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SUMMER PROGRAMS

Art and Imagination Programs

 

Art and Crafts
Art & Imagination - Summer Camps
Children ages 5-10 can explore their inner Picasso or expand their imaginations with these one-week programs teaching artistic expression and exploring imaginative storytelling.

For information, call (502) 589-0084. To register for Imagination Workshops (Art Camps have sold out):
Download a Registration Form
A Woodland Fantasy Workshop - New for Summer 2010

Lions and Tigers and Bears? How about Dragons and Wizards and Elves!?
In A Woodland Fantasy Workshop children will create their very own characters and stories! Using their imaginations to inhabit their story, they will learn the basics of acting through exciting games, activities and movement, all culminating in a fun performance for family and friends on our last day

Ages: 5-7

Session I Dates:June 7 - June 11

Session II Dates:June 21 - July 25

Session III Dates:July 19 - July 23

Make your reservation today.

Duration: Each session is one week, Monday thru Friday
Class Times: 9:30 am to Noon

Cost: $150.00 - ($50 deposit at time of reservation.)

Class size is limited.

 

Art Camp - Summer 2010

In this class, students will create original artwork using a variety of mediums:
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Mask-making
  • Paper mache
  • Wood sculpture
  • And more

Ages: 5-10

Session I Dates:June 14 - June 18*** SOLD OUT ***

Session II Dates:June 28 - July 2*** SOLD OUT ***

Session III Dates:July 12 - July 16*** SOLD OUT ***

Session IV Dates:July 26 - July 30*** SOLD OUT ***

Make your reservation today.

Duration: Each session is one week, Monday thru Friday
Class Times: 9:30 am to Noon

Cost: $150.00 - ($50 deposit at time of reservation.)

The class size is limited to 12.

 

What to Bring
  • Wear comfortable clothes that you don't mind getting dirty or ruined and shoes that will stay on. (No flip-flops.)
  • Send your child with a marked snack. We have a fridge and drink and snack machines.
  • Art Camp kids should bring a smock that can stay at
    Walden during the week.

NOTE: Please leave all radios, hand-held video games, jewelry and chewing gum at home.

 

Important Information

We have lots to accomplish in one week!
Camps start promptly at 9:30 am and end at noon.

 

Instructors


Laura Patterson - Art Camp
Laura has been teaching art to children for over 20 years. In addition to being a teacher, Laura herself creates original art for the theatre, and is a costume designer for Actors Theatre and Walden Theatre. She has designed costumes for Walden Theatre's productions of Of Mice and Men, Holy Ghosts, The Winter’s Tale, Misalliance, The Time of Your Life, King Lear, Tartuffe, Playing For Time, Summer and Smoke, Picnic, Pride and Prejudice, The Crucible, Charley's Aunt, Much Ado About Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. Laura holds a BFA in Set & Costume Design from Syracuse University and an MFA in Costume Design from Boston University. Her designs for ATL included Dracula, Corpse, I Hate Hamlet, Shadowlands, 1969, Betty the Yeti, Sherlock Holmes, To Kill a Mockingbird, Keely and Du, Stanton's Garage, La Bete, The Beaux' Strategem, The Heidi Chronicles, Prelude to a Kiss, Quartermaine's Terms, and Picnic, as well as many Humana Festival plays. Laura has worked at the Dallas Theatre Center, Syracuse Stage, Stage West, Huntington Theatre Company, and Houston Grand Opera, and her work has been shown in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A Walden Theatre alumna, she is married to Walden Theatre's Artistic Director, Charlie Sexton and they have two sons, Aaron and Ian.

Gina Theresa Cisto - A Woodland Fantasy Workshop
Gina is the Education Associate of Blue Apple Players, Inc. A summa cum laude graduate of the College Scholar Program at The University of Tennessee, Gina graduated with a B.A. in theatre education with an emphasis in acting, directing and dramaturgy in 2004. An award winning actor and director, Gina has worked in theatre both professionally and regionally for over 3 decades. Passionate about sharing the power of drama with young people, Gina has taught workshops in over 100 schools, libraries and community centers across the metro-Louisville area, working with hundreds of youth. Her unique and dynamic way of teaching has been hailed as innovative and ground-breaking by education administrators and teachers alike. Gina is thrilled to continually have the opportunity to instill and inspire a love and respect for theatre in young people.

 

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  • Improvisation
  • Studio
  • Apprentice
  • Performance

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