Day Camps, Workshops and School Activities
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Artistic activities for day camps, training days, weeks break, summer camps ... offered to municipal organizations, schools, associations...
The La Salamandre Art Center offers organizations or associations (such as municipalities, schools, parents associations...) artistic activities as part of their day camps or summer camps schedule, educational days, after school activities, or complementary activity to an educational program. These activities are designed for children and teenagers, from 6 years old and up. Children and teenagers will have the pleasure to experiment various artistic disciplines ranging from fine arts to creative arts with our experienced art-teachers: drawing, painting, "art just like ...", the 3D workshop, sculpture and modeling, puppets, masks, mosaic, stained glass, scrapbooking, photo-collage, or any other activity than would be asked. The cost of an activity is established on request depending on the number of children or teenagers participating, their age, the kind of activity, and the material to provide. Thank you for contacting the La Salamandre Art Center at 514-692-9809 to get an offer. We list details of some activities that may be offered by the La Salamandre Art Center below (pictures - movie):
Drawing
Through various media as charcoal, coloured pencils, pastels, and Chinese ink, the children will learn the basic techniques of drawing, the concepts of space, volume, calir-obscur, and depth through the curve, the perspective and the color. Painting The goal of this course is to initiate the children to painting through the work of the brush, the exploration of the colours language, to master the composition, to lead them to the realization of their own project autonomously. They will work on still life, landscape, portrait,... Art just like ... The aim of this course is to lead the children to the discovery of the great masters in arts and to make them work topics specific to each of them (e.g. Picasso and cubism, Monet and impressionism,...). During each course, the art-teacher will introduce an artist and a specific movement and will invite the children to create a work "just like ..." The 3D Workshops This nonconventional sculpture course is conceived to develop the children's perception of the third dimension, their observation, the volume and equilibium, through the creation of sculptures in various materials: paperboard, papier-mâché, plastic, recycled materials... Sculpture - Modelling This traditional course of sculpture, with clay, makes it possible to the children to learn how to model and structure the matter. They will develop their observation, the volume and the equilibrium through the creation of various subjects in sculpture (character, head, animal,...). Masks making The goal of this course is to discover the universe of the mask, to control the shape and the expression of the face. The children will learn how to manufacture their papier-mâché masks and how to decorate it. Marionnettes making This course aims at the creation of marionettes made from recycled materials, and basic accessories. The children will also manufacture the stage for a representation and organize a small play with their marionnettes. The Stained glass In this course, we offer the children a small panorama of the history of the stained glass, then we work on the decomposition of the image, the transfer of the image, the use of lead ribbon and the application of the mixture of the colours on plexiglass plates. Mosaic The goal of this course is to present to the children the techniques of mosaic and in particular the design of a simple pattern on wood, the gluing of various materials, plastering and the completion. Photo-joining The objective of this course is to learn how to create of a pictorial work using images found in magazine or ones own photos. The children will create a new photo starting from various photographic elements in order to reconstitute an original picture. They will learn how to select the images, to control the assembly, the composition, the scale, the light, and to create an atmosphere. Scrapbooking This course proposes to the children to emphasize their photographs by multiple techniques and on different supports. They will use inks, plugs, ribbons, letterings or newspapers, will learn how to organize colours,... Each child will bring his creativity and his personality in his work. For this course, we ask the children to bring their personal material in a box: photographs, ribbons, laces, mini-objects, drawings of children, pearls, falls of fabrics, labels,.... All that the child likes and which will personalize its work.
