Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM.

Before Care-MICA

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.

Lunch-MICA

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

After Care-MICA

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 4-6. Puppetry and expressive masks have served as a traditional intersection between the visual arts and theater. Puppets are powerful symbols that bring characters to life, tell stories, transmit cultural traditions or provide comic pleasure. Similarly, masks have long been used by different people from around the world as a means of expressing and celebrating ideas and events important to their culture. In this course, students select from a variety of media to construct puppets and masks to tell personal stories. Half art-making and half collaboration and performance, this course provides students with a unique venue for expressing both visually and through dramatic performance.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 2-4. Do you love to draw? In this class, students are involved in a variety of experiences in developing their drawing skills and abilities. 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. Students create drawings from observation, imagination, and in response to the art of master artists and their peers. Students maintain a sketchbook and work toward developing a portfolio of their drawings for presentation.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 2-4. Fabrics in rich colors, textures and patterns can be found in every part of the world. The tactile qualities of each type of material make fibers and fabrics a medium that lends itself to layering, combining, bending, stitching and folding. With swatches of varied fabrics as 'paint', and a rich array of yarn, string and other fibers as 'lines', students in this course create collage, fabric decoupage, embellishment with stitchery, fabric pattern-making, and much more. Art forms such as quilting, applique, and embroidery, used throughout history for artful functional objects, are used as inspiration.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 1-2. Let's take a journey into the imagination. Using children's literature as a starting point for "takeoff," students embark on flights over cities, fast journeys by train over land, and underwater excursions by submarine. As artist-travelers, students record - in paintings, prints and drawings - the things they see from a bird's eye view, a bug's-eye view, a fish-eye view and much, much more. Each journey is an exploration of an unfamiliar habitat, full of new textures, colors, living creatures and plant life waiting to be captured in vibrant works of art.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 4-6. This exciting, innovative course prepares students to use basic clay techniques to create things that are anything but ordinary, form clay pieces that go beyond vessels or pots. Students first acquire the skills necessary for pinching forms, use slip and score techniques to join pieces of clay, make even coils, and roll/adhere slabs. Students extrude, roll, press, mold, and drape clay in unusual ways to create beautiful, artful clay objects. Once familiar with the basic characteristics, possibilities and limitations of clay, students find that the options are virtually endless!

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 1-2. For young artists who aren't afraid to immerse themselves in making large-scale, messy, and creatively wonderful works of art, this course combines 2D drawing and 3D building in innovative ways. Using imagination, memory, and observation, students engage in media explorations to produce colorful, expressive 2D pieces. These pieces are then combined, collaged, and constructed to make final compositions that are beyond the ordinary!

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 6-8. From flip-books and line-drawn characters to paper and sculpey figures, anything that can be moved, adjusted, manipulated and photographed can become the subject for stop-action animation. Using simple flip-books and Nick Park's mind-boggling Wallace and Gromit stop-action series as inspiration, students work in groups to develop their own humorous skits. In this creative, collaborative animation "studio",students develop storyboards and characters as they design the backdrop and take shots for a 15-30 second short animation. By documenting each set-up, with adjustments between each shot, students learn how to bring characters alive the old-fashioned way.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 6-8. Intended for the student who has taken a YPS animation course before, or who is already proficient with the fundamentals of stop-action animation via digital images and iStopmotion, this course is run like an animation workshop, with teams of students using basic stop-action animation techniques to create short animated video clips. Building upon the beginning animation course’s basic skill-base in developing characters and narratives, students delve further into varied viewpoints, sound, set, and props to create a multi-layered animated piece. Students in the morning animation class may take this afternoon course as a full-day animation workshop.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 6-8. The focus of this course is on the techniques that are used in painting media. Specific painters are studied as students become involved in a series of structured painting exercises to develop painting skills and learn about the qualities of different painting media and techniques. Students apply knowledge gained from their painting exercises to painting fully developed compositions.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 6-8. For the fashion savvy young artist, this course introduces students to the world of style! Students explore fashion design concepts through sketching, fabric selection and design, color combinations, pattern design, and use of textures in garments. Beyond designing clothing items, students also consider fashion trends, past and present, in order to create garments, accessories, hats, and other innovative "wearables" that push the boundaries of existing styles. After guiding students through the basic vocabulary and skills needed to be successful fashion designers, students are presented with challenges and clients for whom they must design original creations for specific purposes. The course ends with a fabulous fashion show of all the designers' creations.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.
Section B Meets 7/23/2012 to 8/3/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12. This course involves students using digital imaging programs in creating and manipulating images using the Macintosh computer. Students learn to use the Adobe Photoshop suite and scan images as they explore the potential of the medium and create personally meaningful compositions. Using a variety of created and found images, students then learn how to make complex compositional decisions and visual effects via use of filters, the graphics drawing toolbox, color effects, and artful use of text. Students' works are printed and copied to CD for their portfolios.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12. Beginning with an understanding of compositional principles and the basic function, features, and possibilities of the digital camera, students learn to create and print digital images. From a variety of prompts intended to tap into students' interpretation and experience of the visual world around them, students collect imagery around campus, in their daily lives, at home, and outdoors. 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. Note: Students must bring their digital camera to each class.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12. The art of bookmaking was once a craft limited to written books. Today, artists use creative and inventive approaches to construct and bind books that tell stories, hold images, or become a journal to hold memories and ideas. The holding form of the book is as artful as the content within. In this class, students explore the book as both an art object as well as a personal and symbolic holding form for written and visual narrative. Students learn techniques for making accordion books, scrolls, bound journals, and much more. Careful consideration is given to the paper types and form chosen to match the overall intent and structure of the book.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 9-12. This course focuses on ways that drawing the portrait and self-portrait, partial or full figure, can go beyond investigating and accurately rendering the subject, and instead, become a vehicle for exploration within the artist. Students interpret and manipulate color, value, line and other elements to a more personal end, so that finished portraits become a reflection of the students own feelings and values. The goal of the course is to free the artist from the expectation of realistic rendering and provide the opportunity to react, explore and draw from a deeper source. Individual and group critiques round out each session.

Section A Meets 7/9/2012 to 7/20/2012 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 9-12. Intended for the high school art student who has worked with clay before and understands its basic properties, this course pushes the possibilities and limitations of clay through innovative hand-building techniques such as molding, draping, pinching, coiling, and slab-making. Students both mark in clay, and draw with clay as they explore how to combine form and surface design. Experimentation in surface design and texture, as well as the varied styles and techniques in underglazing and glazing, will allow students to take their work in new directions. They will incorporate their explorations into a body of work that has cohesion in its overall aesthetic and design.