Summer Art Camps ages 3 - 13
Dates & times: Our camps run weekly from July 7 through the week of August 11. Each camp will run from 9 am – noon Monday through Friday. There may be some repetition of subjects covered from week to week. Teachers will attempt to offer enrichment changes for those participants who are repeating camp weeks.
Fee: Cost: Featherstone’s summer art camp program is $275 plus a $25 materials fee for a total of $300 pe
Location: Featherstone art buildings 2008 Magic Garden Summer Camp “Opening doors, opening minds”
with Lani Carney
The art programs for children and youth, ages 3 – 6. Miss Lani has extended the age to 7 year olds for those who wish to continue with her. Magic Garden arts camp at Featherstone Center for the arts during the summer highlights the process of painting. Classes are created in ways that are interactive, engaging and exciting. The process is the beauty for the young artist, not the outcome.
You will meet other Island families and those from afar, enjoy children friendly walks in nature and create work in a peaceful, relaxing studio environment. Art illustrator quality materials are utilized for watercolor, pastel, sketching with charcoal and Lyra colored pencils, collage, flower petals, sunflower art, silk and sand painting, copper, wood and clay sculpture and mosaics.
Miss Lani’s founded and teaches our Magic Garden Camp and year-round art classes for children at Featherstone. Her philosophy is to be “in touch” with our pre-school age children and youth as they participate in these activities in order that enjoyment is fostered.
A positive and nurturing climate is established because of the lovely quality of families we paint with and because we are present, we make time to talk individually with each child and interact respectfully with all children; the children have opportunities and each child is guided in positive peer interactions and behavior management strategies.
A natural and beautiful “order” is the result.  “Mirroring” behavior that is warm and joyful characterizes Miss Lani’s teaching expertise.  She believes our program is located in a place of rural Island dignity, like none other.  It carries physical embodiments of the past, but also maintains in its very air a rare serenity – an other worldliness.
It is a good spot for the children to be improvisational!  Kadinsky would be proud.  Miss Lani is grateful.  She looks forward to knowing you… learning about art and the world with her can be fun!                     Welcome…

3-D Discovery Camp
for 7-9 year olds
Various artist teachers each week
After experiencing a nurturing pre-school age camp, children ages 7 -9 will enjoy the transition to our 3-D Discovery Camp which will focus on the creativity of 3-D objects of all sorts.  Participants will have the opportunity to make hats with all a variety of materials, islands out of clay, insects out of paper mache and plastic containers, animals such as fish, penguins, out of clay and castles out of cardboard.  Young people will have the opportunity to create freely.  The arts camp experience will focus on learning and FUN…

Pottery and Printmaking
with Issa Van Dyk.
Ages: 10 and older - This is an in-depth study of techniques and processes in ceramics and monoprinting.  In clay the techniques that will be used include both thrown and hand-built forms as well as glaze application. In printmaking we will focus on monoprinting techniques such as gelatin and sun printing.  In both mediums we will include tools, resources and inspiration from the natural world around us.Registration: name, address, phone and e-mail are required for pre-registration. Payment in full is required prior to the start of camp.
*** Registration is not complete until Featherstone has received a recent and current physician signed immunization record stating that your child has the following immunizations.  This must be received before the camp begins. The Oak Bluffs Health Department may refuse a child without the immunization record.
Children should bring a mid-morning snack each day to camp.

Immunizations Required by Massachusetts for Camp Enrollment
Campers under 18 years of age
MMR: 1st dose = 12 months or older
Measles: 2nd dose = grades K-12
or age equivalent
Polio: 3 doses IPV or OPV,
or 4 doses mix IPV/OPV
Diptheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Pertussis*: 4 doses DTaP/DPT/DT or 3 doses of Td
(persons 7 years or older needing additional vaccines to comply with above, Td is to be used)
*Booster dose of Td

Miss Lani’s extra
summer offerings
for children 3-7

Since our Magic Garden Camp is fully reserved,
Miss Lani offers the following extra opportunities for our youngest artists to have an opportunity to explore the arts with her:

Our annual America Celebration
Thursday, July 3
Time:  9 am – noon
Fee:  $50
When young Americans unite to honor
our country.

Shells -Treasures of the Sea
Wednesday, July 9
Time: 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Fee:  $50
We will look – very close up of the interior of an abalone shell.  The dazzling iridescence and bright colors will be studies.  Brilliant blue and green hues of the New Zealand “pana” shell, Haliotis Iris, will be sketched and replicated in acrylic paint.
An understanding of our First Nation people of the Pacific Northwest and their early customs will be honored.
We will celebrate our love of shells – treasures of the sea!

The Sailor’s Valentine
Wednesday, July 23
Time:  1:30 – 4:30
Fee:  $50
A shell mosaic laid out in a two-hinged, octagonal wooden box will be created.  As in the 19th century, whalers and sailors acquired these for their loved ones while they were away at sea for long periods of time.  “Remember me” was often a phrase incorporated in the mosaic design.  We will attempt to design our very own vineyard sailor’s Valentine for our families… our original art form…

Watermelon & Watermelons:
Blueberries & Strawberries, Too
Wednesday, August 6
Time: 1:30 – 4:30
Fee:  $50
Watermelon and watermelons – blueberries and strawberries – Is there anything more delicious than a bowl of summertime?
We will paint with watercolor and with the juices of our favorite fruits. We will make watermelon crème smoothies (recipe provided by Vineyard Gourmet) and strawberry lemonade.
It will be an afternoon art picnic.
Easels will be placed in our Children’s Studio garden – surely we can capture this “arty” fun on watercolor paper. Here’s to a happy afternoon that is a taste of summertime!


WATER COLOR FOR KIDS
AGES 8-teens.         
Carolyn Daniele
Session 1:  Thurs., July 17, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Session 2:  Thurs., July 24, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Session 3:   Thurs., August 7, 1 – 4 pm
Fee: $50/class
Location:  Under the summer tent.
Get ready for the fair.
Watercolor paint is like painting with liquid magic. Many kids have won prizes with their paintings from this class.
Come see what the excitement is about!
Pre-registration required. Supplies will be provided. Limited to 10.

Summer Magic Garden Pre-School
Lani Carney “Opening doors, opening minds”
with Lani Carney
The art programs for children and youth, ages 3 – 6. Miss Lani has extended the age to 7 year olds for those who wish to continue with her. Magic Garden arts camp at Featherstone Center for the arts during the summer highlights the process of painting. Classes are created in ways that are interactive, engaging and exciting. The process is the beauty for the young artist, not the outcome.
You will meet other Island families and those from afar, enjoy children friendly walks in nature and create work in a peaceful, relaxing studio environment. Art illustrator quality materials are utilized for watercolor, pastel, sketching with charcoal and Lyra colored pencils, collage, flower petals, sunflower art, silk and sand painting, copper, wood and clay sculpture and mosaics.
Miss Lani’s founded and teaches our Magic Garden Camp and year-round art classes for children at Featherstone. Her philosophy is to be “in touch” with our pre-school age children and youth as they participate in these activities in order that enjoyment is fostered.
A positive and nurturing climate is established because of the lovely quality of families we paint with and because we are present, we make time to talk individually with each child and interact respectfully with all children; the children have opportunities and each child is guided in positive peer interactions and behavior management strategies.
A natural and beautiful “order” is the result.  “Mirroring” behavior that is warm and joyful characterizes Miss Lani’s teaching expertise.  She believes our program is located in a place of rural Island dignity, like none other.  It carries physical embodiments of the past, but also maintains in its very air a rare serenity – an other worldliness.
It is a good spot for the children to be improvisational!  Kadinsky would be proud.  Miss Lani is grateful.  She looks forward to knowing you… learning about art and the world with her can be fun!                     Welcome…

Kinderart
Thursdays 3:15 – 5:15 pm
Fee: $150 per session

Ages 4-7

Second session: February 7 and March 6, 13, and April 3, 10
Third session: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Fourth session: June 5, 12, 19 (last session adjusted fee)

This class is designed especially for children who attend pre-school or kindergarten. Students will draw, paint and work with clay and mosaics as the process of creating art is explored. Each class will take inspiration from beautifully illustrated books, evocative tales, the lives of artists and the world of nature.

Watercolor for Children
Five Tuesdays 1-3 pm
Fee: $150 for each session

Ages 3-6

Second session: March 4, 11 and April 1, 8 and 29
Third session: May 6, 13, 20, 27 and June 3
Fourth sessions: June 10 and 17 (last session adjusted fee)

The visual imagination of the young child will be stimulated by art exploration with water color. Painting, stories, songs and music will provide the point of departure. Parent and caregivers are welcome, though not required
to stay.

Animals in Art
Five Wednesdays 3:30 -5:30 pm
Fee: $150 series

Ages 5- 10

Second session: March 5, 12, and April 2, 9, 30
Third session: May 7, 14, 21, 28 and June 4
Fourth session: June 11, 18, 25 (last week)

We will explore the world according to animals using drawings, clay, and paint, recycled and natural materials. We will also consider how humans have represented animals in art throughout history and around the world.

Famous for a Day
Five Mondays 3-5 pm
Fee: $150.00 for each session

Ages 6-10
Second session: March 3, 10, 31 and April 7 and 28
Third session: May 5, 12, 19, 26 and June 2
Fourth session: June 9, 16, 23 – (last session will be an adjusted fee)

We will look at the work of famous artists and discover what we can learn from these great masters. We will drip and splatter like Jackson Pollack, distort our faces like Picasso and develop new worlds like Dr. Seuss. Several
guest artists and art teacher friends will be invited to visit us.