GLUCK SUMMER CAMP - 2009

Notified Summer Campers - DOWNLOAD the Summer School Handbook and Forms, and return to the office by mail or email by JUNE 19th! NEW email address! Gluckprogram.ucr.summercamp@gmail.com
LINK to the Handbook and forms - pdf
LINK to the Handbook and forms - Word Document

Journeys of Self: Busting Boundaries

The Gluck Summer Camp of the Arts for high school students will offer seven free workshops during summer 2009 through UCR’s departments of Art, Creative Writing, Dance, History of Art, Music, Theatre, Sweeney Art Gallery, and the UCR/California Museum of Photography. Each workshop will be taught by a graduate fellow in the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts, a program funded by the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.

The Gluck Summer Camp for the Arts is open to all high school aged students - from entering 9th graders to graduating seniors. Interested students must fill out an application, must have a teacher recommendation, and parent permission. Students and parents are responsible for transportation to the program. Download the application and send it back to us by MAY 29, 2009.

The workshops at UCR will take place:

Weekdays July 6-17, 2009
Morning Session 9:00am-12:30pm (Workshops in Dance, Creative Writing and Music)
Afternoon Session 1:30pm-5:00pm (Workshops in Theatre, Art History and Art)
Final Show - Friday, July 17, 2009 at 6:30pm
Campers may enroll in the Morning and/or Afternoon session, and will do all three workshops each session
Call The Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts for more information - Christine Leapman - 951 827 5739 or Karen Wilson - 951 827 3518

The Workshops at the ARTSblock housing the Sweeney Gallery and UCR/ California Museum of Photography will take place:

July 20-22 and 27-29 from 1:00-4:30
The ARTSblock is located in downtown Riverside, 3800 Main Street, 92501
call Jennifer Frias at the Sweeney Gallery for more information - 951 827 1465

Notified Summer Campers - DOWNLOAD the Summer School Handbook and Forms, and return to the office by mail or email by JUNE 19th!
LINK to the Handbook and forms - pdf
LINK to the Handbook and forms - Word Document

Link to Workshop_Daily_Schedule

Camp is full! LINK to the SUMMER APPLICATION Applications due Friday, May 29, you may still apply for the waiting list

Still want more summer camp? Check out My Global Villiage at the UCR California Museum of Photography

Workshops for Journeys of Self: Busting Boundaries are:

Art
Nathan Bockelman, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Art
Workshop Title: Temporary Sculptures and Meaning through Objects
In this project students will be asked to examine, arrange and perform with common objects. Students will create a series of “temporary sculptures,” documenting them with digital cameras and discussing final printed images. Through making and destroying students will learn to improvise, perform and consider content and what ideas are finally expressed through the photographs (no matter how silly).

Creative Writing
Victoria Tulacro, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Creative Writing
Workshop Title: What Would Your Nose Say?: A Study in Sensory Receptors
If your ear lobe could stretch and wrap its rubbery self around a pencil what would it say? Would it use words or hum a tune? Would your eyes write of something else? How? This course is an in-depth understanding of what a heightened awareness of senses would mean to writing, and in particular poetry. In this course we will look over some contemporary and modern poetry in order to understand what is being privileged and what is then understood. In addition this course will broach what are the inner workings of poems and how students can use those rhetorical devices in order to benefit their own craft. It is the goal of this course to offer an introduction into poetry while prompting the creative monsters within to write. At the end of the session, students will have completed a collection of poems of their own.

Dance
Hannah Schwadron, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Dance
Workshop Title: Dancing Presence: The Felt Experience
This dance class is structured to make you sweat, smile, and experience movement in totally new ways, no matter how long you have or haven’t studied the art form. Over the course of ten classes that combine influences from modern dance, hip hop, improvisation, and yoga techniques, students work toward a final evening performance of material that showcases original student composition. Come prepared to move on the first class, in comfortable, loose fitting clothes (no jeans, short shorts, or large jewelry). Bring a bottle of water, notebook, pen, and your (barefoot) dancing feet!

History of Art
Amanda Cook, Gluck Graduate Fellow in History of Art
Workshop Title: Body = Identity? The Art of Portraiture
This project will investigate the concepts of likeness, identity and the documentation value of portraiture. We will look specifically at body-part reliquaries, group portraiture, the self-portrait as well as caricature and fabricated identities. Students will be encouraged to bring such objects as posters, coins, photographs and PowerPoint or slide images and discuss these pieces in terms of portraiture, type and function.

Music
Mary Louise Beck, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Music
Workshop Title: The Culture and History of Andean Music through Communal Body Performance
Through the experience of performing indigenous and folkloric music from the Andean region of South America students can learn about the rich culture and history of Latin American countries such as Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Students will also gain an understanding of how music is an embodied practice in that the body is a producer of music as well as a site of representation, a physical representation of history, culture, and social perspectives.

Theatre
Alison Minami, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Theatre
Workshop Title: Staging the Moment
Your body is a powerful instrument of expression in sound, movement, and thought. Learn to loosen, stretch, and expand your body so that you are living in the moment and staying true to your intentions when you are working in a performance mode. Realize the illusion of your limitations and break them down to get to the nitty-gritty, scary, joyful heart of your true creative genius. Through improvisation and scene work, this course will give you concrete tools to build your confidence as an actor and to create a believable and engaging character and life on stage.

The 2009 ARTSblock Summer Camp Workshop is:

Sweeney Art Gallery and UCR/California Museum of Photography
Courtney Oquist, Gluck Graduate Fellow for the Sweeney Gallery and Ashley Landrum, Gluck Graduate Fellow for the UCR/CMP
Workshop Title: Inland Empire: Art Marks the Spot!
Working in collaboration, the Sweeney Art Gallery and UCR/CMP will take students on fieldtrips that encourage engagement and discovery of the arts in the public sphere. Over the course of two weeks, we willvisit various cultural sites in Riverside and the surrounding area that reveal and inspire the region's story. Students will have a hands-on interaction with the spaces through intervention, installation, photography, drawing and printmaking. All art projects will relate to the spaces we visit, as well as professional artists who inspire the projects. Our goal is to help students to discover that art is not limited to the gallery setting, and that they can be active participants in their art environment.