Session 1: June 26 - July 7
Session 2: July 10 - July 21
Session 3: July 24 - August 4
Session 4: August 7 - August 11
Paint yourself a picture of a summer camp filled with amazing art work. This camp teaches age-specific art techniques, styles, and mediums using individual and small-group instruction. Whether you’re a beginning artist or already familiar with many techniques, this camp will offer you new and exciting ways to express your artistic vision.
Curriculum Areas Include
The Hofstra Summer Camps cartooning workshop allows experienced cartoonists as well as those who are new to cartooning to learn the process from creation to publication. Campers create their own characters, write and draw their own stories, and create color comics for the Web. Culminating project is a class comic book.
Students will learn the basics of creating large format artwork and how to plan design and execute murals using a variety of mediums.
Projects will vary in approach, from spontaneous drawing to fully realized murals on paper or board using pencil, markers, paints and collage techniques.
Students will be encouraged to experiment with materials before applying them to their finished work and will also learn how to create scale drawings for their mural as a planning tool before starting on the full size work. Imagination, composition, and collaboration will be emphasized and encouraged.
Sessions 1-3 Schedule: For campers entering 2-5 grade your morning will be in the program that you choose and the afternoon will be in a recreation group of 8-10 campers of the same grade and gender where all campers enjoy lunch, instructional swim and recreational sports. For campers entering 6-10 grade your morning will be in a recreation group of 8-10 campers of the same grade and gender where all campers enjoy lunch, instructional swim and recreational sports, and your afternoon will be in the program that you choose.
Session 4 Schedule: This is a full day program spent in the program of your choice.