Great local Summer Pottery camp for kids! Hello All! Pottery camp moves back to my home studio in Mt Baker this year. Pottery camp appeals to kids of all ages, starting from kindergarten on up through middle school. Basic info: • Summer Pottery Camps are a full week long, 10 am-3 pm daily. (Spring break camp is a shorter day.) • We do clay in the mornings, eat lunch, then go down to the beach (Mt Baker beach, lifeguarded.) Or play in nearby Mt Baker park in the afternoon. Its a very active day. • I have a full time assistant, a dynamite high school senior, Rosemary Cole. Shes experienced, shes awesome and shes really fun too. • I have a trampoline, kids bounce under strict supervision and I only allow safe bouncing. Your choice, of course. What Im about: I teach artmaking and creativity through clay. Kids roll out their own clay slabs on a big slab roller, they learn actual handbuilding by making the project. Theyre given plenty of time to explore their own ideas as they learn to work with clay. The atmosphere encourages immersion and creation from their flow of images and ideas. As an artist and a teacher, Im actually interested in accessing imaginations. I see the imagination as a muscle worth developing. Being free with ones creative self is liberating. It feels good! Being with kids making art is always amazing and fun for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spring Break Camp: Woven Baskets and Things of Spring Roll out slabs, cut into strips; artfully woven strips of clay over a mold creates a basket! Food safe for fruit or dinner rolls, but the art is in all the things of spring well make to place inside. Bunnies, eggs, perhaps tiny rocket ships. Wherever our imagination takes us. This is our Spring Celebration Basket of Good Spring Things! dates: April 14-18 hours: 10 am-12:30 pm. Bring lunch. cost: $245. ********************************************** Session 1: Summer camps: Teapots and Vases. (this camp is better for age 10 and up through middle school. Hands are big enough to shape a teapot. See Miniature Teapots Session 6 for smaller hands.) We will slab build a lively teapot and cylindrical vases that hold water. I teach the kids majolica glazing, very colorful and bright, and food safe. dates: June 23-27 hours: 10 am - 3 pm daily cost: $325. *************************************** Session 2: Treasure Island/ Birdbath. This camp is fun, the kids will create an imaginative treasure island. Palm trees, coconuts, treasure chests, the whole works. Separately but related they will create an ocean/basin that holds water. Set outdoors and filled with fresh water daily, the birds will fly in and flutter about bathing themselves! dates: June 30-July 4 hours: 10 am - 3pm M-F. cost $325. ********************************************* Session 3: Sun and Moon yard art on poles We will make the twin lights in the sky, the Sun disk we see in the daytime and the reflective Moon we see at night. They will have faces most likely! Ill talk a little about reflected light and how cool that is. The pieces will have clay sleeves on their back to receive a copper pole, they can be planted in the garden as art. Who knows, a few more men on the moon may sneak in there... dates: July 7-July 11 hours: 10 am-3 pm daily cost: $325 + $15 for copper poles. ********************************************* Session 4: Fairy Castle/Alien Spaceship. This camp will be about building structures from slabs of clay, I hook up structure-making with their imaginations. We will see what magic they come up with. Robot making welcome. dates: July 14-July 18 hours: 10 am - 3 pm cost: $325. ********************************************** Session 5: Boats and Vessels, Floating Things Its summer, there are boats everywhere on the lake, and its possible to make clay boats that float. We will do that, and experiment with shapes. This encourages emergence of latent shipbuilding talent. Boats are a beautiful form of sculpture. This could be called Boat Sculpture Week. It might be Shark Week on television, too. We may get some shark boats. One can hope. dates: Aug 4-8 hours: 10-3 daily cost: $325. ********************************************* Session 6: Miniature Teapots and Teacups Formed around small molds, kids will slab build small teapots about the size of a softball, complete with a nice handle. They will pour and be fully functional. There is something about teapots thats just so cozy. Its even cozy to make them. And well make small tea mugs to fill out our tea set. dates: Aug 11-15 hours: 10-3 daily cost: $325. *********************************** Session 7: Sculptural Desk Lamps Kids will extrude or build thick walled forms, carve them, and build a lamp base. We will glaze the base, then cut the long bolt thats the central shaft that holds the socket and bulb. And top it with a small lampshade. It will be lively and artful, probably colorful and interesting looking. This is a new project, hopefully leading to many creative illuminating projects. Haha. dates: Aug 18-22 hours: 10-3 daily cost: $325. + $20. lamp parts. *********************************************************************** Session 8: Harvest Season Serving Platter and Little Dishes To Go With Kids will form an oval platter large enough for a roast chicken and vegetables, plus several small dishes for condiments. I will introduce a harvest theme for glaze painting. And then, let them deviate and create their own design. Its pretty fun to bring home a platter and dishes that can be used by the family. All ware will be food and dishwasher safe. Dates: August 25-28 hours: 10-3 M-Th, no class Friday of Labor Day Weekend. cost: $285. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Fine Print: Bring every day: •lunch, swimsuit, towel, sunscreen. Money for ice cream treats if you can spare it. (see below) The weather often turns nice at noon when the day starts out cloudy in the morning. Hint: the kids LOVE to buy an ice cream from one of the many ice cream trucks that frequent the neighborhood in the summer. •Send along a dollar or two every day if you dont mind. We help manage cash for the younger set. To sign up: •Email and tell me your childs name, age, and which camp(s) you want. •Then send me a check in full. Address below. I will hold the check or deposit it. Tell me which with the check. The check holds your childs spot in the camp, not being on the list. Cancellation policy: I will return your check minus $25. within three weeks notice prior to camps start date. If its one to three weeks notice, I will return half. Less than a week, Im sorry, no refund. I dont pro rate for days missed: If your child comes down sick or if your child can only attend some of the days of the camp. There are limited spots in each camp (10). When I receive your check, I give your child one of the spots and may have turned away another child. Thank you for your understanding. My address is: Syd Shera 2818-33rd Ave S, Seattle, 98144. phone: 206.250.0988 Name and age of your child:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Which sessions:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your name and contact info: email if I dont have it, and daytime phone:________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ****************************************************************************************************************************************** Of course call me if you have any questions. Come meet me and see the studio before you send your child to my camps! 206.250.0988. / lakshmistudios206@gmail Thanks, and see you this summer!
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:53:55 +0000
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