Youth Art Program

Peters Valley is nationally recognized for quality educational programs for adults.

We are pleased to also offer programs for children that will reflect this excellence while at the same time are tailored to fit the ages of the participants.

By running the youth programs at the Walpack Environmental Education Center (WEEC), located but three miles from Peters Valley, we will are able to isolate the kids classes in a controlled environment while at the same time draw on the considerable resources of the Valley.

Call to schedule your week, or download a printable Registration form to mail with your payment.

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In addition to the Registration form, we also need you to download and fill out a Medical Form.

2008 Summer Youth Art Program & Summer Camp Schedule is available by clicking here.

• The workshops are open to  children ages: 6 - 16
• The program 9:00am - 3:00pm daily during the allotted schedule.

Session I (Art In Nature): July 7- 11 (Ages 6-11) & (Ages 12-16)

Session II (Art In Nature): July 14 - 18 (Ages 6-11) & (Ages 12-16)

Session III (Art In Nature): July 21 - 25 (Ages 6-11) & (Ages 12-16)

$165/session ~ No lab fees

Session IV: July 28 August 1 (Ages10+)
with choice of concentration in Ceramics or Fibers

$165/session ~ $20 lab fee

(multiple session/child discounts are available)

Each age group will be overseen by a full time teacher who will provide a variety of projects that will span many of the media taught at Peters Valley including ceramics, jewelry, weaving, painting, drawing and sculpture. Specific projects will include: beading on an Indian style loom, casting objects from nature in sand, mono printing with techniques from Africa, printing original designs on tee shirts, paper-making and collage along with many other creative undertakings.

Additionally guest artists drawn from the Peters Valley network will be visiting two to three times a week supplementing the core curriculum. They will mostly demonstrate projects that will result in hands-on-activities led by themselves and the primary teachers. At other times they will introduce skills that they might want to pursue when they are older, such as blacksmithing, throwing on the potter’s wheel, and precious metal casting.

The Program is set up as three successive week-long sessions and each week will touch on a wide variety of subjects. However, projects will be progressive and change from week to week so that a student signing up for multiple sessions will be encountering new things everyday. We encourage multiple enrollments.

TO REGISTER

1. Download the Information Page, Registration Form & Emergency Form above. (if you are not able to download these pdf files, please call our office and we will mail or fax them to you)
2. Fill out Registration Form & Emergency Form & either fax them to (973)948-0011
       or mail them with payment to:
       Peters Valley Craft Center
       Attn: Youth Art Program
       19 Kuhn Rd.
       Layton, NJ 07851

WE ENCOURAGE EARLY REGISTRATION
(please register at least two weeks prior to the start of the session).

Questions should be directed to info@petersvalley.org or (973)948-5200

Instructors for 2008 include:

Suzanne K. Werfelman (Art in Nature 6-11) is a practicing fiber artist concentrating on color, demonstrated by her hand painted silk scarves and painter specializing in life like portraits of people and animals. Suzanne has been teaching and facilitating the creative process in public schools for 33 years. Besides teaching K through 12 art classes, she also teaches a course entitled "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" to adult students.

Liz Pemberton (Art in Nature 12-16) is a Quilt/Fiber Artist and Fabric Collage Muralist, presently working as an Artist-in-Residence for public schools in Monroe County, PA. Her large Murals, created with the school students have been highly publicized. Her skills also include beautiful beadwork, jewelry making, and macramé. One of her Quilts was chosen as part of an exhibition titled “Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition” which is touring the country.

Angela Klaerner (Ceramics) began working with clay some 30 years ago as an apprentice. She went on to study in Heiligendamm where she graduated with a MFA in 1982. She has been working as a practicing ceramic artist ever since. She relocated to the US in 2004 and has been residing at Peters Valley ever since, where she maintains a studio and has taught for Sussex County Community College. She is skilled both in hand-building and throwing techniques.

Janell Wysock (Fibers) is a past assistant at Peters Valley, where she continues to show her work in the Store and Gallery. She graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 2004. She teaches the young artist workshop at Moore as well as at the Cecilian Center. She is equally adept at weaving, felting, paper-making, and surface dying and will be sharing all these techniques with the participants.