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Pottery Wheel Camps: Learn to Throw!
Claymation: Animate your Clay Figures!
Masked Theater Camp: Two-Faced Theater
Textile Camp: Run with Scissors!
Handbuilding in Clay: Finger Play in Clay
Preschool Camp: Munchkin Art Camp!

Last year's Multimedia camp afternoon group.......

Pottery Wheel Camps: Learn to Throw!
Five Day session for grades 4 and up: $145
Session #1: Tuesday-Monday, July 8-14, 1-3:30pm (full)
Session #2: Tuesday-Monday, July 15-21; 1-3:30pm (full)
Session #3: Tuesday-Monday, July 8-14; 9:30am-noon(full)
Session #4: Tuesday-Monday, July 15-21; 9:30am-noon

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!

Kids should wear mud-friendly clothes to this camp!

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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Claymation: animate your clay figures!
Five day session: $135
Grades 3-6: Monday-Friday, July 7-11, 9am-noon
Grades 6-11: Monday-Friday, July 7-11, 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.

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Masked Theater Camp: Two-Faced Theater
Five Day session: $175
Grades 3-6: Monday-Friday, Aug 4-8, 9am-3:30pm.
Grades 6-10: Monday-Friday, Aug 11-15, 9am-3:30pm.

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

When is being two-faced a good thing?
When you play a double character in Crossings' theater camp!

Join us for a week of exploring how to develop and play two radically different characters onstage - at the same time. Start by developing a comic character, and put that character in some weird situations. Develop a totally new character by creating a plaster cast of your actual face.

Explore how wearing the character mask changes everything you do—how you walk, talk, drink pop. We’ll even put the two characters together onstage. When’s the last time you really had a conversation with yourself? (Pssst: the magic of masks is: we don't always know that person in the mask…even if it is ourselves!) Not only will you appear differently to the world, but the world may appear different to you.

Throughout the week director Daved Driscoll will guide campers in creating their own play, based on each camper’s two characters. Art mask instructor Marie Marvin will help you create your own unique character mask. We’ll end the camp by performing that play for family and friends.

Daved Driscoll, BA, MFA, is the founder of Words 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.

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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Textile Camp: Run with Scissors!
5 day session for grades 3 and up: $198
Monday-Friday, July 21-25 9am-3pm.

Discover New Adventures Textile Camp! Learn new skills, create your own art to wear, learn and improve your skills in machine sewing, crocheting, and felting.

Students will participate in all of the following projects with all three instructors.
Kids should bring a sack lunch with them for this all-day camp!

Hooked on Crochet
Learn basic crochet stitches, and let your imagination roam. Explore color and texture with simple yet versatile crochet stitches to make a locker bag, a flower for your hat, or a skull cap. Already know now how to crochet? Challenge yourself with beaded crochet, fancy stitches, embellishing or adding on to garments you already own.

Students please bring:1 skein of worsted weight acrylic yarn, color your choice.
Optional: beads, charms, ribbons, fabric scraps

Instructor Elizabeth Remfert has a MA in design. She has taught weaving and textiles at the university level and through community education in Rochester. She is a member of SEMVA and is currently working on textile art.

Wet Felted Bowls
No knitting required! Learn the basics of wet-felting and turn colorful layers of carded wool into solid bowls with the help of hot water, soap and elbow grease. Embellish your bowl with decorative top stitching, needle felting, beading or strategic cutting to make a unique piece of art!

Bleach-Embellished Jeans
Turn your plain old blue jeans into wearable art! Just this once, it’s ok to draw and doodle on your pants. Your writing tool will be a bleach gel pen. When the bleach is rinsed away, you will be left with awesome designs.

Please bring your own pair of cotton jeans or other denim item.

Instructor Renee Nation's creative spark was fanned when she discovered the infinite creative possibilities of wet felting and needle felting. Her artwork is shown in regional galleries. Renee lives in Rochester with her husband, six children, and two hermit crabs.

Sew Redesign!
Experience one of the newest fashion trends! Use your own ideas and a sewing machine to design something wearable, with eco-savvy and sustainable means.
Using machine and hand stitching, make something to wear, adorn your transformation and make it uniquely YOU! Returning campers will improve their machine sewing skills and beginners will learn the basics.

Instructor Deb Wilkinson loves to share all she knows about sewing. This year 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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Handbuilding in Clay: Finger Play in Clay
Five day session: $130
Grades 1-4: Tuesday-Monday (skip weekend), July 29-Aug 4; 10am-noon.
Grades 4-7: Tuesday-Monday (skip weekend), July 29-Aug 4; 1-3pm.

Creativity and fun combine for an imaginative introduction to clay and pottery. Learn how to form curls and swirls of clay coils into vessels - some functional, some decorative, all your own!

Build miniature landscapes and architectural structures that your fingers will not be able to resist revisiting regularly. Huh? Architectural structures?!? Yeah! Like skateboard parks, ocean floors, and extraterrestrial playgrounds. Walls, waves, mountains, and plants emerge on slabs of clay as your create your fantasy landscape.

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!

Kids should wear mud-friendly clothes to this camp!

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: $115
Tuesday-Monday (skip weekend), July 29-Aug 4; 10am-noon.

 

Children can use all of their senses during this 2-hour, hands-on experience. Painting, clay projects, puppet theater, songs, 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.

Last year'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.

Grades are for the school year 2008-09. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available through the Zumbrota Area Arts Council and Zumbrota Community Trust. Call for 507-732-7616 for more information!