So I know that When I dream of Michelangelo is a mouthful but I always thought that a camp with this many opportunities to create should have a title befitting its stature. As we begin to plan for next year, Ms. Nichole and I sat down to review this past summer. We tried, the past two years, to separate the focus of the weeks into different mediums. So during sculpture week, our budding artists made some awesome clay figures, excellent mobiles and found several entirely new uses for silverware. Beyond stretching canvas during our painting week, they also tested out different textures and surfaces to see what effect they had. The jewelry that came out of Art to Wear was truly awesome and enviable but even though this system has work for us, we are looking to make a change for this upcoming year.
Instead of exploring a different set of mediums each week, we are looking to broaden our artists' horizons by exploring a theme. So now if you want to spend one day painting a tree and the next building it out of forks and knives, you can. Undersea creations can come from the fish on your chain link bracelet and the floating squids, sharks, and sting-rays on your mobile. Now that we have that figured out, we just have to start saving our "recycled" supplies and searching the Goodwill for the ever elusive $5 box of mismatched silverware.
