The Value of Teaching Artists and Certified Art Teachers at Cultivate
In the realm of arts education, the presence of two distinct but equally valuable roles, teaching artists and certified art teachers,...
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Spring Break Art Camps
Get ready to have fun, make new friends, and get creative in our spring break art camps!
Morning Session
9-12pm
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Explore and PLAY! in this spring break art camp! Inviting kids ages 6-12, we will be doing different STEAM (science, tech, engineering, art, and mathematics) experiments every day. A week of WOW with a range of fun - including paper mache and plaster painting, soundwave art explorations with homemade instruments, sculpture, painting, mixed media, developing cyanotype prints with a darkroom enlarger, collaborative installation art building, and exploding color experiments! We will end the week with an art show to share our creations with family and friends.
Snacks are included
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Course Schedule: Monday-Friday, 9-12pm
Course Starts: April 3, 2023
Course Ends: April 7, 2023
Afternoon Session
1-4pm
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Get ready to unleash your creativity in this spring break art camp! Inviting kids ages 6-12, we will be doing different STEAM (science, tech, engineering, art, and mathematics) character-building every day. Get ready to build robots, make comic book characters, design silly or spooky monsters, paint kindness rocks with goofy eyes to play around your neighborhood, and make your ideas come to life with pop-up books! We will end the week with an art show to share our creations with family and friends.
Snacks are included
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Course Schedule: Monday-Friday, 1-4pm
Course Starts: April 3, 2023
Course Ends: April 7, 2023
All Day Camps, or Half Day for a fun-filled day of art making and creativity!
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Schedule:
8am-9am Open Studio, Before Care, and Drop Off Time
9am-12pm First Session: Art Experiments Camp, with snacks provided at 1015am
12pm-1pm Pickup Time from First Session, Open Studio and Lunch, and Dropoff Time for Second Session
1pm-4pm Second Session: Character Camp, with snack provided at 2:30pm
4-5pm Pickup from Second Session, Open Studio for After Care
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Please drop off children 10-15 minutes before class.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is it like in your camps?
Our camps are FUN, imaginative, play-based, (and secretly the kids are learning a lot!) Kids love the hands-on art-making experimentation, the silliness and play, while we are inviting them to stretch their minds and explore new things. Parents and caregivers love that our camps are so fun for our kids, but they also share a lot of social-emotional learning as we also practice social awareness skills like compassion and care, relationship skills like sharing, decision making and critical thinking, self and community management with art projects that vary from solo work to group collaboration.
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What are the ages?
Inspired by Montessori practice, we intentionally have a wide age range from 6-12, and we invite and support the older students kids to become leaders and mentors to our younger students.
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What do we need to bring?
We invite the students staying for lunch to bring their lunches. Aside from that, we want all our students to bring a creative spirit and curious mind!
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Who are your teachers?
We have certified art teachers for these courses! They are first aid and CPR certified.
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Tell me about the art share!
We invite students to share works on the last day of camp. Here we mentor and guide the students to host their parents, friends, or caregivers with a special exhibition. Students get really excited to host this event, and will prepare a range of juice boxes and snacks, and arrange their work with great pride!
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If you have any questions about our spring break options or need additional information, please email our Director of Education at education@cultivategrandrapids.org
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Meet our Teachers
Student Gallery of Work
"I've never made anything like this before. This is so cool!"
- Seven-year-old student after doing cyanotype prints
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"This is the most fun class ever!"
- Six-year old student
"It's so great to see my daughter making friends. She loves this class and I signed her up for the rest of the summer."
- Parent of seven-year-old student
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