Summer Camps Registration Open At MOCHA Museum Of Children's Art

Press release from MOCHA Museum Of Children's Art:

May 21, 2021

MOCHA’s decades long practice of leading its educational programming with the highest quality teaching artists and the “Studio Habits of Mind” framework created by the Harvard Graduate School of Education continues into this summer season with 12 weeks of art camps that place special emphasis on enhancing camper literacy. Camps such as Kids Can Code, The Art of Poetry, Mixed Media, Fashion, and The Wonderful World of Plants are just a few of the exciting offerings we have available. Our programing is geared for students aged 5.5 to 12, or entering grades 1-7 in Fall 2021.

Campers can expect days filled with a productive structure, and to get messy creating art projects that will instill a sense of confidence with creativity and self expression, and developing the tools for campers to become artists in their own right. Registration is now open! Pre-Care and After-Care options are also available, amounting to a full day of activity and connection.

In accordance with current COVID guidelines, our summer camps will be offered as a hybrid program, built for safe in person learning with the option for virtual attendance as well. In-person campers will be socially distanced, masks will be mandatory, along with daily temperature checks and more.

Week 1- June 1-4: “All About Paper” with Teaching Artist Lena Lee
In this camp, we will explore the history of paper while learning numerous ancient paper-making techniques. Campers will learn how to naturally dye paper, collage, make books, paper jewelry, and practice ink painting on “Han-Ji,” and more!

Week 2- June 7-11: “Afrofuturism” with Teaching Artist Kaya Fortune
This week-long journey entails discovering our origins and creating future-forecasting games, conceptualizing fashion and art using collage, painting techniques, and found and recycled materials.

Week 3- June 14-18: “She Created: Showcasing Female Architects” with Teaching Artist Tammy Artis
Campers will take a deep dive into the history of architecture and learn basic terms, with a spotlight on female architects. Literacy components, journaling, and vocabulary will be taught daily. Campers will then plan, design, and create their very own building using an array of materials.

Week 4 - June 21-25: “In Motion- Art & Movement” with Teaching Artist Mary Lawrence
This camp will encourage campers to use their entire body to create art, like using feet, elbows, hair, forearms, and fingers as brushes. In addition, we will study kinetic art, mobiles, stablies, and drawing machines.

Week 5- June 28-July 2: “Afrofuturism & Poetry” with Teaching Artists London Padgett
Let art inspire your words. Campers will be challenged to reach into the past to reimagine the future. During this week-long journey, they will be journaling daily (writing and drawing), create identity portraits, and sculptures. Focusing on world events and using words and art alike as self-expression. Let art inspire your words and let your words inspire your art.

Week 6- July 5-9: “Elements of Art” with Teaching Artist Laura Garcia
Students will expand their artistic skills and more fully express their creativity with the creation of 2D and 3D works of art using clay, paint, collage, and a variety of other art making methods. While incorporating literacy components like daily journaling and the introduction of new vocabulary, campers explore line, shape, texture, form, space, color, and value when creating unique art projects.

Week 7- July 12-16: “Textiles and Sewing” with Teaching Artist Emily Ramirez
This camp will explore the origin of textiles, and guide campers through current and ancient techniques alike, like weaving and french knitting. In addition, campers will draw on historical and contemporary inspiration to create their very own patterns and textile designs.

Week 8- July 19-23: “Mix Media” with Teaching Artist Ryan Martinez
In this mixed media camp, students will enhance their self expression skills as they paint, create collages, draw, and assemble their own pieces of art.

Week 9- July 26-30: “The Science of Color” with Teaching Artist Roxanne Padgett and London Padgett
Campers are invited in this camp to tap into their inner artist as well as their inner scientist, and explore color theory through light and pigment, prism, colored light, color mixing and more, and document their findings in a color journal. They will end this camp session with artwork and a deeper understanding of the emotional values of color.

Week 10- August 2-6: “Fashion” with Teaching Artist Kaya Fortune
With daily journaling, creative collective brainstorming, and a deconstruction of how we currently view fashion and what purpose it serves in our lives, campers will be equipped to design a shirt & hat and then model their creations in a fashion show at the end of the week.

Week 11- August 9-13: “Kids Can Code!” with Teaching Artist Mary Lawrence
In this camp, art meets coding in a very cool way. We will be creating coding-inspired art, practice daily journal writing, and learn basic coding vocabulary. Every camper will be lent a laptop to use at MOCHA on which they will learn Python, a basic programming language that forms the basis of software engineering

Week 12: August 16-20: “The Wonderful World of Plants” with Teaching Artist Tammy Artis
Students will discover the science and art of plants, from germinating seeds to observing and creatively capturing the plant life-cycle and much more. Students will print with beet juice, design succulent terrariums as well as utilize plants in their artwork as alternative materials.
Daily Schedule Pre Care 8am - 8:30amDrop off 8:30am - 9amCamp 9am - 3:30pm Pick up 3:30pm - 3:45pmAftercare 3:30pm - 5:30pm Price: $375 per week (unless noted otherwise.)
10% sibling discount on second child.

Limited scholarships are available.

No matter what camp appeals to you, we expect all participating campers to work on building creative thinking skills, learn new ways to express themselves, and practice collaborating with others. Since our founding in 1989, this has been our expectation and each year we meet this goal expertly.

Please register here and please keep in mind that we offer sibling discounts!

This press release was produced by MOCHA Museum Of Children's Art. The views expressed here are the author's own.