All of the Art Camps at Art Matters are full this summer.
We have removed the registration form.
Thank you, Bowling Green, for your patronage!
The 2021 Summer Art Camp Schedule
Welcome to a World of Art @ Art Matters
Please scroll past the descriptions of the of the art camps to find a registration form. The registration form contains information about prices.
-Sorry! This Good Earth Art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Good Earth Art (Amateur naturalist activities for earth friendly artists) May 31- June 4, 9:00 AM- 12 NOON (ages 6 & up)
-Sorry! This Planet for Animals art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
A Planet for Animals (A variety of fun animal art activities, inspired by Joel Sartore and National Geographic)
May 31- June 4, 1 PM- 4 PM (ages 6 & up)
Choose the AM camp or the PM camp, or sign up for both, bring your lunch and stay all day.
-Sorry! This Turkish Delights camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Turkish Delights: Marbling and Mosaic - June 7-11, 9:00 AM- 12 NOON. (ages 6 & up)
This NEW Camp is available mornings only this week.
-Sorry this Dragon Boat Festival art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-The Dragon Boat Festival (Celebrate China, our planet’s oldest living culture, where paper and printing were first invented.) Master Tom Pardue will provide Kung Fu lessons! This camp includes silk painting too!) June 14-18, 1 PM-4 PM (ages 6 & up) Camp is available afternoons only this week.
-Sorry! This Skulls & Bones art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Skulls, Bones, Rocks and O’Keeffe (American Artist) June 21-25, 9AM- 12 NOON. (ages 6 & up)
-Sorry! The "2 American Artists" camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-2 American Artists: Andrew Wyeth and Henry Ossawa Tanner (includes choices of landscape, portrait, still life and egg tempera painting) June 21-25, 1 PM-4 PM (ages 6 & up)
Choose the AM camp or the PM camp, or sign up for both, bring your lunch and stay all day.
-Sorry! This Artemisia and Botticelle camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Artemisia & Botticelli (Classical Myths and Great Legends) June 28- July 2, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM ( for Teens & Tweens)
This NEW camp for older students includes painting with egg tempera & takes place afternoons only this week.
ART MATTERS WILL BE CLOSED THE WEEK OF JULY 5 (FEDERAL HOLIDAY)
-Sorry! This Cherokee camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Cherokee (The Eastern Band) - July 12-16, 9 AM- 12 NOON (ages 6 & up) This NEW camp is available mornings only this week.
-Sorry this Jungles art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Jungles! Henri Rousseau and Rudyard Kipling (includes stories and poems and giant paintings) July 19-23, 9 AM- 12 NOON, (ages 6 & up) This NEW camp is available mornings only this week.
-Sorry! Art Nouveau camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
Art Nouveau (This beautiful art movement was popular during the early part of the 20th Century and had a resurgence in the 1960’s. This camp is about both of those phenomenons.) - July 26-30, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM (for Teens and Tweens)
This camp for older students takes place afternoons only this week.
-Sorry! This Good Earth Art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Good Earth Art (Amateur naturalist activities for earth friendly artists) May 31- June 4, 9:00 AM- 12 NOON (ages 6 & up)
-Sorry! This Planet for Animals art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
A Planet for Animals (A variety of fun animal art activities, inspired by Joel Sartore and National Geographic)
May 31- June 4, 1 PM- 4 PM (ages 6 & up)
Choose the AM camp or the PM camp, or sign up for both, bring your lunch and stay all day.
-Sorry! This Turkish Delights camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Turkish Delights: Marbling and Mosaic - June 7-11, 9:00 AM- 12 NOON. (ages 6 & up)
This NEW Camp is available mornings only this week.
-Sorry this Dragon Boat Festival art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-The Dragon Boat Festival (Celebrate China, our planet’s oldest living culture, where paper and printing were first invented.) Master Tom Pardue will provide Kung Fu lessons! This camp includes silk painting too!) June 14-18, 1 PM-4 PM (ages 6 & up) Camp is available afternoons only this week.
-Sorry! This Skulls & Bones art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Skulls, Bones, Rocks and O’Keeffe (American Artist) June 21-25, 9AM- 12 NOON. (ages 6 & up)
-Sorry! The "2 American Artists" camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-2 American Artists: Andrew Wyeth and Henry Ossawa Tanner (includes choices of landscape, portrait, still life and egg tempera painting) June 21-25, 1 PM-4 PM (ages 6 & up)
Choose the AM camp or the PM camp, or sign up for both, bring your lunch and stay all day.
-Sorry! This Artemisia and Botticelle camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Artemisia & Botticelli (Classical Myths and Great Legends) June 28- July 2, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM ( for Teens & Tweens)
This NEW camp for older students includes painting with egg tempera & takes place afternoons only this week.
ART MATTERS WILL BE CLOSED THE WEEK OF JULY 5 (FEDERAL HOLIDAY)
-Sorry! This Cherokee camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Cherokee (The Eastern Band) - July 12-16, 9 AM- 12 NOON (ages 6 & up) This NEW camp is available mornings only this week.
-Sorry this Jungles art camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
-Jungles! Henri Rousseau and Rudyard Kipling (includes stories and poems and giant paintings) July 19-23, 9 AM- 12 NOON, (ages 6 & up) This NEW camp is available mornings only this week.
-Sorry! Art Nouveau camp is FULL! Thanks for your patronage!
Art Nouveau (This beautiful art movement was popular during the early part of the 20th Century and had a resurgence in the 1960’s. This camp is about both of those phenomenons.) - July 26-30, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM (for Teens and Tweens)
This camp for older students takes place afternoons only this week.
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Art Matters has been providing a safe space for children for the past ten years. The gallery that once provided a space for art lessons, as well as art exhibits, no longer seemed to serve our best interest, during the time of Covid, so Art Matters re-located to the outskirts of town. Now just ten minutes from our former location on Main Street, young artists have an acre of land at their disposal, allowing us all to avoid crowds and enjoy the great outdoors- the ultimate place to social distance.
Art Matters delves into history to teach about art all around the world, not just in the summer, but all year long. We serve small groups and during the summer, those small groups spend more time outside, exploring nature and painting “en plein air” and sunshine, while taking time to notice and learn about the world around them.
When campers stay all day, they bring their lunch and we relax with a film between camps.
This summer at Art Matters, there are several camps about the environment, allowing young artists to be inspired by nature, hopefully instilling a sense of awe and respect, while teaching them to be more conscious and conservative with resources. The camps, Good Earth Art and A Planet for Animals will feature some real animals and provide a variety of unique ways to make art.
Other camps will take our imaginations to places far away- to Istanbul where we will experiment with Ebru -paper marbling from the country of Turkey- and campers will even make a small tile mosaic! Another camp will take us to ancient China, where we will celebrate The Dragon Boat Festival on June 14! We are honored to announce that Master Tom Pardue will be on hand to teach us some Kung Fu techniques that week as well!
Both boys and girls will enjoy the subject matter of American Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, as they examine closely the skulls and bones of animals and learn to appreciate them aesthetically, as O'Keeffe did when she held them up to the sky and created paintings. O'Keeffe's paintings will have us collecting rocks, shells, flowers, leaves and other objects of nature and looking at them so closely they become abstract forms, as they did for her. Other American artists, like Andrew Wyeth, (who came from an entire family of artists), as well as artist, Henry Tanner, will teach us about our homeland, as we see how these artists captured America on canvas. Painting like Andrew Wyeth also gives young artists the opportunity to paint with egg tempera on wood, as Wyeth did, but campers can learn about other artists in that family as well, giving them lots of choices for materials to use.
A camp that is just for teens (and tweens) and is all about Greek/Roman Mythology, takes a look at the work of Italian artists, Artemisia Gentileschi and Sandro Botticelli. Young artists will experiment with an Italian Renaissance technique of painting with egg tempera, while they discover the stories of ancient myth, found in Botticelli's beautiful paintings of that period. The art of Artemisia is from a later period and can teach students about chiaroscuro (light and shade in drawing and painting) and great myths can be found in her art as well.
Some of us can explore our own Southern Appalachian heritage with traditional and contemporary stories and arts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee people and their life in the Great Smokey Mountains, while Jungles is a camp that combines two famous folks from history that may not have known each other at all, but both certainly loved jungles. Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book and the other, artist, Henri Rousseau, could have illustrated that book with his paintings. Unlike Kipling, Rousseau never got to travel to a jungle, other than in his dreams. In this camp we will see if Kipling's "Just So Stories" can inspire us to paint some larger than life paintings, while we borrow from the fantastic jungle colors and fauna of Rousseau's paintings.
We will conclude camps this summer with one that will allow teens and tweens to discover the Art Nouveau style of the early 20th century and its resurgence during the gig poster and album cover art of the 1960’s!
Most all of our camps reveal to us that music, science, history and art and are really almost inseparable! It is integrated learning that makes these camps really fun!
We don’t only make art, with a wide variety of professional grade materials, but we often play games and sometimes prepare foods that relate to the themes of the camps. Our learning environment is always rich with quality art prints and books. We bring in all of the arts, whenever possible and often invite guest speakers to share their expertise! We take a break, at least once or twice a week, and cool off with water play- it is summer, after all! The end of each week results in a celebration of the art that the youngsters create and families and friends are always invited to see the exhibit! We look forward to seeing you this summer!
Art Matters delves into history to teach about art all around the world, not just in the summer, but all year long. We serve small groups and during the summer, those small groups spend more time outside, exploring nature and painting “en plein air” and sunshine, while taking time to notice and learn about the world around them.
When campers stay all day, they bring their lunch and we relax with a film between camps.
This summer at Art Matters, there are several camps about the environment, allowing young artists to be inspired by nature, hopefully instilling a sense of awe and respect, while teaching them to be more conscious and conservative with resources. The camps, Good Earth Art and A Planet for Animals will feature some real animals and provide a variety of unique ways to make art.
Other camps will take our imaginations to places far away- to Istanbul where we will experiment with Ebru -paper marbling from the country of Turkey- and campers will even make a small tile mosaic! Another camp will take us to ancient China, where we will celebrate The Dragon Boat Festival on June 14! We are honored to announce that Master Tom Pardue will be on hand to teach us some Kung Fu techniques that week as well!
Both boys and girls will enjoy the subject matter of American Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, as they examine closely the skulls and bones of animals and learn to appreciate them aesthetically, as O'Keeffe did when she held them up to the sky and created paintings. O'Keeffe's paintings will have us collecting rocks, shells, flowers, leaves and other objects of nature and looking at them so closely they become abstract forms, as they did for her. Other American artists, like Andrew Wyeth, (who came from an entire family of artists), as well as artist, Henry Tanner, will teach us about our homeland, as we see how these artists captured America on canvas. Painting like Andrew Wyeth also gives young artists the opportunity to paint with egg tempera on wood, as Wyeth did, but campers can learn about other artists in that family as well, giving them lots of choices for materials to use.
A camp that is just for teens (and tweens) and is all about Greek/Roman Mythology, takes a look at the work of Italian artists, Artemisia Gentileschi and Sandro Botticelli. Young artists will experiment with an Italian Renaissance technique of painting with egg tempera, while they discover the stories of ancient myth, found in Botticelli's beautiful paintings of that period. The art of Artemisia is from a later period and can teach students about chiaroscuro (light and shade in drawing and painting) and great myths can be found in her art as well.
Some of us can explore our own Southern Appalachian heritage with traditional and contemporary stories and arts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee people and their life in the Great Smokey Mountains, while Jungles is a camp that combines two famous folks from history that may not have known each other at all, but both certainly loved jungles. Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book and the other, artist, Henri Rousseau, could have illustrated that book with his paintings. Unlike Kipling, Rousseau never got to travel to a jungle, other than in his dreams. In this camp we will see if Kipling's "Just So Stories" can inspire us to paint some larger than life paintings, while we borrow from the fantastic jungle colors and fauna of Rousseau's paintings.
We will conclude camps this summer with one that will allow teens and tweens to discover the Art Nouveau style of the early 20th century and its resurgence during the gig poster and album cover art of the 1960’s!
Most all of our camps reveal to us that music, science, history and art and are really almost inseparable! It is integrated learning that makes these camps really fun!
We don’t only make art, with a wide variety of professional grade materials, but we often play games and sometimes prepare foods that relate to the themes of the camps. Our learning environment is always rich with quality art prints and books. We bring in all of the arts, whenever possible and often invite guest speakers to share their expertise! We take a break, at least once or twice a week, and cool off with water play- it is summer, after all! The end of each week results in a celebration of the art that the youngsters create and families and friends are always invited to see the exhibit! We look forward to seeing you this summer!
THE INSTRUCTORS FOR SUMMER ART CAMPS:
TERESA CHRISTMAS, MAE, & MICHAEL GRAMLING, EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIALIST, WKU
We have removed the registration form for Summer Art Camps. They filled more quickly than we imagined. Please check back with us next year!
(BELOW ARE A FEW HAPPY MEMORIES FROM SUMMER IN 2019.)
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VOLUNTEERS: ART MATTERS WELCOMES ALUMNI STUDENTS TO RETURN TO VOLUNTEER DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, BUT THEY MUST BE TEENAGERS AND MUST ENJOY WORKING WITH THE YOUNGEST STUDENTS. IN ORDER TO KEEP GROUP SIZES SMALL, NO MORE THAN ONE VOLUNTEER PER SESSION WILL BE SCHEDULED. Volunteers' Requests for Camps will be taken on a first come, first serve basis. 
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ALL PHOTOS POSTED IN THIS WEBSITE WERE TAKEN AT ART MATTERS COMMUNITY STUDIO.
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SCHOLARSHIPS! Scholarships have been awarded for this summer. Please check back in the Fall for a new scholarship form and opportunity. Please don't hesitate to call us, if you know a child who loves art, but has obstacles in participating. We want children to get to participate! SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION YANDELL "GUS" COLLINS WAS AN ARTIST AND GRANDFATHER TO AN ART MATTERS ALUMNI STUDENT. WHEN GUS PASSED AWAY IN 2015, HIS FAMILY (OUR LOCAL, CATHERINE AND KATE WARREN) AND ART MATTERS BEGAN THE GUS COLLINS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, WHICH ALLOWS 10% OF OUR STUDENTS TO ATTEND ART LESSONS AND SUMMER CAMPS. ONE CHILD MAY ATTEND EACH SUMMER CAMP FREE OF CHARGE. APPLICANTS ARE CHOSEN BASED ON FINANCIAL NEED, BUT ALSO A LOVE FOR ART. |
Expect animals to visit during A PLANET FOR ANIMALS CAMP IN 2021!
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