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Spring Break Camp: Exploring Clay (Ages 6-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn hand-building techniques as you pinch, coil, and mold projects inspired by superheroes. Some ceramic projects include a secret lair, home planet, or trusty side-kick. Ceramics projects will be ready for pick up approximately 2 weeks after camp. Caregivers will be contacted via email when projects are ready.
Create a Graphic Novel (Ages 9-13)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Spring Break Camp: Create a Graphic Novel (Ages 9-13) Create your own short comic book. Learn some techniques professional cartoonists use to make the graphic novels you love to read. Explore character design, panel layout, and inking to bring your story to life!
Games & Movement Camp: Exploring Clay (Ages 6-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Join us for an action-packed week of artmaking as we create artwork exploring movement and games! Campers, aged 6-8 will create kinetic sculptures, animated flip-books, and design their own board game. Our 4-5 year-old campers will create action paintings, bird sculptures, and other dynamic projects. Afternoon campers will create ceramic windchimes and make their own chess or other game pieces. Get ready to move, make, and play!...
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Mixed-Media: Good Enough to Eat Camp (Ages 5-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
These projects look almost good enough to eat! Create your very own works of art inspired by your favorite meals. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting ID, to join the class at least 1 day before the start of the class. Review the supply list posted. Students are responsible for purchasing all necessary...
Exploring Clay: Good Enough to Eat Camp (Ages 6-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
These projects are almost good enough to eat! For 6-8 campers, some of your projects include your very own papier maché junk food sculpture, rainbow cake color wheel painting, and Arcimboldo inspired food portrait. 4-5 campers will make salt dough stars, model magic food sculptures, vegetable prints, and food coloring marble paper. Afternoon ceramics campers will create their own clay cupcakes with frosting lids, and other delicious projects! ...
That's Greek to Me: Mixed Media (Ages 6-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Dig into history as we create art inspired by the lives and achievements of the past with our own modern-day twists. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting ID, to join the class at least 1 day before the start of the class. Review the supply list posted. Students are responsible for purchasing...
That's Greek to Me: Exploring Clay (Ages 6-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Dig into history as we create art inspired by the lives and achievements of the past with our own modern-day twists. Create Greek-inspired clay carvings, your own aboriginal dream-painting, Chinese ink drawings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Inca pyramid. Afternoon campers will learn about ancient pottery and ceramics while constructing their own clay artifacts.
Mixed-Media: Tell Me a Story! Camp (Ages 5-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Visual art is another way to tell a story. After reviewing beloved books with words and pictures, we’ll examine visual works of art to understand the story the author is trying to share and then create our own! This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting ID, to join the class at least 1 day before the start...
3D Modeling and Printing Objects Camp (Ages 12-14)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn how to print your own small objects with the use of design software to 3D print small designs using the free modeling program Tinkercard. We will individually explore ways in which you can create and print your own objects--the possibilities are endless! Campers must have access to a computer with internet access. The instructor will coordinate with campers to print their 3D designs. Caregivers will be contacted when the designs are printed...
Laser Engraving & Design Camp (Ages 12-14)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Combine art and technology to create uniquely designed projects on our laser engraver. Laser engraving takes advantage of a high-power laser to etch the surface and cut through a variety of materials. Learn how to use the laser engraver, design and prepare files for print, and have the opportunity to cut, etch and engrave your designs onto wood and cardboard. We’ll cover a variety of 2D and 3D software that will let the students create a variety...
Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles: Mixed Media (Ages 5-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Creepy, crawly, cool! Explore the miniature world around us as we make art about our small,many-legged friends. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting ID, to join the class at least 1 day before the start of the class. Review the supply list posted. Students are responsible for purchasing all necessary...
Laser Engraving & Design Camp (Ages 9-11)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Combine art and technology to create uniquely designed projects on our laser engraver. Laser engraving takes advantage of a high-power laser to etch the surface and cut through a variety of materials. Learn how to use the laser engraver, design and prepare files for print, and have the opportunity to cut, etch and engrave your designs onto wood and cardboard. We’ll cover a variety of 2D and 3D software that will let the students create...
Earth Week: Mixed Media (Ages 5-8)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Instead of an Earth Day, let’s make it an Earth Week! We’ll focus on the environment as we make works of art inspired by, and made from natural or recycled materials. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting ID, to join the class at least 1 day before the start of the class. Review the supply...
Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Ages 12-14)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
This camp introduces campers to the techniques which will allow them to draw what they see! Whether it’s landscapes, still lifes, photos, or figures, campers will develop fundamental drawing skills and techniques in a variety of mediums such as charcoal, pencil, pen, ink, and pastel. All levels are welcome!
2D Expressions (Ages 9-11)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Explore both traditional and non-traditional ways of 2D art-making. Students will practice drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage techniques while learning new ways to work with a variety of mediums.
Digital Illustration (Ages 14-18)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Students will learn the full range of digital painting and drawing techniques available in Adobe Photoshop, including building multi-layered documents, working with transparency and scaling, image manipulation, color filters, working with custom brushes, drawing and painting direct to digital using a tablet, integrating type elements, and much more. Your imagination is the only limit with this incredible technology!
Coil Vases & Planters (Ages 14-18)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Using coils, students will learn to construct symmetrical and a-symetrical forms to create vases, planters or sculptural objects. By the end of the course, students will have 2-3 medium to large vessels they can decide to become vases, planters, bowl or sculptural objects. Students are encouraged to apply surface design techniques such as sgraffito, carving or additive objects to expand on the form.
Darkroom to Digital Photography (Ages 9-13)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
This has been designed as an introductory photo class for younger kids, 12-14 years. Students who are curious about the world of photography will be introduced to mainly analog, and some digital photographic methods. This includes printing in the darkroom, shooting film, simple digital editing, and much more! Kids will take home images from the various processes we will engage with, such as cyanotypes and pinhole cameras.
Intro to Procreate (Ages 13-17)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
This introductory course of Procreate students learn all the tools and features the app has to offer, along with how to use them to unlock many design possibilities. Students will learn to maximize their creativity and flexibility with layers, experiment with transparency and blend modes, and work with shapes and guides. The Instructor will show techniques, and tips needed to create your own digital art, graphics, lettering and how to recolor...
Intro to Animation (Ages 14-18)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Intro to Animation is a beginner course to frame by frame drawing for Animation. Over the course of this session, we will explore and practice the 12 Principles of Animation using digital drawing tablets in Procreate. Students will have a new understanding of drawings in motion with the tools to bring their artwork and characters to life!
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