Camp | Digital Character Design
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, June 12-16
- Cost $245
- Location Main Building I In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio Two
- Instructor / Presenter Justin Stier
- Age Requirements $245
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
SOLD OUT! Go digital and expand your artistic abilities in this exciting and contemporary medium! Experience digital drawing on iPad Pros while learning how to create and design well-developed characters. When the week wraps up, your final character will be printed, matted and ready to be proudly displayed at home.
Camp | WHAT'S UPcycle?
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, June 19-23
- Cost $245
- Location Main Building I In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio Two
- Instructor / Presenter Lumen Miramontes
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
SOLD OUT! Turn trash into artistic treasure! Combine plastic shopping bags into new woven and sewn creations, and find new potential in everyday items like pencil pouches and trinket trays. Create suncatchers from upcycled materials inspired by the artwork of Eva Schlegel. You'll neverlook at discarded items the same way! Join the waitlist here.
Camp | Ceramic Cities
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, June 19-23
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Kim and Steve Bruno Hand Building Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Liv Egan
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
Learn the essentials of hand building with clay! During this camp, you'll focus on architecture, city designs and cylindrical forms as you piece together your unique ceramic cityscape. Family and friends will marvel at your displayed cities during Friday's Camp Contemporary Showcase.
Camp | Digital Character Design
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, June 26-30
- Cost $245
- Location Main Building I In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio Two
- Instructor / Presenter Justin Stier
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
SOLD OUT! Go digital and expand your artistic abilities in this exciting and contemporary medium! Experience digital drawing on iPad Pros while learning how to create and design well-developed characters. When the week wraps up, your final character will be printed, matted and ready to be proudly displayed at home. Join the waitlist here.
Camp | Tinker Lab
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, June 26-30
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Lacy Gustafson
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
Turn STEM into STEAM! In this tinkering camp, campers will learn how engineers can be artists by making paper circuits and mini-machines. Family and friends will see your genius during Friday's Camp Contemporary Showcase.
Camp | Nature Embroidery
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 10-14
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Darci Lenker
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
Grow beyond the page in this plant-themed embroidery camp! Learn fundamental embroidery techniques like pattern transfers on fabric as well as stitches to create flowers, leaves and landscapes. By week's end, you'll take home skillfully made designs of your own imagination.
Camp | Mural Madness
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 17-21
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Virginia Sitzes
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
SOLD OUT! Grab a brush and paint the walls with us! Learn the process of mural painting while understanding its complexities. This camp includes collaborating, sketching, cutting large-scale stencils and painting to create a multilayered mural. You and fellow campers will discuss the modern mural movement and learn the history of public mural art around Oklahoma City and beyond. Join the waitlist here.
Camp | Clay All Day: Patterns
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 17-21
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Kim and Steve Bruno Hand Building Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Liv Egan
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
SOLD OUT! Taking inspiration from our Patterns of Knowing exhibition, campers will test out different techniques and explore scale and color as they learn coil building, wheel throwing, surface adornment and underglaze application. By week's end, take home several finished ceramic pieces that feature your own bold designs and artistic style. Join the waitlist here.
Camp | Creative Quilters
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 24-28
- Cost $245
- Location Main Building I Howard Family Charitable Foundation Studio Three
- Instructor / Presenter Dana Beach
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
Join the contemporary quilt movement! Push traditional quilting to the limit while learning about contemporary quilt artists, quilting basics, hand sewing and machine sewing. Create your own art quilt, and collaborate to strengthen your artistic abilities with a group quilting project.
Camp | Beats and Bops
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 24-28
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Jacob Frost
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
The world of modern music is at your fingertips! In this camp, explore digital tools to make your own music like the pros. Using Garageband, you'll learn about MIDI, virtual instruments, sampling and synthesizers. You will develop technical and creative strategies to make music in the digital age. By the end of the week, you'll have a portfolio of beats and songs to call your own.
Camp | Kinetic Sculpture
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 31-Aug. 4
- Cost $245
- Location The Studios Building I Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Jessica Petrus
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
Get your ideas in motion for this kinetic art camp! Learn about the art of balance and movement in response to weather, light and human interaction. Taking inspiration from artist Alexander Calder's hanging 3-D mobile creations, campers will come home with their own large-scale contemporary art mobile made from paper wire and upcycled metal.
Camp | My Mini-Multiverse
- Date 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, July 31-Aug. 4
- Cost $245
- Location Main Building I In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio Two
- Instructor / Presenter Lumen Miramontes
- Age Requirements 10-12
- Contact camp@okcontemp.org
Create your own Mini-Multiverse in a whole week of miniature worldbuilding. Campers will make an original micro-work inspired by the exhibition on view, and we'll combine them into a mini installation. From cityscapes to fantastic worlds, create a secret world small enough to fit between the books on your shelf. No imagination is too big when you are working tiny!
