Welcome!
Caryn Duncan, owner of Creative Spirit Art Studio, offers art classes, artist workshops, and summer camp programs in a welcoming environment where students, ages five and up, can explore their creative process while developing skills and craftsmanship. Creative Spirit Art Studio is located in the historic One Washington Center, suite 201.
Our focus is to help facilitate students in developing choice based art projects. Students explore their personal artistic interest by choosing their subject matter to work from and art mediums to work with. A variety of mediums are offered: drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking, and more!
We teach art techniques that can be learned and then transfered while discovering the joy of the process of creating original artwork. It is our goal to encourage the creative spirit by acknowledging that there are many expressions of art. The end results of the art making process is as unique as the person creating it.
Creative Spirit Art Class Schedule
Weekly Classes For Kids!
September 2011-June 2012
Our weekly classes, for children ages 5-14, run September through June. The classes are designed to help students develop artistic skills at their own pace and produce their own personal portfolio of artwork. Students’ artwork will be featured in a group art exhibit in the Spring of 2012. Classes meet once a week for one hour.
*please see our studio policies for ongoing enrollment
Art Fundamentals (ages 5-7)Tues 4-5 (2 spaces)or
Thurs 5-6 (3 spaces)
Students will be introduced to mediums in drawing, painting, and printmaking in order to experience exploratory manipulation of a variety of art materials. Concepts of color, pattern, texture, shape and line will be incorporate into
projects that will express their ideas and feelings.
Art I (ages 8-10) Tues. 5-6 (full)
Thurs 4-5 (1 space available)
The focus will be to develop artistic and perceptual skills in drawing, painting, and collage. Students will develop ideas for projects that explore their individual interpretation of their environment, figure drawing, landscapes, and the still life. Students will develop sketches into compositions that are based upon using harmony, variety and contrasts of art elements such as line, shape, value, balance, and dominance. Students are required to purchase a sketch book for weekly homework assignments.
Art II (ages 11-14)Wednesday 4-5 (full) or
Wednesday5-6 (full)
This class will focus on an in-depth exploration with materials to develop more advanced skills in the student’s individual choice of media. Students will be expected to plan projects by investigating resources for inspiration and information and follow through their ideas to a completed project that maintains a quality of workmanship. Students will be encouraged to expand their personal horizons by exploring a variety of strategies and exercises to enhance creativity and imagination. Students are required to purchase a sketchbook for weekly homework assignments. (*students who wish to enroll for both groups from 4-6 will be charged an additional $30. per month to increase their monthly tuition to $95.)
Art I/II (ages 9-14)Monday 4-5 (1 space) or
now accepting registrations for an additional group
Monday 5-6
The foundation of this class will focus on drawing and painting skills. The students will use the fundamentals of art and elements of design to advance their skills in subject areas related to their personal interests as well as some group exercises. Working at their currents level students will work to refine sketches, developing them, and incorporating more advanced art techniques with the goal to work these elements to completed projects. Students will explore a variety of drawing mediums, painting techniques, as well as having the opportunity to explore their individual choice of art mediums. Students are required to purchase a sketch book for weekly homework assignments.
Tuition is $65 per month, classes meet once a week for 1 hour, all materials are provided unless noted in class description Students will be accepted on a first come basis and class size is limited to 6 students.
Adult Art Workshops
Creative Spirit art workshops are for all levels of experience and are open to ages teen through adult. They are designed to guide you through your creative process while introducing you to new techniques using traditional art mediums to create unique one of a kind artwork that reflects your own personal style.
Classes provide demonstration of techniques and time for you to have hands on learning that encourages a sense of play and discovery. The small group setting allows for individual instruction to develop your own artistic style.
From the Center of Your Heart
This series of six workshops explores the creative process through drawing, collage, paint, and mixed media techniques. Inspirational themes will be used as a prompts to open your heart to an awareness to the possibilities, dreams, and desires you choose to bring to life. As a series of classes taken together, engage your artistic process to help you live a more creative life, nurture yourself, and connect with your creative spirit. Classes are intended to help inspire and energize yourself and where you are in the moment as a form of creative meditation.
Cost$120.00 (register for this workshop series by November 5th and your save $20.00, this offer can not be combind with any other discount)
Or $20.00 per individual class,to inspire and energize yourself with where you are in the moment and what calls to your heart.
pre-registration is required with an additional $5.00 registration fee, materials will be supplied.
Classes meet once a month on a Saturday from 11-1:30, please refer to the schedule for specific dates.
November 19th Gratitude from the center of your heart
December 17th Celebration from the center of your heart
January 14th Intention from the center of your heart
February 11th Love from the center of your heart
March Awakening from the center of your heart
April Growth from the center of your heart
*Feb, March, April dates to be announced, but will be the either 2nd or 3rd Saturday of the month
Private Workshop Sessions
Reawaken your creative Spirit with a sense of play and process. A variety of drawing and materials will be available to help you find your creative voice. We will start the process with laying color down for your background, developing sketches of your favorite imagery, finding words to express your mood, and bringing it all together with layering to create a rich, playful, textured, one of a kind piece of artwork.
$50/2 hour session with the option of extending your day at $20/pr hour or purchase a punch card for 10 hours of private workshop time for $200. to be valid for 4 months from date of purchase. Pre-registration and scheduling workshop times is required. Some materials will be supplied and a suggested material list will be provided at the time of registration.
Book a creative get together with you personal group of friends and we will host it. Minimum ofat least 4 and can accommodate up to 7. Please contact us for further details.
2011 Summer Art Camps
Creative Spirit summer camp is an art program for students’ ages 5-14. This summer we will offer two sessions for ages 8-14 and three sessions for ages 5-14. Our focus emphasizes individual expression in a small group setting. Choose from themes that have been developed into week long programs that will nurture your child’s creativity, expand their imagination, and develop skills based upon the fundamentals of art and principles of design. Students will explore a variety of art making techniques. Each day is divided up so that students will learn from instructional group projects and projects that they will design based upon their individual interest. Camp hours are Monday through Friday, 9am until noon. The cost is $135. per week and a nonrefundable deposit of $50. is required to register for each session (this deposit will be applied to the total cost.) Each session is limited to 6 students. Pre-registration is required and students will be accepted on a first come basis.
Due to the high level of interest and inquiries to camp sessions that are full to maximum capacity, I am taking names on a waiting list in the possibility of running one additional camp session for ages 8-14. The camp will have a focus of drawing and painting during the week of August 8th-12th from 8am-noon, cost $135. Please leave your name and contact information if you would like a possible placement for this camp.
Quick Draw July 5-8 (full)
Ages 5-14 Cost $120
Each day will focus on a specific drawing exercise that will develop and enhance drawing skills to rendering every day objects and scenes. Kids will learn how to turn their basic sketches into finished compositions. We will focus on understanding one point perspective in landscapes, use of shadow and light in a still life, and creating cartoons from contour lines.
Sew That! July 11-15 (full)
Ages 8-14 Cost $135.
In this camp we will make it sew fun to learn basic stitches and use them in hand crafted projects. We will make some three dimensional crafty creatures, learn to work with a hoop to hand quilt designs, and use stitches, buttons, and ribbons to embellish artwork. Younger students may be accepted into this camp if they currently have the ability to independently thread a sharp sewing needle, knot the thread, and can safely use sharp fabric scissors.
Busy Bees July 18-22 (full)
Ages 5-14 Cost $135
A fun packed week of art activities that will keep the kids as busy as bees.
We will work on drawing skills to create vibrant colored garden landscapes. Take a field trip to the park to examine and discuss the structure of tress and branches and create field sketches. Back in the studio we will incorporate these sketches into large-scale paintings of trees, hives, and bees. Paper crafting techniques will be demonstrated to create three dimensional flower bouquets, wreathes, or embellishments to add a pop up effect to artwork.
Picture this…the Art of Illustration July 25-29 (full)
Ages 5-14 Cost $135
Illustration takes the act of drawing to another level of visual communication. We’ll examine some of the works of great illustrators to use as inspiration to understand the ways our pictures can communicate feelings, emotion, and stories. Students will focus on developing sketches that interpret their individual ideas for a short story, poem, or their interpretation of a musical piece. The mediums of collage, watercolor, and colored pencil will be demonstrated and used in our final illustrations boards.
Make a Splash August 1-5. (full)
Ages 8-14 Cost $135
This camp is for students who want to take their sketches to a new level of proportion in the medium of painting. We will work with watercolor, acrylic paints, and mixed media to create large-scale paintings. Concepts of how to work with design layout and color schemes will be explained and demonstrated. Students will incorporate their choice of subject matter and experiment hands on with these concepts to create their finished paintings.
Cool Color Fun! August 8-12 (1 space left)
Ages 7-14 Cost $135.
A week of color exploration. Discover how to use colors palettes in artwork to create a variety of moods and feelings. We will start with creating with color wheels and basic color mixing. Then move to individualized projects in drawing, painting, and jewelry making to bring your color combinations to life.
Creative Spirit Art Classes
Studio Policies
Registration
Pre-registration is required for all classes. Classes run September through June. On- going registration will be accepted at the beginning of each month based upon space availability.
Student Exhibit
There will be a group exhibit of the students' artwork in the Spring of 2012. Students who wish to exhibit artwork must be enrolled in at least two months of classes prior to the opening of the show. Family and friends are strongly encouraged to attend the opening event to show their support for the students’ work.
Enrollment
Enrollment is on a first come, first serve basis. Classes are limited in size to provide individualized instruction. For classes that are full a waiting list will be maintained to accommodate students if space becomes available.
Tuition
Tuition is based upon 10-month cost of $650.00 for the 2011/2012 year, which divides the cost into10 equal payments of $65 per month. The cost includes materials unless noted. A discount of ten percent will be given to families with more than one child enrolled in classes. All tuition payments are due by the 1st class of each month and can be paid by cash or checks made to Creative Spirit Art Studio. A late fee of $10.00 will be added if payment is not made by the second week of the month. There will be a fee of $25.00 for all returned checks.
Attendance, Holidays and Missed Classes
Students are expected to arrive to class regularly and on time. Please notify the studio if you will be missing class. There are no pro-rated fees for missed classes or closed vacation breaks. Classes missed due to illness can be made up in another class on the schedule during that month. The studio will follow the Dover Public Schools with regards to holidays and school closures due to weather. Our studio will be closed during Thanksgiving, Christmas Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break . Studio closure due to weather or canceled due to a teacher absence will be made up at a time arranged by the teacher. If a student cannot attend a scheduled make up class they may attend another class on the schedule with prior arrangement.
Class Changes
A two-week notice is required prior to discontinuing or changing a class. You will be responsible for the next month of tuition if notification is not given.
Student Conduct
In order to promote, a successful learning environment students are expected to conduct themselves with respect for their instructor, other fellow students and the art materials. If necessary the student will be given a verbal warning and a parent will be notified. If there continues to be an issue the student will not be allowed to continue attending classes.
