Go to camps for - Adult/Child -- Grades 1-4 -- Grades 5-8 -- Grades 9-12
Summer Camps for Kids!
Camp fees:
• $75 (members), $80 (non-members) all grade 1-4, 5-8, and HS camps.
• $20/person (members),$25/person (non-members) for K+ adult/child camps only.
To Register:
• Visit The Ceramics Center, TuWTh 9 am - 9 pm, F 9 am - 4 pm, Sa 10 - 4 pm
• Or call 319-365-9644.
• Or send the Registration Form (available on our web site) with your check or credit card information for the full fee to: The Ceramics Center.
• Or register online at www.theceramicscenter.org
Camps limited to 12 particpants.
Unless otherwise noted, all camps are structured to accommodate both the beginner and the experienced
student. All materials are includes.
Adult/child camps - Children must be accompanied by an adult.
It's All About Clay- adult/child
Let your creative juices flow as you learn all about clay. You will handbuild using coils, slabs, pinch pots and molds to make your projects. Finish your work with innovative techniques in decoration and slip application. Working with clay has never been so much fun.
MW - June 24 and June 26, 9 - 11 am
Storybook Clay - adult/child
Create clay objects based on your favorite storybooks. Make Cinterella bookends, Three Bears wind chimes or ogre cups. Finish your creations using glazes, colored slips and paints.
MW - July 22 and July 24, 9 - 11 am
Luncheon Clay - adult/child
Design and make your own place setting - plate, bowl, and cup. Add your favorite designs with colored slips and glaze. Use your one of a kind place setting for snacks, lunch or dinner. You will have the most unique dinner table on the block when this class is done.
TuTh - July 30 and August 1, 9 - 11 am
Totems in Clay
Add your own creativity to a traditional art form. Learn how to sculpt figures, both human and animal, to make your own special totem. Put them together for fun projects.
MWF – June 10 to June 21, 9 - 11 am
Tea Time Clay
Get your pinkies raised and ready for a dainty cup of tea. You will create your own tea set with cups and saucers, tea pot, sugar bowl and creamer. Decorate your pieces with slips and glazes. Serve snacks on dishes that are made by you.
MWF – June 10 to June 21, 1 - 3 pm
Pets and Clay
Want a pet that doesn't bark or shed? How about an animal that nobody in your house is allergic to? Or an animal with attitude, like an angry rat or bird? Make it yourself, then it can be exactly how you want it to be! Fierce or funny, striped or spotted, what will your pet look like and what will its personality be? Join us to make your own pet. He can be realistic or just real scary. It's up to you!
TuTh – June 11 to June 27, 9 - 11 am
or
MWF – July 29 to Aug 9, 1 - 3 pm
Garden Clay
Have fun playing in the mud as you create fun things for your garden. Bird feeders, flower pots, toad houses or fairies; troll bridges, windchimes, or flower pots could be decorating your back yard at the end of this camp.
TuTh June 11 to June 27, 1 - 3 pm
Functional Clay
Create usable pottery with flair, such as mugs, soap dishes, picture frames, toothbrush holders, and much more. Design and make accessories for your home. Add your own designs with slips and glazes. You will have the most unique home when this class is done.
MWF – July 8 to July 19, 9 - 11 am
Creepy Creatures in Clay
Unearth your creativity as you dig into clay. Make a variety of creepy creatures, scary monsters, aliens and more while you have fun experimenting with clay and learnign new building techniques. If you can imagine it, you can make it! Working with clay has never been so much fun.
MWF - July 8 to July 19, 1 - 3 pm
It's All About Clay
Do you love the feeling of clay in your hands? What would you like to make? Will it be a lion, a bowl for ice cream, or a jewelry box for your treasures? You will learn all about clay, hand building, and decorating techniques. You will discover the properties of building with clay slabs, coil and pinch techniques, and explore the world of clay sculpture as well as practical and useful items. Make your own ceramic masterpieces!
TuTh - July 9 to July 25, 9 - 11 am
Pirate Bounty in Clay
Create your own pirate bounty- coins, treasure chest, parrot, hook, peg leg, skull and cross bones. Learn the basics of working with clay - coils, slabs, pinch pots and molds. Finish your creation using glazes, colored slips and paints.
MWF – July 29 to Aug 9, 9 - 11 am
Functional Clay
Create usable pottery with flair, such as mugs, soap dishes, picture frames, toothbrush holders, and much more. Design and make accessories for your home. Add your own designs with slips and glazes. You will have the most unique home when this class is done.
MWF – June 10 to June 21, 9 - 11 am
Caricatures in Clay
Have you ever wanted to be able to make a self portrait? Or make a caricature of friends or family members? In this camp you will explore different handbuilding techniques to make portraitures and caricatures. Add finishing touches with colored slips and glazes.
MWF – June 10 to June 21, 1 - 3 pm
Wheel Thrown Clay
Cups, bowls, bottles and vases; learn how to throw these- and other forms- on the potter's wheel. Students of all skill levels welcome. This class will cover wedging, centering, pulling, trimming, use of tools, surface decoration and glazing. Each student will work on their own wheel and learn the basics of throwing and shaping clay into cylinders and bowls. Students should wear old clothes and shoes as throwing on the wheel is very messy.
TuTh – June 11 to June 27, 9 - 11 am
or
MTuWThF – July 22 to July 26, 9 - 11 am
or
MWF – July 29 to Aug 9, 1 - 3 pm
Design in Glass
Create unique designs and projects as you learn the fundamentals of glass fusing. You will have the opportunity to explore a wide variety of glass materials and techniques. Experience the expressive potential in this exciting medium to make window art, small jewelry pieces, magnets and ornaments. Glass included! Students MUST wear tennis shoes for safety.
TuTh - June 11 to June 27, 1 - 3 pm
Raku Clay (Grades 5 - High School)
Make a series of ceramic works to be fired in a raku kiln, a historic Japanese firing method in which pots are heated to 1900 degrees, pulled out hot and placed in a chamber full of combustibles. Learn about the process, the history, and the amazing results that can be achieved through this exciting firing technique. Students MUST wear tennis shoes for safety.
TuTh – July 10 to July 26, 9 - 11 am
Pets and Clay
Want a pet that doesn't bark or shed? How about an animal that nobody in your house is allergic to? Or an animal with attitude, like an angry rat or bird? Make it yourself, then it can be exactly how you want it to be! Fierce or funny, striped or spotted, what will your pet look like and what will its personality be? Join us to make your own pet. He can be realistic or just real scary. It's up to you!
MWF – July 8 to July 19, 9 - 11 am
Projects in Glass
Flat glass, as well as functional plates and bowls, are all possible as you explore introductory fusing techniques and more advanced slumping processes. Expand upon the basics offused glass and discover the possibilities of using molds to create new forms and interesting shapes. Students MUST wear tennis shoes for safety.
TuTh – July 9 to July 25, 1 - 3 pm
or
MWF – July 29 to Aug 9, 9 - 11 am
Raku Clay (Grades 5 to High School)
Make a series of ceramic works to be fired in a raku kiln, a historic Japanese firing method in which pots are heated to 1900 degrees, pulled out hot and placed in a chamber full of combustibles to modify glaze color and surface. Learn about the process, the history, and the amazing results that can be achieved through this exciting firing technique. The course will include instruction on the potter’s wheel for both the beginning and experienced student.
MWF - July 8 to July 19, 1 - 3 pm
Opportunity for Summer Arts Internships
Application and additional information available on the "Residence" tab on this website, or click HERE.
**Please be sure to read through the important Summer Camp Information and Rules document.
