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.
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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: 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
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: 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: Visit from Sherrie York
Moment #6: Excitement with the Caterpillar Lab
Connecting with art and nature: Top moments from the Natural Connections week at the Wild at Art Camp
We had an amazing first week at our Wild at Art Camp. Our theme was Natural Connections and the campers learned and created art focused on the web that connects plants and animals.
Moment #1: The Caterpillar Lab
Moment #2: Creating marbled paper (sumagashi) and birch tree paintings
Moment #3: Using found materials to build an eight foot wide eagles nest
Moment #4: Collecting natural materials for art
Collecting natural materials for art projects
Collecting natural materials for art projects
Moment #5: Warming up with charcoal before some awesome art projects
Our teaching artist, Katie Buchanan, and camper Cora warming up for the art activity with charcoal
Camper David and Liam having fun drawing with charcoal
Moment #6: Getting up close with dragonflies and other critters in the meadow
Sean Kent, the Wild at Art Camp director, shows camper Janek, Handel, Cooper, and Thomas, a dragonfly from the meadow.
Camper Janek, Cooper, and Thomas catching critters in the meadow
Moment #7: Creating art everywhere, even on the sidewalk
Moment #8: Watercolors using water from our pond full of tadpoles
Moment #9: Going behind the scenes in the art museum and creating Charlie Harper Inspired art based on their up close tour