SESSION DETAILS


  • 1-week camps are 3.5 hours M-F

  • To allow for flexibility of potential absences, Covid quarantining, or other reasons, refunds can be given if notice of absence is given before the class/day starts.

  • No show and no communication = no refund once camp starts.

  • Primary communication with class will be done via email and text messaging, depending on urgency.

  • --MASKS REQUIRED INDOORS-- regardless of vaccination status; some activities will be completed outside and frequent mask breaks will be scheduled.

Summer Camps 2022

JULY

Visualizing Physics:

Perspective, Optical Illusions, Sculpture & Painting

Motion, Energy, Force & Simple Machines

DATES: July 11- 15, 2022

TIME: 1:30pm - 5:00pm

AGES: 7-12

--MASKS REQUIRED INDOORS-- regardless of vaccination status

FEE: $220 for first registrant -- $180 for each additional registrant (siblings) REGISTER BEFORE MARCH 1ST FOR THE $200 EARLY BIRD FEE! >> SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE for SNAP/Free & reduced lunch families

LOCATION: FIREHOUSE ART CENTER -Studio 64, 667 4th Ave, Longmont, CO 80501

Activity examples (not in order)

  1. Da Vinci the Physicist & Inventor - Making Activity: flying contraption with a simple machine element

  2. Radial Symmetry in Motion - Torque, Momentum, Friction, & Gravity - Making Activity Perler Bead Tops

  3. Kinetic Sculptures and Energy - Artist Look: Calder, Bortolazzo, and Mangold - Making Activity: Create sculptures that move with a simple machine element

  4. Groovy Gravity Painting - Force & Gravity - Making Activity: Pendulum Painting

  5. Da Vinci (the Artist) & Friends: Art History - Looking past the Mona Lisa, 6 ways to create the illusion of space - Making Activity: Mixed media perspective

  6. Op Art of the 1960s & Illusions that defy physics - Making Activity: 2D Drawings that appear 3D (vortex, impossible triangle, never ending staircase, and waves)


JUNE

Patterns & Structures in Our Environment

Painting, Mixed Media, Wire Working & More
Minerals, Crystals, Symmetry & Ratios

DATES: June 13-17, 2022

TIMES: 1:30pm - 5:00pm

AGES: 7-12

--MASKS REQUIRED INDOORS-- regardless of vaccination status

FEE: $220 for first registrant -- $180 for each additional registrant (siblings) REGISTER BEFORE MARCH 1ST FOR THE $200 EARLY BIRD FEE! >> SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE for SNAP/Free & reduced lunch families

LOCATION: FIREHOUSE ART CENTER - Studio 64, 667 4th Ave, Longmont, CO 80501

Activity examples (not in order)

  1. Geodes! Making activity: Mixed media geode and/or crystal painting

  2. Minerals - Spotlight on Rhodochrosite State CO Mineral, Group Experiment: Graphite circuit, Making Activity: wire wrapped minerals/stones

  3. Pigments & Saturation - Group Activity: Taste saturation with lemonade, Making Activity: Painting animal portraits with mineral paints

  4. Salt, Salt, SALT ~ all about Salt - Making Activity: build a salt crystal structure, watercolor with salt

  5. Fibonacci Sequence - Making Activity: Paper collage

  6. Radial Symmetry & Art History 5000 years of Tiles - Making Activity: Collagraph Tile panels