Summer 2024 Art Camps
WEEK 1: NATURE
Dates: July 9-11 (Tues, Weds, Thurs)
Time: 9:30am – 12pm
Ages: 6-10
Instructors: Erin Rice & Brianna Stewart
Cost: $85.00 per child for the 3 days
Description: Come explore the incredible variety of plant, animal and bug life around us in our meadow, and along the banks of the Ipswich River. Our adventures outside will be part scientific, part artistic, and part experimental. We’ll learn the basics of landscape painting, botanical watercolor, printmaking, sculpture, and learning how to identify and record the plant life we encounter as we go. Then we’ll dig deeper into the possibilities plants have to offer by trying our hand at Hapa Zome – a way of pulling the natural pigments out of flowers and leaves to make a print on textile.
We will be working outside as much as possible. We will use our classroom space at the back of the Whipple house in the event of rain.
WEEK 2: HISTORY
Dates: July 16 – 18 (Tues, Weds, Thurs)
Time: 9:30am – 12pm
Ages: 6-10
Instructors: Erin Rice & Brianna Stewart
Cost: $85.00 (per child for 3 days)
Description: From local Ipswich history to art history, we’ll be taking the past as our inspiration for this week. We’ll explore the different types of architecture at the museum and in the neighborhood for our first project, explore art movements from Europe that influenced artists here in Ipswich at the beginning of the 20th century, and dive into special objects from the museum collection to make unique multimedia works.
We will be outdoors as much as possible. We will use the indoor classroom at the back of the Whipple House in the event of rain.
WEEK 3: WATER
Dates: July 23 – 25 (Tues, Weds, Thurs)
Time: 9:30am – 12pm
Ages: 6-10
Instructors: Erin Rice & Brianna Farina
Cost: $85.00 (per child for 3 days)
Description: This week we’ll take water as our inspiration. We’ll explore water-based media like watercolor and cyanotype, but we’ll also use it as our subject matter: we’ll learn how to paint a landscape with water in it that really looks like water, we’ll work outside on the river banks as much as possible, and we’ll have a special visit from the team at Ipswich River Watershed who will do a water-themed craft with us. We’ll visit the new show at the Ipswich Museum called “UnderWater” by George Sherwood, and produce a sculpture inspired by the exhibition.
We will be outdoors as much as possible. We will use the indoor classroom at the back of the Whipple House in the event of rain.
WEEK 4: OUTERSPACE
Dates: July 30 – Aug 1 (Tues, Weds, Thurs)
Time: 9:30am – 12pm
Ages: 6-10
Instructors: Erin Rice & Brianna Stewart
Cost: $85.00 (per child for 3 days)
Description: From sculpting miniature polymer clay planets to painting comets with squeegees and balloons to collaging alien portrait busts, we’ll experiment with all sorts of different ways to capture the world beyond our planet
We will be outside as much as possible and will utilize the indoor classroom behind the Whipple House only in the event of rain.
