Summer 2020 Clay Camps

2020

Clay Camps

June 8 – August 14 | Ages 6 & up

Last summer, nearly 400 campers participated in our weeklong camps.

We’ve got the perfect camp for you, with over 40 weeklong camps designed for all ability levels, ages 6 and up.

Fees for all camps

Fee for half-day camps: $185 (NCC members $175)* Fee for full-day camps: $335 (NCC members $315)*

*Unless otherwise noted, member rate applies only to children who are NCC members themselves.

Register online or by phone beginning at 10 am on February 4, at www.northernclaycenter.org or call 612.339.8007.

H H: Handbuilding or Sculpture camp. Students will make sculptures or handbuilt vessels using a variety of techniques. Students will not use the potter’s wheels. Great for kids ages 6 – 9.

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Join Northern Clay Center for a fabulous and fun summertime clay adventure!

Campers will expand their imaginations while accomplishing LASTING FEATS OF CLAY. Whether working with sculpture, tiles, or wheel-thrown pottery, students will learn to work INDEPENDENTLY AND COLLABORATIVELY in a small class setting with plenty of individual instruction. Camps are offered in a variety of themes (birds or dinosaurs, serving platters or ice cream dishes, giant vases or tiny garden houses) and they incorporate instruction for a variety of clay techniques—leaving PLENTY OF ROOM FOR EXPLORATION and decoration.

Half-day camps meet for three hours each day (from 9 am – 12 pm or 1 – 4 pm) and include a short break for snacks provided by parents and caregivers. Half-day camps do not include lunch. Full-day camps meet for 7 hours each day (from 9 am – 4 pm unless otherwise noted) and include an hour-long supervised break for lunch and non-clay activities. Parents should provide snacks and lunches for full-day campers.

Each camp is led by a teaching artist; on average one additional teaching assistant is present for each camp. New camps begin each Monday, June 8 through August 10.

Please call to find the appropriate age and skill level for your child. Unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions to the published age restrictions.

W: Wheel camp. Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel learning the basic techniques for creating handmade pottery. Some camps are marked for students with previous experience. Ages 9 & up.

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First Year Potions Garden Tiles Jug Heads

I Scream, You Scream Monsters and Minions

Center of Attention There’s No Place Like Gnome

Week 4 June 29 – July 3

Week 5 July 6 – 10

• Camps marked with an asterisk* are for students with previous experience.

• Other camps are generally for students ages 9 & up. Some camps are for older students. Please check the camp description to verify the age group.

Camps shaded grey are for ages 6 & up.

Super Bowl in the Summer Out of This World

You Spin Me...#1 Teen Boot Camp*

5 Centers: A Whole New Leaf Can You Handle Me? Doggone Good Pots Aardvark to Zebra Kids, I Bought a Farm

Beautiful Wares...* Just a Pinch

Flower Power Front and Center

Week 3 June 22 – 26

Week 2 June 15 – 19

Week 1 June 8 – 12

1 – 4 pm

9 am – 12 noon

Hip to Be Square* If You Give a Kid a Cookie

Texture Lab A Royal Affair

I Could Do That Blindfolded

Articulture and NCC: Cause and Effect Week 9 You Spin Me...#2 Set the Table for Two or...* August 3 – 7 Castle Keepers

Quest for the Holy Grail Throw Me How Much You Care Winter in July

Harry Pottery* It’s All About That Vase Facets of Fun Bite Sized

5 Centers: Perfect Imperfections Bowl Lotta Love Perfect Pairs For the Birds Dino-Mite

1 – 4 pm

• NCC will send confirmation of registration two weeks prior to the start of camp. If there is insufficient enrollment, we will cancel the camp, notify registered students, and refund all payments. This cancellation may happen at the very last minute.

• Unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions to the published age restrictions.

Week 10 Aug 10 – 14

Week 9 Aug 3 – 7

Week 8 July 27 – 31

Week 7 July 20 – 24

Week 6 July 13 – 17

9 am – 12 noon

2020 Clay Camp Summary

Week June 8 – 12

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W 20CC01 Flower Power

Whether starting new sprouts, moving them to a spacious new pot, or showing off blooms in a vase—make pots for your plants of all sizes. Work on the potter’s wheel to make many forms, then decorate with colorful slips and glazes.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC02 Front and Center

Great for beginners and intermediate learners—focus on how we start to throw a pot. Everyone will make and decorate several bowls, cups, and/or mugs. Repeat students will refine their skills and try new techniques.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC03 Beautiful Wares, Beastly Skills*

Learn to be a BEAST on the wheel by making beautiful wares that will show off your skills: throwing and trimming, as well as handle, lid, and spout making.

Make your own pouring sets this summer for anything from tea to lemonade to cocoa, yes cocoa! You know winter’s going to come around again, don’t ya?

Previous wheel experience recommended, but not required.

Time: 1 - 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC04 Just a Pinch

From a small ball of clay, pinch your way through the creation of your own vessels. Add a handle for a mug, or feet for a vase or planter. With a final pinch of color from an array of colored slips and glazes, finish your pots to become those you use every day.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up *Camps marked with an asterisk are for students with previous experience.

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Week June 15 – 19

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W 20CC05 5 Centers: A Whole New Leaf

Learned through the repetitive nature of seasons past, and built upon lessons of yesteryear, create your own beginning and turn a new leaf. What might tomorrow hold and how might you choose to shape it? Exploring their own bright future at the dawn of a new decade, campers will spend one day of the week at each of the partnered centers in the following order: Textile Center, FilmNorth, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and Northern Clay Center. Please register through Northern Clay Center.

(Membership discount will apply to campers who are members at any of the five partnered centers.)

Time: 9 am – 3 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC06 Can You Handle Me?

Make pots with different styles of handles—mugs, pitchers, casseroles, and lids. Learn basic wheel-throwing skills and a variety of handle techniques such as coils, lugs, sculpted handles, and traditional pulled handles.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC07 Aardvark to Zebra

Would you like to have a wild menagerie of pets to bring home with you?

Would you like to build places for them to live? OK. Through simple slab and pinching techniques, we can make you feel like one of the Irwins in no time!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up

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W 20CC08 Doggone Good Pots

Feed and water your pets in style! Make personalized dishes and bowls, fancy nametags, and even a treat jar for your favorite pets—real and imagined. Learn basic wheel techniques for functional ceramics and decorate with colorful slips.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC09 Kids, I Bought a Farm

Make a barn and all the animals to fill it. Cows, horses, pigs, chickens, and bunnies all have a place at the trough. Make a blue-ribbon-worthy and proudly midwestern scene in clay by sculpting and coloring your farm.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week June 22 – 26

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W 20CC10 You Spin Me Right Round Baby #1

Use the wheel to create a variety of functional pots including cups, plates, bowls, and vases. Great for both beginning and returning students. Buckle in to get ready for a lot of good practice!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC11 Teen Boot Camp*

Our best class for teenagers with intermediate wheel skills. Refine your throwing skills, learn new forms and techniques, and participate in constructive, collaborative evaluation of your work as a group. Practice what you already know and learn something new while you’re at it!

Previous experience required (minimum two wheel camps or documented participation in our Teen Pottery Punch Card program).

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 13 & up W 20CC12 Super Bowl in the Summer

Make all kinds of bowls on the potter’s wheel: cereal bowls, soup bowls, tea bowls, serving bowls, and even dog bowls! Finish your pieces by trimming, then decorate with colorful slips and glazes.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC13 Out of This World

Blast off and zoom through the cosmos. Throw caution to the wind while creating the planets, including Pluto, that you already know and love as well as those from your imagination. Using handbuilding techniques and colorful slips, which planets, stars, galaxies, and rocket ships might you dream into reality through the magic of clay?

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up 8—

*Camps marked with an asterisk are for students with previous experience.

Week June 29 – July 3

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W 20CC14 I Scream, You Scream

Use the wheel to create your own set of ice cream party dishes! Create your ultimate sundae dish and decorate with colorful glazes. Complete the week with a frozen treat party. Lactose intolerant folks are welcome too!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC15 Monsters and Minions

Use your imagination to make monsters, minions, dragons, or anything else you can dream up. Is your monster squishy or muscled? Scaly or furry?

Learn sculpture-making skills to create monsters of any shape and size.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 20CC16 First Year Potions

Take a spin on the potter’s wheel before starting your first year in potions.

Jump start your studies by making the potion bottles and ingredient jars to store your best creations. Mark them well using colored slips and notes on what they will hold for you.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC17 Garden Tiles

Lions, and tiles, and planters, oh my! Learn the basics of handbuilding to decorate your yard and gardens. With carving and layering techniques to adorn your tiles and planters, you can bring your outdoor spaces to life with stories and pictures.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up —9

Week July 6 – 10

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W 20CC18 Center of Attention

Use the wheel to throw and assemble clay parts to make centerpieces, candleholders, bowls, and vases for your dining room table. Give pieces their final touches with colorful slips to fit perfectly into any room’s decor.

Time 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC19 There’s No Place Like Gnome

Create an entire gnome village for your garden or yard. Accessorize with other garden decorations such as houses, tiles, or animals. Students will learn coiling, pinching, and slab-building techniques.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 20CC20 Jug Heads

Make mugs and jugs on the pottery wheel; then add eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, and more to create awesome characters for your home. Be inspired as we learn from historical examples and use basic wheel techniques.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up

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Week July 13 – 17 H

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W 20CC21 5 Centers: Perfect Imperfections

Embrace not only your final creation but also the process to get there. With every step as valuable as the final creation, campers will create works to show off their new-found skills and the process of learning them. Allowing the imperfection to become an integral component of the finished piece, campers will spend one day of the week at each of the partnered centers in the following order: Textile Center, FilmNorth, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Northern Clay Center. Please register through Northern Clay Center.

(Membership discount will apply to campers who are members at any of the five partnered centers.)

Time: 9 am – 3 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC22 Bowl Lotta Love

Create different sized bowls for different purposes, from teeny-tiny to humongous-gigundous. Make your pieces on the potter’s wheel, then decorate and add fancy slips to each piece.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC23 For the Birds

From the deepest nooks of the Amazon, to the sheer cliffs of Iceland, explore exotic and everyday birds of the world. Living or extinct, real or imagined— they’re all fair game! Create your own flock of colorful avian creatures Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week July 13 – 17 continued

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W 20CC24 Perfect Pairs

One is the loneliest number, so let’s make two of everything! Make matching sets of cups, bowls, and more on the potter’s wheel so that you can share and use your creations with friends and family. Make your pairs match by decorating with colorful slips and glaze.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H

20CC25 Dino-Mite Working from pictures or your favorite toy dinosaur, create your own dino and its proper habitat in clay. Use a variety of handbuilding techniques and decorative colorful slips.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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Week July 20 – 24

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W 20CC26 Harry Pottery*

This all-day camp is inspired by everyone’s favorite child wizard. Each morning, work on the potter’s wheel to make fantastic bowls and jars to hold all your potions. Then focus on other magical crafts in the afternoon. Great if you have some experience with clay wizardry, but also open to new muggles.

Time: 9 am – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC27 It’s All About That Vase

How tall can you throw? We’ll start with basic wheel-thrown forms and build up from there! Make all types of towering vases and vessels by focusing on skills that will help you throw taller forms.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC28 Facets of Fun

Get out your fettling knives and wire tools! This camp will introduce basic throwing and simple forms that will be transformed by the magic of FACETING! Your wares will be inspired by sparkling jewels, geological wonders, and geometric symmetry. Tired of the same old circles? This is the camp for you!

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC29 Bite Sized

From petite plates for cookies and brownies to an elaborate centerpiece for deliciously decorated truffles, create fanciful service for your bite-sized desserts. With colorful slips and sparkling glaze, draw extra attention to your next confectionary expedition.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up *Camps marked with an asterisk are for students with previous experience.

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Week July 27 – 31

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W 20CC30 Quest for the Holy Grail

Learn basic wheel techniques to make goblets and other feast dishes fit for a knight or queen at King Arthur’s court. Decorate with colorful slips!

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC31 Throw Me How Much You Care

Create beautiful gifts for the special people in your life—parents, friends, siblings, or pets. This camp will introduce basic throwing and decorating techniques needed to create heartfelt mementos.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC32 Winter in July

Escape the summer heat while exploring the best of seasons past and coming again. From snowflakes and the ice castle of your dreams, to polar bears and penguins, spend your week thinking cool and building even cooler clay creations.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up

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W 20CC33 Hip to Be Square*

Pick up where you left off from your school art class or jump into another NCC summer. If you are feeling up for a challenge, we welcome you to join us in making fun, functional serving pieces that have been squished, pinched, paddled, tossed, trimmed, and tweaked into various shapes. Previous wheel experience recommended, but not required.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC34 If You Give a Kid a Cookie

Use slab and coil methods to create cookie jars, serving platters, and cups to share cookies with your friends and family. But hey, you could also make a personal cookie jar just for yourself or a small pedestal platter for the perfect bedtime treat. Did you ever think about a mug that could hold your cookies and your milk at the same time? Why not? What will you devise to serve up sweet treats?

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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*Camps marked with an asterisk are for students with previous experience.

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Week August 3 – 7

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W 20CC35 Articulture and NCC: Cause and Effect

Artmaking, like life, is often unpredictable. This week is all about embracing the unknown to observe cause and effect. Spend mornings at Northern Clay Center handbuilding and throwing on the potter’s wheel, and see how handling clay impacts outcome. Afternoons will be a block away at Articulture, exploring with a variety of media to find out, “If I do this, what will that be?” The creative process, art materials, science, and natural phenomena will all be tied together, displaying causality, in this enticing collaborative camp. Campers will walk 1.5 blocks, from Northern Clay Center to Articulture, with a chaperone over their lunch break. Please register through Northern Clay Center.

Membership discount will apply to campers who are members of either of the partnered centers.)

Time: 9 am – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC36 You Spin Me Right Round Baby #2

You know, “Like a record, baby!” Use the wheel to create a variety of functional pots including cups, plates, bowls, and vases. Make whatever you want with this amazing tool that capitalizes on the magic of centripetal force!

A great class for both beginners and returning students. Spin that table round and get all the practice you can handle.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up W 20CC37 Set the Table for Two or Twenty*

Throw a cohesive place setting on the wheel: plate, bowl, and mug or tumbler. Experiment with size, shape, color, and textures to create dishes for your family. Previous experience may be helpful, but is not required.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC38 Castle Keepers

Look to castles from myth and medieval times to create your own fortress. With mortar setting, bring to life the guardians of your castle. From dragons and gargoyles, to fantastical creatures, be sure that no foe gets through the walls of your castle.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 6 & up

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*Camps marked with an asterisk are for students with previous experience.

Week August 10 – 14

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W 20CC39 Texture Lab

Learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel to create wares that are only the very beginning. From sketches and hand drawn patterns to stamps and rollers, find or create your own unique design to emboss texture and layer colored slips in a personalized design.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 9 & up H 20CC40 A Royal Affair

Transport yourself to ye olde medieval times. Travel back to the days of yore to craft goblets, plates, and magical wands of clay to revive the times of wizardry and royalty.

Time: 9 am – 12 pm Ages: 6 & up W 20CC41 I Could Do That Blindfolded

Campers, prepare for an experimental camp where the focus will be on chance and collaboration. You will practice throwing BLINDFOLDED!!!

Then we’ll learn to turn mistakes into magical pieces through a mix of collaborative and individual work.

Time: 1 – 4 pm Ages: 9 & up

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Registration Information — Please Read Carefully Fee for half-day camps: $185 (NCC members $175)* Fee for full-day camps: $335 (NCC members $315)* *Unless otherwise noted, member rate applies only to children registered as members.

Register online or by phone beginning at 10 am on February 4, at www.northernclaycenter.org, or 612.339.8007.

Age and Ability Restrictions We work closely with instructors to develop optimal age ranges and ability levels for each class. At the time their camp begins, children must have reached the minimum age and ability level indicated. In order to ensure the success of our classes, we ask that you observe these restrictions when registering your children for camps. NCC makes NO exceptions to the ages or ability levels indicated in the descriptions.

When registering online, if you register your child for the wrong age group, the registration will be canceled and we will contact you via email or phone to secure your second choice. If you have questions regarding the age ranges for a camp, please call Northern Clay Center at 612.339.8007 to register.

Drop-off / Pick-up Check-in will take place at the Sales Gallery Desk on day one. Please enter through the main entrance facing Franklin Avenue. All other drop-offs and pick-ups will take place through the Teaching Studios door located on the west side of our building. Please be punctual with all drop-offs and pick-ups; do not drop off campers more than 5 minutes before the start of their camp. NCC does not provide day care or supervision before or after camps. There is free parking on the west side of our building. A parent, guardian, or pre-approved adult must be present to pick up a camper at the end of each day. At no time will any camper be permitted to leave NCC without supervision.

Lunch Caregivers must provide supervision from noon to 1 pm for children registered in separate morning and afternoon camps or pay a $25 fee for NCC to provide supervision during the lunch hour. This option is available only to children registered for morning and afternoon camps during the same week. Caregivers must provide the campers with their lunch. NCC will provide supervision during lunch for full-day classes at no additional cost.

Snack Break Campers take a short break every day, so please pack a snack for your child and label the bag with his/her name.

Caregivers need to supply lunches and snacks for children in full-day classes. Please note: NCC’s facility is NOT peanut free. Please notify us three weeks in advance if your child has special dietary issues that would affect the other campers and we will do our best to notify other parents of the issue.

What to Wear and Bring Kids may get messy, so make sure your child wears appropriate clothing and footwear (sneakers are best; no open-toed shoes.)

For all camps, kids must bring a reusable bag to hold finished projects. We recommend canvas or nylon, roughly the size of a grocery bag. For wheel classes, we suggest, but do not require, a one-quart bucket (such as a yogurt container) and an old towel.

Completed Projects Completed projects may be picked up one week after your camp ends; we will NOT call you when they are ready.

We strongly recommend that you bring your child with you to help identify what s/he made. Projects left more than four weeks after the camp ends will be discarded. If you cannot pick up your child’s projects by this date, please make arrangements for someone else to pick them up.

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Product Output Expectations Your children will be encouraged to create several pieces of clay art during class. You can anticipate your child having at least four completed works. Please make note: not all camps result in the same number of objects for campers to take home. Several camps are focused on ideas of production, while others are more experiential in nature, or require a longer investment of time and energy into more complicated wares and objects. Regardless of output, ALL of our camps aim to create a positive and memorable experience for your camper.

Instructors and Class Content All instructor listings are subject to change. Students can expect to make new work Monday through Thursday and spend Friday glazing. By the very nature of the material and the short duration of these camps, some projects will not be glaze fired, but “once-fired” instead, rendering them decorative in nature and not for use to consume food or beverages. Class periods will include time for cleanup, an integral part of the process. Class descriptions are subject to change depending on ability levels of participating students.

Other Information Please note: due to the very nature of clay and the firing process, NCC cannot be responsible for any damage to work caused by poor construction or the firing or glazing processes Scholarships NCC has a small number of partial scholarships for children, awarded on a need basis. Please call 612.339.8007 for an application form. Applications can also be downloaded from our website at www.northernclaycenter.org.

Special Needs Signed interpretation is available for any camp. Please call the Center to request an interpreter at least three weeks in advance. NCC’s building is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with a wheelchair accessible potter’s wheel. The information in this brochure is available in large-print format upon request. To contact us via the Minnesota Relay Service, please call 1.800.627.3529.

Registration Information Tuition must be paid in full to hold your reservation. NCC will make absolutely no exceptions to age ranges indicated in camp descriptions.

To register: Register for your child’s class online; visit NCC during business hours, TWFSa, 10am – 6pm; Th, 10am – 7pm; Su, 12 – 4pm; or call 612.339.8007. Payment may be made by cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, or Discover. You may also send the registration form with your check or VISA/MasterCard/AmEx/Discover number and expiration date for the full fee to: Northern Clay Center, ATTN: Clay Camp, 2424 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis, MN 55406.

Make checks payable to Northern Clay Center.

NCC will send confirmation of registration two weeks prior to the start of camp. If there is insufficient enrollment, we will cancel the camp, notify registered students and refund all payments. This cancellation may occur at the very last minute.

Refunds: 100% of tuition (less a $15 processing fee) will be refunded if a student elects to drop or transfer a class no later than one week (7 days) before the day of the first camp meeting. A $15 processing fee will be charged if a student transfers from one camp to another. No refunds or transfers will be given with less than one week’s notice.

Tuition is not pro-rated. There are no make-up sessions.

Camps usually fill quickly, so please register early!

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