This week, campers have been focusing on creating amazing art, sculpting with clay, and so much more! Here are a few of the top moments from the week.
Category Archives: Wild at Art Summer Camp
Animal Acrobatics and Shapeshifting Flyers: Top Moments from Week 1
Our first week of summer camp has been off to a fantastic start, with lots of art, nature, science, and fun built in. Check back in during the week as this post will be updated each day or two.
Here are some of the top moments from camp this week!
Moment #1
Going on a dragonfly hunt!
All the campers from the Animal Acrobatics and Art groups were thrilled to learn about and hunt for dragonflies in our meadow. One highlight for everybody was getting to hold onto a dragonfly and feel it’s Velcro like feet (tarsi).
Top Moment #2
Learning about and building nests
Top Moment #3
Pin the stinger on the bee
Top Moment #4
Exploring movement with charcoal
Top Moment #5
Having fun with our amazing staff
Top Moment #6
Printmaking with linoleum tiles
On Thursday, we were very excited to learn how to sketch out a print onto linoleum tile and learn how to safely use linocutting tools. The prints came out exquisite and everybody loved what they made. The detail and care taken into each art project was remarkable and inspiring.
Whooooos coming!!! Owls that’s who!
Fun for the whole family! On Saturday March 19, from 1-4pm, explore the wonders of owls as the Museum of American Bird Art (MABA) host our popular Owls Live! festival. Be amazed when you see owls up close, explore the sanctuary, and create art. Drop in any time between 1 and 4pm on Saturday for Owls Live! The cost of admission is $5 per person and all ages are welcome. The museum is located on Washington Street in Canton directly across from Canton High School. Follow us on Facebook to keep up with our events and news.
Long-eared Owl. Photo Credit: Shawn Carey
 See Owls Up Close!
Activities include owl cookie decorating, face painting, and making owl masks.
Our Owl Quest will encourage visitors to follow a set of clues in the exhibition gallery and around the 121 acre wildlife sanctuary to learn more about owls and the wonders of spring. Raffle baskets will include a week of the Wild at Art summer camp, Mass Audubon family membership and fun pack, and a framed print by MABA benefactor Mildred Morse Allen with the framing donated by the Village Gallery in Canton. Tickets to the event include admission to the current exhibition, Life on the Leaf Edge, Photographs of Native Caterpillars by Sam Jaffe.Â
Proceeds from the Owls Live! Festival support MABA’s Wild at Art summer camp. Families will have an opportunity to meet MABA’s camp director, Sean Kent, and senior staff. You can learn about the upcoming camp season, which is designed to engage campers in the discovery and stewardship of nature and encourage artistic expression. Sean is an experienced and skilled educator who has worked with elementary through college age students in both formal and outdoor settings.
Check out last year’s camp!
Top Moments from the butterflies and metamorphosis week (Wild at Art Week 6)
We have been having a fantastic week during our Natural Connections week at Camp. All the campers have been creating amazing art, learning about caterpillars, butterflies, and the process of metamorphosis. Come see all their amazing art displayed on Friday at 2:30 at our weekly art show. Here are some of the top moments from the week!
Top Moment #1: Making and painting masks
Making Masks
Painting Masks
Top Moment #2: Making butterfly wings
Top Moment #3: Exploring the brook and catching crayfish
Top Moment #4: Catching Butterflies
Top Moment #5: Being excited about nature and creating art inspired by nature (and also catching cicadas!)
Top Moments from the Earthworks Camp Week
All the campers have been having a fantastic time this week, playing games, creating art inspired by our natural landscape, and exploring the sanctuary…with many special trips to the brook to catch crayfish and check on their crayfish houses. Here are some of the top moments from the week:
Moment #1: Weaving in the trees with natural materials
Moment #2: Building with natural materials
Moment #3: Exploring the brook and putting out crayfish houses
Moment #4: Learning about and building bird nests
Moment #5: Creating Nature Journals
Moment #6: Stacking rocks
Moment #7: Creating mobiles for the art show
Top Moments from Discovering Pollinators Camp Session: Week 4 of the Wild at Art Camp
Here at the Wild at Art Camp, everybody has been having a lot of fun learning about pollinators, playing nature games (pin the antenna on the butterfly and the pollinator game created by counselor Amanda), and creating art inspired by nature. We have a few spots open for our last two sessions of camp. Check out some of the top moments from the week:
Moment #1: Creating nature journals
Moment #2: Creating an Eric Carle inspired basket of fruits that need pollinators
Moment #3: Using water and dye (sumagashi) to create amazing swirling paintings
Moment #4: Exploring in the sanctuary
Moment #5: Playing lots of games and cooling off on hot days
Moment #6: Learning watercolor techniques by painting an apple (needs pollinators)!
Moment #7: Being collaborative like bees and painting!!!!
Connecting Art with Nature: Highlights from our Wild Photography Week
Campers have been having a great week during the Wild Photography Camp session. We’ve been having lots of fun learning about photography, creating art, and exploring the sanctuary. Check out our post on the campers building the cameras. Here are the top moments from the week:
Moment #1: Painting with light (seriously)
Moment #3: Silkscreen and watercolor of an Audubon Owl Print
Moment #3:Â Nature hikes and photo scavenger hunts
Moment #4: Collagraphic printmaking with natural materials
Moment #5: Creating paintbrushes out of natural materials to paint a wall mural
Moment #6: Creating Audubon prints and then visiting the permanent collection to learn more about printmaking
Moment #7: Creating photo stories in the bird and pollinator garden
Wild Photography: Campers learn, create, and express themselves through digital photography
Learn, Create, and Express! Today, we kicked off our Wild Photography week at the Wild at Art Summer Camp. Campers spent the morning building their own digital camera, which they will use during the week to learn more about the art of photography. Camper build and use a bigshot camera, which was developed by Shree Nayar, a computer science professor at Columbia University.
By building the camera, they will learn about how gears work, how power is generated, and the physics behind digital photography. Check out this gallery of the cameras being put together:
Connecting art with nature: Top moments from the Take Flight (Week 2) Camp Session
Campers have been having a great week during the Take Flight session. We’ve been having lots of fun learning about birds, creating bird inspired art, and exploring the sanctuary. During the week, campers loved our visit from the internationally renowned Caterpillar Lab from Keene, New Hampshire, and printmaking workshop with the amazing Sherrie York. Here are the top moments from the week:
Moment #1: Fantastic Charcoal Drawings with our artist Katie Buchanan
Moment #2:Â Collecting natural materials for leaf prints in their nature journal
Moment #3: Nature Hikes and Scavenger Hunts
Moment #4: Creating art using the process of suminagashi
Moment #5:Â Visit from Sherrie York
Moment #6: Excitement with the Caterpillar Lab
Printmaking with Sherrie York at the Wild at Art Summer Camp
Excitement permeated through the Wild at Art Summer Camp on Thursday July 17 because artist Sherrie York, an internationally renowned printmaker, stopped by and taught all the campers a little about the art of printmaking.
Since this was during the Take Flight week, all the campers made prints that were inspired by the different textures of bird feathers. Each group of campers started off in our fantastic exhibition “The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago” and looked at the different types of feathers found on the different birds. Next, they created a relief print on foam board and then created ink prints. Check out all the fun.
Campers with Sherrie York checking out the different types of feathers
Creating Relief Prints
Creating Prints