C.A.M.P.

(Cardboard Art/Insanity Maker Place)

Sessions in August 2024

  • August 5-9

  • August 12-16

  • August 19-23

Ages: 9-12, 13 year olds may apply, and will be admitted by review.

Location: SOMA Studios, Marquette, MI.

A deep dive into cardboard as a definitive building and design material.

Camp days are filled with building and making, provocations, a daily trip to beautiful South Beach, lots of thoughtful discussions and of course the Art/insanity part!

As a working artist, I engage with kids as co-creators, seeking to share knowledge and expertise in context as ideas unfold and discoveries are made. I also share the art research processes and methods I use in my own art practice, as we take on projects big and small.

Registration OPEN for August 2024

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Registration OPEN for August 2024 ***

Cost:   $385 ($85 deposit) $300 due first day of camp via cash or check

  • 100% refund of deposit for cancellations 1 month prior to the first day of your scheduled week of camp

Monday-Friday, Drop-off 7:45am-8:30 am, Pick-up 5pm.

Location: SOMA Studios Marquette, MI.  Please dress for building and making. Bring a swim suit and wet bag everyday. Attendees will have access to drinking water to refill water bottles and bathrooms.

Schedule: The general schedule is to start with a provocation related to cardboard and then alternate throughout the day between some smaller projects and a bigger week-long build. We take breaks to walk to South Beach and swim/ look at bugs/ wildlife and hunt for berries along the way. We usually set a rough schedule every morning and adapt it as the day, project focus, and inventions/discoveries unfold.

Food: Campers should bring a lunch and snacks with them each day. We will take a snack break mid-morning, and eat lunch around noon.

C.A.M.P.:  The goal is to build something AWESOME, as my friend Dustin would say, "Just for the glory of it."  Kids are given a challenge, problem or adventure protocol to ponder and they build a structure/ vehicle/thing and we (the staff) do our best to support kids in making it all happen.

The basic idea is this: build something incredible with a group of new friends and then parade it, try it, test it, drive it.

Examples of cardboard building projects include: boats, bridges, forts and wheeled human-pushed-around vehicles, cardboard fashion cat walks, cardboard playscapes and villages, giant cardboard creatures, nomadic shelters; (anything that Harold might draw with a purple crayon.)

How Kids Learn to use Tools: We notice that when kids build and use tools in social contexts and spend time making things that they care about, they learn how to use tools with purpose AND build is a sense of confidence in themselves and each other. Tools we will use at camp include drills and drivers, Bostitch Staplers, serrated cardboard cutters, and scissors. Wood and bigger cardboard cuts are made by adults only.

What to Bring:

  • Hat, Swimsuit, towel and wet bag, beach shoes

  • Your own lunch and snacks, water bottle

Please wear close-toed shoes for use in the workshop.

Crew:  builders ages 9-12, select 13 year olds may apply. We seek a diverse, fun-loving, gender and age-balanced camp and staff.

Access: Please park on the street and enter through the front door. (Parking or pickup at AllPhase Electric is prohibited!)

Staff:

Amber Dohrenwend: is a local artist and educator who builds costumes, sculptures and installations out of cardboard. She recently moved home to Marquette after living and raising a family abroad Japan for 14 years.

An additional cardboard-loving adult staff member will join us for camp!

REGISTER NOW!