Summer

Art Exploration: Find Your Passion

14 – 17

Whether or not you consider yourself an experienced artist, this summer art camp will help you grow and gain confidence. Students will complete 2D and 3D projects that incorporate color and design instruction, including sculpture, painting, drawing, basketry, creating musical instruments, fabric art, bookmaking, and found object assemblage.

Share

Overview

Join us this summer for two weeks playing, learning, experimenting, and collaborating as you experience the joy of creating art. Projects will include both 2D and 3D creations using a variety of materials and techniques. Explore, experiment and discover the infinite possibilities that arise when you are given the opportunity to just have fun. Through the support of a creative community and instruction, students will gain confidence in their skills, with permission to grow into their own artist. Your workshop will culminate in an art exhibit, allowing you to show off your talents to family and friends.

Additional Information

Our Visual Arts classes do not require any type of assessment or portfolio to get into the program. Instructors will work with your child at the level that they are at. Your child will improve and learn new skills whether they are a beginner or have been an artist for years.

Old clothing or an apron to use during class time
Paint brushes—various sizes appropriate for watercolor and acrylic paints
Set of pencils including 2H, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B
Kneaded eraser
Scissors

We start the day working on a drawing exercise, focusing on a different technique each day. A new project, material, or approach is presented to the group after our drawing warm-up. Most of the day is spent working on this new project, letting students work at their own pace. When needed, additional projects will be presented throughout the day. Students will sometimes collaborate with another class and group projects can be supported when interest is shown. Our typical day starts at 9 and ends at 4, with an hour break for lunch.

Rachel Welch graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, receiving a degree in Art and Design with a concentration in Studio Arts. She spent a year at the Accademia Di Belle Arte in Florence, Italy, studying sculpture and drawing, and received the title of Artist of the Year for the Art Alliance of Idyllwild in 2009. She teaches painting and drawing at Idyllwild Arts. Her artwork has been shown throughout California, as well as in Italy.

Related Programs

View All Programs

H.O.T. Clay & Ceramics

All Things Pottery

18+

Boost your wheel throwing confidence with exercises focused on fundamental pottery techniques essential to a potter’s arsenal.

Register Learn More

Metals Week

Fold Forming- To Die For

18+

Come learn to fold-form metal to achieve various textures and surfaces. Using a simple vice and a technique you can perform at home, students will die-form pieces to yield interesting 3-dimensional textured forms for jewelry and adornment, sculpture, artist’s books and more!

Register Learn More

Metals Week

Hopi Jewelry: Silver Overlay

18+

Explore the uniquely classic Hopi technique of silver overlay metalsmithing. Silver overlay, as a technique for conveying traditional Hopi designs in silver, originated in 1938 from drawings produced at the Museum of Northern Arizona. Later, Fred Kabotie (Hopi), a noted former Idyllwild Arts faculty, taught this technique for World War II veterans' classes held from 1947-1951 in Arizona.

Register Learn More