Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM.

Before Care-MICA

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.

Lunch-MICA

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

After Care-MICA

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 4-6. In this introductory landscape course, students take a fantastic journey into some truly unusual landscapes. Using children's literature as inspiration, students embark upon fanciful journeys into a colorful world of realistic, personal, and fanciful landscapes. They will create cityscapes, oceanscapes, and scenes from both an insect's point of view and a birds-eye view. From there, they will journey to far-away places to capture moonscapes and underwater seascapes. Emphasis is on problem-solving, exercising the imagination, using writing to enhance fanciful scenes, and experimentation with a variety of materials and techniques.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 2-4. For the young artist who loves to draw, this fast-paced course offers a little bit of everything. Students create drawings from memory, observation, imagination, and in response to the art of master artists. Different approaches, tools, materials and techniques are presented and explored using a diverse range of media, from pen and pencil to color explorations in pastel and paint. With the introduction of each new medium and technique, students create studies and sketches as preparation for several larger, refined pieces for the final art show. Emphasis is on exposure to a variety of traditional and non-traditional drawing media and surfaces, with hands-on process work and experimentation at the heart of learning each new drawing technique or medium.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 1-2. What does it mean to be an artist? How does an artist see? And what are the tools that an artist might use for creative expression? Let's explore the ways artists use art making and imagination to weave a richer, more colorful experience of life. This course invites young artists to tap into their own unique talents, skills, ways of seeing and creativity to create art that is personal, expressive and original. Media choices are abundant, with ample room for student exploration. Storybooks and masterworks are sources of inspiration.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 2-4. This course offers students an exciting opportunity to be both creator and performer in a dramatic artistic endeavor. Students explore a variety of 3-D processes as they create objects, puppets, masks, and other 3-D forms that can be incorporated into an original narrative. In addition to generating ideas and creating characters, students learn how props, voice, and movements can be used to tell a story. Emphasis is on creating a unique and expressive language of object, gesture, and story, with equal attention given to the artistic/visual qualities of the art objects themselves and the purposeful use of these objects in student-designed performances. Inspiration for each art object will be derived from a variety of places and artists, from the shadow plays of India to the contemporary object work of Hannah Tierney.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 4-6. Here is an opportunity to create something new from something forgotten or unwanted. Look around, cardboard tubes and boxes, plastic bottles and bottle caps, plastic forks and spoons, a broken coffee mug. Everywhere you look there is an object of waste waiting for a new purpose. In this course children will have the opportunity enhance perceptive skills by way of examining found objects for the countless alternative uses for creative expression. The magic happens when children respond to their imagination by creating sculptures, exploring surface design, or making collages, all which create narratives conveying a sense of playfulness and innovation.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades: 1-2. Nowhere is there a medium more malleable and versatile than clay. Intended for our youngest artists and framed within an energetic context of play, tactile experiences, exploration and discovery, this course is intended to get students immersed in working creatively to create forms, apply textures, and consider the varieties of surface effects with glaze. Students extrude, roll, press, mold, shape, squeeze, pinch, and drape clay in unusual ways to create beautiful, artful clay objects. Once familiar with the basic characteristics, possibilities and limitations of clay, students will find that the options are virtually endless!

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 6-8. Designed for students who want to improve drawing skills and work toward more realistic drawings, this course focuses on drawing from observation. Students are guided through a carefully sequenced, step-by-step process designed to develop the student's perception and thinking skills. Based upon exercises in Betty Edward's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this approach has been successful in improving students' ability to draw realistically, even for those who think they cannot draw. As such, it provides the young artist with an excellent bridge between drawing symbolically and working more realistically.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

MANGA is the Japanese word for comics. Manga characters possess easily recognizable features, and there is a wealth of Manga genres that appeals to children, teens, and adults of all ages and genders. Underlying the ability to "draw Manga" is a foundation of drawing skills that leads eventually to Manga style. While learning about Manga characters, compositions, and stories, students in this course will learn fundamental perceptual skills that will hone their realistic drawing abilities. By looking carefully at Manga use of light/shadow, body and face proportion and gesture, then juxtaposing that with expressive gesture, dialog, and context, students will understand the fundamentals of realistic rendering with a stylistic Manga flair.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 6-8. In this course, students hone perceptual and observational drawing skills using a variety of 2-D media and specific subject matter such as still-life set-ups, objects, natural forms, and the surrounding landscape. Students learn skills and techniques for realistic rendering by focusing on and capturing what they see using value, shading and contrast to create a sense of form, Composition is emphasized as students make purposeful decisions about how to organize space within a picture plane.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 6-8. Beginning with an understanding of compositional principles and the basic function of the digital camera, students learn to create and print digital images. As the course progresses, the class explores the Adobe Photoshop program as a tool to refine images and explore options in manipulating imagery for expressive purposes. This course takes place in a Macintosh graphics lab and on-site around campus to take photos. Students will be required to take images in class as well as capture images outside of class for use on the computer. NOTE: students must bring their digital cameras to each class.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12. This course deals with the figure as a system of shapes and investigates the use of light to develop and render forms that construct the figure. Students explore tone and value to create and define the form of the figure within the space it exists. Perceiving the figure as positive and negative shapes and issues of proportion and anatomy are addressed. Using traditional drawing media, students work from the model in different interior settings to apply learned rendering techniques in developing figure drawings while establishing a convincing illusion of space in their compositions.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 9-12. This course is designed to build upon, expand, and heighten students' concept of drawing. Using both conventional and unconventional drawing tools, students investigate mark-making and use of color as it relates to the development of symbolic and expressive form. Gesture and line quality are carefully considered as powerful means of expression. Working from observation, imagination, music, dreams and memory, students become comfortable thinking outside the box when it comes to their own creative possibilities.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12. This course is intended for motivated art students who are looking to enhance their portfolios not only in technical skills, but in the creative process as it relates to an ability to perceive and respond. Emphasis is placed on developing sensitivity to the marks made on surfaces as well as to the qualities in the objects or scenes students use as subject matter. Students will work in an improvisational manner as well as through sustained works as an ongoing process in which the result of one work fuels the ideas and inspiration for the next. Involvement in making informed, critical decisions will be guided through group discussions, inspiration from master artists, and self-reflection.

Section A Meets 6/25/2012 to 7/6/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 9-12. For any student who wishes to expand beyond drawing into three-dimensional art-making and exploration, this course immerses students in a wide array of 3D media. Beginning with clay as a malleable medium for creating 3D forms, students move on to additive and subtractive work in plaster, assemblage, wire sculpture, and more. Students consider the ways sculpture can convey a likeness, repeat forms, express a concept or emotion, and utilize space in visually interesting ways. Emphasis is on designing sculptures that can be viewed from all sides, with an overall form and surface treatment that are cohesive and expressive of the student's ideas and vision.