Artists Adventures: A Week of Hiking, Exploration, and Making
Artists Adventures: A Week of Hiking, Exploration, and Making
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For ages 6-10
In this week-long camp, students will learn how to turn nature into their own artist kit, exploring the relationship between art and nature with artist and teacher Brian Herrick
We will spend each morning outside and on hikes around Montpelier, collecting items found in nature: branches, wildflowers, or clay. In the afternoons, we will learn how to turn those found natural objects into homemade ink, paper, paint brushes, and more. And of course, we will be making plenty of paintings and drawings all week long.
At the end of the week, each student will go home with their own set of artist tools, made by them, to continue using at home.
July 31st-August 4th, 2023 | 9am to 3pm
Brian Herrick is a printmaker and painter with experience in a variety of media. Brian has been an art teacher for 20 years and an educator for 25, during which time he helped develop and implement a social justice art curriculum focused on windows and mirrors. In addition to teaching, he has been a working artist throughout. Brian has taken courses in Design Thinking at The Stanford D.School as well as The Reading and Writing Workshop at Teachers College at Columbia University, and The Art of Tinkering Workshop at The Tinkering Studio at The Exploratorium in San Francisco. He has exhibited his paintings in solo shows, group shows, designed sets for The Killing My Lobster Theater company in San Francisco, written and drawn a graphic novel, and edited the Milk and Carrots anthology featuring 15 different cartoonists.