STUDIO ART CAMP

2009 Information

Quick Facts:

  • For students entering grades
    9-12, as well as graduating seniors.
  • Campers will work with university art faculty and guest artists in daily studio workshops as well as an optional evening life drawing workshop.
  • Gallery showing of the campers’ artwork on Saturday, June 20th.
  • Camp Director is 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.

Photography & Photoshop
with Mark Pohlkamp

An overview of digital photography starting with the pixel and ending with the printed image. Understand and master your camera functions, improve your photos, and edit your images using Photoshop. (please bring a digital camera and USB camera-to-computer cable).

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.

Evening Session - Life Drawing
with Camp Staff

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

Mixed Media Painting & Drawing
with Elizabeth Wellso

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.

Design and Screen Printing
with Jillian Noble

Working with a combination of traditional and digital media, campers will explore methods for creating dynamic digital compositions that will be printed using traditional screen printing techniques. This workshop will give students an opportunity to learn basic computer composition tools while also learning more traditional hands on printmaking techniques.