Summer Labs

FIVE POINTS ARTS

SUMMER ART LABS

For Teens

Come explore the beautiful Five Points Arts Center campus and create art in our fabulous labs! Students who are serious about artmaking will flourish in this environment that allows them to work with a variety of materials, explore new techniques, and experience the joy of making art. The space, equipment, and facility at Five Points Art Center are unparalleled in the region and are ready to welcome you! Students will have access to the Art Center’s fully operational Robert Dente Printmaking Lab, Drawing lab, Pamela Stockamore Painting lab, and Peter Howe Alternative Process Photo Lab. All students will create artwork that is entirely personal and experimental, with a focus on exploration and skill-building. Guided by enthusiastic and talented instructors, classes are created to engage students ranging in age from 13-17. Schedules are structured to be flexible, with full and half-day options. Students who register for the full-day experience will participate in additional lunchtime art activities that are community-minded, collaborative, and fun!

Each class is capped at 12 students ages 13-17

Morning Classes: 9:00 - 12:00

Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00

Afternoon Classes: 1:00 - 4:00

COSTS:  

$450 - a week (full day)

$250 - a week (½ day) 

$50 each week to add lunchtime activities if taking only ½ day *

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE if interested please email Jenni Freidman at jfreidman@fivepointsarts.org

*Lunchtime activities are included with the full-day option - please pack a lunch

**Sign up for a family membership and receive an additional 10% off

***All course fees include materials unless otherwise indicated 

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Week One

July 11th - 15th 

Drawing 9:00 - 12:00

This class will focus on learning foundational drawing techniques in unique and exciting ways. Students will engage with multiple subject matters with an emphasis on the natural environment that surrounds the Five Points Arts Center. Young artists will create work that is exciting and personal. While exploring a variety of creative drawing techniques, students will learn about proportion, structure, mark-making, and value. Students will be encouraged to explore both representational and abstract ways of working and having a ton of fun will be the focus! Please bring a sketchbook, all other materials are included.

Printmaking - 1:00 - 4:00

If you love the paper, process, and working as part of a community then you are sure to fall in love with making prints. Students will have the magical experience of working within the Robert Dente Printmaking Lab for this week to learn all aspects of making a print: from generating ideas, to inking your plate, to using a press. Students will create work using various printmaking techniques to create unique or limited edition images that will be printed on paper and more. Please bring a sketchbook, all other materials are included.

Week Two

July 18th - 22nd

Painting - 9:00 - 12:00

This class will focus on learning foundational painting techniques but expand into more experimental working methods throughout the week. Students will engage with multiple subject matters with an emphasis on the natural environment that surrounds the Five Points Arts Center.  Young artists will create work that is exciting and personal. While exploring a variety of creative painting techniques, students will learn about proportion, value, and color mixing. Students will be encouraged to explore both representational and abstract ways of working and having a ton of fun will be the focus! Please bring a sketchbook, all other materials are included.

Photography 1:00 - 4:00

This experimentally minded class will really fulfill the true sense of the “lab” experience. Students will get the opportunity to compose, shoot, edit, and transform photos in this fun and experimental class.  Working with a variety of photo processes and techniques students will explore digital photography using a camera or phone as well as analog photo techniques such as cyanotypes and photo transfers. Later in the week, you will be able to print your photos in the Art Center’s professional Alternative Process Photo Lab and Peter Howe Digital Lab. Please bring a sketchbook, all other materials are included.
 

Don’t forget about LUNCH!

Lunchtime will be another opportunity for community, relaxation, and fun! Explore a different activity every day while relaxing on the Five Points Arts Center patio and lawn. Activities could include tye-dye, macrame, collaborative murals, yoga, and more! Feed your body and your brain before heading back into the labs for the afternoon art experience! Please pack your own lunch.

Summer Art Labs Faculty and Staff

DRAWING - Mari Skarp- Bogli

Mari Skarp-Bogli is an interdisciplinary artist and contemporary art historian who creates sculptural drawings and paintings using industrial materials. She teaches studio art and art history at several Connecticut colleges and universities.

Her website can be found here; www.mariskarpbogli.com

PAINTING - Sarah Paolucci

Sarah Paolucci is a painter who focuses on the magic of light & color, the science of which is truly fascinating. Sarah received her MFA in Illustration from the Hartford Art School in 2019. She has had artwork exhibited at Five Points Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the ARTwalk at the Hartford Public Library as well as many other group shows throughout the region. Sarah has taught at the Hartford Art School and Tunxis Community College. She has studied painting under Sandra Wakeen, Todd Casey, and Stephen Brown. Sarah is also a freelance graphic designer and illustrator.

You can see her work at www.SarahTheArtist.com

PRINTMAKING - Sydney Samele

Sydney Samele is a Connecticut based printmaker and illustrator. She graduated from the University of Hartford with her BFA in 2021. Sydney experiments with various printmaking techniques, such as etching, lithography, monotype, silkscreen, and relief. Her work explores mythology and transformation through water. She has exhibited work in the New Britain Museum of American Art, Gallery on the Green, The Connecticut Art Gallery, Five Points Art Gallery, NRHC, Joseloff Gallery, and the Monastery Art Gallery.

PHOTOGRAPHY - Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee is an artist from California living in Connecticut. She earned her MFA in photography from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. Through her work across the media of photography and photobooks, she explores relationships between internal and external spaces, identity, womanhood, and the home.

In addition to her work as an artist, Lee works in fine arts education. She has recently received a grant to create a University-wide Art Appreciation course at the University of Hartford. Lee has worked as a photography and photobook editor and consultant in the professional settings of various galleries, artists’ studios, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

https://www.rebeccaleeart.com/

SUMMER LABS INTERN - Macayla Muzzulin

Macayla Muzzulin is currently a junior Illustration major with minors in both Business and Fine Arts at Ringling College of Art and Design. She will be transferring to The University of Hartford, Hartford Art School to finish her degree in Illustration in the Fall of 2022. A graduate of Torrington High School, she has been volunteering at Five Points Gallery since her Sophomore Year of High School. She has had the opportunity to work with the ASAP Organization to teach art to children in Torrington and Litchfield schools for programs during the summer and throughout the school year. Muzzulin has also had the privilege of working with Danielle Mailer on the Fish Tales project in Torrington.  She likes to paint landscapes, frogs and a variety of birds and also enjoys hiking and cooking!