Summer 2025

Advanced iPad Procreate Masterclass

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dates: June 16-20, June 23-27

Grades: 5-12

Price: $175

Instructor: Russell Marcontell/Staff

The "Advanced Procreate Masterclass: Graphic Design & Artistic Techniques" teaches professional-level digital art skills using Procreate. Key modules include:

• Sticker Design: Learn to create bold, colorful stickers with clean outlines using Procreate's brushes and layers.
• Isometric Drawings: Master the art of designing 3D shapes and scenes with geometric precision.
• Satirical Vintage Propaganda Posters: Combine classic design techniques with modern satire, focusing on typography, color theory, and layout.
• Realistic Watercolor Techniques: Replicate traditional watercolor styles with Procreate's brushes and blending tools for organic, fluid effects.
• Wood Engraving Visual Styles: Create intricate, vintage-style wood engravings with Procreate's texturing brushes.

Art Through the Ages

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Dates: June 9-13

Grades: 1-5

Price: $200

Instructor: Kelsey Boe

Join artist Kelsey Boe on a tour of a few of the biggest highlights in art history! Through great artists and their famous works, gain a new perspective on art history with engaging projects, creating masterpieces of your own!

Drawing and Painting

Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Dates: May 27-30, June 2-6, June 9-13, June 16-20, June 23-27, July 7-11, July 14-18, July 21-25, July 28-August 1, August 4-8

Grades: 1-5

Price: $200 (May 27-30: $175) (June 30-July 2: $125)

Instructor: LeAnn Hale/Staff

Each lesson will begin with drawing and finish using a variety of media such as colored pencils, charcoal, pencil, oil pastels, chalk pastels and paint. Students will learn about different artists and painting styles, how to incorporate the elements of art into each piece of work and how to properly use the artistic medium. They will complete a variety of pieces including landscape, still life, abstract and wildlife. At the end of each week there will be a pop up art show featuring their work. Students will store and bring home their work in homemade portfolios.

The week ends with a pop-up art show on Friday, 11:30-12:00.

This five-day class is perfect for the student that enjoys drawing and painting and can be taken multiple weeks.

Drawing for Teens

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dates: July 7-11

Grades: 5-12

Price: $175

Instructor: Russell Marcontell/Staff

The goal of this class is to introduce students to the visual language of drawing by utilizing the Elements and Principles of Art and Design. Students will be introduced to terms, ideas, and techniques that will further their artistic development. Elements such as mark-making, value, line, and line quality are explored. Students will participate in observational drawing, working from photographs and from life, that will create an increase in perception and awareness of their surroundings.

Students will use materials such as graphite, ink, and charcoal to create visually compelling drawings that will include still life, portraiture, and landscape.

This class is appropriate for any level of student and can be taken multiple weeks. It is also perfect for the high school student working on a portfolio for college applications.

Intro to iPad Procreate

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Dates: June 2-6, June 16-20

Grades: 3-12

Price: $200

Instructor: Russell Marcontell/Staff

Procreate is known as one of the most powerful illustration tools for a mobile device. This drawing app turns your iPad into a versatile mobile art studio packed with everything you need to create professional-level artwork. This Digital Art class will show you all the basics of working with Procreate and Zen Brush on the iPad. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to draw and paint with Procreate and Zen Brush, the digital drawing app used by both professionals and enthusiasts. Digital media is an amazing tool to incorporate into traditional media such as printmaking, painting or mixed media. Students who have taken this class often begin work in the studio on their tablet for planning pieces or they will import work into the program and add digital layers on top of it to create a mixed media piece. It is also a powerful tool to be used for school projects or creating graphic design projects. This class is perfect for beginners or students wanting to become more proficient with the app and can be taken multiple weeks.

Students must have their own iPad and iPencil with the Procreate and Zen Brush app installed.

Open Studio

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

** July 14-18: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dates: June 30-July 2, July 7-11, July 14-18 (4:30 PM - 6:30 PM), August 4-8

Grades: 4-12

Price: $175 (June 30-July 2: $125)

Instructor: Staff

This process is referred to as TAB, Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Open Studio is an art education approach that puts students at the center of learning where they will learn how to incorporate the elements of art through projects of their choosing. This class uses a large variety of traditional media such as watercolor, charcoal, graphite, and acrylic on canvas. Students are encouraged to treat the studio as their own and move beyond comfortable limits with the guidance and expertise of a professional artist/art educator.

Paper-Palooza

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Dates: July 21-25

Grades: 1-5

Price: $200

Instructor: Kelsey Boe

Paper and paper crafting are foundational in art, and this camp puts the spotlight on the underdog of art supplies-- Paper! Create UNcommon art with Kelsey Boe through collage, printmaking, paper mache, and more!

Printmaking and Bookmaking

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Dates: June 23-27, July 28 - August 1

Grades: 1-5

Price: $200

Instructor: LeAnn Hale/Staff

Using the idea of the everyday, we will create mixed media artworks involving, but not limited to, collage, printmaking, painting, and drawing. Taking simple everyday activities, images, objects, and materials we will create artworks that speak to the theme of the everyday with new and fresh perspectives. Students will learn to layer different media for an expressive depth of color, texture, transparent qualities, and transition of subject matter. Participants will learn to construct magazines of paper to be incorporated into handcrafted books with traditional sewn bindings. Experimentation is encouraged!

Superfly Comic Camp

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Dates: May 27-30, July 14-18

Grades: 1-5

Price: $200 (May 27-30: $175)

Instructor: Russell Marcontell/Staff

In this project oriented course students will be guided through the various stages of creating an original comic book, including: script writing, character design, thumb nailing, penciling, inking, page structure, panel composition, and storytelling. There will be a focus on creating believable environments in your artwork, through detailed instruction on perspective and props as well as an introduction to basic perspective and comic book anatomy. We will also utilize these same techniques in creating a superhero “self-portrait”, developing 2D “puppets” and backgrounds using the student’s own uniquely original characters. If the student is also taking the morning drawing and painting course they are welcome to bring a lunch and stay through the lunch break.