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Youth Ages 8-14
July 8-12
Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm
Jax Members $230 / General Public $290 / Deposit $75
All materials included

Join the Annual Kids Camp at the Jax! This year will we have new and exciting activities and classes.

Healthy snacks and time for fun exercise will be included, but students should pack a lunch for each day.  Students will need to have a minor’s liability agreement and photo waiver completed and signed by a parent or guardian before attending camp.

Class descriptions:

Painting and Drawing with Aven Tanner – Aven is the Floyd County Public School’s art teacher, so her knowledge and creative know no bounds.  She will be developing each students’ drawing and painting abilities, as well as exploring techniques and ideas.

Clay Handbuilding and Wheel Throwing with Jayn Avery – Jayn is a 16 Hands Potter and has trained numerous other potters.  Younger students will be working on handbuilding techniques, while the older students will learn pottery wheel basics.

Metal Stamping and Nature Prints on Shirts with Nell Fredericksen – Nell is a professional jeweler.  She will be working with students in two classes.  In metal stamping, she will be demonstrating how to use tools to stamp designs into metal.  In nature prints on shirts, she will use dyes and natural objects, like leaves, to create prints and patterns on shirts provided by the Jax.

Printmaking with Sarah Reyburn – Sarah is a fiber artist that has worked with our After School Arts Enrichment Program and our Afternoon Arts classes.  She will working with water based inks and several printmaking techniques with the students.

Art Books: Funky Painted Pages an Rad Collage with Becca Imbur -In this book arts session, participants will transform a board book (rescued from the trash and local thrift stores) into a work of art that is all about the child!  Participants will learn how to make unique marks to create patterns and texture on each page.  Using earth-friendly spray paint and items found around the house, we will add layers to create funky pages.  Participants will then add magazine images, photos and other found objects to make rad collages that will further personalize their books.

Stone Sculpture with Darcy Meeker – Darcy is an assistant professor at Radford University and works in stone and metal.  She will be leading the students in, most likely their first, soft stone carving using soapstone or alabaster.