It’s Time to Start Thinking About Spring Break!

January 23, 2007

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The Walton Arts Center is hosting a series of Spring Break camps (details below).  Each camp will run from Monday, March 19 through Thursday, March 22, 2007.  Call 443-5600 to register.   

Kingdom of Creativity
Ages 7-9 / 9-11:30am OR 12:30-3:30pm / $69
Hear ye! Hear ye! Calling all Kings and Queens, Knights and Princesses for a week of drawing, painting, papier mache and puppet making!

Drawing and Painting Studio
Ages 9-12 / 9-11:30am / Instructor: Susan Hutchcroft / $69
Learn basic drawing skills and painting techniques through both traditional and non-traditional materials and applications

Morning Clay Studio: Wheel
Ages 9-12 / 9-11:30am / Instructor: Trent Tally / $75
Discover the creative possibilities of clay - using hand building and wheel techniques.  Participants must be at least 54″ tall to work safely on the wheel.

Photo Studio with Don House
Ages 13-17 / 12:30-3pm / 12:30-3pm / $75
Photographer Don House will lead students through a hands-on introduction to photographing people in black and white.  Students will learn lighting, compostion, developing and printing, and will have photos to keep at the end of the week.

Afternoon Clay Studio: Handbuilding
Ages 7-9 / 12:30-3pm / Instructor: Trent Tally / $75
Get your hands dirty - with handbuilding, slab and coil techniques.

Public Art with Sculptor Lee Littlefield
High School Students / 12:30-3pm / Instructor: Lee Littlefield / $75
Students are invited to create a unique sculpture with artist Lee Littlefield, whose work will be showcased in Walton Arts Center’s public art initiative, I-540 Flowers: Cultivating the Northwest Arkansas Neighborhood.  Students will learn Lee’s construction and finishing techniques and collaborate on the design and construction of a sculptural piece to be displayed during Lee’s exhibition on the Walton Arts Center campus.

Theatre Squared Spring Break Drama Academies
NW Arkansas’ regional professional theater for adults and young audiences invites students to join them for a week of fun, making friends, and getting creative in a positive environment!

Grades K-2 / 9:30-12pm OR 1:30-4pm / $125
These camps introduce the process of theater to our youngest students through imagining, enacting and reflecting upon improvised situations and integrating their learning through hands-on artmaking

Grades 3-5 / 9:30-2pm / $160
Academy teachers will lead students through the cornerstones of theater training - acting, improvisation and stage makeup.

Grades 6-12 / 9:30-4pm / $185
Older students focus on four areas that further develop their theatre skills - improvisation, acting principles, auditioning and stage makeup.

Posted by Terri Chadick | Filed Under Past Events 

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