Description
We are again offering a spring art camp this April vacation week at Love Lab Studio!
> 3 days of art studio camps! Mon 3.21, Tue 3.22, Wed 3.23 / 9 – 3 pm
> Each day will be a different theme! Tons of art, stations to choose from, and outside play in the playground! Also you bring a snack, lunch + water bottle:)
> You can sign up for just 1 day, 2 days, OR 3! They can stand alone OR build on each other.
> Super mixed age group 5 – 13.
Each day brings a new theme and lots of fun projects and stations to choose from!
This camp is all about integrating, making, and using post-consumer and natural products to make our art. HANDMADE + NATURAL paint, POST CONSUMER cardboard garden + woven sculptures, our famous amazing SEED buddies we developed with beloved art teacher Elise.
The overarching themes we will work with all week will be making art that is good for the earth, brings us joy, and grows us as creative + imaginative artists of the world!
We will stress the idea of community, connection, and care in our projects.
*teachers Lead teachers include Christina Bechstein with the creative art assistant teaching team and visiting artists. We always have 2 teachers, and sometimes even 3! As teachers, we all work together and are trained to create a respectful, fun environment. As artists, art teachers, creatives, and art therapists, we are invested in creating safe nurturing, whole-heart, joyful spaces for children. We are skilled in many pedagogies and have years of teaching experience in private and public schools and college-level. We work to set up a caring and super creative environment, and see it as a complete honor to support the individual voice and creativity of your children!
*extra info
before camp starts!
> We will send you a welcome email before your art camp, reminding you of anything you need to remember or bring.
> Each parent/guardian must sign our online forms (including media form, release form, and other important info).
> Come ready to have fun and become a part of the studio! It’s always good to wear clothes it’s OK to get dirty too. We will detail all of this in our welcome email.
> for this camp, you will bring a snack AND a lunch and water bottle!
> A reminder of a few things: please no nuts in the studio, no devices for children in the studio (or if you need to keep in backpack), and if you don’t feel good that day healthy wise or there is bad weather don’t worry we will have make-up classes. If we cancel due to weather, you will receive an email and also a text and have make-up options.
waiting list
Please make sure to view our waiting list inquiry form on our contact page and submit your camp choices if you would like to be on our waiting list! We also will continue to add in 1-time workshops, so get on that list!
healthy community
For the safety and health of all, we have a robust Covid process, which we will need everyone to adhere to in order to have a safe community. Currently, we are not wearing masks in the studio, but we encourage our community to test frequently and wear them if any sickness. We ask that everyone work with us to make sure your children come healthy to the studio. We will revisit our Covid and healthy community policy as we go. We do run an air filter and are super into hand washing. We also have children’s masks – if you ever need one, don’t hesitate to ask.
our space
Our space, Love Lab Studio, is fun and joyful, bright and renovated. The design is thoughtfully curated for the needs of children. We are located at 26 Brackett Street, a mixed residential and retail neighborhood in the West End of Portland, next to the cute cafe Smalls. Street parking is free, and we are here to make your drop-off and pick-up as easy as possible.
some of our values
With backgrounds as studio/craft/public artists and designers, certified art teachers, Reggio Emilia and Waldorf inspired/trained, advanced degrees, service learning, college teaching experience, contemporary art education pedagogy of all kinds, and more. Some of our values include:
* The whole child: social and emotional development and inclusion within a deeply caring and welcoming community. We integrate trauma-informed and expressive arts practices into the studio and reflect and refine this as we go to do our very best for your children.
* Child as a communicator + poet: language development through participation, listening, art
* Child as co-creator: project-based, hands-on, individual learning and collaboration
* Child as informed citizen: community member, global + ecological participant. We care for each other and work to develop our ability to do that better all the time.
* Child as artist: centering arts, creativity, imagination, joy + healing in all we do!
We look forward to seeing you at the studio! – Christina
