SUMMER ART PROGRAMS FOR KIDS & TEENS

PROCREATE DIGITAL PAINTING CAMP

Offered TWICE this Summer! 

Different projects each week!!

Session I: July 27-31

or

Session II: August 10-14

INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette      

WHO: Entering Grades 4-9

WHEN: 9:00-12noon

WHERE:  Danvers Art Association

ACTIVITIES:Combine your creativity with technology and learn to create your very own beautiful digital artworks on Procreate! Our camp will be a crash course on the exciting digital platform. Campers will have so much fun drawing that you’ll forget you were even learning a new program in the first place! Learn the basic tools to start making art in Procreate, add vibrant colors, adjust palettes, experiment with textured brushes, and add special effects. Campers will be able to export your artwork and the process video behind it as an MP4 - the video of how you made the artwork is almost as fun to enjoy as the original painting.

Regarding Materials: 

Students need to arrive with a charged iPad tablet and latest version of Procreate downloaded. Optional: Tablet stylus pen. 

COST:  

$180 Member  

$190.00 Non-Member

HAUNTED HOUSE CAMP

July 20-24

INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette      

WHO: Entering Grades 5-8

WHEN: 9:00-3:00pm

WHERE:  Danvers Art Association

ACTIVITIES: Welcome to our 6th annual Haunted House Camp Week! Students will design haunted house sets, sculpt papermache’ demons and skeletons, paint dungeon walls and experiment with zombie MAKE-UP. This is a fully immersive experience on how to create a frightening haunted house in the halls and rooms of the Danvers Art Association. Campers will write scripts, don costumes and practice performing. Family and friends will be invited to experience the nightmare at the end of the week. Artwork and performances developed during camp week will be used in the 4th annual DAA Haunted House fundraising event in October for the public to enjoy. 

COST: 

$280 Member 

 $290 Non-Member

PAINTING CAMP

Offered TWICE this Summer! 

Different projects each week!!

Session I: July 6-10

or

Session II: July 27-31

INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette      

WHO: Entering Grades 2-6

WHEN: 12:30-3:00pm

WHERE:  Danvers Art Association

ACTIVITIES: Campers will have a blast creating amazing animal portraits on canvas with acrylic paints! We will explore colorful fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. Campers will learn painting techniques that create the illusion of animal fur, scales, feathers, and hair direction. Young artists will gain confidence in applying layers of paint, mixing colors to achieve exceptional values and depth and complete compositions with exciting backgrounds. Parents should get those frames ready for some amazing new canvas paintings coming home!

COST: 

$155 Member

  $165 Non-Member

Cartoon & Fantasy Illustration

Offered TWICE this Summer!

Session I: July 13-17

WHO: Entering Grades 3-7

WHEN: 9:00am-12:00noon

Session II: August 10-14

WHO: Entering Grades 2-6

WHEN: 12:30-3:00pm

INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette      

WHERE:  Danvers Art Association

ACTIVITIES: This week will allow students to explore and expand their imaginations, creating comics and narrative worlds. Students will learn illustration, character design, and storytelling while practicing drawing skills with ink, marker, modeling clay and colored pencil.

COST:

Session I

$160 Member 

$170 Non-member

Session II

$150 Member 

$160 Non-member

WOODCARVING CAMP I

Offered TWICE this Summer! 

Different projects each week!!

Session I: July 6-10

or

Session II: August 17-20

M-Th Only

INSTRUCTOR: Jeff Surette      

WHO: Grades 5-9

WHEN: 9:00-12noon

WHERE:  Danvers Art Association

Woodcarving is a creative craft that is challenging and rewarding to first timers and returning students. Students will design and carve 2-3 original wooden relief sculptures in various themes. Members of our class will learn proper techniques using mallets, chisels, sanding blocks, Dremel sanding drums, knives, wood burners, stains, and acrylic paints. 

 COST: 

Session I

$180 Member 

$190 Non-member

Session II

$150 Member 

$160 Non-member