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ART CAMPS FOR YOUTH MCBA and other Twin Cities arts and cultural organizations are partnering to offer week-long day camps (full-day and half-day options) that give your child the opportunities to expand their creativity and explore many different art forms hands-on! Shortcut links: These camps and classes are designed for youth to attend independently; for workshops where kids and their parents, grandparents or adult guardians work side-by-side, please visit our Family Workshops page.
Culture Camp 2013 Become a modern-day Renaissance kid! Explore the worlds of theatre, printmaking, dance, puppetry and book arts at five leading arts organizations. Spend a day at each center: Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), the Children's Theatre Company (CTC), In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT), Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and Zenon Dance School. Work with artist-instructors at each site to create hands-on projects, performances, and more! Friends and family are invited to a presentation at each location each day at 2:45. Participants must provide their own transportation to each institution and bring a bag lunch each day. Summer 2013 Themes: Note: Each age group will meet at a different location each day of camp and will rotate to each organization throughout the week. If your child has a sibling or friends in a different age group, but you would like them to attend together, please contact Lucy Hawthorne at 612-215-2549 or lhawthorne@mnbookarts.org. Culture Camp may be able to accommodate some special requests. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. To receive a scholarship application, contact Lucy Hawthorne (see above). When registering: please include your child's name and age in the appropriate text field. In the "Additional information" field, please include any information that will help us serve your child better (food allergies, special needs / accommodations, etc.).
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Feed your child's creative appetite with five days at the Five Centers for Art: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Northern Clay Center, Textile Center, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and IFP MN Center for Media Arts. Participants will learn exciting art-making techniques from professional artists, and experiment with a variety of disciplines including printmaking, textile dyeing/weaving, photography, pottery, handmade paper and books.
Five Centers for Art: No Business Like Show Business The music, the make-up, the scenery, the props! Explore all the different types of art that go into the making of theatre. Spend one day at each art center working hands-on to create your own artwork! $295 ($275 for current members of any of the participating centers)
Five Centers for Art: Down By The River Learn all about ecosystems and celebrate the beauty of nature! Spend one day at each art center, stretching your creativity and exploring all sorts of hands-on artmaking. $295 ($275 for current members of any of the participating centers)
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It’s time to build creativity! Play music, create stories, build books and bake bread all while exploring how the riverfront district was built, rebuilt and is now a rich cultural area. Arts on the River Camp offers children a new experience each day to build their own creativity at four top arts centers, including the Guthrie Theater, Mill City Museum, Minnesota Center for Book Arts and MacPhail Center for Music. Campers will start each day at Mill City Museum and walk with camp leaders, less than three blocks, to each art organization. Call 612-341-7556 with any questions. Arts on the River Camp 2013 $250 ($225 for current members of any of the participating centers)
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Writing and Book Arts Combo Camps Explore the worlds of writing and bookmaking in these fun combo classes! Please pack a snack everyday as students will take a 15-minute break between the writing and bookmaking workshops. Low-income discounts may be available; more details are available at the Loft's website.
Silly Stories Silly stories are fun to read and fun to write. As a class, we’ll read stories including No, David! and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and discuss what the authors do to make their works funny. Students will use these silly stories as a model for their own writing. We will focus on creativity and students will be encouraged to write and draw regardless of ability level. The goal is to foster a love for writing while having fun with literature. After spending time in class reading and writing, students will head down to Minnesota Center for Book Arts, where the newly created silly stories will be turned into real books! Join a book art instructor to explore pop-up bookmaking, silly printing, and paper pulp painting to create one-of-a-kind paper! $262.50 ($236.25 MCBA or Loft members)
What a Character
$262.50 ($236.25 MCBA or Loft members)
Fairy Tales, Myths, and Book Making In this class, we’ll explore the timeless territory of fairy tales and myths. We will record the hair-raising adventures of a main character, the hero, who sets out on a magical journey to save a troubled kingdom and encounters a myriad of animals, villains, and mystical beings in the process. After inventing our own setting, characters, and plot, students will then work with MCBA to bring their stories to life in a pop-up book, with handmade marbled paper, and printed in the printmaking studio! $262.50 ($236.25 MCBA or Loft members)
Making Comics Learn the building blocks of comics: from idea to bookmaking. Starting with making their own characters, students will then learn how to put the characters into a story, followed by lessons on how to use panels and text to support their story. At the end of the week, students will have a variety of finished projects, including their own printed mini-comic from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The price of this class includes all MCBA studio time and comic book making materials. $525 ($472.50 MCBA or Loft members)
Paleopoetry Dig dinosaurs? Dig poetry? We’d love to have you on our excavation team! Students in this class will become Poetic Paleontologists -- that is, they will uncover the prehistoric world of dinosaurs using creative writing as their primary means of excavation. We'll learn how to observe and describe fossils and other materials that we discover in the natural world using descriptive language, and then we'll learn about dinosaurs from reading books like Hudson Talbott’s We’re Back!: A Dinosaur’s Story. With our newfound knowledge of dinosaurs in mind, students will then go on a paleontological dig of their own, excavating words to build their own found poetry "dinosaurs". Our friends at Minnesota Center for Book Arts will help us create our own hand-made book -- the perfect place for all the dino-poetry -- and we'll express our creative vision with dino-inspired pressure printing, and enjoy making dinosaur-shaped handmade paper. $262.50 ($236.25 MCBA or Loft members)
Keeping a Creative Writer's Journal Journals are places where we get to practice our writing, and they are also where we discover our opinions, views, and moods. In this class, we will learn some basics of writing practice, but most of all, we will learn how to look and express what we experience, inside and outside, in writing. We will get ourselves writing with free writing, working from drawings and photographs, and take home exercises to "collect perceptions" of places both familiar and new. Since journals are often spaces where writing practice happens before poems and stories take shape, we, too, will extend our experiences and how we express them into poems and stories. By the end of the class, each student will have completed a poem, a short story, and a piece of nonfiction based on things that they experience every day. No sharing is compulsory -- this is mostly writing for one's self, though we will discuss established authors' work. Students will also work in MCBA's studio space and papermaking studios with artist's tools and printing equipment to create a journal with beautiful handmade paper. $262.50 ($236.25 MCBA or Loft members)
It's All About Me Who says being selfish is a bad thing? If you want to get to know yourself better and create your very own book of you, then hurry and sign up for this class. We’ll use fun writing exercises to help you tell your own story of who you are and what you think, feel, and dream. We’ll show you how to use your writing and other materials to create a beautiful book, with you as the main character! This is a hands-on class that provides quirky writing prompts to get you thinking about yourself in a new way. At MCBA, you will work with a book arts instructor to learn different journal binding techniques. You will also create personalized paper in our paper making studio and work in our printing studio to design a pressure print that is uniquely you! $262.50 ($236.25 MCBA or Loft members)
Making Comics Combining bookmaking techniques from MCBA, students will learn the fundamentals of the sequential art of comic books. Beginning at the conceptual stage, students will develop their own unique characters and story, followed by breakdowns on panels, text, and pace and timing, resulting in a finalized mini-comic. Along with lessons in bookmaking, students will also acquire knowledge in printing, gaining experience with the Vandercook press, large sign press, and other equipment. The price of this class includes all MCBA studio time and comic book making materials. $525 ($472.50 MCBA or Loft members)
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