GENERAL INFORMATION 

Summer art camps feature fun hands-on opportunities for children to explore the Art Centre’s diverse collections and sculpture park while creating art. Each camp is based on a theme from key periods in art history and explores a variety of media including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance. We offer four different themes in July that are repeated in August.

The summer art classes emphasize fun through individual and group art projects inside the gallery and outside in the sculpture park. There will be short term projects and projects that may take up to a week to complete. At the end of each week parents are invited to attend an exhibition. The camps are supplemented with active extra-curricular indoor and outdoor activities.

 

THE CAMPS  

Times:	9am – 4pm	Ages:      7 – 11 years old
Dates:	Camp 1  July 05 - 09	August 03 - 06 (4 day week)
	Camp 2  July 12 - 16	August 09 - 13
	Camp 3  July 19 - 23	August 16 - 20
	Camp 4  July 26 – 30	August 23 - 27

      

REGISTRATION 

Begins (in person only) on Saturday March 27 from noon to 5:00 p.m.

 

FEES 

5-day camp fee $185 ($160 members)   | 4-day camp fee $150 ($130 members) 

Campers may arrive by 8:45 a.m. and be picked up no later than 4:15

 

Camp Themes

Camp 1: Pop and Op Art in the 60’s

  

The 1960’s was an important period in art history. Two extremely innovative movements were born and flourished during this time: Pop and Op Art. Pop art took its name and its influences from popular culture and transformed everyday objects into icons. Op art was all about optical illusion; hard edged and precise compositions of line and colour that gave the illusion of vibrant movement. Op art started in galleries but soon spread into popular culture and was used in furniture, clothing, and other fashion designs. To this day we still see the influences of Pop and Op art and they provide great ideas for projects.

Victor Vasarely, Untitled (n.d.)

 

 
 

Camp 2: Cubism Crazy
 

 

What’s so great about Cubism? What would art history be like without Picasso? Cubism changed how artists approached their work. Cubists broke down the objects they depicted in an attempt to display the subject matter from a variety of sides and angles; moving away from simple visual representation of an object towards a conceptual rendering. This is also how art gallery visitors today are able to look at objects and perceive them as ideas as opposed to literal depictions of figures, objects, or landscapes. The projects developed in this camp are often great catalysts to creative thinking. 

Picasso, Guitar Player, Cadaques (1910)

 

 

 

 

Camp 3: What’s New?

  

After a few millennia of art making explorations, what could there possibly be left for artists to do? While it is true that inventing a new way to a produce a portrait or a landscape could prove to be a challenge, artists today still manage to find new methods of creation. Computers and digital imagery have opened up opportunities for creative innovation and exploration. Traditional tools of the artist such as pencil, paper, paint, and canvas are combined with photography, video, and performance to create endless possibilities and an enormous amount of fun.

Paula Jean Cowan, twirl (2004)
 

 

Camp 4: The Far North: Inuit art

 

The Art Centre has a spectacular collection of Inuit art which will be the focus of this camp. Contemporary Inuit artists have been able to capture both their traditional way of life and the influences of society in their drawings, prints, wall hangings, and sculpture. This camp is a great way to gain an appreciation of an art that is uniquely Canadian and for the campers to use the types of art making materials that the Inuit have adopted and mastered so well.