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Art Camp: Entering the 3rd Dimension!
Scultpure in Clay: Dancing Dogs (and whistles!)
JAMFest '09 : Rock n Roll Music Camp
Pottery Wheel Camps: Learn to Throw!
Claymation: Animate your Clay Figures!
Textile Camp: Run with Scissors!
Theater Camp: Tom Sawyer Hits the Stage!
Handbuilding in Clay: Make your own Indoor Fountain!
Preschool Camp: Munchkin Art Camp!

The fine print: cancellation policies, etc.

 

Art Camp: Entering the 3rd Dimension!
Five day session: $128
Grades K-4: Monday-Friday, June 22-26, 9am-noon
Grades 4-9: Monday-Friday, June 22-26, 1-4pm
(Grades 4-9: Combine with Sculpture in Clay: Dancing Dogs for an all-day camp! Supervised lunch hour.)

This camp is a favorite for kids who like to experiment. Every day will bring new projects and new experiences. Tons of things to try including fused glass, plaster hand casts, bottle slumping, tin can luminaries, tumbled 'sea' glass chimes, glass painting, garden stepping stones and more. Lots of 'green' projects. Wear old clothes, because it’s gonna be messy!!!

Instructor Diane Lund of Rochester holds a degree in Visual Arts Education K-12, and currently teaches middle school. Her studies of profoundly gifted students at the Perpich Center and St. Mary’s University coupled with her ability to relate to children of all ages make her a great addition to our instructional staff.

Instructor Doug Snyder is a professional sculptor with a BFA degree from Drake University. He discovered his love for art as a child, and as a returning camp instructor at Crossings, enjoys helping kids learn how to work with their hands.

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Sculpture in Clay: Dancing Dogs (or Cats, or Zebras...)
Five day session: $128
Grades 4-9: Monday-Friday, June 22-26; 10am-noon.
(Combine with Entering the 3rd Dimension Art Camp for an all-day camp! Supervised lunch hour.)

Create playful clay critters that will bring a smile to your face as they dance with joy. If you think you don’t have the skills to make animals, think again. Whether you're a cat-person, a dog-person or some other animal lover, you can learn to make them out of clay. Kids will make lovely circular sculptures that will have space for a votive candle to make a clay luminary. In addition, make clay whistles in any shape you can imagine to call your new clay friends. Learn how to glaze and fire your work. Includes free time to create whatever you dream from clay.

Instructor Sharon Dorner studied at Lakewood Community College and the University of Minnesota, and works in numerous mediums. A favorite is clay pottery and sculpting. Sharon believes art should leave you with a feeling of happiness and love. Come join her and make the world a better place for all through the creation of art.

 

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JAMFest '09 : Rock 'n Roll music camp
Five-day session: $135
Grades 8-12 (2009-10 school year)
Mon-Thurs., July 6-10, 6-9pm
Fri, July 10, 4-7pm (rehearsal; includes pizza and soda), and 8pm (concert)

Love to play Guitar Hero? Well, here’s your chance to get off your couch and be in a band for real. If you’re a guitar player, a drummer, a singer, a trumpeter, or a musician who loves to rock---JAMFest is the place for you. Any song/style/groove you want to play, we'll play it, or "jam" it out, and have fun either way. Get together with kids your age, start a band, and play a real live gig for your friends and family by the end of the week! Students can bring their own instruments to camp.

By no means do you have to be the next Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin to participate! Just come with a love of music and the desire to have a lot of fun!

Dewey Poncelet is currently attending college at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Jamie Varner recently graduated from St. Cloud. They share considerable experience in writing and performing music with an array of musical instruments. Both have been in numerous bands together over the last seven years.

 

Dewey and Jamie performing

 

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Pottery Wheel Camps: Learn to Throw!
Five Day session for grades 4 and up: $145
Session #1: Tuesday-Monday, July 7-13, 9:30am-noon
Session #2: Tuesday-Monday, July 7-13; 1-3:30pm
Session #3: Tuesday-Monday, July 14-20; 9:30am-noon
Session #4: Tuesday-Monday, July 28-Aug 3; 9:30am-noon
As these camps fill quickly, we usually add more classes. Check back for updates!

Experience a real clay studio! Let the mud fly! Learn how to wedge clay, center and form shapes on the pottery wheel, trim and finish your work with colorful glaze.

Class runs Tuesday-Monday so work can be fired in the kiln over the weekend. Then the bisque-fired pieces can be glazed on Monday! Finished projects will not be available on the last day of camp, so plan to return to Crossings within two weeks to pick up the ceramic treasures.

Kids should wear mud-friendly clothes and shoes to this camp!

Instructor Emily Wartsbaugh has been practicing the ceramic and other arts for over 10 years, and currently teaches middle school. With a Masters in Education, she loves teaching kids of all ages. Assisting Emily and herself teaching Pottery Wheel Camp #4 is Katie Starr. She's fresh out of the Art program at Luther College, and is an impressively accomplished ceramic artist.

 

 

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Claymation: animate your clay figures!
Five day session: $138
Grades 3-6: Monday-Friday, July 13-17, 9am-noon
Grades 6-12: Monday-Friday, July 13-17, 1-4:30pm

Using the same techniques the professionals use, learn the foundations of capturing motion, and make your own, short animated movie! Working in teams of three, develop characters, create storyboards, design and construct sets; learn how to operate a camera and other technical aspects of creating a polished animation. Create individually hand-drawn flip books, too! A compilation DVD of all class work is included for each camper.

Click on this image to see a preview of what to expect!-->

 

Instructor Josh Granlund has a BA in Studio Art and Computer Science, and is pursuing a Masters in Art Education. He develops artistic and culturally responsive workshops, training seminars, after-school programs, and art residencies serving over 1,000 students, families, and teachers a year, and enjoys watching young creative minds blossom and develop as they tell their tales.

scene from Claymation Camp 2008!

 

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Textile Camp: Run with Scissors!
5 day session for grades 3 and up: $210
Monday-Friday, July 20-24 9am-3pm.

Kids should bring a sack lunch with them for this all-day camp!

Create your own art to wear and carry! Learn or improve your skills in machine- and hand-sewing, rug-hooking and all kinds of surface design. Gender friendly. Every day is broken into 3 different classes, each with new projects.

Rug Hooking
In this fun project, you’ll learn to ‘hook’ by making the loops that form the pile of the rug using a hook (similar to a crochet hook) and a classroom frame. We’ll work on a funky pattern of colorful fish or on your own design to use as a sunny and bright wall hanging, pillow or throw rug.

 

Surface Design and Embellishment
Design, print, stitch, and dye using techniques from around the world. You’ll decorate a scarf with Japanese shibori (like tie dye) and Indonesian plangi (silk screening), and learn Indian shisha (mirror embroidery) so that you can decorate your jeans or make a bracelet, belt, or wall hanging. Print a canvas book bag and stitch it together on the machine. Go home with finished projects and ideas and skills to last a lifetime! Your projects can range from simple and elegant to intricately patterned and beautiful.

Hand and Machine Sewing
First-time sewers will learn machine basics and make drawstring pajama pants. Experienced sewers can choose a t-shirt or hoodie or bring their own pattern. Pillow covers, totes, skirts and flannel shirts are all options depending on the experience of the camper. Campers will sew on machines, try sergers, rotary cutters, pressing aids and other sewing tools. Restyling? Take an old tee shirt and make it into something new and unique by adding embellishment! Bountiful supplies will be provided.

 

Martha Reeder has been hooking rugs for over fifteen years continuing a tradition that began with her grandmother. Her hooked treasures have appeared in exhibits within the Midwest. Martha lives in Rochester, MN, where she shares her studio space with her standard poodle, Mimi.

Dawn Zero Erickson is an independent artist/designer and globetrotter. Her travel to foreign lands (including Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, and India) is evident in her art. Dawn continues to do fine art as well as textile designs for the home textile industry.

Deb Wilkinson loves to share all she knows about sewing. She has sewn bridal gowns and fancy dresses for bridesmaids, flower girls and herself. She experiments with all the possibilities of the sewing machine and serger, as well as hand sewing.

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Musical Theater Camp: Tom Sawyer!
Two-week session: $265
Grades 4-12: Monday-Friday, July 27-August 7, 9am-3:30pm.

Kids should bring a sack lunch with them for this all-day camp!

Tom Sawyer Hits the Stage!

Calling all lovers of musical theater! In this camp you’ll learn, rehearse and perform a musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic novel about the antics and adventures of a mischievous orphan. Join Tom and his friends as they liven up life in an otherwise quiet town along the Mississippi. Painting a fence goes faster if you've got friends to help! Director Daved Driscoll will guide campers in all the facets of putting on a musical.

No acting experience necessary. Singing voice NOT required. Rough and tough guys and gals welcome.
You’ll end the camp by performing this play for family, friends and the public during the last hours of camp.

Daved Driscoll, BA, MFA, is the founder of Words Players Theater, a local theater troupe. He has taught and/or directed theatre, music, literature and philosophy in high schools and colleges since 1984 and has directed over 40 plays.

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Handbuilding in Clay: Make your own indoor fountain!
Five day session: $128. All supplies, including fountain pump, are included.
Grades 2-8: Monday-Friday, Aug 10-14; 10am-noon.

Kids should wear mud-friendly clothes and shoes to this camp!

 

 

We all love the sound of water tumbling over rocks. Bring the outdoors indoors by creating your own tabletop water fountain using clay and inspiration. The theme for your fountain could be as fancy or as simple as you want—the only limit is your imagination. Water will gently tumble across the pebbles and embellishments you create. In this camp you’ll get a lot of time to play with clay—rolling, pinching, stamping, and glazing—and go home with a beautiful fountain.

Fountains lined up on the stairway,
waiting to be fired!

Instructor Diane Lund of Rochester holds a degree in Visual Arts Education K-12, and currently teaches middle school. Her studies of profoundly gifted students at the Perpich Center and St. Mary's University coupled with her ability to relate to children of all ages make her a great addition to our instructional staff.

 

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Preschool Camp: Munchkin Art Camp!
Five day session for ages 3-6: $120
Monday-Friday, Aug 10-14; 10am-noon.

 

Children can use all of their senses during this 2-hour, hands-on experience. Painting, clay projects, puppet theater, songs, stories, movement, and snacks in a safe, nurturing environment. The variety of daily activities will spur their curiosity and expand their sense of wonder. Parents and guardians are welcome to stay and join in the fun. Children will put on a little show the last half-hour of camp.

2007's munchkins and their dioramas!

Instructor: Marie Marvin the person and Odie the dog. Marie Marvin is the proprietor and artistic director of all things at Crossings, and strongly believes that all people are artists - especially children. She depends on them to inspire her own endeavors.

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Grades are for the school year 2009-10. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available
through the Zumbrota Community Trust. Call for 507-732-7616 for more information.

Keep in mind... all or part of camp registration fees may qualify for a state tax deduction! Ask your tax advisor.

Cancellation and Refund Policy
Campers who withdraw 30 or more days prior to the camp start date will receive a 100% refund and charged a $15 cancellation fee.

Campers who withdraw 15-29 days prior to the camp start date will receive a 50% refund and charged a $15 cancellation fee.

No refunds will be issued 0-14 days prior to the camp start date.

Campers may transfer from one camp to another up to 14 days prior to the camp start date with a $15 administrative fee.

No refunds will be issued after the start of the camp due to illness.
Family emergency situations will be dealt with on an individual basis.

Lunch & Snack Breaks
All camps have supervised healthy snack breaks; juice and water are provided along with the snack.
Students participating in full-day classes have a supervised lunch break. Crossings does not provide lunches, so please pack an appropriate lunch for your child. Recycle-Reuse! Refrigerator and microwave are available.

Camp Dress Code!
Some pigments and materials may stain clothing, so please dress your children in clothing that will not break hearts if it sustains spills and messes. Crossings is not responsible for clothing that is damaged in art classes. Weather permitting, children play outdoors during snack and lunch breaks.