Artists of Yardley, AOY: Summer Camps

Summer Camp

Adult Classes

Weekly camps

6/28-7/1 Mon-Thursday

All Stars $120
9-12p 5 to 8p

5 to 8 year olds

This week is all about our favorite sports. Whether it is football, basketball, soccer, water balloons, Frisbee events and what ever else you can think of we will be playing. Sports figure cut outs, create your own baseball cards, and action figure collages are just some of the energetic projects we will be creating.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Welcome to the Big Top $120

1 - 4 pm

5 to 8 year olds

The circus is in town for this fun filled camp. Campers will be creating projects like clown faced hats, a clown outline from their own bodies, and popcorn bags. The fun doesn�t stop there. Campers will also be given lessons on how to juggle!

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Printing without the Press $120

1 - 4pm

8 to 12 year olds

In this class we will explore hands on printmaking techniques using relief-printing calligraphy and examine possibilities of combining it with other art methods. This process will expose students to a vibrant means of expression using limited resources. Each student will produce several monoprints (one of a kind) from a colograph (cardboard) printing plate of their own design.

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Porcelain Doll Making $160

9-1pm (note this is a four hour class)

Tweens and Teens

Students will go through the entire creating process to make a porcelain doll. The class will include mold pouring, facts on firing and the vitrification process, cleaning and sanding bisque pieces, assembling and painting a doll from beginning to end. Each student will go home with a completed doll.

Material fee: $20

Teaching artist: Jody Lista-Malloy

Plein-Air Drawing $120

1 to 4pm

teens

Using the beautiful surroundings of Patterson Farm we will draw outside with pencil, pen & ink, charcoal, and more. We will discuss framing our subject, perspective and design. In the case of rain, we will use the inside of the Janney House to draw an �interior landscape�.

Please bring a chair or blanket to sit on, a drawing board, an Ebony pencil and a hat! $10.00 materials fee.

Teaching artist: Diane Greenburg

7/6-7/9 Tu-Fri

Fairy Houses $120

9-12p

5 to 8 years old

We will paint a magical fairy house and then adorn it with found objects and natural materials we find at Patterson Farm. Then we will design our own fairy using clothespins, yarn, fabric, paint and our imagination.

Material fee: $10

Teaching artist: Colleen Attara

Paper Mache Art $120

1-4pm

8 to 12 years old

Students will enjoy creating with clay, paper mache, spackle and paint. The finished product will be a very creative, fun animal form. This could get sloppy fun - so, dress down!!!

Material fee: $15

Teaching artist: Oz Freegood

Nature Printing

$120

1 - 4pm

8 to 12 year olds

In this class we will explore and learn about the ancient practice of nature printing to create your own fine art prints and hand made cards. Acquire skills and techniques as you become aware of your own creative potential. We will use fruit vegetables, flowers, leaves and other natural materials to create exciting prints on paper. Make fun random prints or combine to create interesting images.

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Abstract Landscape Painting $120

9-12pm

Tweens and Teens

Patterson Farm and all of its sheds, barns and cornfields will be our landscape subjects. We will analyze the structures and surrounding fields with an abstract �eye�, discovering shapes, colors, shadows and light in ways you never saw them before. Then we will paint with acrylics on canvas, your own unique interpretation of the Patterson Farm landscape. I will teach you color mixing, painting techniques and help you explore the relationship between art and your imagination. This is a fun, learning experience in abstraction that helps students to express themselves creatively and skillfully.

Material Fees: $10.00

Teaching artist: Rose Marie Strippoli

*** Students bring: Smock or X-Large T-shirt - their own paint brushes and pallete knives.

7/12-7/16 Mon-Fri

Flying Creatures Week: $150

1 - 4pm

5 to 8 years old

In our summer camp adventure your child will create a wide variety of art projects of magnificent birds. Your child will create an owl in a tree at night, hummingbirds with fluttering wings, a hawk using feathers and wings that fold out, a bald eagle, colorful rain forest birds and learn about how they all function in their environments. We will also show them how everyday objects can be reused to create artwork with reduce, reuse and recycle in mind.

Material Fee: $10.00

8 Children Maximum

Teaching artist: Jean Childs Buzgo

Splash-o-Rama $150

1 - 4pm

5 to 8 years old

Lets get wet n� wild this summer! Water balloon tosses, squirt gun fights, sprinklers, and slip n� slides will all be apart of our dripping wet good time. Sand castles, light houses, water paintings, and aquariums will also be waiting for you here at this camp.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Drawing is Fun! $150

9-12n

8 to12 years old

**Class Full**

Working from everyday objects, we�ll experiment with different drawing implements and various drawing surfaces. Skills we will work on will include line, value, and contour drawing. We�ll discuss drawing what we see and how to put it down on the paper. Drawings of well known artists will be discussed.

Bring a favorite pair of sneakers as a drawing subject to our first meeting.

$20.00 materials fee.

Teaching artist: : Diane Greenburg

Printing without the Press $150

1 - 4pm

8 to 12 year olds

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Fantasy Painting $150

1 - 4pm

teens

Here is your chance to paint that dream fantasy world you have been imagining. Do you have a fairy, monster, guardian angel or robot running around in your head just wanting to come out? We�ll go from drawing our concept to finished oil painting. Please bring a 16� X 20� canvas and oil paint brushes in the following sizes: #2 round, #4 & #6 flat.

$10.00 materials fee.

Teaching artist: Diane Greenburg

7/19-7/23 Mon-Fri

Around The World in 1 week $150
9 � 12n

5 to 8 years old

Let us fly off to the many exotic locations around this wonderful world of ours. During this magical week we will be exploring the many cultures of this world and the artwork they have to share. Some of the stops we will be making are for hot air balloons in London, carp kites in Japan, hieroglyphics in Egypt, totem poles in the Pacific Northwest, and many more.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Far east Fun $150

1 - 4pm

5 to 8 years old

China. Japan. Arabia. India. These names conjure up colorful, exotic images of distant lands. Let�s take a trip there! Let�s fly there on a magic carpet to create great projects like Japanese kites, Chinese screens, Fantastic fabric from India, kimonos and much more!

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Nature Printing with Flowers, Fruit and Leaves and other natural objects $150

1 -4pm

8 to 12 year old

In this class we will explore and learn about the ancient practice of nature printing to create your own fine art prints and hand made cards. Acquire skills and techniques as you become aware of your own creative potential. We will use fruit vegetables and other natural mete rials to create exciting prints on paper. Make fun random prints or combine to create interesting images.

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Building a better Portfolio Part 1: $425

(2-week program)

10:00 - 4:00 Monday-Friday 12:00 -1:00 break for lunch

This is a two-week program designed for the interested high school student that wants to pursue an art career and or wants to improve their fine art portfolio.

The first week will be focused on assignments done strictly by observation.

Landscapes on location in pastel, figure drawings done in charcoal, portrait drawings as well as a drawing of a still life. While finishing and refining these assignments the second week, we will end with individual critiques for each student conducted by several professional artists. The students will also be exposed to valuable admission information and requirements from the art departments of several schools and universities.

Students will be notified by mailed regarding any supplies not provided by their instructor.

Teaching artist: Renee Egan

7/26-7/30 Mon-Fri

Dinosaurs, Fossils and More! $150

1 - 4pm

5 to 8 years old

Each day begins with a lesson, story or a picture book to foster your child's creativity. Then we will go back into the dinosaur ages where your child will be introduced to a wide variety of art projects. We will create a 3-D

T-Rex, fossil Imprints, a picture of an actual size dinosaur egg in a nest, a prehistoric environment, a 3-D volcano, a 3-D meteor , 3-D telescope to view the stars

Material Fee: $10.00

8 Children Maximum

Teaching artist: Jean Childs Buzgo

Westward Bound $150

9am - 12pm

5 to 8 years old

Calling all Pioneers! Let�s load up our covered wagons and head west down the old trails of the American West. As we travel along the gateways to the west we will encounter a wide array of pioneer American artwork as well as running into some very interesting Native Americans. Weather vanes, paper quilts, Ceremonial Dance masks, and Hopi Kachina Dolls are just some of the things you can expect to see as we travel west.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Printing without the Press: Use Printmaking techniques to create your own fine art prints, handmade cards and other functional uses. $150

1 -4pm

8 to 12 year olds

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Building a better Portfolio Part 2: (part of 2 week program)

10:00 - 4:00 Monday-Friday

12:00 -1:00 break for lunch

This is a two-week program designed for the interested high school student that wants to pursue an art career and or wants to improve their fine art portfolio.

The first week will be focused on assignments done strictly by observation.

Students will be notified by mailed regarding any supplies not provided by their instructor. Teaching artist: Renee Egan

8/2-8/6 Mon-Fri

Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt $150

9 � 12n

5 to 8 years

Lets take a trip back 3000 years in time. The art if Ancient Egypt is full of symbols, decorative designs, fascinating objects, and breathtaking pyramids. As archeologists we will dig up and discover all of the wonders of Ancient Egypt. Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Art and Science $150

1 to 4pm

5 to 8 years

Welcome all young scientists and artists. During this week of discovery you will be experimenting with all types of art materials as well as joining me, the mad scientist in my laboratory. Science meets art; this could be one messy experiment.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Art Around the World $150

9 � 12n

Ages 8-12 years

Join us as we travel around the globe to explore the art of various cultures. We will study the art of Japan, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Then, together, we will create our own versions the great art works of these countries. The children will work with a variety of materials in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional formats.

Teaching Artist: Denise Callanan-Kline

Nature Printing with Flowers, Fruit and Leaves and other natural objects $150

1 - 4pm

8 to 12 year olds

In this class we will explore and learn about the ancient practice of nature printing to create your own fine art prints and hand made cards. Acquire skills and techniques as you become aware of your own creative potential. We will use fruit vegetables and other natural mete rials to create exciting prints on paper. Make fun random prints or combine to create interesting images.

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Altered Book Art $150

9 - 12pm

Tweens and teens

Altered book art combines several types of artistic techniques into one unique art form that is full of expression and experimentation. Starting with a hardcover book base, students will tear away pages and then add their own creative expressions through painting, drawing, sewing, collage, stamping, photos and writing. We will design our own stamps, paint small masterpieces, sew in secret pockets and create a one of a kind piece of art.

Materials fee: $10

Teaching Artist: Colleen Attara

8/9-8/13 Mon-Fri

Masks $150

9 - 12n

5 to 8 year olds

Masks! Become anyone you want. Transform your face into many exciting creations. From pharaohs to knights to wild and crazy animals, you can become any and all of these things in this class. Each week we will turn our pretty little faces into something new and exciting.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

In search of the 12 Olympians $150

1 - 4pm

5 to 8 year olds

Let us travel back to the time of gods and heroes! We will be taking a fun filled tour of the Athens and the Parthenon, Delphi and the Oracle, and of course Mt. Olympus, the home of the Greek gods! Greek urns, Classic Friezes, mosaics, and a paper mache replica of Mt. Olympus are all on the card for this camp. Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Art Adventures $150

9 - 12pm

Ages 8 to12 year olds

This class is designed to get students to explore the world around them. We will work on a variety of themes and create projects using drawing, painting and other media. Some of our themes will be: Art of the Rain Forest, Art of the Ocean, and Art of the Desert.

Teaching artist: Denise Callanan-Kline

Printing without the Press: Use Printmaking techniques to create your own fine art prints, handmade cards and other functional uses. $150

1 to 4pm

8 to 12 year olds

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Drawing to the Young Artist $150

1-4pm

11 to14 year olds

**Class Full**

This class is designed to develop you creativity and artistic skills.

Students will learn techniques of shading and perspective as they study such classical themes as still life, and landscape, as well as exploring more experimental expressions.

Teaching artist: Denise Callanan-Kline

8/16-8/20 Mon-Fri

Stone Age Man $150

9 - 12pm

5 to 8 year olds

Class number: PB816A

Buried deep inside the earth, deep in cold, dark caves you can find the art of the earliest humans. We will take a step back in time to see how our ancestors lived, survived, and created. Stone Age Man will show you a world nearly lost to the sands of time. Cave paintings, stone statuettes, and rock art will all be created in this wonderful class.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Safari Fun $150

1 - 4pm

5 to 8 year olds

Class number: PB816B

Welcome to Africa! This week we will be exploring the African savannah and all of its wildlife and culture. We will be creating our very own African masks with your own face as its base, African fetish sculptures, and Ashanti jewelry boxes.

Teaching artist: Patrick Bartal

Nature Printing with Flowers, Fruit and Leaves and other natural objects $150

1 - 4pm

8 to 12 year olds

Class number: SR816

In this class we will explore and learn about the ancient practice of nature printing to create your own fine art prints and hand made cards. Acquire skills and techniques as you become aware of your own creative potential. We will use fruit vegetables and other natural mete rials to create exciting prints on paper. Make fun random prints or combine to create interesting images.

Material fee $15

Teaching artist: Smita Rao

Colleen Attara

is an eco artist who uses repurposed materials in her work. She has formed partnerships with local sign shops and plastic fabricators and turns their scrap plastics and old signs into colorful, 3-dimensional works of art. Her work is in many private collections and businesses, and is shown in several area galleries. Colleen's green art has been featured in local and national publications as well as on PBS-TV. Colleen creates full time and serves on the Board of the Artists of Yardley. She loves teaching students how to color outside the lines.

Patrick Bartal

is an art educator in the School District of Philadelphia. He is in his 3^rd year of teaching Visual Art to inner city youths. He is also an avid oil and watercolor painter. Patrick studied at West Chester University from 2001 through 2005 at which time he received his BFA in Studio Arts and a minor in Art History. He later studied at Moore College of Art and Design in a Post Baccalaureate Art Education Certification program. In December of 2006 he became certified by the state of Pennsylvania in the area of Art Education, K � 12. Patrick has also been educating youths, since 2005, in the Yardley area. During this time he has been a teacher with the CAPS and Artist's Circle organizations.

Denise Callanan-Kline

grew up in a family of stained glass artists. After earning a BS in art education from Temple University, she taught art for several years in public school. Upon receiving her MA from Arcadia University, She taught art at Holy Family University. She also began a decorative painting business specializing in murals and faux finishes. The past few years, her focus has turned to landscape and genre painting. She has taught art to students of all ages. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout Bucks County.

Jean Childs Buzgo

is an oil painter, art teacher and packaging/graphic designer. Jean received her BFA at The College of New Jersey and graduated with honors. Over the last 3 years, she has been studying oil painting with various professional painters in the area and is realizing success exhibiting in local galleries. She is also currently teaching art classes to 1�6 year old children at Montessori Cottage preschool and children ages 4�8 over the summer at the Bucks County Racquet Club. Jean's studio and residence are in Bucks County, PA where she lives with her husband and 2 children.

Renee Egan

is an avid oil painter. She started her education at Pair School of Art in Connecticut and received her BFA at the College of New Jersey. She continues to take graduate courses at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Renee has done many residential murals and wall treatments in Bucks County and New Jersey. She has taught secondary art in New Jersey schools for over ten years and currently teaches Art III, AP and Ceramics II Art programs at Ewing High School in New Jersey. She is a member of The Artists of Yardley and Art Bridge. Not only does she continue to work on ceramics at the Earth Center for the Arts in Newtown, Pa., she shows her paintings regularly in local juried shows and galleries.

Oz Freedgood

has many years of teaching experience. He taught arts and crafts to children at the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico. He also taught at Cooper Union and was an assistant painting teacher in Parsons School of Design in New York. He has exhibited in various juried shows, and one man shows in Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and Massachusetts.

Anne Gannon

worked as an Illustrator for Well Being magazine in San Diego before continuing her education at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. During this time she worked as the in-house Illustrator for Hammacher Schlemmer - her drawings were published weekly in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Later on she freelanced for Houze Glass, designing licenced artwork for Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms. She eventually made the decision to stay home and raise her children. Then in 2003, Anne started teaching art classes while beginning a new career as a surrealist and an abstract painter. She has been with the Artists of Yardley since their inception in 2004, serving as a board member, the website manager and assistant editor for the AOY newsletter.

Diane Greenberg

is an award-winning artist with a BA in Art (concentration: Drawing) and an associates degree in Textile Design. She has designed rugs, home furnishings, fabrics, and wallpaper. Currently, she is concentrating on fine arts, pet portraits, and teaching art.

Jody Lista-Malloy

has been designing dolls for more than 15 years. A gifted seamtress, she worked for Franklin Mint Doll Company creating detailed costumes from sketches for dolls such as Princess Grace, Jackie O, and The Wizard of Oz. Jody loves to pour molds and fire her own dolls in her kiln creating dolls of all types from 4-inch kewpies to 21-inch Santas.

Patricia Newdeck

has a devoted interest in both our natural environment and art. After obtaining her Geology degree, she worked as environmental consultant, cleaning up soil and groundwater at industrial sites. As an artist, Patricia sculpts bas-relief stoneware tiles and copper foil panels. Patricia's passion for science and art enables her to cultivate the skills inherent in both science and art; a sensitivity to ones environment, keen observation skills and patience. She believes learning happens best when you get dirty.

Smita Rao

has work that has been exhibited at numerous major venues, including juried shows at the Woodmere and Berman Museums, the Perkins and Abington Centers, and several galleries. Smita Rao's art has drawn a loyal following. Her work is displayed in private collections, business centers, and public institutions. She has won several awards and has been featured in area art newspaper sections.

Rose Marie Strippoli

After raising a family (four children) and operating her own bridal and design business for many years, Rose Marie decided to focus on one of her first loves, painting, in late 1989. Since then she has studied, and continues to study, at various workshops around the world, where she has studied under many well-known artists and teachers. She has also matriculated at Bowling Green and Jacksonville Universities, Bucks County C.C., and Lorain County C.C. Since her first public exhibition in 1991, her acrylics, hand-built pottery, enamels, and watercolors have garnered numerous awards and ribbons. A wood sculpture, �Geisha�, won �Best of Show� at the 1992 Clyde Art Show. A watercolor titled �Eternal Flame� was �Best of Show� at the 2002 Firelands Area Art League exhibition. An acrylic, �Rising Star� was the recipient of the prestigious �Doug Pasek Memorial Award� at the �04 Ohio Watercolor Society juried show. In 2005, she placed third in the Best of Pennsylvania promotion in both pottery and acrylic. In 2007, �Castles and Moonbeams� placed first in the Mixed Media category at the Artsbridge 13th annual juried show.

Her work has been exhibited in many juried shows including ��

Ohio Watercolor Society 2004 - 2010
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society 1998, 2004, 2005, 2010
West Virginia Watercolor Society 1999
Jacksonville Watercolor Society 2000
Artsbridge �Works on paper� 2006
Artsbridge Annual Show 2006, 2007
Gallery 125 � Spring Show 2007
Phila. Sketch Club 2007, 2008, 2010
Perkins Art Center 2009
Ellarslie Museum, Trenton, NJ 2010

Rose Marie has been the subject of individual shows at Bowling Green University, Firelands Campus, Huron, OH, 1993, Riverside Theater and First Federal Bank, Bristol, PA, 1993, Key Bank, Vermilion, OH, 1994, Avon Lake Library, Avon Lake OH, 1996,and Hopewell Gallery, Hopewell, NJ, 2008. She has also exhibited at the Zanesville Art Center, the Bucks County Visitors Bureau, and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She was part of the Ohio Watercolor traveling exhibitions in �04, �05, �06, �07, AND �08. Galleries in which her work can be viewed are ArtisZen Arts in Lambertville, N.J., Absolute Abstract Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, Riverbank Gallery in Stockton, NJ, and Wobblefoot in Lakewood, OH.

Ms. Strippoli is a signature member of the Ohio W.C. Society, the Pennsylvania W.C. Society, and the Society of Experimental Artists. She also maintains associate membership in the American W.C. Society, and is active in the Artists of Yardley, Artsbridge, and Artists of Bristol.