All Arts All Day Long: Summer 2011 Mini-Camp for Children 3-14
Summer Manga Surprise! A Full Week of Manga with Yali Beginning August 15th
By popular demand, the Culture Bugs camp season has added a full week of Manga beginning August 15th! Yes, Manga every day, all day. A whole week of drawing and painting with HiArt!'s goddess of the art form, Yali Lin. Along with lots of other very cool, art-loving kids in our beautiful, air-conditioned studio. Why scramble for something to do, when something great is right at your door?
$995 for the whold week, lunch included!
Registration by phone ONLY: 212-209-1552.
Culture Bugs! New York's Premiere Summer Arts Program
The Artiest Summer Arts Program on the Planet!
MegaManga Week: New!! June 13-17
Get a headstart on summer with HiArt!'s MegaManga week
One whole week of nothing but Manga
Draw, Paint, Ink, Color - Laugh! Maybe even a little Japanese!
For Kids from 5-15
Session 1: Janacek's delightful The Cunning Little Vixen and Painting with Ellen Berkenblit
Session 2: Britten's Shakespearean A Midsummer Night's Dream + Manga with Yali Lin and Painting with Ellen Berkenblit
Session 3: Art around the Clock: Madly Mixed: Mixed Media, Installation and Performance with Johana Skalsky and Mask Making with HiArt!'s Hero of Sculpture, Nick Lascot Make sculptures with Nick in the morning and then put them to "work" in larger installations and performances with Johana in the afternoon. Kids create manifestos, sound, background scenery, painted fabric installations, spoken word, improvised movement, drawings and collages that add additional contextualization to their sculptural creations. A once in a lifetime, very WOW opportunity!
Session 4: Outside In and Inside Out! The amazing Sarah Julig inspires kids to combine
art, nature, and the city as they create original worlds made of paper!
Final Fling: Double Trouble!! It's Sarah in the morning and Eliza in the afternoon! Pushing, Pulling + Moving
Spend mornings with Sarah Julig making a new world entirely from paper!
Go Crazy with Quilts in the Afternoon!
Fabulous fabric artist Eliza Fernand and Co. will turn fabric scraps into paintings and sculptures!
HI ART!– New York’s premiere arts program – presents its eleventh summer of CULTURE BUGS! the city’s most brilliant and exhilarating mini-camp in the contemporary arts.
Like Hi Art!, Culture Bugs! is fully committed to a creative, child-centered methodology that encourages children to express themselves freely, to develop a sense of ease, familiarity and mastery in the "high" arts, and have a ton of fun all at the same time.
Culture Bugs! integrates visits to the city’s most important museums and galleries with focused in-studio sessions of music, dance and hands-on art. Children dig into a broad range of artists’ materials as they sing, dance, improvise, read poetry, listen to late 20th and 21st century music and stretch their active minds and bodies into new and exciting configurations. Each child works according to his or her abilities, and appropriate faculty is available to work with both older and younger participants.
There is a 5:1 camper/ teacher ratio of talented artists drawn from some of the best arts institutions and MFA programs in the country: Columbia, SVA, Yale, Harvard and Hunter, to name just a few. The program encourages children to take the lead in dictating the shape of projects, and the continued emphasis on well-defined themes gives them a sense of autonomy and creative freedom.Culture Bugs!Is there such a thing as a typical day?
While we pride ourselves in our flexibility and artistic flow, there is nonetheless an identifiable format for the typical day. You’ll often find us beginning in the studio with our core work – a musical masterpiece – dramatically, visually and kinesthetically presented with materials developed by HiArt! director, Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène. Children use the music as a source of inspiration, fleshing it out in their own mixed-media artworks that continue to evolve throughout the summer. As they immerse themselves in their art projects -- developing their personal artistic vision and skills -- children become actively, rather than passively, involved with the core work. Recent core works have included an extraordinary array of compositions: from Beethoven’sPastoral Symphony to Britten’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream, from Janecek’sThe Cunning Little Vixen to Berlioz’sLe Spectre de la Rose.
The second part of the “typical” morning might be spent at museums or on gallery hops, doing large-scale outdoor art activities, or completing studio art projects related to an exhibition we’ve visited or will visit.
Children under kindergarten age come to Culture Bugs! with a caregiver three mornings each week -- Tuesday through Thursday from 9:30am-12:00pm -- and Big Kids K+ can come for the full day (on their own, of course) which includes Art in the Afternoon and lunch.
Our Tuesday – Thursday schedule is 100% kid-friendly, leaving much needed -- out of camp -- downtime for overscheduled New York kids. For for the art-starved, however, sporadic Marvelous Mondays will be scheduled as summer nears, serving up an extra day of all art all the time for families in need.
Younger children come with an adult partner who participates fully in all aspects of the program. As active advocates in the art adventure, parents or caregivers sing, dance, glue , design and hop right alongside their kids. Enthusiastic adults offer a clear model for future successes. No lesser talent than Frank Gehry said of his grandmother who sat on the floor and built cities with him: "Here was an adult saying you could be grown up and still play. That’s real creativity."
Over the past eleven years our myriad outings have left no artful stone unturned! We’ve seen every major show in the area including: Joan Mitchell at the Whitney, Mariko Mori’sPOD, Alexander Calder at Storm King, the welded steel show at the Neuberger Museum, Rauschenberg’sSynapsis Shuffle at the Whitney, the Kusama retropsective at MOMA, Frank Gehry at the Guggenheim, DADA and the list goes on and on. We’ve even ridden the rails to the DIA center in Beacon! Thought-provoking lessons and activities either precede or follow gallery visits encouraging children to incorporate impressions and insights gained into their own artwork. Wonderfully ambitious projects have been the program’s mainstay: from building our own Gehryesque museums to wrapping landscapes of our own devising a la Christo.
You may not think of lunch as art-driven, but believe it or not, it¹s a big deal at Culture Bugs! Like every activity we do, lunch is part of our adventure whether at Sarabeth¹s in Chelsea, or every kid¹s favorite: Eat on Eight right in our own building lunch is about choice and freedom and the art of eating. Plans are always evolving that¹s one of our greatest assets we don¹t have to inscribe our plans in stone: we can tailor them to your kids as we go along.
After lunch it's Art in the Afternoon: Studio Art for Big Kids, an all hands-on art program working with real artists’ materials and ideas‚ a big kids’ haven for all modes of art and self-expression. Since the program’s inception children have explored a broad range of artmaking: from filmmaking to costume design and bookmaking and manga. Incredibly talented working artists guide the children in open-ended projects that allow for a mix of creative expression and real technique. Past artists have included: Sydney Chastain-Chapman – Painting; Christine Frerichs – 2D, Sketching and conceptual art; Hyeondo Park – MANGA and Comics; Asya Reznikov – Sculpture; Heather Sinclair – Animation +Puppetmaking; Martin Roth – mixed media and silkscreen, manga artist Yali Lin and sculptor, Nickolas Lascot, among others.
Culture Bugs! offers children the full day’s palette of activities - including lunch. Or, if you prefer, you can just send your young artist over for Art in the Afternoons. No matter how big or small, there's a place at Culture Bugs for your child. Great friends, great advertures, an amazing, child-centered entre into the land of high art for kids whose imaginations and intelligence want something more!
A very limited number of spaces are available and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Informal pre-camp open houses will give enrolled families the opportunity to meet and arrange after-camp activities together. Culture Bugs! Summer 2011will be held in our gorgeous, new, air-conditioned, natural light studio in Chelsea. Just 2 blocks from Penn Station. Feel free to call with any questions
you might have: 212-362-8190.
Get ready for 2011's fabulous fairyland:
CultureBugs takes magical wing in 2011 with Shakespeare’s mischievous A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We joined the wizardly Oberon and his impish assistant Puck, as they took on Fairyland’s imperious Queen, Titania. Benjamin Britten’s fantastical opera will be our focal point as we veer into another fabulous summer of interdisciplinary fun funfun -- art, music, theater, film and movement in every conceivable combination for kids from 3-14.
In true fairy spirit, we'll turn Midsummer on its head: with art as our guide, we'll build fairylands indoors and out, sprinkling the earth with magical spells of our own devising.
Big kids have the opportunity to work on larger projects: theatrical scenes from Shakespeare, animations drawn from the opera or the play, Shakespearean manga, and even filmmaking!
It's HiArt! where everything artful is possible!
As always, in summer 2011 children will be swept up by the best galleryhops, the most wonderful, work with imaginative HiArt! teachers, a steady stream of great music and endless inspiration and encouragement. As the great Dada, Tristan Tzara, said, “Accept no forgeries!”
Culture Bugs!is the place to be forSummer2011!
“Only in New York,” he was overheard whispering, as he and his wife made their way through the Rothko show at the Whitney, “can you find a two-year old sitting and drawing Rothko.” Unbeknownst to him, however, the “two-year old” was really a twenty month old and she was not alone, but accompanied by a small group of three, four and five year olds, all assiduously at work attempting to reproduce their favorite Rothko paintings. Opera singer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène, founder and director of HI ART! – an unusual workshop, which offers young children an “introduction to high art aesthetics,” – smiles broadly. “People at the Whitney show were completely amazed by our children. In one hour I was approached by four people, including two psychologists and the friend of a well-known Latin American sculptor. They can’t believe their eyes.”
Plans are always evolving – that’s one of our greatest assets – we don’t have to inscribe our plans in stone: we can tailor them to your kids as we go along. Hooray! So feel free to call with any questions you might have: 212-209-1552.
Culture Bugs! Summer 2011
Mini-Camp Schedule
MegaManga Week: June 13-17
For
Little Kids:
Little Kids: Culture Bugs!
(TBA)
Mon-Fri
9:30am-12:00pm
$500/1wk.
For Big Kids Only
Culture Bugs! +: Full Day Program for Big Kids!
(Ages 5+)
(TBA)
Mon-Fri
9:30am-3:30pm
$995/1wk.
Session
I: June 21-30
For
Little Kids:
Little Kids: Culture Bugs!
(Ages 2.5-5)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-12:00pm
$775
For Big Kids Only:
Culture
Bugs! +: Full Day Program for Big Kids
(Ages 5+)
(Culture Bugs! + Lunch + Art in the Afternoons)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-3:30pm
$1,550
Art
in the Afternoon: Studio Art for Big Kids
Painting with Ellen Berkenblit
Tues,Wed,Thurs
1:30pm-3:30pm
$825–2wks
Session II: July 5-28
For
Little Kids:
Little Kids: Culture Bugs!
(Ages 2.5-5)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-12:00pm
$1,525
For
Big Kids:
Culture Bugs! +: Full Day Program for Big Kids!
(Ages 5+)
(Culture Bugs! + Lunch + Art in the Afternoons)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-3:30pm
$3,100
Art
in the Afternoon: Studio Art for Big Kids
Manga Madness with Yali Lin and
Painting with Ellen Berkenblit
Tues,Wed,Thurs
1:30-3:30pm
$1,650
Session III: August 2-11
For
Little Kids:
Little Kids: Culture Bugs!
(Ages 2.5-5)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-12:00pm
$775
For Big Kids Only
Culture Bugs! +: Full Day Program for Big Kids!
(Ages 5+)
(Culture Bugs! + Lunch + Art in the Afternoons)
Mask Making with HiArt!'s Hero of Sculpture, Nick Lascot
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-3:30pm
$1,550
Art
in the Afternoon: Studio Art for Big Kids
Madly Mixed: Mixed Media, Installation and Performance with Johana Skalsky
Tues,Wed,Thurs
1:30pm-3:30pm
$825
Session IV: August 16-25
For
Little Kids:
Little Kids: Culture Bugs!
(Ages 2.5-5)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-12:00pm
$775
For Big Kids Only
Culture Bugs! +: Full Day Program for Big Kids!
(Ages 5+)
(Culture Bugs! + Lunch + Art in the Afternoons) Outside In and Inside Out! with Sarah Julig
Tues,Wed,Thurs
9:30am-3:30pm
$1,550
Art
in the Afternoon: Studio Art for Big Kids
(TBA)
Tues,Wed,Thurs
1:30pm-3:30pm
$825
The Final Fling: August
29-September 2
For
Little Kids:
Little Kids: Culture Bugs!
(Ages 2.5-5)
Mon-Fri
9:30am-12:00pm
$500/1wk.
For Big Kids Only
Culture Bugs! +: Full Day Program for Big Kids!
(Ages 5+)
Double Trouble!! Pushing, Pulling + Moving in the morning plus Go Crazy with Quilts in the Afternoon!
Mon-Fri
9:30am-3:30pm
$995/1wk.
Culture
Bugs!
Summer 2011 Mini-Camp Enrollment Terms and Conditions
•
An adult must accompany children under kindergarten age at all times.
• A $500 non-refundable enrollment deposit made payable to HI ART!
is due at the time of application for EACH session to which you are applying
your child. The balance of tuition is due on May 1, 2010. Failure to make
final payment by the specified date will result in a forfeiture of your
child’s place in the program and no refunds will be made. Courtesy refunds or charge reversals will be charged a 5% service fee.
• All enrollments are for the full session. There will be no refund
for early withdrawals from the summer program and absolutely no tuition
refunds will be made for withdrawals after May 1.
• Hi Art! reserves the right to either withdraw a child or request
that he/she be accompanied by an adult if the program, at its discretion,
deems this to be warranted. There will be no refund in the event of our
request that a child be withdrawn for disciplinary reasons.
• Families enrolling two or more children will be offered a 5% reduction
in tuition for the second child for full sessions only.
• Registration is complete only upon the signed return of the enrollment
form, the completion of all paperwork and full payment of tuition.
• Limited scholarship aid is available. Requests for application
should be made to the director.
• The signator agrees and undertakes to insure that neither the
child being enrolled nor any adult accompanying the child during Hi Art!
activities will in any way endanger, or threaten to endanger, the safety
or well being of any person in or associated with the program. If in the
sole judgment of HI ART! personnel, any such child or adult does so endanger
or threaten to endanger other persons, HI ART! reserves the right to discontinue
the child's enrollment without consultation or other process, and without
refund of any tuition or fee.
• Children and/or their work may be photographed during the course
of activities and these photographs may appear in HI ART! promotional
materials. No child whose photograph is used will be identified by name,
nor will any compensation be awarded for use of said photographs.
• HiArt! Kids reserves the right to cancel classes and assumes no liability whatsoever beyond the refund of tuition for said classes.
Sculpture with Nick Lascot, Session 3!
Pushing, Pulling + Moving with Sarah Julig, Session 4!
The Fabulous Legend of the Firebird - Session 1
Paint till you're blue in the face with Ellen Berkenblit - Sessions 2 + 3!
Thanks so much for giving Milo a wonderful camp experience! He had a great time and made some beautiful things. He is now a die-hard Murakami fan. And now, whenever he makes something, he asks, "what would Cindie say?" Your enthusiasm is infectious and I look forward to enrolling Milo in future courses.
-Mary H.
Dear Cyndie, I just had to report-Kate just gave me and her father a manga lesson. She organized the supplies, and gave clear and precise instructions, easy to understand and follow, and demonstrated how to. When our product failed to please us, she encouraged us with noting how much she had studied and practiced to reach her current level of expertise. She was so excellent! And happy! And proud!
Thanks to you and all the other teachers for such a wonderful program this summer.
