This camp is now full. Registration no longer available
Campers create water/beach scenes, cityscapes and landscapes using watercolors, tempera paint, chalk and clay. We’ll make summer designs; sun, turtles, etc. through the art of printing by press stamping with natural objects and use clay to make wind chimes and sculpt a bird.
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $190 ($170 members)
This camp is now full. No further registrations can be taken
Start with a dollop of drawing, add a pinch of painting, and a splash of sculpture for the perfect indoor summer picnic. We’ll be inspired by artists such as Claes Oldenburg & Robert Sabuda, who use food for their inspiration. George Seurat provides the theme for our picnic—no ants allowed!
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $190 ($170 members)
Camp is full, no more registration can be taken at this time
Campers’ ideas come to life with the opportunity to express creativity through designing and constructing puppets using a variety of materials, techniques and subject matter. Campers will create their personal collection of sock, finger, shadow and molded puppets, just to name a few.
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $190 ($170 members)
Young architects and town planners will explore physical aspects like buildings for local neighborhoods as well as state, nation and world communities. Exploration includes services like libraries, stores, schools and expands to non-physical aspects of how people with similar interests make another kind of community. Campers use boxes, paper, fabric , paint and other fun items to create their own ideal neighborhoods.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $190 ($170 members)
Campers will learn special techniques for working with clay. We will pinch, pull and coil to form pots and other sculpted creations. We’ll have fun learning printmaking techniques, weaving and braiding.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day: (paired with a morning class): $190 ($170 members)
Let your imagination be your guide! Build fantastic cut-paper creatures based on Chinese dragons, cities of recyclable materials based on stories by Italio Calvino, puppets for our Indonesian Shadow Puppet Theatre.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $190 ($170 members)
Young architects and town planners will explore physical aspects like buildings for local neighborhoods as well as state, nation and world communities. Exploration includes services like libraries, stores, schools and expands to non-physical aspects of how people with similar interests make another kind of community. Campers use boxes, paper, fabric , paint and other fun items will create their own ideal neighborhoods.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $100 ($90 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $190 ($170 members)
We’ll travel the world through the art and artists from the Brazilian rainforest through the Grand Canyon, to the islands of Australia, Japan and Jamaica and on to the continent of Europe. Using tooling foil, papier-mâché, wood, paper, cardboard, plaster, pencils, paint, pastels, feathers, fur and sequins, campers will appreciate other cultures and how they use the materials of their lands.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
this camp is now full. No more registrations can be taken
Campers learn about the techniques of Picasso, Matisse and Rousseau and incorporate these into their own art work. Projects include abstract sculpture, cubist oil pastel, mixed media still life, collaged and painted frames, and jungle pictures using plants and stuffed animals as inspiration.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Campers turn their hands and imaginations to four projects in 2 weeks: Dogon animal masks, South African wire sculpture, mixed media crowns and warrior shields, and Adinkra printed cloth.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Inspired by the Pop Art Movement, campers explore Pop artists’ expressions of and comments on modern society, commercialism, media and TV, etc. Campers will bring objects from home as well as camp to create projects including “funkified furniture”, “small things made big” and giant comic strip characters.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
An introduction to Musical Theatre. Students have fun learning and showcasing the Broadway standards. Performance in the HCCA black box theatre on the last day of camp.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Animals, birds, reptiles and amphibians are our models. We’ll look at different ways animals have been represented by artists through the ages, paying attention to the forms, textures and patterns of animals. Campers choose their favorites to draw, paint, create booklets, sculptures and prints.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Campers turn their hands and imaginations to four projects in 2 weeks: Dogon animal masks, South African wire sculpture, mixed media crowns and warrior shields, and Adinkra printed cloth.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
This is a camp for anyone who loves the world of animals, but is also fascinated with fantasy creatures. Campers will draw and develop their own animals and creatures while exploring various drawing, painting and crafting techniques. Styles and techniques include realism, impressionism, abstraction, patterns, textured drawing, collage, cartooning, and crafting sculpture.
Please call 410-313-2787 to register.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Campers will discover how mixed media artists go about collecting materials or “visual evidence”. We’ll explore the journals of Dan Eldon and the three-dimensional shadowboxes of Joseph Cornell. Campers will focus on self-expression using recycled materials and found objects to create personal bound visual journals, an assemblage clock and a collograph plate for printing their masterpieces.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Students explore printmaking techniques including linocut, stamping, silkscreen and monoprint. Combining methods brings beautiful results, working on paper, fabric and wood.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Center’s resident award-winning theater group will have campers moving and shaking with Shakespeare. Campers learn first-hand what it means to be a Shakespearean actor! Led by a professional actor, activities may include: theatre games, music, acting exercises, and the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform scenes from Shakespeare. The two-week camp is capped off with a performance for family and friends.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Bringing design and fine art together to promote creativity and expression, students will create movable, flat human models from cardboard and “dress” them in fun “clothing”. Works will be done on paper using painting, drawing, and a variety of craft materials, ready to frame. Campers will NOT make actual clothing.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Center’s resident award-winning theater group will have campers moving and shaking with Shakespeare. Campers learn first-hand what it means to be a Shakespearean actor! Led by a professional actor, activities may include: theatre games, music, acting exercises, and the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform scenes from Shakespeare. The two-week camp is capped off with a performance for family and friends.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Budding cartoonists, illustrators and artists of all kinds and levels will polish their drawing skills. Campers explore various applications from realism to cartooning.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Take an Ordinary Box: Furniture for Dolls & Action Figures
Does your doll need a bedroom makeover? Does your action figure need a new control center? Have fun cutting, gluing, painting and decorating new furniture from food and shoe boxes.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Students explore printmaking techniques including linocut, stamping, silkscreen and monoprint. Combining methods brings beautiful results, working on paper, fabric and wood.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Center’s resident award-winning theater group will have campers moving and shaking with Shakespeare. Campers learn first-hand what it means to be a Shakespearean actor! Led by a professional actor, activities may include: theatre games, music, acting exercises, and the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform scenes from Shakespeare. The two-week camp is capped off with a performance for family and friends.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Calling all campers who like to show their individualism and unique style! Bring your own t-shirt, tank top, jeans, hat, dress, shorts or canvas bag to decorate. Boys and girls will learn how to apply anything from patches to lace, appliqué embroidery, studs, sequins, beads or ribbon.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Center’s resident award-winning theater group will have campers moving and shaking with Shakespeare. Campers learn first-hand what it means to be a Shakespearean actor! Led by a professional actor, activities may include: theatre games, music, acting exercises, and the unique opportunity to rehearse and perform scenes from Shakespeare. The two-week camp is capped off with a performance for family and friends.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Make a doll house or special home for your action figures and superheroes. Ranch house, split level or 3-story castle; we’ll let our imaginations guide us. Houses will be constructed from corrugated boxes and can be furnished with furniture made in Session 2.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Four distinct activities come together as a personal, handmade book of hopes and dreams: papermaking, printmaking, page design and layout of photos, drawings, paintings of hopes and dreams and finally, bookbinding.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day: (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Inspired by the Pop Art Movement, campers explore Pop artists’ expressions of and comments on modern society, commercialism, media and TV, etc. Campers will use objects from home as well as camp to create projects including “funkified furniture”, “small things made big” and giant comic strip characters.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with an afternoon class): $360 ($325 members)
Inspired by stories of castles, dragons knights and royalty, young adventurers will travel back to medieval times through their drawings and paintings.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Fun explorations into drawing, painting, printmaking and mixed media will teach participants how to see and translate their ideas into artworks. Visual vocabulary expands with a focus on multiple historic and contemporary styles and techniques.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
Clothing from a paper bag and hats from candy; Camp Runway campers will be challenged to create unique, whimsical garments using offbeat materials. Campers are introduced to creative concepts in pattern design, sewing and garment construction. All challenges allow for both boys and girls to create fun and interesting items. A fashion show caps off the session.
Half Day: $190 ($170 members)
Full Day (paired with a morning class): $360 ($325 members)
