CCDS in the Summer

Art Programs

GRADES PRE-K–6

Disney Daze
Rising pre-K–grade 2. Session I: June 16–20. Session II: July 21–25, both sessions 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170 each session.
Do you love to draw? This week you become an even better artist than you are now, as you learn some tricks of the trade and artists’ secrets that make your drawings look terrific. Using step-by-step instructions and easy-to-understand basic shapes and lines, you draw the classics in no time. Mickey Mouse and Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Donald Duck, and more fill your portfolio by the end of the week. Campers also create decorative crafts like Mickey Mouse ears, picture frames, sock puppets, door hangers, and masks. No prior drawing lessons are required.

Why Can’t I Come Too?
Camp for four-year-olds. Session I: June 16–20. Session II: July 7–11. Session III: July 28–August 1, all sessions 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170 each session.
Tired of explaining to your four-year-old why he or she can’t go to camp? Well now your child can. This week we draw a variety of farm animals, use modeling clay to make a barn, build snow globes, and more. At the end of the week, campers will put on a short play about life on the farm, using the crafts they made as props.

The Wonderful World of Clay!
Rising K–grade 2. June 16–20, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Make a mystical unicorn or a flying pig. During this week campers are introduced to the wonderful and messy world of clay (do not worry, we clean them up before they come home!). Learn the basics of clay (pinch pots, coils, etc.) while applying those techniques to items you love like silly frogs and jumping alligators.

Famous Women Artists (Girls Only)
Session I: Rising grades 3–5. June 16–20, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Session II: Rising grades 6–8. June 16–20, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. $170 each session.
Learn about and then draw in the styles of some of the most famous women artists in history. During this week you explore artists like Cassatt, Frankenthaler, Bonheur and Grandma Moses! This unique week allows you to combine art history with actual hands-on classes refined by these incredible ladies of art!

Crazy About Horses
Rising K–grade 3. June 23–27, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
This week you draw, paint, and learn about the horses of the world. In addition, you make a paper mâché of the most famous Trojan horse of all time and stash some of your favorite goodies in him for a feast on Friday!

The Clay Potter’s Wheel
Session I: Rising grades 3–5. July 7–11, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Session II: Rising grades 4–6. July 7–11, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. $180 each session.
Although some prior experience with clay is helpful, this class is open to beginners too. Students learn how to throw on the wheel, progressing from the basic cylinder to more subtle and interesting shapes of vessels and bowls. Individual vision and creativity is always encouraged and students may pursue personal projects if they wish, creating sculptural forms and whimsical decorative vessels like teapots, birdhouses, and more. While pots dry, students are encouraged to pursue hand building projects with coil, slab, and sculptural methods. Slips, glazes, decorative painting, and other embellishments, as well as kiln firing, are taught.

Monet’s Garden
Rising grades 3–6. July 7–11, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Experience the wonderful world of watercolor painting as you pattern our week after the great artist Claude Monet. Each student brushes away their worries as you paint and experiment in this wonderful medium.

Octopus Garden
Rising grades 3–5. July 14–18, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
If you would like to explore under the sea, then this is your week. Campers draw, paint and examine the exciting creatures that live in our oceans and lakes. Find out what makes a “puffer fish” puff, how a fish breathes under water, and, how to stay safe when you are at the beach. All this while drawing, painting, and having a ball!

The Clay Artist
Rising grades 3–5. July 21–25, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Get your hands ready to mold the perfect bowls, pitchers, mugs, and just about anything you can think of in this week of working with clay. Campers also get to paint and glaze their pieces in a week full of fun projects.

Sci-Fi Art (Boys Only)
Session I: Rising grades 3–5. July 21–25, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Session II: Rising grades 6–8. July 21–25, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. $170 each session.
This week you design and draw your own sci-fi characters. Then as a group you come up with our own story line and lay out our own completed comic book. In addition, you dabble with cell animation and flip comic books in various art mediums such as pastels, chalk, and paint.

Goofy, Whacky Art
Rising K–grade 2. July 21–25, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
This week let it all hang out in goofy, whacky art! Kids decide what to draw each day—be it a dragon, unicorn, or Shrek! Along with the drawing or painting for that day, campers must come up with a story to go along with their group’s chosen picture. This camp is designed for children to have input in their subject, be challenged to use their imagination, and see it through to completion.

Dog Days of Summer
Rising grades 3–5. July 21–25, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Dalmatians, poodles, and great danes are all barking up your tree this week! Learn about and then draw some of the greatest canines in the world. Campers are invited to bring in pictures of their dogs and a surprise four-legged visitor just might show up one day.

Follow that Bird!
Rising K–grade 3. July 28–August 1, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
This week our young art campers draw, paint, and make accessories for the world’s most lovable TV characters from Sesame Street! From a new trash can designed for Oscar the Grouch in the 2000’s to a new birdhouse for Big Bird, this week is nonstop fun. On Friday, you’ll have cookies and milk, provided Cookie Monster does not beat us to it!

Draw, Paint, and Create
Rising grades 2–5. July 28–August 1, 12:30 pm. to 3:30 p.m.. $170.
This afternoon camp is all about a casual, relaxing close to the summer. Whimsical projects this week include self-portraits by painting yourself as a house pet, drawing your dream car or house, and playing games like Twister and I Spy. You close out the week by having a “cool shades” (sunglasses you bring in) party with snacks and drinks provided!

Woodworking:  Learn by Doing
Rising grades 3–6. Session I: June 16–20. Session II: July 7–11, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170 each session. Limited to 12 students each session.
John Yates, an expert craftsman with more than 50 years of woodworking experience, gives each student hands-on instructions for making a desk shelf unit, a bluebird house, a race car, and a footstool. These projects are designed to teach the basics of woodworking: tool safety (learning that tools are not toys); measuring (learning scale, rule, feet, inches, and fractions); abrasives (learning how to use sandpaper); fasteners (learning there is a nail for every application); painting (learning about wood sealers, and oil-based and water-based paints); and tool maintenance (learning how to clean and keep tools for a lifetime of use and enjoyment).

Mr. Yates has fun with students while they learn the fundamentals of using tools to craft creations for themselves or gifts for others. Students should bring an old shirt or smock to paint in. All other materials are included.

Exploring Studio Drawing and Painting
Rising K–grade 2. June 16–20, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Students explore and improve drawing and painting skills using a variety of media, including but not limited to pencil, marker, crayon, pastels, watercolor, and tempera paint. Students enjoy learning new art techniques while engaging in lessons that incorporate the history of art.

Studio Drawing
Rising grades 3–5. June 23–27, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Artists explore and improve drawing skills as they learn about art history through fun and engaging lessons. Artists are exposed to a variety of media including pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, and pastels and learn to draw portraits, still lifes, landscapes, abstract imagery, and more!

Art A-La-Carte
Rising grades 1–2. June 16–20, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Inspired by the impressionistic art of Renoir, students create a “relief in collage” incorporating papers, clay, fabrics, and craft items. Then, make a pair of moccasins adding your own creative design using paints, beads, shells, feathers, or jewels. The fun continues when you create a few more “art-tastic” projects with oil pastels, dry granulated wax, and Model Magic Clay. Dress to mess, and please bring a smock or dad’s old shirt on the first day of class.

Wild Kingdom
Rising grades 2–3. June 23–27, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Animals and reptiles are so cool, especially wild ones! Students create a clay mug incorporating a wild animal or reptile as part of the mug. Let’s not forget about dinosaurs! Students use paper mâché and paint to create a really cool or maybe a really scary dinosaur. Other projects include making a tinted photo of a wild animal with fun accessories, creating a magnificent reptile relief using paint and chalk, and using fabric paint and embellishments to create a wild animal or reptile on an “Aussie” hat (which you definitely need when you are out in the wild!). Dress to mess, and please bring a smock or dad’s old shirt on the first day of class.

Edible Art
Rising grades 2–3. July 7–11, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Students create art that is edible, as well as creating art in the traditional sense. Some of the edible creations are painting a picture similar to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (using chocolate and food color), and making popcorn teddy bears, a pouty pepper, a yummy lizard (using cereal, chocolate, and butterscotch chips), and chocolate tortoises. Traditional art projects include designing and making a mask in the style of the Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo (not edible), and using colored pencil and pastel to create a beautiful still life.

Art Bin
Rising K–grade 2. July 14–18, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Students have fun working with a variety of medias such as Model Magic Clay, tempera paint, colored pencils, crayons, markers, and fabric paint. We read a story and the students make their own storybook with pictures (no writing unless the students choose to do that on their own). Students also make a wonderful still life collage, create a gorgeous cracked wax resist project, use Model Magic Clay to make colorful fish, and use fabric paint and other objects to decorate a smock. Dress to mess, and please bring a smock or one of dad’s old shirts on the first day of camp.

The Art Scene
Rising grades 3–4. July 21–25, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Students learn about movie scenery and movie props as they create scenes from a Disney movie using paint, cardboard, and a variety of tools and materials for these projects. Students also learn to draw some of the characters and sculpt a character or movie prop. The last day of camp, students have popcorn as they watch the movie. Dress to mess, and please bring a smock or dad’s old shirt on the first day of class.

The Art of Design
Rising grades 4–5. July 28–August 1, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
Let your creative side soar as you design your own T-shirt by splattering colorful designs, and stamping fun shapes or letters, or you draw and paint a famous work of art like the Mona Lisa or Sunflowers. Design and make a really cool disposable dress, design and create a purse, and make earrings and bracelets. Students first sketch their designs, and then make the project just like a real designer!

 
GRADES 6–12

Manga, Anime and Editorial Cartoons!
Rising grades 6–8. July 28–August 1, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $195.
In this camp, you study and draw in the very popular Japanese world of cartooning (Manga & Anime). Later in the week you study and draw editorial cartooning that is seen in newspapers throughout the world. We take our editorial cartoons and send them to The Charlotte Observer for submission (no guarantees but it never hurts to try!)

Picture Yourself!
Rising grades 6–8. July 14–18, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
This week you focus on portraits by drawing other campers and then doing a self-portrait (now you can all see how you really see yourself). This camp is designed for those who have had a couple of years of art and wish to challenge themselves, and yet have a blast at the same time.

 The Painted Word
Rising grades 7–9. June 16–20, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $170.
The brain is a fascinating thing, and there is more than one pathway to unlocking the creative part of it. In this class, you focus on how various art forms interact with one another, concentrating on the interaction between visual art and creative writing. Our explorations include writing and exercises designed to work off one another to stimulate our minds. By highlighting the union of fiction, poetry, drawing, painting, and more, you focus on activities that can allow us to see things with new eyes.

Jewelry and Metals
Rising grades 7–12. Session I: June 16–20, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Session II: June 23–27, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $275 each session.
In this one-week course, Charlotte Country Day fine arts instructor, Natalie Bork, teaches the fundamental concepts in creating wire jewelry necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and sculptural pieces out of sterling silver. You learn how to bend, fold, flatten, thicken, twist, and taper wire. Simple single loop chaining to complex Byzantine chaining techniques are introduced along with basic soldering and annealing processes.

Glass Fusing and Slumping
Rising grades 7–12. Session I: June 16–20, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Session II: June 23–27, 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Session III:. July 7–11, 9:00 a.m. to noon. $250 each session.
This intensive one-week course focuses on glass cutting, fusing, and slumping techniques. Natalie Bork, Charlotte Country Day fine arts instructor and artist, shows you how to create glass plates, bowls, wall hangings, and even small fused glass pieces to create jewelry.

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