artistree/purple crayon summer 20192095 pomfret road - south pomfret, vt 05067. 802.457.3500 -...

2095 POMFRET ROAD - SOUTH POMFRET, VT 05067802.457.3500 - [email protected]

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ArtisTree/Purple Crayon

SUMMER 2019

SUMMERCAMPS

AGES 3-18PAGES 2-12

AFTERNOON STUDIOSAGES 5-12PAGE 12

VISUAL ARTSADULTS, 14+PAGES 13-15

MOVEMENT& MUSIC

ADULT, 11+PAGE 16

WORKSHOPSALL AGESPAGE 17

PRESCHOOLBIRTH-5PAGE 18

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TIME/DAY AM CAMPS, 9AM-12PM PM CAMPS, 1-4PM

JUNE 17-21

Flip-Flop Acrobatics: Ages 3-5VINS Peeps: Up in the Air! Ages 4-5 (at VINS)

Magical Worlds: Ages 5-8Exploring Fiber Arts: Ages 9-13

Days of Knights and Unicorns: Ages 5-8Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

JUNE 24-28Fun in the Forest: Ages 4-6

Creating in Wood: Ages 5-8Music Madness: Ages 8-12

It’s Sew Fun!: Ages 9-13Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

JULY 1 - 3Arts and Crafts Grab Bag: Ages 5-8

Wizard Camp: Ages 9-12Self-Portrait Drawing & Painting Lab: Ages 5-8

Spa Camp: Ages 9-14

JULY 8-12

Farm Frenzy: Ages 3-5VINS Peeps: Animal Adventures: Ages 4-5 (at VINS)

Super Comics: Ages 6-10Comp. Programming: Animations and Games: Ages 9-14

Ceramics: Kids’ Wheel Throwing: Ages 9-14

Dino-mite Drawing: Ages 8-13Into the Woods JR. Two week Musical Theatre Camp:

(9am - 4pm) Ages 8-18 Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

JULY 15-19VINS Peeps: Anybody Home?: Ages 4-5

Little Camp on the Prairie: Ages 5-8Mysteries of Ancient Greece: Ages 9-12

Band in a Box: Ages 6-10Into the Woods JR. Two week Musical Theatre Camp:

(9am - 4pm) Ages 8-18Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

JULY 22-26Sense-sational Art!: Ages 3-5

Ceramics: Our Feathered Friends: Ages 5-8Valley Quest Camp: Ages 9-12

Flippin’ Good Time: Ages 5-8Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

JULY 29-AUG. 2VINS Peeps: Pomfret Pioneers: Ages 4-5

Beginning Computer Animation: Ages 6-9Stop-Motion Animation: Ages 10-15

Claymation!: Ages 10-15Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

AUGUST 5-9

VINS Peeps: VINS Adventures: Ages 4-5 (at VINS)Woodland Creatures and Fairies: Ages 3-5

Dance with Kaitlyn: Ages 5-8Improvisation for Theatre: Ages 9-14

Jewelry Boutique: Ages 9-14Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

AUGUST 12-16Fairy Tales and Other Treasures: Ages 3-5

Storytelling for the Stage: Ages 5-8Beach Vacation: Ages 9-14

Artful Experiments: Ages 5-8Camp Cirque: Ages 9-12

Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

AUGUST 19-23Sneaky Critters: Ages 4-6Sculpture Fest: Ages 5-8

Summer Painting & Sculpting Lab Ages 9-14

Summer Ensemble: Ages 11-15Afternoon Studios: Ages 5-12 (pg. 12 for more).

SUMMER CAMP GUIDE AGES 3-18

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Children attending ArtisTree summer programs will bring their own personal snacks and lunches. There will be a supervised lunch/recess period from 12-

1pm for children who are attending morning and afternoon programs.

Full-day campers must bring their own bag lunch and drink.Please inform us of any allergies at registration.

VINS Peeps: Up in the Air!Instructor: VINS and ArtisTree Instructors Class Dates: One-week camp, June 17-June 21 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm. * This camp is held at VINS Nature Center Cost: $150 for 5 days. Visit the VINS website for registration: http://www.vinsweb.orgAges: 4-5 Join us at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science to learn about creatures that flap, flutter, soar, and buzz through the sky. From the canopy of a towering tree to a fragrant flower-filled meadow, campers will investigate the lives of these aerial acrobats while participating in hands-on activities, fun games, and art projects that build on the theme of the day.

Instructor: Margaret DwyerClass Dates: One-week camp, June 17 – June 21Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Enter the magical, miniature world of fairies, elves and woodland folk. Join us to make our own woodland characters along with dwellings and accessories that you can take home and play with all summer long.

Magical Worlds

Flip-Flop AcrobaticsInstructor: Kaitlyn Knapp Class Dates: One-week camp, June 17 – June 21 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $150 for 5 days Ages: 3-5 Rolling through hoops, jumping on mini trampolines, and tumbling are just a few of the fun ways our little ones will develop physical literacy and coordination in this exciting camp. We’ll play games, enjoy obstacle courses, and have scavenger hunts each day! All levels of experience are welcome.

Instructor: Allison ZitoClass Dates: One-week camp, June 17 – June 21Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Join us to explore the world of knights, kings, and queens of old Europe. Learn about life during the Dark Ages, when the unicorn was a symbol of bravery, intelligence, healing, and innocence. We’ll look at armor and coats of arms, and create art inspired by this time period.

Days of Knights and Unicorns

Director: Rachel KahnClass Dates: One-week camp, June 17 – June 21Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 9-13Immerse yourself in the world of wet felting, hand spinning, and crocheting in this exploration into the fiber arts. Activities will include learning to use a drop spindle to spin local wool, crocheting a small project, and wet felting a small bag or hand puppet with colorful roving.

Exploring Fiber Arts

SUMMER CAMPS LISTED BY WEEK OFFERED

JUNE 17-21

Please pre-register

for camps

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Fun in the ForestInstructor: Kathleen Dolan, ArtisTree StaffClass Dates: One-week camp, June 24 – June 28Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm* This camp is held at the National Park. Cost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 4-6Join this week-long adventure at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. Working with ArtisTree staff and a park ranger, you’ll become an official “Nature Explorer” using your imagination, curiosity, and your five senses to investigate and build connections to nature’s wonders. Each day you’ll enjoy new themed crafts, music, movement, and forest excursions.

Instructor: Mark van Gulden, Music DirectorClass Dates: One-week camp, June 24 – June 28Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 8-12Join us for a week of musical mayhem and madness as we check out and learn the basics of a variety of instruments. Each day will feature one or several new instruments to try: ukulele, drums/percussion, recorder, guitar, and voice (chorus). On the last day we will bring it all together in an awesome performance like never heard before!

Music MadnessInstructor: Rachel Kahn Class Dates: One-week camp, June 24 – June 28Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pm Cost: $150 for 5 days Ages: 9-13 Bring your creativity and deepen your sewing skills! You’ll plan, design, and stitch small projects using both hand sewing and machine sewing know-how. Basic hand sewing skills are a prerequisite; machine sewing will be taught, or refreshed, as camp continues through a week of learning and making.

It’s Sew Fun!

Creating in WoodInstructor: Ben Fox, ArtisTree StaffClass Dates: One-week camp, June 24 – June 28Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $130 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Using safe and basic tools, children will participate in guided exploration of wood as an arts medium. Wood projects and instruction will keep pace with students’ skill development and growth. No prior experience needed.

JUNE 24-28

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Full descriptions and the most up-to-date class information can be found on our website.All offerings are subject to change and/or cancellation due to low enrollment. Please pre-register.

Instructor: Keri WiederspahnClass Dates: Three-day camp, July 1 – July 3Day/Time: Monday-Wednesday, 1-4pmCost: $90 for 3 daysAges: 5-8Join us to create self-portraits on paper, canvas, wood and more. Young artists will develop good working skills and habits, from sketching and planning ideas to trying unique brushwork and inventive color mixing. We’ll start with various black and white drawing exercises and expand to full color paintings, creating a small portfolio of work in 2D and 3D.

Self-Portrait Drawing & Painting LabInstructor: Caitlin EastmanClass Dates: Three-day camp, July 1 – July 3Day/Time: Monday - Wednesday, 1-4pmCost: $90 for 3 daysAges: 9-14Pamper yourself and the ones you love! Learn how to make homemade lotions, lip balm, sugar scrubs, and bath fizzes with essential oils and package them in beautiful ways. On the final day we’ll invite parents and guardians to be pampered by YOU at the ArtisTree day spa!

Spa Camp

JULY 1-3Arts and Crafts Grab BagInstructor: Fiona Davis, ArtisTree StaffClass Dates: Three-day camp, July 1 – July 3Day/Time: Monday-Wednesday, 9am-12pmCost: $75 for 3 daysAges: 5-8Join us for a short week of surprise arts and crafts projects. Our studio closets are stocked with supplies for fiber arts, painting, printing, beading, and much, much more. Each day we’ll reach into our grab bag and pull out an art or craft project to try. Who knows what you’ll come up with?

Wizard CampInstructor: Jennie HarrimanClass Dates: Three-day camp, July 1 – July 3Day/Time: Monday-Wednesday, 9am-12pmCost: $90 for 3 daysAges: 9-12Wizards, witches, and Muggles alike are invited to conjure up some creative fun at Hogwarts. Explore fascinating aspects of the Harry Potter world and get sorted into houses to compete for the house cup! Join us for wand making, games, potions, and more.


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Farm FrenzyInstructor: Emily BurkholderClass Dates: One-week camp, July 8 – July 12Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm* Friday session is held at Billings Farm and MuseumCost: $125 for 5 daysAges: 3-5Explore the animals and activities of daily life on a farm. Storybooks, art projects, and outdoor fun will be the focus of our first four days at ArtisTree. The final day will be spent at Billings Farm and Museum where we’ll feed and handle chickens, plant seeds, milk cows, and more!

VINS Peeps: Animal AdventuresInstructor: VINS and ArtisTree InstructorsClass Dates: One-week camp, July 8 – July 12Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm. * This camp is held at VINS Nature Center Cost: $150 for 5 days. Visit the VINS website for registration: http://www.vinsweb.orgAges: 4-5 Join us at VINS to explore the amazing adaptations of mammal, bird, insect, reptile, and amphibian species that call Vermont home. ArtisTree and VINS instructors engage campers in art projects, games, outdoor exploration, stories and live animal encounters! Learn what makes each animal unique and become an expert on your favorite critters.

Instructor: Eileen VaughnClass Dates: One-week camp, July 8 – July 12Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 9-14Learn animated story telling and computer game building through the popular computer language Scratch (a learning tool developed at MIT). As you create and share Scratch projects, you learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively, essential skills for everyone in today’s society. And it’s fun!

Computer Programming: Animations and Games

Instructor: Luke EastmanClass Dates: One-week camp, July 8 – July 12Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 6-10Love comic books? Learn how to make your own superheroes and comics in this fun and fast-paced camp. Work with a variety of materials as you move from your first pencil sketches to inking your finished comics on Bristol board just like the pros do. You’ll learn the “tricks of the trade” to design exciting covers, think up amazing super powers, and create new characters and stories all of your own.

Super Comics

Instructor: Fiona Davis, Ceramics DirectorClass Dates: One-week camp, July 8 – July 12Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 9-14Take a week to immerse yourself in the world of wheel throwing. This one-week intensive will have you practicing your skills daily so you can really see your progress. Campers with limited or no wheel throwing experience are welcome.

Ceramics: Kids’ Wheel Throwing

Instructor: Luke EastmanClass Dates: One-week camp, July 8 – July 12Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pm Cost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 8-13Feathered velociraptors! Raccoon striped tales! Inspired by the latest CGI animations and top scientific illustrators, work with a variety of materials to create dinosaur art ranging in scale from tiny “desk dinos” to saurian-size wall posters. Young artists and aspiring paleontologists alike will enjoy drawing dinosaurs accurately and realistically based on recent scientific findings.

Dino-mite Drawing!

JULY 8-12

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Little Camp on the PrairieInstructor: Sarah Bernstein Class Dates: One-week camp, July 15 – July 19 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $155 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Calling all Laura Ingalls Wilder fans! Join us for a week of pioneer fun. We’ll time travel back to the 1800s, learning about daily life, chores, and pastimes. Join us for carding wool, making butter, arm knitting, sewing, learning about herbs, creating cabins, making corn husk dolls, playing games, and much more!

Instructor: Allison ZitoClass Dates: One-week camp, July 15 – July 19 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 9-12What ever happened to the Lost City of Atlantis? Or King Minos and the Minotaur? Join us to investigate these and other mysteries from the islands of Crete and Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean Sea. We’ll draw, paint, print, create labyrinths, and much more as we uncover the secrets of the past. On the last day we’ll share our artwork in an exhibit for friends and family.

Mysteries of Ancient Greece

Instructor: VINS and ArtisTree Instructors Class Dates: One-week camp, July 15 – July 19 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm. *Friday session is held at VINS Nature Center. Cost: $150 for 5 days. Visit the VINS website for registration: http://www.vinsweb.orgAges: 4-5 Campers will explore the amazing creatures that occupy the smallest crevices to the largest trees through crafts, games, stories, and outdoor adventure. We will discover the natural world often hidden in plain sight: under the bark of a dead tree, below the surface of the soil, and more.

VINS Peeps: Anybody Home?

Instructor: Mark van Gulden, Music DirectorClass Dates: One-week camp, July 15 – July 19 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $130 for 5 daysAges: 6-10Come make instruments that haven’t even been thought of yet! In this integrated music and art camp we’ll learn about sound and music by inventing instruments to make and play. We’ll move from designing our instruments on paper to finding the parts needed to make them work, then building them and finally taking video of everyone playing their creations to show them off. Join the fun!

Band in a Box

JULY 15-19

Instructor: Ashley Barrow, Theatre Programming CoordinatorClass Dates: Two-week camp, July 8-12 & July 15-19Performances on July 18, 19, and 20Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm Cost: $300 for 5 daysAges: 8-18Join our cast of Into the Woods JR., the third summer youth production in ArtisTree’s Grange Theatre. Immerse yourself in a world of acting, singing, dancing, costume making, and more, and feel the excitement of bringing this cockeyed fairytale to life with all of your favorite Brother’s Grimm characters as they’ve never been seen before. Performances will be July 18, 19, and 20. Into the Woods JR. is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

Into the Woods JR. Musical Theatre Camp

JULY 8-12 & JULY 15-19 JR. THEATRE CAMPSUMMER CAMPS LISTED BY WEEK OFFERED

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Valley Quest Camp Instructor: Kaitlyn KnappClass Dates: One-week camp, July 22 – July 26 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pm Cost: $155 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Let’s get tumbling! Improve your flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination as we play with lots of exciting individual and partner acrobatic skills. We’ll design creative routines to perform for family and friends at the completion of camp. All levels of acrobatics experience are welcome!

Flippin’ Good Time

Instructor: Claire KawskiClass Dates: One-week camp, July 22 – July 26 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $130 for 5 daysAges: 3-5Let’s set our senses loose this week as we explore textures, smells, and tastes aplenty! We will be inspired to play and create using a new sense each day. Come dive your hands into sensory bins and buckets, experiment with musical instruments, concoct tasty projects, and fill your nose with the sweet essences of our sensory garden.

Sense-sational Art!Instructor: Fiona Davis, Ceramics DirectorClass Dates: One-week camp, July 22 – July 26 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Come create a fine flock of feathered friends! Toucans, cardinals, storks, penguins…birds of a feather will flock together in the ceramics studio. We will develop hand building skills to fashion our fledglings, warblers, and chicks in clay, and then finish them off in the glazes of your choice.

Ceramics: Our Feathered FriendsJULY 22-26

Instructor: Finnie Trimpi, ArtisTree StaffClass Dates: One-week camp, July 22 – July 26 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm Cost: $140 for 5 daysAges: 9-12Join us to design an ArtisTree Valley Quest! We’ll create clues that lead visitors on an exploration of ArtisTree’s natural and historic features that ends at a treasure box. You’ll enjoy writing up clues, drawing maps, researching places and stories, and trekking around to build an exciting adventure for future explorers. Our final product will be published by the Valley Quest program.

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Instructor: Meredith HolchClass Dates: One-week camp, July 29 – August 2 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 10-15Learn to shoot stop-motion animation with a video camera! Working in small groups, you’ll construct 3-D characters and sets with found objects and materials such as wire, fabric, wood, and recycled objects. You’ll animate your storyone frame at a time. When the shooting is done, record an original soundtrack to complete your animation. Final productions will be posted to YouTube for viewing.

Stop-Motion Animation

Instructor: Meredith HolchClass Dates: One-week camp, July 29 – August 2 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 10-15Discover the wonders of morphing with stop-motion claymation. Working in a small group, sculpt your own flexible characters with modeling clay. Make 3D sets and create an original storyline featuring transformation. Using a video camera, you’ll shrink, transform, and morph your characters one frame at a time. Finally, record an original soundtrack to complete your video. The finished movies will be posted to YouTube!

Claymation!

Instructor: Eileen VaughnClass Dates: One-week camp, July 29 – August 2 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 6-9Learn to create animated stories using the introductory programming language ScratchJr (a learning tool developed at MIT). Discover how to drag blocks of commands across an iPad screen into sequences that makes your story characters move and interact. Come think creatively, work collaboratively, and have a great time!

Beginning Computer AnimationInstructor: VINS and ArtisTree Instructors Class Dates: One-week camp, July 29 – August 2 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm. *Friday session is held at VINS Nature Center. Cost: $150 for 5 days. Visit the VINS website for registration: http://www.vinsweb.orgAges: 4-5 Campers join the Vermont Institute of Natural Science to look, listen, feel, smell, and taste their way through the forests, meadows, and other natural spaces in the village of South Pomfret. Daily hikes, activities, and art projects will highlight one of the five senses and give kids new ways to investigate the world around them. On the last day of camp, campers will be guided along the VINS Nature Center trails on a special quest to find a mystery creature.

VINS Peeps: Pomfret PioneersJULY 29-AUGUST 2

Full descriptions and the most up-to-date class information can be found on our website. All offerings are subject to change and/or

cancellation due to low enrollment.Please pre-register.

Valley Improv Showat the Grange TheatreMay 3, 2019 at 7pm


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Instructor: Kaitlyn KnappClass Dates: One-week camp, August 5 - August 9 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $165 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Just gotta dance? Let’s move, learn, and grow together as we discover a variety of dance styles in this fun camp designed for movers of all levels! Ballet, jazz, hip hop and acro will all be explored. Camp will culminate with a group performance for friends and family to enjoy!

Instructor: Maren SpillaneClass Dates: One-week camp, August 5 - August 9 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 9-14Learn the basics of improvisation and how to apply them in both a game-playing and performance setting! Through many wacky and creative games and activities, we will explore the ways in which improv can be useful to actors as well as focus on building the strong ensemble that it requires.

Improvisation for Theatre

Instructor: Emily BurkholderClass Dates: One-week camp, August 5 - August 9 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 3-5 Don your wings and let’s take flight to another land where fairies exist and animals talk. Spend the week exploring the fantasy world of the magical forest where we will make fairy houses, have scavenger hunts, and create fairy dolls, trolls, and other magical woodland creatures.

Woodland Creatures and Fairies

Dance with Kaitlyn

Instructor: Claire KawskiClass Dates: One-week camp, August 5 - August 9 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 9-14Join in the magic of creating jewelry, accessories, and decorations with some of our earth’s magnificent stones. We will explore using natural materials such as semi-precious stones, leather, and feathers to create various projects using the techniques of beading and wire wrapping. Learn how to assemble jewelry and discover the special properties of certain stones. With similar materials we’ll make other fun creations like wind chimes, wall hangings, and more.

Jewelry Boutique

Instructor: VINS and ArtisTree Instructors Class Dates: One-week camp, August 5 - August 9 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm. *This camp is held at VINS Nature Center. Cost: $150 for 5 days. Visit the VINS website for registration: http://www.vinsweb.orgAges: 4-5 Campers join the Vermont Institute of Natural Science to look, listen, feel, smell, and taste their way through the forests, meadows, and other natural spaces at the VINS Nature Center. Daily hikes, activities, and art projects will highlight one of the five senses and give kids new ways to investigate the world around them. On the last day of camp, campers will be guided along the VINS trails on a special quest to find amystery creature.

VINS Peeps: VINS AdventuresAUGUST 5-9

Tanglewood Marionettes presentThe Fairy CircusMAY 4, 2019 at 10am

Featuring over twenty beautifullyhand-crafted marionettes, The Fairy Circus is a showcase for turn-of-the-century-style trick puppetry. $10 adult, $5 children 12 and under.

Join us afterward for a special workshop: MAGICAL FAIRY CROWNS at 11am

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Instructor: Monique KellerClass Dates: One-week camp, August 12 – August 16Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $140 for 5 daysAges: 9-14Grab your favorite towel for this studio excursion to the beach! We’ll have a week of beach-related art projects and craft activities, including the opportunity for each camper to paint their own beach scene on canvas. Murals, mini sandcastles, ocean-themed crafts, and games will add to our seaside fun.

Instructor: Margaret DwyerClass Dates: One-week camp, August 12 – August 16Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 5-8Be prepared to get messy in this camp that combines art materials with shaving cream, marbles, squirt bottles and more to create lively, original art! You will be surprised how everyday items can be used to make beautiful and colorful imagery.

Artful Experiments

Instructor: Emily BurkholderClass Dates: One-week camp, August 12 – August 16Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 3-5In this imagination-rich adventure you’ll delve into well-known stories, create art, and play games. Join us for magical Alice in Wonderland projects, Bambi animal crafts, Cinderella mice activities, The Little Red Hen bread baking, and so much more.

Fairy Tales and Other TreasuresInstructor: Maren SpillaneClass Dates: One-week camp, August 12 – August 16Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 5-8In this playful, hands-on camp, learn to use your body and voice to tell stories and create characters. Through games, stories, and play, we will explore the collaboration and cooperation necessary for building an ensemble as well as experiment with the basics of improvisation.

Storytelling for the Stage

Beach Vacation

Instructor: Kaitlyn Knapp and Autum SieglerClass Dates: One-week camp, August 12 – August 16Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $165 for 5 daysAges: 9-12Join us under the “big top!” Strengthen your focus, coordination, and confidence in this entertaining exploration of the circus arts in our studio and outdoors. We’ll learn several hooping, juggling, and tumbling techniques as well as ground acrobatics, partner acrobatics, hand balancing, and contortion! Camp will culminate in a performance for family and friends to enjoy.

Camp Cirque

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Instructor: Nicole ConteClass Dates: One-week camp, August 19 – August 23Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $140 for 5 daysAges: 4-6Discover how animals hide all around us. Explore the art and science of camouflage through outdoor adventures, art projects, games, stories, music and movement. Create and hide your own camouflaged critter. Join us for a week of sneaky, spying nature fun.

Sneaky CrittersInstructor: Emily BurkholderClass Dates: One-week camp, August 19 – August 23Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 5-8ArtisTree’s beautiful woods and fields are the perfect settings for artwork made by YOU! Let’s work and play together to build indoor and outdoor sculptures inspired by famous artists. Our last day will be spent exploring the large outdoor works at the SculptureFest art event in Woodstock. There, we’ll create our own sculpture for the public to view alongside the others at the 2019 outdoor exhibition.

Sculpture Fest

Instructor: Keri WiederspahnClass Dates: One-week camp, August 19 – August 23Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: 9-14Join us for a week of art studio skill building. Learn specific techniques and skills to create a whole repertoire of figurative works. You will create works on paper, canvas, clay and wood using both 2D and 3D methods. We will explore composition, proportion, and more to help you build your own portfolio of whimsical and original works.

Summer Painting & Sculpting Lab

Instructor: Various ArtisTree InstructorsClass Dates: Ongoing, June 17 – August 15 (No studios July 1-4)Day/Time: Mondays-Thursdays, 1-4pmCost: $20 for each 3-hour classAges: 5-12Children are invited for a fun, hands-on art experience. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays will find us working with mixed media and crafts; Tuesdays we create in the Ceramics Studio with clay and glazes. The last hour of class will give children the opportunity to continue working on projects, or to venture outside for supervised free playtime.*August 13 will be for finishing existing clay projects only.

Afternoon Art Studios

Instructor: Mark van Gulden, Music DirectorClass Dates: One-week camp, August 19 – August 23Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $120 for 5 daysAges: 11-15Get your music chops back in shape with a week of fun in this chill summer jam band camp. We’ll work on playing in a group with easy musical arrangements and do some free jamming together, focusing on enjoying making music with friends and having a blast. Bring your instrument and some suggestions for music to play. This will be one rockin’ good time!

Summer Ensemble

AUGUST 19-23

ALL SUMMER Children attending ArtisTree summer programs will bring their own personal snacks and lunches. There will be a supervised lunch/recess period from 12-1pm for children who are attending morning and afternoon programs.

Full-day campers must bring their own bag lunch and drink.Please inform us of any allergies at registration.


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Monitor: Adrian Tans, ArtisTree StaffDates: Ongoing, June 18 – August 20Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6-8:30pmCost: $10 per class (reduced summer rate)Ages: AdultsThe figure drawing program features weekly monitored life drawing sessions, without instruction, open to individuals of all levels of experience. The poses will be timed, with an emphasis on longer poses.

Figure Drawing

Instructor: Chris JacobsonClass Dates: Ongoing, Alternate ThursdaysJune 20 – August 15 (No class July 4)Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pmCost: $5 drop-in art materials feeAges: Adults, 21+Come meet new people who share your interest in making art. This facilitated class offers different fun, easy, and engaging art-making techniques for participants to explore with or without guidance to whatever degree they feel satisfied. Participants are also free to come with their own ideas for creative projects, and either use our available supplies or bring their own. All skill levels welcome! All are invited to join Open Mic Night following this class to extend their evening out!

Mix, Mingle & Make!

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Instructor: Joan HoffmanClass Dates: Six-week session, July 10 – July 31Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6-9pmCost: $140 for 6 weeksAges: Adults, 16+Let’s explore what your brushes can do and learn to make your brushstrokes count. See how they can add textures, direction, and movement to your paintings. Each class Joan will lead demonstrations and helpful critiques. All mediums are welcome: watercolor, oil, waterbase oil, and acrylic.

Beautiful Brushstrokes:Making Them Count Instructor: Mark van Gulden and Ben Fox, ArtisTree

StaffClass Dates: Ongoing, July 30 – September 3Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6-8pmCost: $15 per class (preregistration is required)Ages: AdultsHave some welding experience under your belt, but looking to broaden and deepen your skill set? Come use our gear, stretch out your skills, and create using metal, grinders, cutters, and MIG welders.

Weekly Welding

Instructor: Mark van Gulden and Ben Fox, ArtisTree StaffClass Dates: Six-week session, June 18 – July 23 Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6-8pmCost: $150 for 6 weeksAges: Adults, 16+Learn to use MIG welders and basic brazing techniques. We will use right angle grinders to cut and smooth metal and welds, and bend and shape metal using heat from MAPP gas torches. This is a fun and supportive introductory course to the world of metal sculpture.

Welding and Metal Sculpturefor Beginners

Instructor: Marie Cross, ArtisTree StaffDates: Ongoing, May 24 – October 25 (no painting July 5)Day/Time: Fridays, 9am-12pmCost: FREE (donations welcome) Ages: Adults Venture outside weekly to paint our gorgeous Vermont landscape with fellow artists. Soak in the summer sun and practice your en plein air painting skills to capture the beauty around us. The organizer will find ideal scenic painting sites each week and facilitate a friendly and supportive painting environment.

ArtisTree Plein Air Painting Group

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Instructor: Katie RundeClass Dates: One-week intensive, June 17 – June 21Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: Adults, 12+Sharpen your drawing skills with emphasis on drawing light as opposed to lines! Not that we won’t spend plenty of time learning to structure drawings and match proportion and angles, but emphasis will be on how to draw more accurately by using abstract shapes of light and dark.

Seeing the Light: How to DrawWhat You See

Monitors: Fiona Davis, Veronica Delay, Deb GoodwinDays/Times: Wednesdays 1-3pm, Thursdays 6-8pm, Sundays 1-3pmDates: Ongoing, June 19 – August 25 No Open Studio: July 4, July 7Cost: $75 for 5 visits to the studio, plus $1.20 per pound of stoneware clay (includes firing and glazing). Drop-in fee: $20 plus $1.20 per pound of clay (minimum purchase is 5 pounds).Ages: Adults, 16+Open Studio is a self-directed time to work in our well-equipped ceramics studio. If you have previous ceramics experience and are looking for studio space and equipment, this is an opportunity for you to delve into your own work.

Ceramics: Open Studio

Instructor: Katie Runde Class Dates: One-week intensive, July 22 – July 26 Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 days Ages: Adults, 12+ Deepen your drawing skills through a week of focus on the human face. Each day we’ll focus on a different facial feature to help demythologize even the trickiest expressions. Grow confidence in capturing a resemblance in a low-pressure environment.

Drawing the Face

Instructor: Daniel GottsegenClass Dates: One-week intensive, July 22 – July 26Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $175 for 5 days Ages: Adults, 16+Explore descriptive and expressive ways to draw the landscape while learning a range of technical and formal skills, including what makes a good composition and how to handle a range of drawing materials masterfully and expressively. Join us for a fun and creative week.

Drawing from the Landscape Instructor: Daniel GottsegenClass Dates: One-week intensive, July 29 – August 2Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $175 for 5 daysAges: Adults, 16+Join this inspiring class to paint the landscape en plein air (outside). Our class site affords us stunning vistas, abundant in beauty and richness. We will explore how to capture this beauty on canvas. You will learn a range of technical and formal skills, including composition, color, and handling paint masterfully and expressively.

Painting en Plein Air

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ONE WEEK INTENSIVES*Materials list will be provided upon registration

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Instructor: Katie RundeClass Dates: One-week intensive, August 5 – August 9Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: Adults, 16+Drawing for the hardcore! Academic drawing is a time-honored method to sharpen students’ attention to proportion, light, and accuracy via a series of surprisingly manageable steps. The process is intense and time consuming, but rewards patience with a tremendous capacity for skill-building.

Intro to Academic DrawingInstructor: Nan RundeClass Dates: One-week intensive, July 29 – August 2Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 1-4pmCost: $150 for 5 days Ages: Adults, 16+ Join us to learn a variety of strategies for drawing the clothed human figure. We will cover basic proportions, seeing the figure in terms of line and angle, understanding mass, and more. Reference photos and a live model will serve as the basis for our exercises. All levels are welcome.

Drawing the Figure

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Instructor: Fiona Davis, Ceramics DirectorClass Dates: One-week intensive, August 12 – August 16Day/Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pmCost: $150 for 5 daysAges: Adults, 15+Whether you are new to wheel throwing or have a bit of experience, the best way to move your throwing skills along is to work every day on the wheel with great instruction. Watch your ceramics skills quickly improve in this supportive and convivial environment. The last day will be for glazing.

Ceramics: Wheel Throwing Intensive

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Instructor: Ben Fox, LCMHC and Jess Stout, MSWDates: Ongoing, June 18 – September 3Day/Time: Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30amCost: FREE Ages: All ages welcomeThis weekly support group draws on the power of both the creative arts and human compassion to help participants traverse the challenging terrain of grief. In this confidential, non-discriminatory space, we welcome people of all ages and with various experiences of loss. Participants may attend as many sessions as they choose and no artistic experience is required.

Living with Loss: A Creative Approach

CREATive WeLlneSs

Instructor: Tomoko Liguori Class Dates: Ongoing, June 19 – August 21Day/Time: Wednesdays, 9-10:15am Cost: $15 per class Ages: Adults This class combines Yin and Yang yoga with an emphasis on a conscious and systematic approach to breathing. Yin yoga is a slow, meditative style that increases circulation in the joints and helps to facilitate the body’s flow of energy. Yang yoga is a more traditional Hatha yoga practice that increases muscular strength, stamina, vitality, and flexibility. A typical class starts with a warm-up, followed by 30 minutes of Yang practice, and then a focus on Yin yoga.

Yin/Yang Yoga

Instructor: Mark van Gulden, Music DirectorClass Dates: Ongoing, June 17 – August 19Day/Time: Mondays, 6:30-8pmCost: FREE (donations welcome)Ages: Adults, 14+Join this informal group, facilitated by Mark, for some enjoyable playing time. Expand your song base, learn about group playing techniques, and enjoy making music together. All levels of player are welcome. Ukuleles are available on a first come, first served basis.

South Pomfret Ukulele Group (SPUG)

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Please join us as we celebrate the music, stories and people of a small Vermont village. Set ago—

but not so long ago—and right near here, we’ll look at a day in the life of a small New England

town, told through singing, stories, and games, by our community chorus of Summer Revelers.

Friday, June 21st 5pmat ArtisTree Community Arts Center

Rain or Shine event.

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Instructor: Allison ZitoClass Dates: Two and ½ hour workshop, August 17Day/Time: Saturday, 10am-12:30pmCost: $40 for 2 ½ hoursAges: Adults, 16+Sumi-e black ink painting is a noble and time-honored pursuit of the Japanese scholar. We will look at images of Japanese ink paintings and learn the basic brush strokes used in this specific type of painting. In class we’ll use these techniques to create images of the bamboo forest, but they can be applied to a variety of painting media.

Instructor: Teal SallenClass Dates: Three-hour workshop, June 15Day/Time: Saturday, 9am-12pmCost: $60 for 3-hour classAges: Adults, 13+Dry, but never dull! Come experiment with dry media materials and techniques on different surfaces, discovering what happens when we combine them. We’ll enjoy playing around with graphite, charcoal, conte crayon, pastel, and more on textured papers, toned papers, and other fun surfaces. This class is the first of four in this summer’s The Artist’s Toolbox series.

THE ARTIST’S TOOLBOX:

Dry Media in DrawingInstructor: Teal SallenClass Dates: Three-hour workshop, June 22Day/Time: Saturday, 9am-12pmCost: $60 for 3-hour classAges: Adults, 13+Painting doesn’t have a monopoly on wet media. Drawing with ink is an obvious choice, so come discover how your selection of a creative drawing implement can make that choice a rich and varied one. We will also experiment with turning dry media into wet, so if you attended the first workshop and have an unfinished dry media piece, feel free to bring it to class and spice it up. This class is the second of four in this summer’s The Artist’s Toolbox series.

Instructor: Polly ForcierClass Dates: One 2-day workshop, July 27 and July 28Day/Time: Saturday and Sunday 9am-4pmCost: $215 for 2 full days, July 12 registration deadlineAges: Adults, 18+Join us to make historically accurate 18th and 19th century floorcloths. Floorcloths are utilitarian and beautiful, protecting your floors and accenting your rooms with patterns and colors. All supplies are provided to create a 2’ x 3’ stenciled canvas floorcloth for use and display in your home. Please see more information on our website.

Historic Floorcloths

Instructor: Teal SallenClass Dates: Three-hour workshop, July 13Day/Time: Saturday, 9am-12pmCost: $60 for 3-hour classAges: Adults, 13+Come discover how to incorporate techniques such as decoupage and collage into a drawing to take our pieces beyond the flat plane. Mediums, tools, and materials will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring some of your own “found” materials such as movie tickets, scraps of lace, old keys…or even work on paper that you started but never quite knew how to finish. This class is the last of four in this summer’s The Artist’s Toolbox series.

Instructor: Teal SallenClass Dates: Three-hour workshop, June 29Day/Time: Saturday, 9am-12pmCost: $60 for 3-hour classAges: Adults, 13+Color tells us more than you may think about the world. From a purely creative standpoint, it can be used for emphasis and drama. We’ll talk a little color theory and then we’ll get into layering, blending, and scumbling our way toward getting color to work for you. Feel free to try out chalk pastels or dive into water soluble pencils and markers. This class is the third of four in this summer’s The Artist’s Toolbox series.

The Art of Japanese Ink Painting


Wet Media in Drawing


Color in DrawingTHE ARTIST’S TOOLBOX:

Mixed Media in Drawing

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Instructor: NAClass Dates: Ongoing, June 20 – August 15 (no playgroup July 4)Day/Time: Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30amCost: FREE! (donations welcome)Ages: Birth-5 years (children must be accompanied by an adult caregiver)Playgroups give caregivers and children a chance to play together, make new friends and share parenting ideas in a safe and comfortableenvironment. This summer we’ll spend time outdoors! Join us for water play, sandbox fun, and more. When it’s raining we’ll hang indoors in our fabulous playroom.

Preschool Playgroup

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THE PAul AsbeLl JAzz QUInTeT“bURMEsE PAntheR” CD ReLeAsE ConcERTFriday, May 17th at 7:30pmPaul Asbell’s “Burmese Panther” is the culmination of several years of composing, arranging, and fine-tuning his original compositions with a regular group of world-class players. $20

AlTHEA SULlyCoLe & GUEsTsSunday, May 19th at 4pmAn early summer afternoon performance of both traditional and original music for kora--a 21-stringed harp from the Mandé region of West Africa--in duet with local musicians on guitar, bassoon, piri and didjeridoo. Suggested donation $10

We thREe tOgEtheRbiLl CoLe, GeRALD veAsLey, & StEPhAniE RiCHARdsSunday, June 9th at 4pmAn improvised performance with double reed horns from India, bass guitar and trumpet. Suggested donation $10

THE GRInding StOnE TRIo:JeReMiAH McLAne, OwEn MARshALl,CoRey diMARiOFriday, June 14th at 7:30pmMasters of their respective instruments (accordion, bouzouki/guitar and bass), their repertoire includes tunes from France, the British Isles and original compositions. Suggested donation $20

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SouvenirA Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkinsby Stephen Temperley

TINTYPESA Musical Celebration of Americaconceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle

Forever PlaidThe Heavenly Hit MusicalWritten and conceived by Stuart Ross

COMING UP AT

Humberto RamirezOpening ReceptionMay 17th | 5:30pmExhibit dates May 17th - June 7th

Art with Alzheimer’sAn exhibit of the works of Betsy Goldsborough(1929-2018) from her professional career as a pastel and watercolor artist through her battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Opening ReceptionJune 14th | 5:30pmExhibit dates June 14th - July 6th

Unbound IXOpening ReceptionJuly 26th | 5:00pmExhibit dates July 26th - August 24th

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

2019 ARTIST IN RESIDENCEMargaret Dwyer

ArtisTree is once again excited to partner with the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock to offer arts and nature programming throughout the summer and into the fall. Local New Hampshire artist Margaret Dwyer has been selected as 2019 Artist in Residence to help connect visitors to the landscape through art and the artistic process.

Margaret will offer free workshops and demonstrations in painting and mixed media at both ArtisTree and the park.

For information about upcoming 2019 Artist in Residence classes and events, please visit the ArtisTree website: artistreevt.org

For more on Margaret Dwyer, please see her website:www.margaretdwyer-artist.com

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ArtisTree Community Arts Center Purple Crayon Productions 2095 Pomfret RoadSouth Pomfret, VT 05067

Phone: 802.457.3500 Email: [email protected] Web: www.artistreevt.org

Art, Music, Movement, Theatre, Performances & ExhibitsONLY 3 MILES

FROM WOODSTOCK!

Full descriptions and the most up-to-date class information can be found on our website:

artistreevt.orgAll offerings are subject to change and/or cancellation due to low enrollment. Please pre-register.

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