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The Junior Center of Art and Science

★★★★★ 5 · 3 reviews📍 Lakeside Park, Oakland, CA 94610

STEM/STEAMRoboticsCoding/ProgrammingPaintingArt & CraftsAges 6–13+2 more

About The Junior Center of Art and Science

Junior Center of Art and Science Summer Camp is the perfect place for rising 1st-8th graders to express their creative side. Our camp is led by professional artists and educators who provide a safe, open, and creative environment for campers to take risks and explore. Campers will have the opportunity to try their hand at a variety of arts and science activities, such as carpentry, game design, comics, and more. They'll be able to express themselves through art and science while having fun in the process. At Junior Center of Art and Science Summer Camp, we offer full day, arts-integrated engagements for young artists, makers, and thinkers. Our campers will be able to explore their creativity and learn to take risks in a safe and encouraging atmosphere. Professional artists and educators provide an open space for campers to engage in activities such as carpentry, game design, comics, and much more. Campers are able to have fun and express themselves through a variety of mediums. Junior Center of Art and Science Summer Camp is the perfect place for rising 1st-8th graders who want to explore their creative side. Our campers will be able to take risks and try their hand at a wide variety of arts and science activities in a safe and open environment. Professional artists and educators are on hand to provide guidance and inspiration. Campers will have the opportunity to engage in activities such as carpentry, game design, comics, and more, allowing them to have fun and explore their creativity.

Programs

The classes, camps and experiences this business offers.

WILD BOTANICALS AGE 6-8

We will be learning how to identify different plants and trees in the Oakland area, finding out which are native and which are invasive. The students will be documenting the plants through various artist mediums (watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, etc.) in their sketchbook. We will be making our own pigment through foraged plant material and creating paint samples. Campers will be learning about modern and contemporary artists who highlight the natural world in their work and trying to copy their different techniques like Monet and Richard Mayhew. This is a camp focused on color through painting and plant knowledge, bridging art and botany.

a table with a few pieces of paper on it

SURREAL WATERCOLOR AGE 6-8

Explore painting with watercolor, make your own paints with natural materials and delve into drawing. Students will get creative with paint, learn about techniques like wet on wet, wax resistance, and blooming. Students will use the natural environment to discover plein air painting, explore flora and fauna, and still life with natural forms. By the end of the week campers will have a working knowledge of watercolor, painting, and more!

CARPENTRY AGE 6-13

If you can imagine it you can build it! Campers will learn to use a complement of hand tools in a course that stresses respect for others, respect for tools, safe tool use, practical problem-solving and creative development. Projects increase in difficulty as experience grows, beginning with toy boats and working up to full-sized furniture and professional skateboards.

CREATIVE TECH: ROBOTICS & MUSIC PROTOTYPING AGE 8-11

In this STEAM class, we’ll explore the world of creative technology! You’ll use design materials and edtech tools like Makey Makey, Scratch and robotics tools to design solutions to engineering challenges. The projects for this year’s camp are inspired by robotics, coding, music production and beat making! We will build our own robots and design mazes for them, prototype music creation devices like drum machines and electronic pianos, and use Scratch to create video game controllers for some of your favorite video games.