Get creative with summer arts camps and workshops

Thanks to Ms. Leslie and Mrs. McNiel for this great list of summer arts experiences for elementary students.



Willowwind School
Willowwind School, 950 Dover St., Iowa City.
Willowwind sometimes has children’s art classes and has a summer art camp. Call the school for more detailed information. Registration forms available at http://www.willowwind.org/docs/file/WWSummer11FINAL2.pdf or at the school. Call: 338-6061.

Puppet Classes
Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre, 319 N. Calhoun St., West Liberty
Eulenspiegel has several classes and camps during the year during which children build puppets of different styles and learn how to manipulate them. Also children will learn about staging, rehearse and present shows. Call: 319-627-2487 or visit http://www.puppetspuppets.com/workshops or e-mail owlglass@avalon.net for more information.

Iowa City Recreation Division
Robert A. Lee Recreation Center, Gilbert and Burlington streets, Iowa City.
The Iowa City Recreation Division has Saturday, winter break, and summer classes for students in grades K-6. For registration information, deadlines, prices and classes, go to www.icgov.org . Call: 356-5110.

Iowa Fiber & Arts Summer Camp
Summer camps for kids ages 7 and up. Each camp is one week long. Kids age 7-9 learn weaving, spinning, felting, knitting and dyeing. Kids age 10 and older focus on sewing, quilting, weaving, fiber arts and dyeing. Camps held on an 83-acre farm between West Branch and Tipton in Cedar County, operated by Diane Fleshin. Round trip van transportation provided from the Iowa City area. Call: 351-9010 or go to www.fiberarts.com for more information.

Market Street Theater School
Summer camps offer one-week and two-week comprehensive theatrical training in Iowa City for children age 4 to 12 and teenagers. Students will collaborate to create an original performance piece. Call: 337-4993 or visit www.2msts.org for a full description of all camps.

Prairie School of Art
After school, Saturday and summer art workshops for children age 4 to 12. Workshops can include themes of junk, recycled art, puppets, clay, papermaking and tie dye. Prairie School of Art is located at the home of Peggy Fitzgerald in Iowa City. More information: Request list of classes and registration forms by sending an e-mail to PegnRo@aol.com.

United Action for Youth
Summer art camp -- Camp Create. A one-week creative art camp for ages 9 to 12. Kids will be exposed to new creative art opportunities and learn new techniques including textiles, beading, multi-media collage and drawing and painting.
Camps are during the morning at UAY, 355 Iowa Ave., Iowa City. Call: 358-9406 ext. 601 or e-mail: iuaystumullins@yahoo.com to register.

University of Iowa Arts Share Program
Children entering grades 1-6 can enroll in week-long summer arts camps featuring workshops in music, theater, visual arts, creative movement, writing, live performance and on-campus field trips. Camps are 8:30 a.m. to noon each day. Different activities are offered each week so children can enroll one or both weeks. Call: 335-1618 or e-mail artsshare@uiowa.edu or go to www.uiowa.edu/artsshare

University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center
The Belin-Blank Center offers numerous summer camps for children in grades 2-11. Most campers sign up for either one- or two-week-long sessions and have the option of staying overnight. These camps allow students to take challenging courses, enjoy a variety of cultural and educational activities and experience classes and daily life on a college campus. Camps include Challenges for Elementary Students, Junior Scholars Academy, Iowa Governor’s Institute, Visual Arts Institute and National Scholars Academy. Registration forms and requirements available online at www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/summer/programs . Cost: Varies per session, some sessions have partial scholarship funding. Call: 335-6148.

University of Iowa Summer Journalism Workshops
This camp offers various journalism workshops for high school students. The workshops include news writing, editing, design, yearbook, photojournalism, broadcast, graphic design and Web design basics. Campers choose a workshop and spend the week getting hands-on experience learning the ins and outs of their focus. Registration deadline June 20. Registration forms available at www.uiowa.edu/~journshp/registration/registrationmain.html. Cost: $395 to $445 ($475 to $495 after June 1). Call: 335-3455 or e-mail David Schwartz at david-schwartz@uiowa.edu.

Home Ec Workshop
207 N. Linn Street, Iowa City
Home Ec is a textiles and fabric store that also offers classes in sewing, knitting, dying and fabric surface design. Some of these classes are open to children. These classes are advertised in the Press Citizen “Go” section on Thursdays. To find out more about classes and to register, call Home Ec at 337-4775.

Harte School of Art
421 Oakland, I.C.
The Harte School of Art is based on a unique program designed and developed by Lyudmila Harte. This K–12 program includes studying Art Theory and Art History through carefully constructed art projects. Students of all ages are encouraged at every stage of the program to express themselves by means of a wide variety of artistic media: painting, drawing, printing, collage, and sculpture. Exposure to various artistic styles, movements, and methods gives students the opportunity to try everything from realism to decorative art to abstract art. This approach allows students to discover their own artistic style and to develop it further. To find out about summer classes and to register, call 338-7843. The school’s website is www.harteschool.com 

Lucas artists' work exhibited at MidwestOne Bank

The following young artists answered the call to submit their artwork for the annual MidwestOne Bank Kids Art Exhibit. Their work, along with that of their peers throughout the Iowa City Community School District, is now on exhibit at the bank's downtown office, 102 S. Clinton Street.  

The bank will host a reception for the artists, their families and friends, on Friday, March 2, 2012, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.  This is a fun family-friendly event with snacks. Thanks to art teachers Ms. Leslie, Ms. McNiel, and Ms. Thurmond for their encouragement and support for our Lucas artists.

Kindergarten

Noah Brentlinger

Althea Downing                              

Brinyah Dunn                   

Katy Harmsen                   

Ethan Hill                           

Samantha Hopson          

Jacob Kelley                      

Edward Kenyon                               

Anthony Malkusak         

Jeremy Myers                  

Natalie Wildes                 

First Grade

Lamarius Gordan             

Valencia Rukakiza          

Ben Sarabia                                                       

Second Grade

Vanessa Bautista            

Sara Cassady                     

Ethan Goodrich                

Emma Jo Holmes-Wanlass          

India Johnson                   

Amira LaVelle                  

Ricardo Marcelino          

Sophia Lusala                   

Faith Reynolds                 

Colin Shults                       

Jaidan Spencer                

Third Grade

Genesis Gillespie           

Gabe Riggs-Baird            

Cileigh Smiddy                

Fourth Grade

Alexandra Arias                               

Maggie Arnold                 

Muriel Brown                   

Valerie Gonzalez            

Reese Hill                          

Megan Jones                    

Maisie Snyder                  

Julia Veit                            

Fifth Grade

Jack Bacon                         

Ana Cassady                      

Phoebe Chapnick-Sorokin          

Olivia Lusala                     

Anna Spellman                

Emma Welter                   

Anna Whittaker                               

Sixth Grade

Bridget Brown                  

Binnie McKillip                

Kawther Rouabhi            

Ashleigh Seydel                              

Emily VanDell                  

Grace Whittaker              

Submissions invited for Awesome Autism Art Project

The ARC of Southeast Iowa is seeking students to participate in the Awesome Autism Awareness Art Project. All interested individuals in Johnson County who have Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and PDD (NOS), are invited to submit artwork for display in the show, April 21 and 22. The deadline for submissions is March 1. More information is available here or by emailing awesomeartshow@yahoo.com.

Calling young artists to the annual MidwestOne Bank Kids Art Exhibit; entries due Jan. 27

Lucas art teacher Gwen Leslie announces the annual MidwestOne Bank Kids Art Exhibit, for which entries are due by Jan. 27. This contest is for artwork students create on their own at home, not in class.

This year the bank letter/label will not be sent home with students. Instead, it can be downloaded from the Lucas website or from the ICCSD Virtual Backpack. This label must be attached to all contest entries. Student drawings, with label completed and attached, may be placed in the box outside of the Lucas art room on or before Friday, Jan. 27.

Ms. Leslie also could use an adult volunteer or two to assist in attaching prize ribbons to the artwork before sending them to MidwestOne for display. Contact her by email Leslie.Gwen@iccsd.k12.ia.us if you are available to help during the week of Jan. 30.

Photos from recent Sunprint Workshop now online

Photos: Lucas Elementary sixth-grade students took part recently in a Sunprint Workshop with Iowa City Community School District art educator Rebecca Kobos. Art produced during the workshop, which was funded by the Lucas PTO, will be on permanent display at the school this summer. Arts Educators of Iowa named Kobos the 2006-2007 Art Educator of the Year.