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Ages 4 – 14
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Wearable Art (SB)
Grades 2–6
July 7–11, a.m. session
$145
Create and display your unique fashion style! Tie dye, batik and beading are just a few of the media explored as we make wearable art masterpieces.
Camp Art (SB)
Grades 2–6
July 28–Aug. 1, p.m. session
$145
Does your camper love the arts & crafts session of camp the most? Then let them experience a camp that offers the best of traditional day-camp art — lanyards bead animals, tie dye and more!
Jewelry Making (SB)
Grades 2–6
June 30–July 3 p.m. session
$120
Create your own personal style. Learn to design your own earnings, bracelets, necklaces, key chains and more in this ultimatecraft class. Once you learn to create a design using elements of patterns with color, shape and texture, you’ll be hooked on wearing and using your own creations!
Digital Photography (SB)
Grades 2–5
June 23–27, p.m. session
July 21–25, a.m. session
$145
Learn the creative and technical aspects of digital photography including image capture, downloading, editing and burning pictures to a CD or DVD and more. Students need to bring their own digital camera to this class.
Cooking (SB)
Grades 2–6
June 16–20, p.m. session
July 14–18, a.m. session
$145
Mix, bake, boil — imagine all of the tasty things you can cook. In this hands-on program, students cook up a storm while learning kitchen safety, nutrition and cooking techniques.
Go Green (SB)
Grade 1–6
July 28–Aug. 1, p.m. session
$145
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Learn and do fun projects and activities to help you go green at home and at school. The week long camp also includes a recycled art project and composting.
Knitting (SB)
Grades 3–6, July 14–18, p.m. session
Grades 6–9, July 7–11, p.m. session
$145
Learn to knit or improve your current skill level! From casting on to making holes in your knitting (on purpose) this camp offers something for the beginner to the more advanced knitter. Knit a critter, a mitten or a scarf. Each student receives a pair of knitting needles and a skein of yarn.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (SB)
Grades 2–6
July 21–25, p.m. session
$145
Get up close to trains, planes or automobiles by building a model in this fun yet educational program.We provide the supplies; you provide the creativity! Campers choose between a plastic non-assembled plane, train or car.
Smart-Girl (SB)
Grades 7–8, July 7–18 & July 21–Aug. 1, 9–12:30 p.m.
Grade 9, July 7–18 & July 21–Aug. 1, 1–5 p.m.
Grade 10, July 21–Aug. 1, 9–12:30 p.m.
Grade 11, July 21–Aug. 1, 1–5 p.m.
$280
Smart-Girl is a fun, activity-based program that inspires middle school girls to become confident, capable, self-reliant young women. The unique strength of the Smart-Girl program is utilizing the power of positive peer influence by pairing highly trained older teens with groups of middle school girls. The older teen group leaders (called Guides) are carefully selected and trained mentors who facilitate discussions and activities amidst lots of glitter and giggles. Smart-Girl empowers girls to develop leadership ability, group and social skills, problem solving and critical thinking skills, self-worth, empowerment and more. At a time when middle school girls begin to ignore the advice from parents and teachers, they are at greatest need for guidance with issues like peer pressure, bullying, self worth and body image. Smart-Girl’s discussion topics and activities enable girls to address these issues in a fun, safe and highly interactive environment.
Beginner/Intermediate Chess (SB)
Grades 2–8
June 30–July 3, p.m. session (no camp 7/4)
$180
This camp is designed for kids who are familiar with chess fundamentals, have played the game before, and even for those who have had some chess training. Developing a greater understanding of game strategies is the focus of this camp.
eyePublishing (SB)
Grades 2–6
July 28–Aug. 1, a.m. session
$200
Everyone has a story and no two are alike. Reflect, create and have fun as you put together a scrapbook that defines who you are. Learn scrapbooking techniques including cropping, backing, rounding corners, punching, stamping and more as you celebrate your personal legend. Please bring your photos, mementos and creativity!
Hebrew (SB)
Grades 1–6
June 23–27, a.m. session
$145
Hebrew camp is designed to provide an interactive and experiential exposure to modern Hebrew as well as the version spoken in Israel today. Learn and practice through fun activities —play games, make crafts, learn about holidays and places far away. Gather your friends together and sign-up together for Jewish fun and learning!
Yoga (SB)
Grades 1–5
July 28–Aug. 1, a.m. session
$145
From classic yoga poses to pretending you are a tree or frog, kids of all ages will love the chance to experience a yoga camp just for them. This class is an uplifting, non-competitive and fun way for kids to build strength, spirit and self esteem.
Children’s Technology Workshop icamp™ (SB)
Grades 2–8
June 16–20
June 23–27
June 30–July 3
July 7–11
July 14–18
July 21–25
July 28–Aug. 1
$395/full day 9 a.m.–4 p.m.; $230/half day 9 a.m.–noon or 1–4 p.m.
CTWorkshop icamp provides children in grades 2–8 with the chance to author their own day camp experience. Engaging in totally interactive applied technology adventures participants explore the worlds of robotics, animation, digital video production, digital art and video game design. On the first day of camp, children select 3–6 projects that they will complete during their session from 10 theme-based adventures: Animation Alive, Expedition Egypt, Fashion Designer, Mission to Mars,Medieval, Architect, Olympics, Team F1, Rescue and Gamemaker Guru. Our highly trained adventure guides help children to select programs that suit their age, area of interest and skill level to maximize the fun and the thrill of success. Most importantly, icamp enables children to enhance their awesome, natural creative abilities through a hands-on, high tech science and technology program.
Explore. Invent. Create. Register for the icamp experience!
For more information please feel free to contact Denver's Regional Director, David Singer at david@ctworkshop.net or (303) 709-5454, or Josh Lake, site director,
at (720) 449-9558.
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Mizel Arts & Culture Center (MACC)
Art Offerings at the DCJE
Grades 7–12
June 16–20, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
$395
Film has become the central storytelling medium of our times, and will only become more powerful and prevalent in the future. Students learn how to look at film with a critical eye before the hands-on action begins. Participants work in small groups using video cameras to investigate the idea of shooting for meaning. Enrollment is limited to 12 students, so sign up now to reserve your space.
The Art of Glass
Grades 7–12
June 23–27, a.m. session
$160
Explore forms of glass art by using the medium in different ways. Learn how glass is made, the materials and techniques used to fuse glass and how to work safely with these materials. Complete two projects using glass fusion, one mosaic project and one project using a variety of glass painting techniques.
Printmaking
Grades 7–12
June 23–27, p.m. session
$160
Printmaking has a long history as an expressive medium, and it is a general term embracing a wide variety of techniques for creating images. Students learn some of the history of printmaking, and study works by Andy Warhol, M.C. Escher, and Colorado’s own Joellyn Duesberry. Studio work includes monotypes, etchings, mixed media printmaking and collographs.
Women Who Inspire
Grades 7–12
June 30–July 3, a.m. session
$115
We look at some of the truly inspirational women of the 20th century. Study the portraits of Frida Kahlo, the nature paintings of Georgia O’Keefe and collages by Helen Frankenthaler. Create your own works inspired by these amazing women artists.
The Cutting Edge: Christo and Jean Claude
Grades 7–12
June 30–July 3, p.m. session
$115
Christo and Jean Claude are renowned for their outdoor work created around the world. Whether wrapping buildings or mountains, as in some of their earliest works, through Valley Curtain (Rifle, CO, 1972) and The Gates (Central Park, NY, 2005), to the proposed Over the River (Arkansas River, CO), this couple has redefined how we see art. Build a structure of your own to drape and wrap with fabric, reflecting the larger than life work created by this dynamic duo.
Oil Painting
Grades 7–12
July 7–11, a.m. session
$160
We take a brief look at examples of oil painting from history and consider how their qualities differ from more recently produced paintings in acrylic. Projects focus on traditional subjects and representational depictions of still life objects, environments and figures — using a variety of techniques such as glazing, scumbling, underpainting and blending to produce the appearance of depth and volume.
Mixed Media and Metals
Grades 7–12
July 7–11, p.m. session
$160
Learn about incorporating metal and metallic media within mixed media projects. Students create projects using small pieces of copper, gold leafing, metal wire, metallic powders and paints in combination with other media. Low-relief and fully three-dimensional applications is introduced.
Art and the Environment
Grades 7–12
July 14–18, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
$300
As global warming is on our minds,we turn our attention to artists who use the outside environment as their primary materials. Andy Goldsworthy is best known for his temporary and permanent site-specific sculptural installations.His art uses natural and found objects such as flowers, pinecones, twigs and icicles to make powerful environmental statements. Christo and Jean Claude work within the natural and man-made environment.Whether wrapping buildings and mountains, curtaining valleys or stretching umbrellas across the landscape, their vision is never less than monumental. Use the environment at the DCJE, along the Highline Canal, to create a powerful installation.
Hand-Drawn Animation Skills
Grades 7–12
July 21–25, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
$330
Experience a fun and challenging week of learning the skills of handdrawn animation. Learn increasingly challenging exercises including a bouncing ball, magical transformations, animal motion and human motion. Collage techniques, cell animation and special effects make up the advanced skills students can reach by the end of the week. Sharpen your pencils and get ready to draw movement!
Comics and Visual Storytelling
Grades 7–12
July 28–Aug. 1, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
$300
Unleash the visual storyteller in you through comics. Local professional cartoonist Stan Yan guides students through the process of creating a visual story, walking you through scripting, character design, penciling, inking, layout and assembly of a comic book. In this intensive course, students learn tips for effective visual storytelling, and walk out of class with their own completed mini comic book, the secret promotional tool for every aspiring comic book creator. Topics include the history of the comic book medium, and methods for conceiving and creating comic stories.
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