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A Magical Monsters Art & Creative Writing Camp

Let your imagination frolic, romp, and soar in this super fun art and creative writing camp! Create a mystical menagerie of creatures with words, moving pictures, sculptures and pop-up books. Guided by ArtStart’s fearless artists and writers, you will explore distant planets and swim on the golden shores of your creativity, where hippogriffs, dragons, and mermaids abound.

12:30-2:00pm

Visual Storytelling: Comical Crankies

Long before television, people in India used the crankie as a way to tell a story with pictures. All you need is a box, some dowels, a long scroll of paper, and a really tall tale! In this class taught by puppeteer Kallie Melvin,you will invent stories of enchantment, decorate your box, then create a long cartoon that moves as you crank it. Taught by Kallie Melvin.

Kallie Melvin is a puppeteer and teaching and performing artist. Several of the places she has worked with include Monkeybear Harmolodics Workshop, In the Heart of the Beast Mask and Puppet Theatre, Z Puppets, ArtStart, Puppet Lab at Open Eye, and Weisman Art Museum. She is also the Acting Regional Director of Puppeteers of America Great Plains. She uses her original puppetry work as a means to tell stories and explore her experiences as an intercontinental transracial adoptee growing up in the Twin Cities.

2:15-3:45pm 

Construction Arts & Creative Writing: Junk-tastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Create magical new beasts from reuse materials like egg cartons, mylar, and feathers! Then name your critter and write stories about them! Does your beastie fly, or swim, or apparate into different dimensions? What magical powers does it have? Is it loving, crabby, fond of chocolate-covered pickles?

Taught by aegor ray.

aegor ray is a writer and community organizer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a Loft Mentor Series Fellow in poetry, a participant in Tin House Summer Workshops and a Lambda Literary Scholar. He is a Sagittarius.

Ages 6-8

Early Bird Pricing: 5% off until Feb. 3

Half day = $237.50/week (code HALFDAY25)

Full day = $427.50/week (code EARLYBIRD25)