Summer Camps at the Gibson
For campers aged 7 to 12
Camps run from 8:30am to 3:30pm, Mondays to Fridays (excluding Aug 3)
The Gibson Art Museum is hosting our first Summer Camps! Each week has a different theme, and draws inspiration from the world outside. Campers go on walks to discover some of the ways the environment we call Burnaby Mountain is shaped, and then experiment with artmaking techniques in the Gibson’s Tuey Art Studio. Register for any or all of the four weeks.
July 20-24: Water
Water is a curious material. It blends colours together and is absorbed by paper. As a stream, gravity pulls it downhill, sometimes carving a path, other times dipping into the ground out of sight for a moment before springing back out. This week, campers explore water as a thought-provoking material with which to create artworks, using painting and drawing, clay, and sculpture to respond to outdoor explorations.
July 27-31: Trees
As trees stretch up to the sky and hold on to the earth with their roots, they clean the air we breathe and remind us of the changing seasons. This week, campers draw inspiration from the anatomy of trees, the variations in textures they offer, and the creatures they imagine live inside them, to create artworks through painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.
Aug 4-7: Wayfinding
This week, campers make creative maps of various kinds as they find their way around Burnaby Mountain. As they consider how the patterns and textures of place give them a sense of location and direction, they make art by engaging creative processes like clay, weaving, printmaking, and collage.
Aug 10-14: Sediment
There's a lot dirt on Burnaby Mountain! This week, campers go on walks to explore the bits and pieces that cover the ground, and consider the long journey that rocks and sediment are taking as this mountain continues to change. They draw inspiration from natural processes like erosion, sedimentation, and fossilization as inspiration for creative processes in crafting artworks through bead working, natural paints, and stop animation.
Organized in partnership with SFU Camps