The Youth Arts Series Summer Art Camp: Bigs

 

Keiki will join our talented local artists for creative adventures. In this year's summer session, the YAS team of skilled instructors will guide young artists through the process of learning a variety of mediums. Our student artists will create their own works of art while learning basic skills behind each medium. 

Enrollment Fee:

Snacks will be provided

All supplies included

 

In this class, we’ll explore Hilo through kilo (close observation), personal storytelling, and the art of zine making. A zine (short for magazine) is a small, handmade booklet — simple to create and completely your own.

Using everyday materials, students will learn to see ordinary things — chickens, pigeons, palm trees, rain — in new ways. Through storytelling exercises and creative exploration, we’ll discover more about the town around us, then transform those discoveries into handmade zines. Each student will leave with at least one personal zine capturing their own vision of Hilo, along with the confidence to keep creating. No prior art experience required — just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.

Students will each create a fun personalized interactive junk journal. Participants are encouraged to stretch their imaginations by creating layered effects, such as pockets, tabs,windows, see-through pages, pop-out and fold-out pages. Journals will be personalized by adding thoughts, stickers, drawings, tiny collages, photos and paintings.We will provide art supplies, recycled materials, dried leaves and small pressed flowers,handmade papers, magazine and book pictures, feathers, wrappers, recycled paper, stickers. Keiki are encouraged to bring additional items from home to add to content.

Students will learn to design and create their own stickers, symbols, characters, mini illustrations, and graphics. They will utilize playful experimentation with drawing, color, composition, and visual storytelling. They will transform sketches and ideas into finished sticker art that can be used to personalize water bottles, notebooks, journals, laptops, sketchbooks, and other creative projects and gifts. The workshop will also introduce some foundational design concepts in a fun and approachable way.