CHILDREN'S SUMMER ART CAMP

Featherstone is delighted to be able to offer Summer Art Camp for the 2021 season! Camps are scheduled Monday through Friday, beginning the week of June 21 and running through August 13. Camps will be limited in capacity and compliant to all CDC, state, and local guidelines to ensure safety for all. If you have any immediate questions, feel free to email Grace here.

Featherstone offers weeklong art camps for children ages 3 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 week of June 21 and running through August 13, for four age groups. Each week of camp costs $400 (except for the four-day-week of July 6-9, that week is $320).
Further information, including required contact form can be found on the registration pages for each class below.
Please note: Campers should bring a healthy, nut-free, mid-morning snack each day to camp.

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Magic Garden Summer Art Camp with Helen Hall and Ella Mahoney
for ages 3-5
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 Coral Shockey and Meg Chandler
for ages 6-8
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.

2-D Studio Summer Art Camp for ages 9-11
2-D Studio features printmaking and 2-D arts by week, class descriptions below:
*indicates 4 day week (4th of July)

June 21-25: 2-D Medley with Shannon Rueffer
June 28- July 2: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
July 6-9*: 2-D Medley with Victoria Campbell
July 12-16: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
July 19-23: 2-D Medley with Victoria Campbell
July 26-30: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
August 2-6: 2-D Medley with Victoria Campbell
August 9-13: Printmaking with Allison Doherty

Youth Filmmakers Camp with Michelle Vivian
for ages 11-14
August 9-13: 1:00-5:00PM
This 5 day camp is a collaborative production with MV Film Society and MVTV. Click HERE to learn more!

Discovery Studio Summer Art Camp
for ages 12 and older
Discovery Studio features a variety of different art mediums by week (class descriptions below):
Please note- we will NOT run Discovery Studio the week of June 21-25. Our first week will be June 28 - July 2. *indicates 4 day week (4th of July)

June 28- July 2: Photography with Dylan Hausthor
July 6-9*: Acrylic Painting with Donna Straw
July 12-16: Photography with Dylan Hausthor
July 19-23: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
July 26-30: Photography with Dylan Hausthor
August 2-6: Printmaking with Allison Doherty
August 9-13: Photography with Dylan Hausthor

Expanding Analog Photography with Dylan Hausthor
During this camp, we will look back at the ways that images have been captured for the last two hundred years and explore new ways to mix digital photography, analog capturing, and printmaking. Together we will construct a makeshift darkroom and make photographs out in nature. Topics that we will engage in will include:

Large Format Photography
Cyanotypes
Film Developing
Cameraless Photography
Digital Negatives
Pinhole Cameras
Photograms
Camera Obscura

If you have an analog or digital camera that you would like to use during the class please bring it!

Photographic Storytelling with Dylan Hausthor
In this camp, we will delve deep into how images can be used to tell stories. We will make a series of photographs and edit, print, and sequence them into an object—either a zine, book, or portfolio project, depending on the student’s interests. We will learn beginner bookbinding techniques and how the form of a book can be used to tell a story with images. This class is perfect for both the beginner photographer with a story to tell and the more advanced student interested in learning how their photographs work together.

Each student in this camp will leave with a new series of images and a bound book.

Exploring Printmaking
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.
All materials are provided.
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.

Acrylic Painting: Focusing on Color and Design
Welcome to Summer Art Camp and working with acrylics! We are going to continue to explore color
mixing, color theory and design.
• In this workshop 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!