Quick Facts:

  • For students entering grades
    9-12, as well as graduating seniors.
  • Explore several artistic mediums! Campers will work with university art faculty in all five daily workshops as well as an optional evening life drawing workshop.
  • Gallery showing of the campers’ artwork on Saturday, June 29th.
  • Camp Director:
    Mark Brueggeman,
    UWSP Art Department
 

​Glass Fusing & Slumping

with Kristin Thielking

Design and create a glass sculpture, tile, or jewelry piece using fused glass. Glass fusing is done by stacking glass pieces or beads and melting it together using a kiln. Slumping follows a similar process and creates larger pieces such as bowls and plates.
 

Life Drawing Evening Session

with Ryan Weisenfeld & Lily Rawson

Improve your life drawing skills at this optional evening session with a draped model.​

Metal Casting & Relief Sculpture

with Keven Brunett

Explore a dynamic method of metal casting from start to finish. Design and create a clay mold; melt and pour metal; break away the mold to discover your cast.​

​Assemblage Sculpture

with Bill McKee

Turn junk into treasure. Take apart existing objects, furniture, and electronics and use its components to create a new piece of art.
 

​Design Challenge 

with Stuart Morris

Explore the design process from proposed materials through site considerations to execution of the final work. As designer, you'll be given a list of materials, model materials and the design objectives. The challenge will be to blend the materials, ideas, and site interactions into relationship.
 
​Music

​Mixed Media Painting & Drawing

with Mark Brueggeman

Explore various drawing media and create large scale art. Use charcoal, pastel, ink, collage, found material, and a variety of drawing tools while learning to successfully combine media and compose an image. Through self-exploration, become more comfortable using color, line, shape, and form to express creativity and uniqueness.