Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM.

Before Care-MICA

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.

Lunch-MICA

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM.

After Care-MICA

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 2-4. 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 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 1-2. Do you have a knack for putting together unusual materials to create interesting three-dimensional objects? In this hands-on, multi-media sculptural course, students use additive techniques to attach, glue, twist, stack, tie, dangle and arrange as they explore the ways varied materials can be combined to create expressive forms that may be artful, functional or both. Materials such as found objects, wood, paper and board are used for construction of these innovative sculptures, then they are embellished with a variety of natural and man-made materials. Students are encouraged to use their own artful thinking to find and bring in interesting objects and materials for use in this course.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 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 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 4-6. For the young illustrator who has a flair for the stylized, humorous, or zany, this class will exercise both your perceptual skills and your imaginations! Part realistic drawing, part imaginative drawing, part character development, and part story-telling, this course guides students through the steps an illustrator must go through, from securing a client with a specific artistic task in mind, going through the planning stages and concept development or an illustration job, prototyping, and eventually, coming up with finished illustrations intended for publication in advertisements, books, and other print media.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 1-2. Get ready to see the world in a whole new way! This course offers the child a variety of exciting art experiences based upon explorations of his/her immediate world. The child-artists are encouraged to explore the world through experiencing texture, color, line, and shape through use of movement, touch, and sight. Using a variety of drawing media, the child translates his/her world through expressive mark-making and line. From very small to very large drawings, individual work to collaborative murals, this course will open up a world of possibilities.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 2-4.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 6-8. Learning to draw the human face realistically can be fun, explorative and expressive. In this course, students draw from observation to learn basic proportional guidelines and techniques for drawing the face. Beginning with quick gesture and contour-line drawings, students first learn how to see and carefully observe the details and nuances of the human face. A sequential range of exercises helps students sharpen perceptual skills and their ability to draw facial features. Using both wet and dry media, students use each other and themselves via mirrors as subject matter for portraits.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 6-8. Explore the medium that Pablo Picasso called "the only true American art form." In this course, small groups of beginning and advanced students collaborate on story-boarding and developing and producing ideas for short, animated video clips. Beginning students learn a wide range of practical information, including the basics of handling a digital camera and lighting effectively. Advanced students are grouped and encouraged to further explore stop-action with drawn animation. Animated subjects are drawn from found objects and people, as well as modeled in oil-based clay. Everyone's results are transferred to individual tapes and shared with class members.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 6-8. Throughout the centuries, hand-built clay objects have served numerous purposes, allowing people to transport materials, store grains, protect treasures and hold liquids. Students learn to pinch clay forms, use slip and score techniques to join pieces of clay, make even coils and roll even slabs. Using only hand-held tools and processes, students experiment with drapemolds, hand-built vessels, functional items and decorative sculpture. Underglazing and glazing techniques are used to embellish clay surfaces.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 6-8. Heroes, monsters, dragons and legends! Join us in creating a fantasy world where unknown creatures, unsolved mysteries, and unusual legends abound. Student will begin by exploring a variety of myths, legends, and lore that have persisted over time, from the sea to the mountains, and consider the images and artwork that have come to be as a result of those legends. Working as a collaborative group of explorers, students create three-dimensional artifacts, two-dimensional drawings, and other visual evidence of their findings.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12: In this course, students hone 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 and/or cityscape. Students learn numerous skills and techniques for representational drawing 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 2-dimensional picture plane. Note: No class on October 13 and November 24.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 9-12. For students who have experience drawing from life and would like to learn more about the unique qualities of oil paint. Used as the primary medium throughout the history of painting, the versatility, and richness of oil paint have allowed artists to capture moments in time, events, and likenesses in ways that no other medium can. students work primarily from life using a combination of still-life, portrait, and landscape to develop skills in utilizing cohesive color schemes using specific oil painting techniques - underpainting, glazing, smooth application of color, impasto. Note: Students will use solvents in this course. Due to the use of oil pigments, a materials fee for this course will apply.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades: 9-12. In this course, students explore and apply ways in which disparate imagery and materials can be arranged to create compositions that are both aesthetically pleasing and expressive of ideas and feelings. Students explore the potential of a variety of ideas, images and materials in designing and creating compositions that have personal meaning. Using a balance of found images and created images, students are encouraged to create narrative works, with equal emphasis on treatment of the work’s surface, choice and arrangement of images, and selection of media. The notion of matching concepts to materials will be explored in-depth, and students will be exposed to an exciting array of media.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.

Grades 9-12. This course is ideal for students who wish for a change from drawing from life and are ready for a process-oriented course that will yield surprising results. Originally used as a means of duplicating images, printmaking has become an art form in its own right. From a handful of basic techniques in creating printing plates, students learn that the artistic results can be infinite depending on colors, pressure, and the plates themselves are manipulated. Emphasis is on developing a personal repertoire of symbols and imagery that are then incorporated into single prints as well as editions of prints. If you have never explored printmaking beyond the standard relief linoleum print, then this class will open your eyes to the amazing variety of ways prints can be generated, manipulated, and put to use.

Section A Meets 7/22/2013 to 8/2/2013 on Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Grades 9-12.