WAC offers a variety of classes and workshops for children and adults:
Summer Art Camp • Performing Arts Camp
Yoga • Contemporary Art Group
• Life Drawing Studio Group
• Photography
Summer Art Camp – 2010
Professional teacher/artist Monica Schraiber Otero and staff offer an exciting program for children ages 6-12. The camp will introduce Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Masks, Printmaking, Art History and more.
NEW! This year’s creative theme is WORLD ART. Projects are based on various regions, cultures and famous artists from around the globe with themed pieces being created once a day. Participants also attend WAC-sponsored performances by the Watchung Library as well as enjoying improvisational theater games.
Cycle I: European Art — France, Italy, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands. July 5 - 9.
Cycle II: Art from the Americas — United States, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Argentina. July 12 - 16.
Cycle III: Creations From Asia And Africa — Japan, China, Egypt, India, Kenya, and the Philippines. July 19 - 23.
Camp hours are Monday - Friday from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (a bag lunch is required). Picnics at Best Lake weather permitting.
FEE: $295 (WAC members $285). Each cycle is different so choose one or more for a unique artistic experience. All supplies are included. $10 sibling discount for one cycle only OR $12 multiple cycle discount after first cycle paid in full. Discounts cannot be combined. Download the registration form.
The Life Drawing Studio Group
Summer 2010
The Life Drawing Studio Group would like to invite all serious artists that are interested in drawing from the figure to enroll in our Summer Series of studio workshops. A variety of exercises are done at each of our three-hour studio sessions, ranging from quick gesture sketches to twenty-minute studies. It’s a fantastic way for visual artists to work from the live model, hone their skills and keep in practice.
The Studio Group has met at WAC continually, year-round, for the last 15 years, on several Wednesday evenings and several Saturday mornings each month. Wednesday evening sessions begin at 7 p.m. and Saturday morning sessions start at 10 a.m. For further information call the program director, Brian, at 973-857-3098 or email eyewerksstudio@yahoo.com.
Artists under the age of 18 must have parental permission. Photography, wet or dust producing media and solicitation of models are strictly prohibited.
Wednesdays: June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; July 7, 14, 21, 28; August 4, 11, 18, 25
Saturdays: June 5, 12, 19, 26; July 10, (17), 24;
August 7, 14, 21, (28)
The cost for the the summer series (June through August) ) is as follows: Wednesday series (13 sessions) $180; Saturday series (9 sessions) $135; Both Wednesday and Saturday (22 sessions) $250 (WAC members are entitled to a $10 subscription discount.) Space permitting, walk-in participation will be accommodated for a fee of $20 per session. To register, complete the registration form and enclose with your check, made payable to “WAC — Life Drawing Studio Group.” Mail to Watchung Arts Center, 18 Stirling Road, Watchung, NJ 07069.
Photography
Unique Vision Workshop
2010 Meeting Schedule:
Mondays: Feb 22, Apr 19, Jun 21, Aug 23, Oct 18
Tuesdays: Mar 30, May 25, Jul 20, Sep 21, Nov 16
Meetings start at 7 p.m. Each session begins with a discussion of a timely creativity issue, followed by a critique from all of us, of ALL the photos you bring. We suggest 4 x 6 prints attached to display boards available from Staples (approx $7). What doesn't fit on the board, INCLUDING THE REJECTS, should be brought as well. We study all the images, search for a direction that you might have overlooked, find relationships between the images. OK to bring matted prints, contact sheets of slides, if you prefer.
Fee: $5/session you attend. All proceeds to Watchung Arts Center.
Performing Arts Day Camps
“ACT” — the very descriptive acronym for All Children’s Theatre — will return to the WAC for its 15th anniversary in August! The well-known and highly acclaimed Performing Arts Day Camps for boys and girls ages 6 to 17 “playingly” lives its motto “Where Every Child Is A Star.”
The Creative Dramatics Camp is geared for children who want to create, develop, write and perform in their own show. The Broadway Kids Camp gives kids various facets of the theatrical experience. They learn about singing along with acting and dancing using music from a variety of Broadway musicals from the Rogers and Hammerstein classics to more contemporary shows such as “Grease” and others.
Both camps give children an opportunity to put together theatrical productions from rehearsal and make-up to modest scenery painting and performing. The program begins with Creative Dramatics Camp, August 2 – 13, followed by Broadway Kids Camp, August 16 – 27. Camps run for two weeks per session, or sign up for both. Both camps end in dress rehearsals and evening performances in front of a live audience in the Upper Gallery on the last camp day of each session.
For program details or to download a day camp registration form, go to www.allchildrenstheatre.org, or call their office at (973) 335-5328.
Yoga
Instructors: Renata Cardinal, RYT, Iyengar and Studio Yoga Certified, and Susan Ahlstrom, RYT, Studio Yoga Certified, Teacher of Embodied Anatomy and Yoga.
Visit www.cardinalyoga.com!
Summer 2010 with Renata, Susan, Patricia and Mary (see below)
Evening: July 13 – September 2
| Level I/II | Tuesdays | 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. |
| Level II/III | Tuesdays | 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. |
| Intro/Level I | Thursdays | 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. |
Fee: $90 for any 6 classes out of 8 or $20 per individual class.
Morning:
| All Levels | Thursdays | 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. |
Fee: $60 for series or $20 per individual class; classes 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29.
Teachers:
Tuesday evenings in July and September: Renata
Tuesday evenings in August: Patricia
Thursday evenings in July and September:
Renata
Thursday evenings in August: Mary
Thursday mornings: Susan
Please note: changes to schedule above are not planned but may occur.
Preview: Full Fall Schedule will start the week of September 13
For registration and information, contact Renata at 908-754-8433 or renata@cardinalyoga.com.
Contemporary Art Group
The Contemporary Art Group, affiliated with the Watchung Arts Center, is a not-for-profit organization of active artists in North Central New Jersey. CAG’s mission is to provide a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas, to share information, and to offer opportunities for our members to show their work. Meetings are held at the WAC at 7:15 p.m. on the third Wednesday of January, February, April, May, June, September, October, and November. New members are welcome. Please visit the website at www.contemporaryartgroup.org.