Camp Creativity

Studio C

Studio C campers (ages 11–13) concentrate on skill development and jump into exciting fields such as web design, magazine layout, and cartooning.

To add your name to the waitlist of any CLOSED sessions, please contact the Office of the Registrar at registrar@corcoran.org or (202) 639-1820.

Week 4: July 12–16

Morning

Magazine Launch (Closed)
Instructor: Forest Allread
Studying top-selling magazines, campers learn elements of design, illustration, and typography using InDesign and other cutting-edge programs. Next, campers create a mock-up for a magazine geared to their interests.

Commercial Art (Closed)
Instructor: Forest Allread
Learn how companies make you want to buy their products. Using principles of graphic design, campers create their own product line and designs for magazine advertisements, billboards, and television commercials.

Afternoon

Fashion Illustration (Closed)
Instructor: Nadia Powell
Research past styles, observe current trends, and add personal flair to create a fashion lion. Practice illustration techniques and start building your own portfolio of designs for clothing and accessories.

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Week 5: July 19–23

Morning

Botanical Drawing (Closed)
Instructor: Michael Rawson
Extend your drawing skills into a world of living color. Learn the basics of botanical illustration and use pencil, colored chalk, and pastel to explore the beautiful organic forms of plants and flowers.

Still Life in Watercolor (Closed)
Instructor: Michael Rawson
Watercolor is one of the most difficult painting mediums to control, but gives some of the most delicate and beautiful results. Learn how to mix color, apply washes, and create effects unique to watercolor as you paint from still life.

Afternoon

Painting with Acrylics (Closed)
Instructor: Corcoran Faculty
Learn to mix color and practice different methods of acrylic paint application, from transparent stains with a brush to heavy impasto with a palette knife. Subject matter includes still life and landscape.

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Week 6: July 26–30

Morning

Creative Beading (Closed)
Instructor: Meaghan Busch
Make beautiful jewelry and artwork using beads of many textures, sizes, and shapes. Try out different techniques to make beaded art for wearing, hanging, or mounting.

Fabric Design (Closed)
Instructor: Meaghan Busch
Campers learn about dyes, dye painting, block printing, stenciling, and Shibori—a Japanese technique. Working in teams, they design, print, paint, and dye exciting patterns on scarves.

Afternoon

Theater Costume Design (Closed)
Instructor: Meaghan Busch
Working from a play or book of your choice, develop a new look for a leading character. Use marker, watercolor, and pen and ink to sketch models, create a design concept, and render costume designs.

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Week 7: August 2–6

Morning

Prints of Pop
Instructor: Manuel Navarrete
Inspired by the work of Pop Artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Wayne Thiebaud, campers experiment with printmaking techniques while incorporating themes from today’s popular culture.

Close Up
Instructor: Manuel Navarrete
Get ready for your close-up! Following in the footsteps of artist Chuck Close, campers create unique portraits of family, friends, and themselves.

Afternoon

Book Master
Instructor: Corcoran Faculty
From papermaking to binding, learn all the steps it takes to make a book from start to finish. Campers create journals, albums, and other keepsakes as they learn various bookmaking techniques.

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Week 8: August 9–13

Morning

Cartooning (Closed)
Instructor: Christopher Jamison
Transform your classroom doodles and rainy day drawings into your own comic book. Campers learn conventions of cartooning, including storyboards, dialogue bubbles, and caricature.

Typography (Closed)
Instructor: Christopher Jamison
By studying book jackets, comic books, shape poems, and the work of graffiti artists, campers learn techniques of composition, narration, and how to successfully merge images with words.

Afternoon

Artists in Motion (Closed)
Instructor: Elizabeth Wyrsch
From Edgar Degas to cartoonist Jack Kirby, capturing the movements of dancers and athletes is a delicate art. Campers use pencil, ink, and pastel to express a sense of life, gesture, and action in their drawings.

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