Bugs are COOL during our hot, summer camp! Campers will delight in bug races, which will inspire creative bug designs in oil pastels, basket reed sculptures, and papier maché. A visit from a beekeeper will teach campers about honeybees and their job in keeping our community blooming and fertile.

The Springfield Township Arts Center is preparing for a complete renovation of its center. We invite Young Professionals to help in the design process! We will begin with an entertaining party on July 13th where ArtsConnect will share a brief presentation about what ArtsConnect stands for and the goals for the future. Our partner in this event, Madisono's Gelato, will then invite participants to visit each room of the Center where they can taste a different flavor of Gelato and write down ideas for new programming and design features they would like to see in each room. We will be converting the front desk of the Center to a bar where YP's can test out bourbon, vodka or rum infused gelato shakes! YUM!!! If the excitement of having your fingerprints on the design of an arts center interests you further, you will be invited to attend two additional brain storm sessions and can even help plan the grand re-opening in 2019! Please register in advance.

What makes a hero super? Campers will create their own superheroes and villains through comic book drawings and colored pencil portraits. They will design masks and cloaks. Life drawing will be taught to practice proportions when drawing superheroes. Campers will be prepared to “do good” in the township with their new-found super powers by researching issues at hand and designing their own creative solution!

Learning how to draw just became easier with step-by-step instruction from our talented drawing instructor! Classes will focus on building basic drawing techniques with practice. Students will deepen their understanding of form through perspective, color, and rapid visualization drawings. Critiques develop students’ abilities to think critically about their own work and maintaining their art journal will allow students to record thoughts, experiment with ideas, media, and practice ideas.

What makes a hero super? Campers will create their own superheroes and villains through comic book drawings and colored pencil portraits. They will design masks and cloaks. Life drawing will be taught to practice proportions when drawing superheroes. Campers will be prepared to “do good” in the township with their new-found super powers by researching issues at hand and designing their own creative solution!

What makes a hero super? Campers will create their own superheroes and villains through comic book drawings and colored pencil portraits. They will design masks and cloaks. Life drawing will be taught to practice proportions when drawing superheroes. Campers will be prepared to “do good” in the township with their new-found super powers by researching issues at hand and designing their own creative solution!

ou can explore the soft flow of watercolor painting. In each class, a new painting and watercolor technique will be taught. Roger will hold a demonstration - then set you free to try the new subject matter. Classes will be held once a week, for a six week session. This program is ideal for intermediate, as well as advanced students. Some drawing abilities are helpful. Class members are asked to bring their own paint supplies.

What makes a hero super? Campers will create their own superheroes and villains through comic book drawings and colored pencil portraits. They will design masks and cloaks. Life drawing will be taught to practice proportions when drawing superheroes. Campers will be prepared to “do good” in the township with their new-found super powers by researching issues at hand and designing their own creative solution!

There are mysteries to solve at the ArtsConnect Kids Camp and we will need super sleuths to solve them! Campers will investigate a crime scene, learn how artists must render portraits through description, use fingerprints to create values in drawings, use description to critique artwork, and solve mysteries in historical art pieces. They will even get to have one-on-one time with the Springfield Township Police Detectives to learn how they solve mysterious crimes!

There are mysteries to solve at the ArtsConnect Kids Camp and we will need super sleuths to solve them! Campers will investigate a crime scene, learn how artists must render portraits through description, use fingerprints to create values in drawings, use description to critique artwork, and solve mysteries in historical art pieces. They will even get to have one-on-one time with the Springfield Township Police Detectives to learn how they solve mysterious crimes!

ou can explore the soft flow of watercolor painting. In each class, a new painting and watercolor technique will be taught. Roger will hold a demonstration - then set you free to try the new subject matter. Classes will be held once a week, for a six week session. This program is ideal for intermediate, as well as advanced students. Some drawing abilities are helpful. Class members are asked to bring their own paint supplies.

There are mysteries to solve at the ArtsConnect Kids Camp and we will need super sleuths to solve them! Campers will investigate a crime scene, learn how artists must render portraits through description, use fingerprints to create values in drawings, use description to critique artwork, and solve mysteries in historical art pieces. They will even get to have one-on-one time with the Springfield Township Police Detectives to learn how they solve mysterious crimes!

Master craftsman and artist, Patrick Walker, will be available for participants on an as needed basis during the open woodshop time. *A "certified" participant has been certified by Patrick on all of the equipment in the woodshop. Most participants can be certified in 2-3 woodshop class sessions. Patrick requests that all woodshop participants bring their own "cool looking" goggles for protective eye wear, even during the Open Woodshop times.

Campers will talk about the games they love and how to capture images of people playing these sports. They will learn gesture and figure drawing, painting, sculpture, and portraiture while understanding how sports can bring communities together.

Learning how to draw just became easier with step-by-step instruction from our talented drawing instructor! Classes will focus on building basic drawing techniques with practice. Students will deepen their understanding of form through perspective, color, and rapid visualization drawings. Critiques develop students’ abilities to think critically about their own work and maintaining their art journal will allow students to record thoughts, experiment with ideas, media, and practice ideas.

Campers will talk about the games they love and how to capture images of people playing these sports. They will learn gesture and figure drawing, painting, sculpture, and portraiture while understanding how sports can bring communities together.