Workshop Choices

On the attached registration form, you will choose 4 of the following workshops. Each day, Monday through Friday, you will participate in 75-minute sessions in your 4 selected workshops.

Theater Characters

What happens when people branch out? Do they discover a new path or repeat a familiar one? End up out on a limb? Become grounded? Explore these possibilities and others by creating a character at a crossroads. Choose the details of this character, including its back-story and future, and bring him or her to life through a monologue and improvised scenes with other characters.

From Story to Theater

Through improvisation and script-writing, we’ll adapt a story for the stage. We will add costumes and then a set. Each day will involve the rehearsal process, too, as we branch out as playwrights, actors, and designers. Our goal will not be to create a polished performance, but to display a work in progress, showing how far we have grown from the seed to the tree.

Songwriting Techtronica

Reach for the sun as you branch out into musical styles created by your imagination. Using GarageBand and other software with a wide collection of sounds, effects, and loops, you will create your own music. You’ll also use USB keyboards and microphones, percussion instruments, your voice and any instruments you may play, find or create. Working individually and in a group, you can become a songwriter, even if you’ve never studied music.Foothills Summer Arts II for students completing grades 7-12

Movement Improvisation & Creative Dance

We will begin with improvisational exercises to engage the imagination. With music, vocal sound, spoken text, and humor, we will create movement material. Branching out, you will have an opportunity to find connections between your ideas and those of others, culminating in the creation of choreographed dances and physical theater pieces. No previous dance experience is necessary, but please come with a genuine desire to move.

Multi Media Tree Sculptures

Learn about the influence trees have had on peoples throughout history and about the many ways the tree has been used in art. Then we’ll create using the tree as our inspiration. You’ll use papers, inks, oil pastels, real branches, and other materials to create free-standing sculptures which describe you, your family, or your interests.

Drawing: Real to Surreal

A giant cloud of peanut butter sandwiches floating gently over the playground. Bears on bicycles riding across a lake of blueberry pies. How will you illustrate ideas branching from reality to fantasy? Through fun drawing exercises, we will create realistic drawings by observing objects around us. Then you’ll branch out to draw surreal, fantasy murals based on your realistic images.

Watercolors with a Twist

After getting familiar with the professional materials, we’ll branch out into a world of possibilities. Discover a hidden painting in lines you draw to musical rhythms. Paint a dream in the surreal style of Dali. Let your brush dance on Yupo (plastic paper). You might even abandon your brushes and use a palette knife and a spray bottle for a unique effect.

Visual Art Journaling

Step beyond journaling or sketching as you create your visual art journal. Fill the pages with quotes, poems, thoughts, or a daily log. Using a variety of media, including watercolor, add interest to the pages with visual touches -- dribbles of color, vines or lines, calligraphy, cartoons, sketches, or doodlerations.

Registration Form
To receive the Foothills Summer Arts registration form and brochure, please contact Director Anne Geller Foothills Arts Center, The Bass-Wilson Building, 284 Main Street, Suite 190, Wilton, ME 04294, (207) 645-7117; info@foothillsarts.org; www.foothillsarts.org.Or sign up to be on our mailing list (below).

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