2024 Summer Arts for Teens Is Here!!!
CHELTENHAM CENTER FOR THE ARTS SUMMER ARTS FOR TEENS are specially designed for teens ages 13-17, who enjoy activities in the visual arts. Our programs give teens the chance to develop creative skills for self-expression by focusing on a single subject at a time. We encourage teens to explore the many ways to solve problems and think outside the box. A carefully planned program provides teens with a varied schedule that maintains a high level of interest and fun.
2024 Summer Arts for Teens:
Wheel Throwing for Teens: 8 weeks
- Teacher: Devin Brown
- Ages 13-17
- Thursday, 4-6pm
- Dates: 6/27 - 8/22, no class on 7/4
- Tuition: $175 (clay and firing fee included)
This 8 week class teaches the basics of wheel throwing to form cylinders, bowls and vases using the potter’s wheel. We will explore decorative glaze techniques to enhance finished surfaces. Beginners welcome, no experience necessary. Clay and firing fee included.
Watercolor Landscapes - 6 weeks
- Teacher: Nicole Patrice Dul
- Ages 13-17
- Tuesdays, 4-6pm
- Dates: 7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, and 8/6
- Tuition: $180 (see below for materials needed)
Watercolor landscape journaling is a fantastic way to convey the essence of a location. In this class, you will learn how to plan, draw, and paint landscapes. You will discover why creating pencil sketches with value and composition in advance of using paintbrushes is so important. Easy perspective, identifying forms and values, color blending and overlapping, brush handling, wet-into-wet painting, dry brush painting, masking, and textural painting will all be covered in creative journal lessons. The relationships between colors and how to best utilize watercolor's surprising effects for landscape painting will be emphasized. Around us, there is no lack of inspiration. After a few sessions, we will gather our materials and draw and paint outside, weather allowing, since real natural scenery provides the best instruction we can obtain. This class is for young artists who wish to develop their creativity and learn how to take inspiration from their surroundings. Click HERE for materials list.
Illustrated Journaling: Playful Pattern Design - 4 weeks
- Teacher: Nicole Patrice Dul
- Ages 13-17
- Mondays, 4-6pm
- Dates: 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29
- Tuition: $125 (see below for materials needed)
Have you ever wondered how to create unique, expressive hand-painted patterns? This class will introduce you to the world of pattern design through draw-and-paint journaling. The pattern illustrator imagines and develops patterns that are applied to fabric, tiles, wallpaper, and other products that call for decoration. This fun course shows you where to look for inspiration for your very own pattern designs by capturing and blending elements of everyday life, whether found in nature, print, or digital media, from cherished personal items or historical treasures. You will acquire the skills necessary to create effective design blocks, comprehend seamless patterns, and use gridded and step-and-repeat styles. Acrylic, gouache, and watercolor paints in a range of hues are used to create patterns. We'll investigate color mixing, flat opaque painting, and texturing. Young artists will gain an understanding of product surface design and produce exquisite design pages in their own surface pattern idea book for art inspiration. Click HERE for materials list.
Want some more Summer fun? Consider applying patterns created in this class to a project in the Design Your Own T-shirt class.
Stitch Into Print: 4 weeks
- Teacher: Nicole Patrice Dul
- Ages 13-17
- Wednesdays, 1-4pm
- Dates: 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31
- Tuition: $185 (Specialized materials included)
This engaging class will show you how to use your own distinctive designs to create unique contemporary artworks on paper by combining various print and embroidery stitching techniques. After a series of demonstrations and with hands-on instruction, you will experiment with different printmaking processes, including monotype, dry point, linocut, and image-transfer techniques. Once you've created some exciting print works, you will engage in a sequence of guided embroidered stitch-on-paper exercises and then creatively apply embroidery stitching to add dimension to your art. All skill levels are welcome.
Natural Dyeing Using Seasonal Plants and Indigo, Teens and Adults: 4 weeks
- Teacher: Megan Raab Greenholt
- Ages 13 thru Adult
- Wednesdays, 9:30am-12:00pm
- Dates: 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31
- Tuition: $170 (Specialized materials included)
In this natural dye mini series you will explore indigo vat dyeing, shibori techniques, botanical printing, and Hapa -zome to create many sample designs on cotton fabric. An indigo vat and seasonal plants provided or from your garden will provide a range of natural colors and shapes for our patterns. During the final class we will use our finished pieces to make a hand-sewn fabric collage pouch.
Design Your Own T-shirt: Printmaking and Surface Design on Fabric: 4 weeks
- Teacher: Megan Raab Greenholt
- Ages 13-17
- Wednesdays, 4-6pm
- Dates: 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28
- Tuition: $125 (Specialized materials included)
In this hands-on studio experience students will discover screen printing techniques to create surface design patterns on cotton cloth using a colorful palette of water soluble fabric dyes. Each student will take home their own printed t-shirt and 2 yards of printed fabric to use in future projects.
Want some ideas for your t-shirt designs? Consider taking the Playful Pattern Design class first and using the design in this class!
Teen Drawing Intensive - 1 week
- Teacher: Chris Windle
- Ages 13-17
- M-F, 9:30am-12pm
- Dates: 7/22-7/26, M-F
- Tuition: $185 - Click here for materials list
There are a few well known bed rock principles in drawing: Line, Form, Light, Movement, Balance, Composition, Dimension, Perspective etc. Any student of drawing will come to understand these, either by discovery or instruction. This Intensive will address all these principles . The important matter with instruction, though, is that it must allow for discovery. This is true regardless of the student's age: It must be exciting, novel, and even fun. If the student can see the difference that the inclusion, or omission of these "laws" can make, the results can leave an indelible impression. I intend to have some fun with this class! It'll be energized, I hope, but very instructive - Chris Windle
Prepare to have fun, be challenged, and get messy!
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