CLASS DETAILS

Summer Art Camp

Please see below our 2026 class descriptions!

 

Session 1: June 1 – 12

Red Group (Grades 1-2)
Creative Hands-on Various forms of Weaving with Pearl Sunrise

Each Child will explore and create with weaving beginning with simple forms of Osage Finger Weaving and several forms of Tapestry Weaving and ultimately incorporating the woven project pieces into fun and functional pieces. 

Teatro Nuevo Mexico with Stephen Armijo

In this class, we will be celebrating the Land of Enchantment through storytelling and theater. Students will learn about New Mexico folklore, animals, and cultures. From “La Llorona” to “Arrow to the Sun” students will encounter the stories of our land and together make one of their own!

World Building through Mixed Media Play with Sarah Raupagh

In World Building through Mixed Media Play students will explore watercolor landscapes, working with ink to create flowers/botanical designs, sculpting with air dry clay, and understanding blending techniques with oil pastels.

Yellow Group (Grades 2-3)
Playing with Clay with Sara Beacher

In this class , we’ll be playing with clay and mixing different materials with it.

Creative Hands-on Various forms of Weaving with Pearl Sunrise

Each Child will explore and create with weaving beginning with simple forms of Osage Finger Weaving and several forms of Tapestry Weaving and ultimately incorporating the woven project pieces into fun and functional pieces.

Poignant Poetry with Ivy Rose

This poetry session will combine art techniques and storytelling to create a curated exploration of word formation for children to develop their creative literacy. The types of poetry that will be taught include acrostic, haikus, tanka, lune, cinquain, diamante, sonnet, ballad stanza, clerihew, and autobiographical poetry. There will be fun formatting and presentation for everything they create in the class. It will involve many forms of art including character development, watercolor, illustration, music listening skills, and lyrical observation/deconstruction. The class itself is flexible to accommodate the skill set of each individual student.

 

Green Group (Grades 4-5)
Teatro Nuevo Mexico with Stephen Armijo

In this class, we will be celebrating the Land of Enchantment through storytelling and theater. Students will learn about New Mexico folklore, animals, and cultures. From “La Llorona” to “Arrow to the Sun” students will encounter the stories of our land and together make one of their own!

Wire Sculpture with Gary Chaffin

Campers will be making 2D and 3D wire figures that will end up in a Mobile to take home. In addition we will be making individual projects the students determine they want to try.

Colorfun Self Portraits with Kelsey Kilcrease

We will painting colorful self portraits from start to finish, using vibrant acrylic colors and expressive brush strokes.

Blue Group (Grades 6-9)
Go Photo Go! with Chloe Dichter

This class will explore experimental modes of photography through hands on activities in and out of the classroom. We will build camera obscuras, construct photo collages, and make images only using the sun! Many of the projects will invite mixed media approaches and foster experimentation.

Colorful Self Portraits with Kelsey Kilcrease

We will painting colorful self portraits from start to finish, using vibrant acrylic colors and expressive brush strokes.

Puppet Making with Javier Barboza

This course will introduce students to the medium of puppet animation. Creation of physical paper puppets for stop motion, frame by frame animation. Students will be introduced to a wide range of techniques in animation, from Character design, Color theory, storyboards and backgrounds. All under a digital camera for short film segments.

Session 2: June 15- June 26

Red Group (Grades 1-2)
Creative Hands-on Various forms of Weaving with Pearl Sunrise

Each Child will explore and create with weaving beginning with simple forms of Osage Finger Weaving and several forms of Tapestry Weaving and ultimately incorporating the woven project pieces into fun and functional pieces.

 

Story-Book Theatre with Stephen Armijo

“We’re going on a bear hunt!” Students dramatize well-known stories while developing self-confidence and basic expressive skills. We begin with fairy and folk tales and then work towards a more recent story for our showcase.

Designs in Nature & Me with Sarah Raupagh

Students will work with watercolor materials, acrylic paint and oil pastels. Exploring themes of komorebi, symmetry, design, self portraits, and observation painting to create unique and introspective artwork.

 

Yellow Group (Grades 2-3)
Story-Book Theatre with Stephen Armijo

“We’re going on a bear hunt!” Students dramatize well-known stories while developing self-confidence and basic expressive skills. We begin with fairy and folk tales and then work towards a more recent story for our showcase.

Creative Hands-on Various forms of Weaving with Pearl Sunrise

Each Child will explore and create with weaving beginning with simple forms of Osage Finger Weaving and several forms of Tapestry Weaving and ultimately incorporating the woven project pieces into fun and functional pieces.

Wondrous Watercolor Windows with Hallee Nuguyen

We’ll dive into the magic of watercolor resist, using wax and masking techniques to “trap” vibrant colors and create glowing, prismatic designs on paper. Then, we’ll take our skills to the next level by creating our very own stained glass inspired watercolor window panels. These finished pieces will be installed in the Harwood dining hall, allowing the sunlight to turn our works into a colorful light show for campers, families and visitors to enjoy.

Green Group (Grades 4-5)
Kitchen Creations: hand building dinnerware! with Jasper Bragg

In this class students will be working with clay to make their own dinnerware! We will use different hand building techniques to make bowls, spoons, etc.

Magnificent Murals with Ivy Rose

In this class, we will explore the nature of many murals and help students understand their transient nature. We will be working with materials that help them last longer, like paint, and with temporary materials such as chalk. A good mural captures an attitude, feeling, or social issue that is relevant to the time and place it is drawn, which is what each student will have accomplished by the end of this class.

Once Upon a Time with Amy Hughes

We will use fairy tale tropes to teach lessons what we think is important. Maybe that’s not eating broccoli? We will also play improv games, act silly, make-up characters, and create stories based on what we think is right or wrong (like broccoli).

Blue Group (Grades 6-9)
Printmaking Against All Odds with Caylah Brewer

This class will teach kids about what printmaking even is by using Do-It-Yourself methods of artmaking through reusable materials and hands-on printing methods. We will be learning methods of relief and intaglio printmaking to create zines, posters, and paper dolls using alternative and accessible means to make our artistic voices heard.

Ceramic Creatures with Will Guesz

In this class, campers will learn ceramic fundamentals like pinch pot and sculpture building and will use these techniques to create cool creatures of their own design. Campers will also develop a habitat for their creatures exploring non-ceramic materials

Animation with Javier Barboza

This course will introduce students to the medium of animation as an art form, expose them to a wide range of aesthetic possibilities, principles, and techniques of animation. Class projects will focus on easy to manipulate mediums in experimental animation like clay, cut-paper, puppets, found objects, paint and collage in under a digital camera short film segments.

Session 3: June 29 – July 10

Red Group (Grades 1-2)
Inner Monsters with Amy Hughes

Embrace your inner monster through story and character creation. We will learn basic acting techniques, create character, create stories, and act out our creations for the audience.

 

Printing with Pals

In this class, we will explore the many methods of printmaking including screenprinting, stencils, and linocut. Students will see their designs come to life and take home creations that demonstrate their newfound talents and creativity.

Ceramic Creatures with Will Geusz

In this class, campers will learn ceramic fundamentals like pinch pot and sculpture building and will use these techniques to create cool creatures of their own design. Campers will also develop a habitat for their creatures exploring non-ceramic materials 

Yellow Group (Grades 2-3)
Painting with Mariana Jimenez Guerrero
Flamenco with April Goltz
Mini Monster Modeling with Hallee Nguyen

We’ll dive into the world of air dry clay sculpting, using pinch-pot techniques to bring unique, one-of-a-kind mini monsters to life. Then we’ll become eco-architects, using recycled materials to build custom, detailed habitats for our new creatures to call home!

Green Group (Grades 4-5)
Collaborative Comics with Ivy Rose

This curriculum will have a concentrated, robust emphasis on understanding the history and process of comic making. This course will be accessible to all ages with varying degrees of reading skill level examples catered to each grade taught. Charles Schultz (Peanuts), Ludwig Bemelmans (Madeline), Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Tove Jansson (Moomin), and Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics) are a handful of the infamous sources I will be drawing from. I will appropriately assign the comprehension level of age to maturity of comics. I will also use examples derived from my personal experience traveling throughout the United States collecting zines delving into an assortment of fun topics from a variety of artists. The goal of this course will be for children to go home with collaborative mini comics created by themselves and their classmates. It will be a highly interactive activity that will leave each child with a thorough understanding of drawing, storytelling, reading comics, creating comic formats, and self expression.

What’s Your Deal? with Amy Hughes

Here we will learn improv. But, our focus will be on scriptwriting about conflicts we have everyday. Maybe it’s how to get along with friends. Maybe it’s navigating difficult teachers. We will decide where this goes!

Monster Maker with Kade Lamb

Monster Maker is a mixed media approach to making creatures that explore our imagination while keeping in mind the evolutionary traits that make our monsters the way that they are.
We will be learning different techniques like how to sew, print make, sculpt, and write stories all in one class to make our perfect monster by the end of the 2 weeks. This is a perfect class to combine other methods of art that students have learned in past years and making 1 big project at the end.

Blue Group (Grades 6-9)
Go Photo Go! with Chloe Dichter

This class will explore experimental modes of photography through hands on activities in and out of the classroom. We will build camera obscuras, construct photo collages, and make images only using the sun! Many of the projects will invite mixed media approaches and foster experimentation.

Decking out Watercolor with Connor Swayden

In this class, we will not only learn how to use, manipulate, and understand how watercolors work, but we will also learn fundamental principles of art and design with projects revolving around color theory, theme, story building, and composition. We’ll end our class with a full deck of playing cards created by the students that we’ll use in an in class game of cards!

 

Flamenco with April Goltz
Summer Staff