Truro Center for the Arts announces summer workshops for kids

Summer workshops for kids 6-12 announced in Truro

The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill is holding several workshops for children ages 6 to 12.  Workshops are also available for older children (teens).

The workshops vary by subject, length and cost.  See complete details below.  Parents are encouraged to register children soon as these popular classes fill up quickly.

A clay mask created in the Kids Ceramics workshop with Caitlin Nesbit. Photo courtesy of CastleHill.org.

Drawing and Printmaking with Vicky Tomayko

• June 29 - July 3, Monday - Friday from 2pm to 4pm
• 5 sessions, $300
• At Pamet Crossing

Students will use collage, drawing materials, and printmaking techniques, to create original one-of-a-kind works on paper. We'll be using an etching press and simple monotype methods. Come prepared to explore materials and experiment with a variety of different approaches to layering and having fun with your own images. Ages 7 to 11.

Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who works with a variety of monotype techniques to create multi-layered, one-of-a-kind prints. Tomayko teaches at the Museum School at Provincetown Art Association and Museum and in the Summer Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her workshops include printmaking for Mass College of Art MFA at the Fine Arts Work Center. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans for ten years. Tomayko was assistant professor of printmaking at Connecticut College, 1979 through 1981, and was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1985. She received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University, and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation Grants. Her work is exhibited at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Venice, Istanbul, and Melbourne.

Found Object Sculpture Conny Hatch

• July 13 - 15, Monday through Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm
• 3 sessions, $200
• At Pamet Crossing

We will learn how to assemble found, reclaimed and recycled objects into fine and fantastic sculptures. We will free our imaginations and think outside the "box" to create free-standing and hanging masterpieces from a variety of raw materials. We'll learn how to safely and carefully attach and secure materials together for strength and durability with a variety of tools and hardware. Bring your silly and vast imaginations for some serious fun.

Conny Hatch is an artist who had the great fortune of having her dad teach her how to use all kinds of hand and power tools from a very young age. After studying art with a concentration on ceramics at the Maine College of Art and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, she moved to Provincetown in 1998. A 1999 Castle Hill sculpture workshop with Paul Bowen turned her interest towards working with found and reclaimed materials to create lively and unique sculptures. She has created over 160 sculptures to date which are in collections in the US and England. In 2007 Conny was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in support of her pursuit of her art. Conny's work can be seen at the Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown.

Diorama and Nest Julia Salinger

• July 20 - 23, Monday - Thursday from 2pm - 4pm
• 4 sessions, $275
• At Pamet Crossing

Albert Einstein said that "Imagination is more important than Knowledge."

I would say that the imagination is the portal into the soul. We will use this idea as a way to guide us in creation of our unique fantasy constructions. Have you ever dreamed of building your own nest? Someplace magical and fun that is a true expression of yourself. Together we will use manmade and organic materials to construct a special place of one's own.

Come to class with some of your favorite small objects, natural materials and lots of energy. Let's go wild exploring!!!!

Julia Salinger’s varied art career began as an art historian. Her mentor, Irving Sandler, was the preeminent art scholar who wrote 'The Triumph of American Painting. She studied at Columbia University and worked for Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. During this period, she was accepted into the prestigious curatorial program at the Hirschorn Museum in Washington, DC. She has worked at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the Guggenheim, The Neuberger Museum and the Whitney. After a few life changing experiences, she decided it was time to nourish her own creative spirit. In 1999 she started to create her own work. Since 2000, she has shown in numerous group shows and is represented in collections in the US, Europe and Asia

Pinhole for All Ages Martin R. Anderson

• August 17 - 21, Monday – Friday from 9am - noon
• 5 Sessions, $375+ $15 lab fee
• At Castle Hill

A fun photography class for all ages! Cameras created from everyday objects like tin cans will be loaded with photographic paper on which to record images which will come to life using basic darkroom techniques. This is a simple, hands-on way to understand photography that can produce surprisingly dynamic and beautiful images. No previous photographic experience is necessary (although experienced photographers may relish the opportunity to explore and play outside the usual boundaries.) An ideal class for parents and kids to take together.

Martin R. Anderson has worked extensively with alternative photography over the past seven years, with over 40 pinhole cameras of his own making. In July of 2005, Martin received a fellowship for a three-week Artist-In-Residency at C-Scape dune shack in Provincetown where he created a portfolio of pinhole landscapes and self-portraits. In 2006, his pinhole photograph, "Paris, Tulieries: Alexandre combatant" won First Place in Art & Antiques Magazine's annual photography contest. During the year he leads classes in Pinhole Photography at the Brookline Center for Adult & Community Education.

Textile and Fiber Arts: Nathalie Ferrier

• August 17 - 21, Monday – Friday from 2pm - 4pm
• 5 Sessions, $300
• At Castle Hill

The class will be open to children and adults.

The participants will be invited to make soft sculptures out of fabric and/or stuffed animals and/or clothes. During the first session, we will look at artworks and objects made from cloth or fibers, we will get comfortable with a few sewing techniques and then start creating. Participants are invited to bring any materials (fabrics, ribbons, strings...) that inspire them. They should also bring a sewing kit with threads scissors, pins and needles.

Nathalie Ferrier went to fashion school in Paris and worked as a fashion designer for over ten years in France. In 1995, she created a toy company, Born To Be Wild LLC and sold her stuffed animals and toys to many Museum stores around the USA. She has a MFA from MASSART and teaches a fiber/art class at Cape Cod Community College. She also teaches a stuffed animal workshop at the Truro Central School.

Kids Ceramics Caitlin Nesbit

• Aug 18 & 20, 25 & 27, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am – noon
• 4 sessions, $275
• At Castle Hill

In this class, kids 7 to 11 will employ methods of building with coils and slabs in various ways to produce functional pots as well as personal sculptures, such as figures and small architectures.

Complete details are available on the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill website here or by calling 508-349-7511.  Register online for classes.