Summer Studio Camp - Oak Park Art League

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Art gallery and studio experience combined, young artists will find inspiration through art exhibitions in OPAL’s historic Carriage House Gallery, specifically designed to cultivate ideas for projects, which are then guided by professional teaching artists in the studio.

A number of partial need-based scholarships are available on a first come-first served basis.
Please inquire with the OPAL office about the application process.

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Ages 5-8 (Rising 1st through 3rd graders)

WEEK 1: JUNE 8-12	The Game of Paint Instructor: Nancy Jensen Learn to draw with paint and see your landscapes, still life and portraits come to life. Experiment with non-traditional painting materials and tools as well.	Info & Registration
WEEK 2: JUNE 15-19	Wild Thing Picture Books Instructor: Barbara McClure Illustrate your own picture books with unique characters and settings. Learn the basic elements of a story line and create your book with a variety of art materials.	Info & Registration
WEEK 3: JUNE 22-26	Art Gone Wild: Feathers & Fur Instructor: Ann Primack Spend a week exploring how your favorite rain forest animals will inspire your art making. Projects will include: clay animals, beetle art, and animal masks.	Info & Registration
WEEK 4: JUNE 29- July 3	An Up-Cycled Adventure No Camp Friday, July 3rd. Instructor: Olivia Lauritsen Use materials that would otherwise be thrown away and watch them come alive once more through art-making!. Milk cartons will turn into magical houses, cardboard and used paper into sketch books, and second-hand clothes into handcrafted dolls.	Info & Registration
WEEK 5: JULY-6-10	Art Gone Wild: Scales & Fins Instructor: Ann Primack Spend a week exploring how your favorite ocean animals will inspire your art making. Projects will include sand sculptures, watercolor fish and clay turtles.	Info & Registration
WEEK 6: JULY13-17	Folk Tales & Fairy Tales and the Artist Playhouse Instructor: Rhona Taylor This visual & performance art workshop will enrich and focus children’s natural gift for creative and imaginative play using improvisation, theater games, and storytelling. We will create an original performance, design and make simple costumes and set decorations.	Info & Registration
WEEK 7: JULY 20-24	Wizards of Wool Instructor: Pam Penney What magic does wool offer? Well come to explore and learn with wool as a primary medium through dyeing, spinning, felting, stitching, weaving and more. Then combine these techniques to create a unique piece of fiber art.	Info & Registration
WEEK 8: JULY 27-31	Build This - Custom Creatures! Instructor: Gina Lee Robbins Explore sculpture with a focus on process and materials. You'll use various media and found or repurposed materials to build, carve, assemble and weave your 3-dimensional forms. Experiment with different techniques, such as painting, texture and material embellishment to finish your custom creature.	Info & Registration

AGES 9 - 13 (rising 4th through 8th graders)

WEEK 1: JUNE 8-12	Chinese Brush Painting & More Instructor: Nancy Fong Delve into this centuries-old culture and explore activities such as calligraphy, book binding, paper cutting, paper folding, Chinese knots, pottery and tai chi just for starters!	Info & Registration
WEEK 2: JUNE 15-19	Inky Fingers: Intro to Printmaking Instructor: Hannah Mathis Get inky in this introduction to printmaking camp. Create mono-prints, relief prints, and stencils, stamp-making, and learn how making multiples can be so addictive!	Info & Registration
WEEK 3: JUNE 22-26	A Journey to Thailand Instructor: Olivia Lauritsen Journey with us to Thailand as we recreate traditional Thai mask dances. Create masks, outfits, and characters along with props and scenic designs out of found materials. Study Thai patterns & flowers, and learn to draw naga (serpent like creatures) and of course elephants!	Info & Registration
WEEK 4: JUNE 29-July 2	The Game of Paint No Camp Friday, July 3rd. Instructor: Nancy Jensen Learn to draw with paint and see your landscapes, still life and portraits come to life. Look to contemporary artists for inspiration and experiment with non-traditional painting materials as well.	Info & Registration
WEEK 5: JULY 6-10	No Computer Needed: The Art of 2-D Design Instructor: Hannah Mathis This camp introduces students to the basics of graphic design, while encouraging hands-on investigation. Campers will be introduced to color theory, typography, and lay out, while also being encouraged to develop their own sense of style. Design music and movie posters, food packaging and mood boards.	Info & Registration
WEEK 6: JULY 13-17	Drawing Discovery Instructor: Barbara McClure Learn the basics of drawing through focus on still life, self- portrait and animals. Various media and techniques will be explored, including pastel, pencil, colored pencil and pen and ink.	Info & Registration
WEEK 7: JULY 20-24	An Outer Space Adventure with the Artist Playhouse Instructor: Rhona Taylor Lift off in this exciting visual & performance art workshop. Create and original performance, design and make simple costumes and set decorations. Then retell the story using improvisation and the actors own works so that everyone can be comfortable and 'ply' together on stage for an audience.	Info & Registration
WEEK 8: JULY 27-31	Mixed Media and Fiber Sculpture Instructor: Pam Penney Sculpture isn’t just for marble, clay and wood. Come explore the art of needle felting, armatures, stitching & stuffing and paper-mache to build three dimensional fabric and fiber master-pieces!	Info & Registration