incredibly expressive, silly characters that were not only three dimensional but very much full of the life and character each student brought to the class!

Students busy at work in the studio....

... and the finished projects!!!

August 3-7 Color Your World

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Augus 3-7 Let's go to the Zoo

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July 27-31 Arts Extravaganza 3rd-5th grade

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July 27-31 3rd-5th graders

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July 20-24 High School Students

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July 13-17 K-2nd grade Art Campers

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July 6-10 More Middle School

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July 6-10 Middle School Campers

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June 29 - July 3 Pack Place Potpourri

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June 22-26 K-2nd grade campers

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June 15-19 Summer Art Camp 2009

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Week 7: Highschool

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This weeks campers have showed a new level of intensity. In the mornings the high schoolers have been studying Drawing and Painting. Mr. Jeff has set a high standard for his students and they have worked diligently sketch after sketch. Campers have drawn gestures, cartoons, still life, and perspective drawings. After completing their drawings the students have used a variety of paints to add a little color. Tuesday we took a tour of the galleries. The campers asked great questions and challenged others views about different art works.

In the afternoon Mrs.Kelly is teaching a Mixed Media class. Yesterday the students had their first critique. It took a little bit to get them speaking freely but once the ball got rolling each comment, opinion, and bit of advice contributed to a hearty learning experience. The campers are working on a series of perspective drawings that they will later turn into paintings, prints, or collages. Their creativity is unlimited!

Week 5

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WOW! This week was full of crazy campers, and we loved every second of it! Mrs. Elizabeth taught the morning group, Mixed Media Madness. I am sure the parents enjoyed seeing the kids puppets they brought home on Friday. In the afternoon Mrs. Delena taught 3-D Adventure. The campers made the cutest birds I have ever seen. Many of the campers that we had this week had been here in the previous weeks, and we have grown very fond of each of them. Thank you all for making this summer so great.

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ALREADY WEEK 4!

It is hard to believe that this summer is flying by so quickly. Over the past few weeks Asheville Art Museum's summer campers have been busy. We have seen all ages.

Week 2: Mrs. Banares and Kelly had a group of 6th-8th graders that were full of ideas! I was impressed with them- CREATIVE KIDS! Their conversations were as creative as their art and lunchtime was always interesting. They attempted to mail a flipflop!

Pack Place Potpourri: This was a fun week for all the summer camps here at pack Place! Two groups of third through fifth grade campers spent their days going from museum to museum. Mrs. Nora taught both sessions. Campers learned about primary and secondary colors, tints and shades, and they used their new knowledge to create 3D Cityscapes!

Week 3: This was AAM's second week with Kindergarten- 2nd graders and their were a lot of familiar faces. We were glad to see many returning campers. Mrs. Nora and Mrs Sara did a great job making sure the campers had on their creative caps. Campers made trains, a self portrait montage from food pictures, and they also did print work.

Week 4: This week we offer 3D Adventure & Drawing & Printmaking! There are a few returning campers from Pack Place Potpourri, and we are pleased to see them back. Mrs. Elizabeth and Mrs. Delena have started great projects for the campers. Its really neat watching the creative process.

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This first week as been filled with so much creativity! There were about 40 campers in the studio this week for Arts Extravaganza & Mixed Up & Messy. Our campers ranged between 5 and 8 years old, but we could have been fooled. The teachers bragged all week about their enthusiasm, listening skills, and creativity. It has been a pleasure to work with these kids!

Mrs. Sara taught the Arts Extravaganza class in the mornings. The campers made family flags, glittery mosaics, landscapes, cityscapes, and beautiful prints. The campers learned a lot about different mediums to create art. This group was great and we hope to see these campers again.

Mrs. Benares taught the afternoon class, Mixed up & Messy. These campers were excited about everything! In this class the children practiced drawing animals, made pillows, self portraits, experimented with oil pastels and water color, and did amazing things with play dough. It was a great afternoon group.

The teachers have been amazing, these campers are lucky to have such wonderful teachers. Thank you to all the families. This first week has set the tone for the summer and I can't imagine a better time. Please feel free to comment about your child's experience and check out the photos we have posted.

Summer Camp Introduction

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This is the blog for the Asheville Art Museum's Summer Camp.

The Asheville Art Museum offers its renowned Summer Art Camp to rising kindergarten through 12th grade students.

Registration includes admission to the Museum and all materials for each class. Students may sign up for morning, afternoon or all-day sessions. All-day students have a supervised bag lunch

Please blog about your experience with the Asheville Art Museum's Summer Camp and visit the blog periodically for updates.