June 8-12

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ages 7 - 12

Explore light, color, composition, and narrative through a variety of photographic and drawing-based activities. Led by artists and educators Brooke Rowen and Jonah Radeke, campers will learn about the history of moving images and collaborate to tell their own story through art making.

Location: Paradise Ridge Retreat

June 15-19

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ages 8 - 12

Students will join local artist Brooke Rowen in exploring the principles of value, texture, color, and composition to learn how to depict vibrant scenes in nature, from vast landscape paintings to up-close drawings of the flora and fauna that make up the ecosystem around them. Utilizing a variety of mediums such as watercolor, pencils, ink, paint markers, and collage, students will focus on how different aspects of nature may be depicted depending on choices made throughout the creative problem solving process.

Location: Paradise Ridge Retreat

June 22-26

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ages 5 - 11

What can we do with a pile of dirt? While playing around with local clay rich dirt, we will discover how we can combine the sticks, rocks, and materials around us to build structures, sculpt creatures, and combine our imagination with the earth. We will tune into our environment and think about where our materials come from and how they interact with the ecosystem around them. 

Location: Paradise Ridge Retreat

June 22-26

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Ages 5 - 11

Splash into creativity at our watercolor-themed art camp! Young artists will explore fun techniques like blending, layering, color mixing, and texture while creating vibrant art inspired by nature, animals, and imagination. 

This camp builds confidence, creativity, and a love of art in a supportive setting. All materials included — just bring your imagination! 

Location: Moscow Contemporary Art Ed Classroom & 3 day’s at Raven Hammer Studio

July 20-24

9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Ages 7 - 11

(Younger dancers who’ve danced with Corrie before are welcome to join)

Join us for a week of moving, making and exploring in Moscow’s adventure-playland. Strengthen your body and your senses and learn amazing ways animals use theirs: what if you could taste with your feet like a butterfly? What if you could see like a deer?

You’ll be guided by Corrie Befort, internationally performing dancer/choreographer, inclusivity-focused teacher, intermedia artist, wilderness backpacker and local mom.

July 20-24

1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Ages 8 - 12

During this week-long hand-building clay camp, creativity will be on the menu! Campers will explore a variety of beginning hand-building techniques with delicious food inspired art as the focus. Additionally, campers will explore the basics of Silkscreen Printmaking using cut  stencils to create a two layer multi-colored image that is related to one of their clay  projects.

Location: Moscow Contemporary Art Ed Classroom

August 10-14

1:30pm-5:30pm

Ages 12 - 16

Joining local artist Brooke Rowen, students will learn how to manipulate extreme colors and understand color theory while utilizing techniques such as hue shifting, stylization, and establishing colored value scales to create dynamic, eye-catching illustrations with a mix of paint markers, colored pencils, and screen printing. Students will also explore the background and key contributors of related artistic movements as they apply many techniques found in Pop Art, Fauvism, and Abstract Colorism.

August 17-21

Time: 1:00 - 5:00 pm

Ages 5 - 11

Explore the building blocks of art with legos. We will explore sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, clay, cyanotypes, and printmaking using LEGOs as our foundation.

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