Fine Arts Camp - Day 5

The days of creation



We had a fantastic week at our Fine Arts Camp. On the last day we were able to see all of the finished art projects. Several of them took more than one day to complete. You can see from these pictures what a great job the kids.






A huge Thank You goes to Kristi Huang and her great helper, Jessi, for making our Fine Arts Camp possible. We would not have been able to do ANY art without them. Kristi invested many hours of planning and preparing to make the art part of camp something truly amazing!

And of course we continued to have a great time learning rhythms and banging on trash cans and buckets!

Fine Arts Camp - Day 4 - FIELD TRIP!!!!

Day four of our Fine Arts Camp was incredible! We went to Nashville to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts The Frist Center for the Visual Arts

First, we met at the FLC. We wore our shirts that we made.

Then we got on the bus.

OH NO!!! There was a wreck on I-24 near exit 24. We sat and sat and sat. Look how distressed we are.

Here is the traffic in front of us.

Here is the traffic behind us.

There was a very interesting exibit in the galleries called "Color as Field ". YOu can click on the link to read about it. We weren't allowed to take pictures in there, so I can't show you how the kids were very interested and talked about all of the paintings.

Art Quest!!

Art Quest is a hands-on art experience where you learn a lot about art by DOING!

One of the art projects was printing. first you drew the design on paper, then you transfered it to a piece of foam, then you put ink on it and then you ran it through the press. (please forgive the run on sentence)

Since I make stained-glass windows I had to sneak out for a minute and see the Tiffany exibit. OH MY! Soooooo gorgeous! Tiffany by Design

Fine Arts Camp - Day 2

Today was another great day at Fine Arts Camp.

The art students had several different projects going.

The Stomp guys played on 5 gallon paint buckets and bounced balls in rhythm in addition to banging on trash cans and buckets.

Bro. Tim took some of the pictures today, so he couldn't resist getting in a picture of himself.

We also started our t-shirts. They are made with stencils. There are two stencils. We did the first step today and will finish them tomorrow.

The kids were very creative in the paints they used for their shirts. Here's my shirt.

Fine Arts Camp - Day 1

We had a great start to our Fine Arts Camp. We had 16 kids and 4 teenage helpers and 2 lead teachers. Kristi tuaght Art and I taught Stomp. Next year we will add drama and puppets and dance.

We began the day all together in the art room. We talked about God and creation. Then we broke into our two groups - Stomp and Art. At 10:30 we had a nice break with lemonaide and cookies.

In Stomp we learned how to read some rythms and practiced first by drumming on the floor. Then we got our earplugs and trashcans and buckets and MADE SOME NOISE! It was a lot of fun. We also watched some clips from the Stomp DVD. Awesome stuff to see!

Then we went outside and practiced a short routine. It was hot and really bright in the sun so we are all probably squinting in these pictures. Then we went down by the art class windows and performed for them.

After our Stomp performance we went back to the art room and the art students told us about all of the things they studied.

The art class learned about a lot of great "art" things, like form and lines and color and value and well, just look here at the list.

They are working on several projects at once. They are also talking about the days of creation and making a group project/mural of the creation story.

Here are some of their projects.

It was a great day!

Kids Camp

Our children went to camp last week.

Brenda Jerles took pictures. You can ask her to see more. Here are a couple of group shots. Looks like they had fun!

Speaking of kids camps...

It is definitley time - maybe past time - for you to sign your kids up for our Fine Arts Camp which will be July 28-August 1. They will choose between dance, art, drama and stomp. I need to know which class when they sign up. The cost is only $50 for a week of fun and learning how to use"fine art" as a way to worship and as a way to reach others for Christ. Call the church office for more details and sign up soon!