SUMMER ART CAMP

Please note: children must be the appropriate age for each camp by June 1, 2025.
3 week maximum registration per child - in an effort to make our camp weeks available to more families, we have instituted a 3 week maximum participation for each child.

REGISTRATION FOR 2025 SUMMER ART CAMP OPENS ONLINE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2025 AT 5PM.
*PLEASE NOTE: our camp offerings are now for AGE 4 and older*

Art Camps 2025

Featherstone offers weeklong art camps for children ages 4 through teens on our 6 acre bucolic campus, inspiring young minds to explore art and creativity. Camps are Monday through Friday, 9:00AM-12:00PM, beginning the mid June and running through mid August, for four age groups, plus a weeklong film camp with MV Film Society & MVTV from 1:00-5:00PM. Each week of camp costs $450 (except for shortened holiday weeks which are $360* for 4 days).

Days: Monday - Friday
2025 Dates:
June 16 - 20 (no June 19)* // June 23 - 27 // June 30 - July 3 (no July 4) // July 7 - 11 // July 14 - 18 // July 21 - 25 // July 28 - August 1 // August 4 - 8
Time: 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Fee: $450 per week (*$360 for shortened 4 day weeks for Juneteenth and 4th of July holidays)

PLEASE READ:

Camp General Information and Cancellation Policy can be found here.
You are required to agree to a Waiver Statement to complete your registration online. In the interest of time during the registration process, you may read the waiver in advance here.

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Magic Garden Summer Art Camp with Helen Hall
for ages 4-5
*This camp must comply with regulations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and is licensed by the local board of health ALL CAMPERS MUST BE POTTY TRAINED AND 4 YEARS OLD BY THE START OF OUR CAMP SEASON - JUNE 1, 2025*

Art is all around us on the Featherstone campus. Join us as we investigate nature and learn elements of art and mix media during art camp designed just for the preschooler! We will offer a wide range of art experiences that utilize different materials and techniques, all designed to build confidence and experiment with creativity, while also enriching basic fine motor skill development. Come find out what art means to the youngest among us!

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Explore, Discover & Create Summer Art Camp with Rory Valentine
for ages 6-7

Dare to explore, discover & create this summer!
Children will be encouraged to observe the world around them and what better place than in the serene natural beauty of Martha’s Vineyard? Children will learn about wildlife both plants and animals spanning from the land, sky and sea. They will in turn have the opportunity to color their world utilizing different artistic mediums. Campers will further their scope of explorations to the night’s sky, planets and constellations.
Throughout our summer wildlife discovery, children will also learn about some of our favorite and inspirational artists. They will be encouraged to study the masters while discovering and developing their own art making process.
This new Featherstone Summer Camp program is rooted in the foundation that by fostering a safe compassionate environment, where children have the freedom to explore the world around them, they will enhance their self confidence and discover a deeper understanding of their self expression through art.

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Ceramics Summer Art Camp with Sabrina Kuchta and Buffy Carroll
for ages 8-10
* Please note: no camp during short week June 16 - 20
Papermaking Summer Art Camp for short week June 30 - July 3 (no July 4)

During this camp, students will focus on hand building techniques with clay to explore 3D art, art in the round, and texture. Children will create sculpture pieces such as food, creatures, and wind chimes and mobiles, but we will also make functional ware such as mugs, dinner ware, and vases.

Papermaking Summer Art Camp with Sabrina Kuchta and Buffy Carroll
for ages 8-10
June 30 - July 3 (no July 4) only

Learn how to hand make paper! Experimenting with found and recycled resources, we will use different techniques to create different textures and shapes of paper. In this four day camp we will use our hand made paper to create bookmarks, note cards, books and more!

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Youth Filmmakers Camp with Michelle Vivian
for ages 11 and older
July 7 - 11
This 5 day FILM CAMP is a collaborative production with MV Film Society and MVTV.

Click image at left or FILM CAMP for full camp description.

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Discovery Studio Summer Art Camp
for ages 11 and older

Discovery Studio features a variety of different art mediums by week, camp descriptions below!

June 16 - 20 (no June 19): Silkscreen with Sabrina Kuchta
June 23 - 27: Photography with Kate Patterson
June 30 - July 3 (no July 4): Collage with Bricque Garber
July 7 - 11*: Printmaking with Allison Doherty *(same week as Youth Filmmakers Camp)
July 14 - 18: Acrylic Painting with Donna Straw
July 21 - 25: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
July 28 - August 1: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
August 4 - 8: Acrylic Painting with Donna Straw

Silkscreen: a printing and dyeing class with Sabrina Kuchta
Silkscreen printing is a versatile technique used to add images and words on everything from shirts to bags to posters to anything you can think of. In this class not only will we learn how to silk screen, we will use a variety of dyeing techniques to create a complete finished project. T-shirts, bags and pencil cases will be available but students are encouraged to bring other pieces that they want to alter (please make sure they are 100% cotton).

Acrylic Painting: focusing on color and design with Donna Straw
Welcome to Summer Art Camp and working with acrylics! We are going to continue to explore color
mixing, color theory and design.
• In this class we are going to work with a wide range of values through extensive color mixing in order to create contrasts and areas of emphasis in a unified work of art. We will discover how we can achieve a successful composition through the overlapping of images and grids. On the first day please bring in a box full of images, photos, objects, still- life subject matter, etc. that you will be interested in drawing, painting and fragmenting.
• We are going to analyze styles of art from the Expressionist, Cubist and Futuristic Movements and begin to plan out our compositions and fragmented grids. We will think about how we can create interesting compositions by zooming-in, cropping off and breaking up our spaces. You can create grids out of concentric circles, continuous overlays, geometric shapes, cracked lines, webbed patterns, asymmetrical design, etc.
• Painting on practice sheets, we will discuss and explore a wide variety of color theories so that we can decide which ones we want to incorporate in our paintings. In order to be successful, you will need to restrict yourself to a color theory. (mono-chromatic, tertiary, complementary, split-complementary, etc.)
• Once we sketch our ideas onto the canvas and have our grids figured out the fun begins. Every time you cross over the line, you must change the color. Always think in terms of contrasting values so that the image stands out. You are going to have to use extensive color mixing to achieve your goal.
Let's have fun!

Mixed Media Collage with Bricque Garber
Mixed media collage is a visual representation made from an assembly of different forms, materials and sources to create a new whole. A Collage or Mixed Media piece may include paint, news paper clippings or pictures, ribbons, threads or yarns, bits of colored paper or hand made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs and such... glued or otherwise affixed to a canvas or other solid support surfaces. It’s super fun and foolproof.!

Photography with Kate Patterson
In this fun class, students will explore and expand their creative photo image-making skills with a student supplied iPhone or other simple digital camera. They’ll learn to edit pictures in Adobe Photoshop and create inkjet prints. Constructive encouragement and feedback is ongoing while students spend the week doing a series of fun projects. At the end of class on Friday each student leaves with a portfolio/folder of new images. Please bring an iPhone or other simple digital camera to use during camp.

Exploring Printmaking with Allison Doherty
This class supports the creativity, development and expression of young artists through the exploration of traditional and experimental printmaking techniques. Mastery of tools and materials will provide students with the confidence to find their artistic voices. This class can be tailored to the interests of those attending.
An introduction to several printmaking techniques including monoprinting, relief block printing and dry-point etching.
MONOTYPE: A unique print is a one-of-a-kind transfer of an inked or painted image from a Plexiglas plate to paper pressure or by means of a press. Sometimes there is enough ink or paint residue left on the plate surface to pull a second, much lighter print. This is called a “ghost”. Each transfer is unique and cannot be exactly duplicated.
RELIEF BLOCK PRINTING: The transfer of drawings and compositions that are cut into soft linoleum using carving tools and run a proof.
DRY-POINT ETCHING: "Drawing" into Plexiglas sheets with a metal scribe, ink the sheets and print the results. This technique can be combined with other printmaking possibilities, such as chine collé or with drawing to create a multi-layered final piece.