Ömürhan Alptekin-Torres

Ignite your child's artistic potential in a summer art camp that fosters skill development and creativity by exploring diverse materials in a stimulating environment. Students draw inspiration from the renowned Art Institute of Chicago, local architecture, public art, and current events as they develop skills across multiple mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpting, and mixed media. Additionally, they enhance their critical thinking, time management, and problem-solving abilities in a fun, safe, and nurturing environment. Projects foster personal expression and collaborative skills while introducing students to contemporary and historical art. Each session has a unique focus, ensuring that students who enroll in multiple sessions will experience entirely new studio projects every time.

Ignite your child's artistic potential in a summer art camp that fosters skill development and creativity by exploring diverse materials in a stimulating environment. Students draw inspiration from the renowned Art Institute of Chicago, local architecture, public art, and current events as they develop skills across multiple mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpting, and mixed media. Additionally, they enhance their critical thinking, time management, and problem-solving abilities in a fun, safe, and nurturing environment. Projects foster personal expression and collaborative skills while introducing students to contemporary and historical art. Each session has a unique focus, ensuring that students who enroll in multiple sessions will experience entirely new studio projects every time.

This focused, skill-building intensive emphasizes hands-on studio work and the completion of finished drawings in a shorter 5-week format. Students explore drawing as an engaging form of expression while building skills in line, shape, shading, and composition. Working on a small number of projects, students develop confidence through guided exercises and creative prompts in a supportive studio environment.

Students can continue building their skills in the 10-week Drawing Studio: 10¿13, where they will explore additional techniques and create more work.

In this camp, students explore traditional and contemporary painting techniques. Projects include painting from observation and the imagination and experimental approaches to mark-making. Students explore various materials, such as pastels, acrylic and watercolor paint, charcoal, graphite, gouache, and colored pencils, while developing skills in rendering, composition, use of shading, color blending, and layering processes. Regular visits to the Art Institute of Chicago to observe and sketch from paintings and sculptures inspire studio work. This camp is suitable for participants of all skill levels.

This focused, skill-building intensive emphasizes hands-on studio work and the completion of finished drawings in a shorter 5-week format. Students explore drawing as a form of personal expression while developing essential techniques, including line, proportion, value, composition, and perspective. Working with fewer materials, students complete a limited number of focused projects that build technical skills and confidence. Through studio practice and critique, students strengthen their ability to translate observation and ideas into resolved drawings.

This course is an excellent introduction to the full 10-week Drawing Studio, where students can further expand their skills and explore a wider range of materials and approaches.

Develop your personal style while producing well-designed and dynamic watercolor paintings. Learn wet and dry techniques, washes, color lifting, and glazing as you explore materials and techniques and experiment with a variety of subjects, including still-life, photographs, and your own subject matter.