Youth Art Classes and Art Camps
Spring and Summer 2013
Instructor Biographies below
Express your creativity this summer! The Elora Centre for the Arts is offering 4 weeks of summer art camps for children between the ages of 4-7 and 8-12. Working with artist instructors and inspired by ECFTA artist-in-residence Erin Perry, children will create daily and week long fine-arts projects while learning new skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and more.
YOUNG IMPRESSIONISTS Ages: 4-7
Spring 2013: Saturdays, April 13 - June 8, 2013. 8 weeks. * No class on May 18, 2013.
10:00am – 12noon
$105 Members / $125 Non-members
This class pops up each season with new themes and concepts that aim to inspire and promote creativity in young artists.
Kids will learn basic art making skills through “Themed Art Projects". Projects allow young artists to explore different mediums used for drawing, painting and printmaking, while learning about colour, shape, texture, space, pattern and form. Repeat students are encouraged! Dress for mess and please bring a nut-free snack each week. Supplies included. Instructor: Kella Flach
YOUTH DRAW, PAINT AND SCULPT Ages: 8-12
Spring 2013: Saturdays, April 13 - June 8, 2013. 8 weeks. * No class on May 18, 2013.
10:00am – 12noon
$130 Members / $150 Non-members
Explore drawing, painting and sculpture while experimenting with various art mediums. Youth will learn project design and composition skills, practice tonal drawings and develop their brush handling techniques to create still-life pictures, portraits and landscapes. Projects are adapted to suit the group's needs. Bring your creativity, imagination and a nut-free snack.
Supplies included. Instructor: Kim Vanderburgt
PA DAY ART CAMPS Ages: 4 - 12
Friday, June 7, 2013 "solids"
Friday, June 28, 2013 "mismatched"
Full Days, 8:30am to 3:30pm
$30 Members / $40 Non-Members
PA Day Art Camps offer children a buffet of the arts! Projects are geared to all ages with a focus on drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and collage. Please bring nut-free snacks and a lunch. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. There is no better way to spend a PA Day! This year we are asking campers come dressed in the “Pattern of the Day!” Parents registering siblings for the same PA Day Art Camp will receive a 10% discount.
Instructors: Meredith Blackmore, Kim Vanderburght, Chelsea Campbell, Sara lin Barron
GLEE CLUB Ages: 6–12
Spring 2013: Fridays, April 12 - June 21, 2013. 10 weeks. * No class on May 10, 2013.
5:00pm - 6:00pm
$70 Members / $85 Non-Members
At Glee we sing songs, dance to the rhythms, act out characters and prepare for a final performance. Singing encourages creativity and fosters self-confidence. All classes are held at the Elora Centre for the Arts and the last night of each session finishes with a final performance for family and friends and to celebrate the group’s accomplishments. Glee Club is open to youth between the ages of 6-12. Instructor: Anne Thomson-King has worked with numerous children’s groups as a vocal teacher, camp instructor and workshop facilitator. She studied at the esteemed Royal Conservatory of Music, has performed with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Festival Singers of Canada and as a host on TVO’s the Polka Dot Door.
NURSERY RHYME THEATER Ages: 3-5
Winter 2013: Tuesdays, February 26 - April 30, 2013. 10 weeks.
10:00am - 11:00am
Act out nursery rhymes and fairy tales, sing songs, play games and finally perform a Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme play for family and friends. All supplies included. Parents are free to leave after drop-off. Final Performance is June 12, 2012 at 4:30pm in the ECFTA Stage Room. 10% discount for siblings.
Instructor: Ida Brown
TU TU IN YOU! Sewing Off the Edge Ages: 8-14
Spring 2013: April 2 - June 11, 2013.
Tuesdays After School, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Drop in and join and inspiring group of creative young people who love to design and sew together at the Elora Centre for the Arts, in the Rotary Youth Room. These creative individuals encourage each other to create and wear clothes that they feel best represent who they are, regardless of high fashion images. They compassionately support and learn from each other’s lives and differences.
Through stitching pieces together of recycled materials, textiles and bit’s & bob’s, the “Tu Tu-ers” discover and express their multi-layered, unique identities while inspiring us all to stand tall in who we are. Everyone is welcome to join this dynamic group, no experience necessary!
More information including the registration form can be found on the TuTu In You! website.
Group Leaders: Stephanie Lines-Toohill and Chelsea Campbell
THE INVENTITORY Ages: 8-12
** This program is on-hold and will start again in the Fall 2013
Create functional art using everyday objects in this free, after-school, drop-in class. Dream up and design 3D masterpieces using boxes, cans, machine parts and other junk drawer collectibles. Glue together, paint on and re-purpose the ordinary into something extraordinary!
INSTRUCTOR BIOS:
MEREDITH BLACKMORE was “drawn” to the arts at a young age. From the ages 9 to 13 she trained in professional dance and in her later teens worked as an airbrush artist. In the ten years since completing a Fine Arts degree from the University of Guelph, Meredith has been specializing in portrait and mural painting. She has delivered many programs in music, movement and visual arts. Meredith was recently the winner of Bravo’s STAR PORTRAITS for her rendering of Principal Dancer Rex Harrington. http://gallerymeredith.googlepages.com
IDA BROWN has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from McMaster University, specializing in Dramatic Arts. For the last 12 years, Ida has been the creator & director of The Brown Children's Theater teaching drama to families in Hamilton, Cambridge and Elora. Ida is a part time drama teacher at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts and is currently directing “Into the Woods” by Sondheim which will be presented in February 2011.
CHELSEA CAMPBELL is the youth coordinator at the Elora Centre for the Arts, leading programs such as the Youth Arts & Entertainment Council, the Tu Tu in You with Stephanie Lines-Toohill and the Rural Artist Project as part of a grant from the Laidlaw Foundation. Chelsea has taught courses for children including PA Days, March Break and Summer Camp. Her extensive experience with children has led her to volunteer with the Elora Co-Op Preschool as an Inclusion Facilitator.
KELLA FLACH has been a co-op student, summer experience student, March Break and Summer Camp leader and young artist instructor at the Elora Centre for the Arts over the past two years. Kella is always attempting projects in various mediums. During her spare time she is studying to become an interior designer. She has attended courses in Crafts & Design Furniture at Sheridan College. Kella is a young entrepreneur, owning her own festival tent company “Creo Events”. Visit her site at www.creoevents.ca.
SYLVIA GALBRAITH is a recognized professional photographer whose work sells worldwide. She has taught photography to all age groups in many locations, including the University of Toronto, Humber College, and the University of Brandon, MB, as well as locally. She has won many awards and occasionally shows at various venues; Insights 2007, '08 & '09 at the Wellington County Museum, Summer Sensations Art walk in Fergus and the ECFTA's Art in the Yard 2009, where Sylvia won the “Jurors Choice Award”. She has also recently published a book of images from the area titled "A Living River by the Door". www.silvercreekphoto.ca
PHIL IRISH is an artist, curator of the Minarovich Gallery at the Elora Centre for the Arts and an inspiring art instructor. He holds a MFA from York University and a BA in Fine Art and English Literature from the University of Guelph. Phil has exhibited extensively across Canada and the United States, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and the Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto. Phil was an Artist in Residence in Newfoundland, Quebec and the City of Kitchener. www.philirish.com
ANNE THOMSON KING graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music with an ARCT in voice performance. At Wilfrid Laurier University she participated in classes of vocal coaching and music therapy. Choral groups including the Festival Singers of Canada and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir were a start to her professional career in music. From there she performed in classical recitals, Scottish concerts and with Operatic companies. To add to her eclectic interest, she had lead roles in musicals, including My Fair Lady, Showboat, Brigadoon and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Her love of many forms of vocal music gives a varied approach to the musical experience. She has conducted children’s choirs, directed children’s shows and pageants. She has sung on a Celtic TV show and performed on Polka Dot Door. Having a varied career in vocal music, she wants to give her enthusiasm to young minds so that they will grow sharing with each other in music.
STEPHANIE LINES-TOOHILL has been teaching creative movement, improvisational youth drama and exploring textile art using recycled materials over the past six years. She champions curiosity and learning from diversity whilst encouraging youth of all ages to use their imagination and mentorship skills to problem solve together. Stephanie is an avid supporter of weaving community through local food, community projects and fund raising events.
Programming at the Elora Centre for the Arts is sponsored in part by:
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