Summer Art Camps
Join us for some great summer art camps with some wonderful art teachers who specialize in teaching children's art.
ART CAMPS WITH JAMIE CHAPMAN
Jamie Chapman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Art Education degrees from the University of Wyoming and has been teaching child-focused art classes for over 20 years. In addition to teaching at SOAR she is teaching at the Art Station in Bend and in other Central Oregon communities through the mobile Van Go program.
At the Big Top!
Ages: 6-8
We'll be clowning around when the circus comes to our
town! You'll be in charge of creating the "greatest show
on Earth!" Lions, tigers, dancing bears, acrobats, clowns (of
course!) and lots of fun will be had under our Big Top. Create
your own circus extravaganza using clay, paint, drawing and
collage in this exciting camp.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, June 19
#R210.403 Dates: June 23-27, Mon. - Fri., 1:30-4:00
p.m.
Fee: $65.00 ID
$75.00 OD
Instructor: Jamie Chapman
Location: SOAR Community Center, Room 2
Minimum: 6
Maximum: 12
Out of the Box!
Ages: 6-8
What can you do with a box? Think lunchboxes, pizza boxes,
treasure boxes, jack-in-the boxes, and the artwork of "box"
artists such as Joseph Cornell, and architects, like Frank
Lloyd Wright. Create with texture, color, shape, form and
line to see where your imaginations will take you out of the
box!
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 3
#R210.404 Dates: July 7-11, Mon. - Fri., 9:00-11:30
a.m.
Fee: $65.00 ID $75.00 OD
Instructor: Jamie Chapman
Location: SOAR Community Center, Room 2
Minimum:
6
Maximum: 12
Ships Ahoy!
Ages: 5-7
Arrgghy maties! Come sail the high seas in search of buried
treasure and gold. Create your own Pirattitude and plunder ART
riches bold. Make your own pieces of eight and art treasures to
behold. Shiver me timbers!
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 17
#R210.405 Dates: July 21-25, Mon.- Fri., 9:00-11:30 a.m.
Fee: $65.00 ID $75.00 OD
Instructor: Jamie Chapman
Location: SOAR Community Center, Room 2
Minimum:
6
Maximum: 12
Sky High Art-venture!
Ages: 6-8
The sky is the limit when you take flight on this journey of
imagination! Create art that is all about what goes up,
up and away into the skies of the wild blue yonder. Reach
the heights of art discovery as you draw, paint, collage and
investigate art from amazing flying machines and creatures to
soaring skyscrapers and super heroes.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 31
#R210.406 Dates: August 4-8, Mon. - Fri., 9:00-11:30 a.m.
Fee: $65.00 ID
$75.00 OD
Instructor: Jamie Chapman
Location: SOAR Community Center, Room 2
Minimum:
6
Maximum: 12
Creative
Genius
Grades 3-5 & 5-8
Camp Creative Genius is under the direction of Clayton
Warburton. Clay is a teacher at the Sisters Elementary School
and is the leader of the Art Literacy Program and involved in
the My Own Two Hands Project. He uses art extensively in his
classroom and is a professional artist (claywarburton.com). His
goal is to give kids multiple opportunities to express
themselves using many mediums and for kids to find their own
"creative genius".
Camp activities include: large scale paintings, mosaics, development in design elements, color mixing, shading and value, realistic drawing and brush techniques. Students will see fantastic art from around the world. They will discuss elements of different artists and incorporate the things they like best into their own creations.
Registration Deadline: July 9
#R210.401 Session 1: July 14-17,
(m-th),
9:00-11:00 am, 3rd-5th grades
#R210.402 Session 2: July 14-17,
(m-th),
Noon-2:00 pm, 6th-8th grades
Fee: $64.00
ID $74.00 OD
Instructor: Clay Warburton
Location: Sisters Elementary School, (Mr. W's Room)
Minimum:
10
Maximum: 22
Creative Resource Foundation Art Workshops - Youth, Teen & Adults.
Polymer Clay; Hands-On Color Blending
Age 18+
Forget the pieces of colored paper, forget the prism, forget
the confusing terminology. Ever wonder what you would
need to mix to get cranberry or mustard? In this full-day
workshop, participants will get a real feel for how color works
by blending small amounts of pigmented polymer clay starting
with primary colors and going through secondary and tertiary
colors. (Don't worry, tertiary is the most difficult word
in the class.)
#R210.308
Registration Deadline: April 3 - Th
Dates: May 3 - S; 9:00am - 4:00pm
Instructor: Indred Widburg-Shaw
Fee: $65 ID $70 OD
Location: Artist's Bend area studio - address and directions
provided after registration
Minimum: 2 Maximum: 8
Supply / Fee
Watercolor Journaling
Age 14+
Going somewhere exotic this summer? Wouldn't it be wonderful
to record you journey in a watercolor journal. Master the
art of journaling with watercolor, pen & ink and collage.
Create stunning mementos of your vacation that will be
keepsakes for life. Learn how to draw what you see with
the use of a series of set up exercises that access the right
side of the brain and use watercolor to highlight it. No
experience necessary.
#R210.307
Registration Deadline: May 2 - Fr
Dates: May 3 - Sa; 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Fee: $55 ID $60 OD
Instructor: Barbara Berry
Location: Artist's Sisters area studio - address and
directions provided at registration
Minimum: 4 Maximum: 8
Supply
Fee / List
Watercolor Portraits
Ages 12+
A Make Every Day a Painting workshop with Cindy Briggs.
Working with a fully dressed model, learn how to draw and paint
the portrait with step by step demo instruction. Learn
secrets of mixing skin tones, developing contours, shadow
shapes, hair, fabric and background. For the Experienced
Beginner to Intermediate student.
#R210.309
Registration Deadline: April 15 - Tu
Dates: May 15 - Th; 9:30am - 4:00pm
Instructor: Cindy Briggs
Fee: $66 ID $71 OD
Location: Sisters Art Works - Upstairs Studio, 204 W
Adams St, Sisters. At the corner of Ash and Adams, where
art works in Sisters
Minimum: 5 Maximum: 10
Supply
Fee / List
Paint Like The Masters In Oils
Age 14+
The Masters of the Renaissance knew how to use the technique
of under painting on a toned canvas to create stunning
paintings. Learn how to master color and the use of value using
this simple yet effective technique. Understand the secrets of
composition comp & value studies studies and the technique
of negative space. Dynamic paintings can be yours thru the
understanding and use of color.
Intermediate to advanced.
#R210.310
Registration Deadline: May 21 - W
Dates: May 22 - Th; 10:00am - 4:00pm
Fee: $65 ID $70 OD
Instructor: Barbara Berry
Location: Artist's Sisters area studio - address and
directions provided at registration
Minimum: 4 Maximum: 8
Supply Fee / List
Mixed Media Collage
Ages 18+
Expect the unexpected. Experiment with mixed-media
collage. Learn various collaging and painting
techniques. Combine ideas, images, words, and paint to
create unique collage expressions that tell visual
stories. You may not know where you are going when you
start but you will be delighted with where you end up.
Let "happy accidents" guide you through the process.
Bring a stash of personal Xeroxed photos, and other images, as
well as other interesting papers to personalize your
artwork.
#R210.315
Registration Deadline: May 14 - W
Dates: June 14 - Sa; 9:30am - 1:30pm
Instructor: Pam Jersey Bird
Fee: $55 ID $60 OD
Location: Sisters Art Works - Upstairs Studio, 204 W Adams St,
Sisters. At the corner of Ash and Adams, where art works
in Sisters
Minimum: 5 Maximum: 16
Supply / Fee
Watercolor 101
Age 14+
Offered as two separate workshops; take one or both.
Always wanted to paint in watercolor but afraid to try?
This is the workshop for you! Master the art of
watercolor one step at a time by using a series of skill
building exercises to do it, with author of the book Watercolor
101, Barbara Berry. Understand the building blocks of
watercolor the wash, how light works, edge patterning, and the
use of value to create volume and how to use it in your
paintings. Create paintings using negative space that are
dynamic to the eye. No Experience Necessary
#R210.312
Registration Deadline: The day before desired workshop
date
Dates: June 7 - Sa; 10:00am - 4:00pm
Fee: $65 ID $70 OD (per date)
Instructor: Barbara Berry
Location: Artist's Sisters area studio - address and
directions provided at registration
Minimum: 4 Maximum: 8
Supply
/ Fee
