Fashion Design
Wearable art of all kinds, hand and machine sewing, and embellishment techniques.
Fashion Design often gets left out of the interdisciplinary arts, but the clothes are nothing without the model. In addition to designing their work, students learn to style and pose a model (themselves or others), photograph their work, and “walk” their designs to best show them off.
Intro to Sewing
Our most-requested camp! Campers create a variety of sewing projects such as bags, accessories, and simple garments. Each project is designed to teach and reinforce the following skills.
Hand sewing with needle and thread.
Using and trouble-shooting a sewing machine.
Pinning and cutting patterns.
Understanding and following pattern markings.
Installing hand-sewn fasteners such as snaps and hooks.
This camp ends with a fashion show/gallery display of campers’ work during the last hour of camp on Friday. The event includes a short reception celebrating the artists.
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Unique Accessories
combines sewing, crafting, and jewelry-making to create a set of unique accessories.
Students in this camp design and create a “line of accessories” for their personal brand using the following skills, tools, and materials:
Hand-sewing small fabric accessories.
Using polymer clay (ie. Fimo, Sculpey) to create beads and charms.
Making “Shrinky-Dink” charms of their original artwork.
Linking, threading, and setting beads and charms to make necklaces, bracelets, bag charms, and/or earrings.
Machine-sewing hems and simple seams to make a belt and/or scarf.
Using a vision board and the pieces they develop over the week, students will create a “trunk show” display of their work for friends and family to "mock shop” during the last hour of camp on Friday.
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Upcycled Fashion
Why shop when you can design? Turn old clothes in to new designs using a mix of techniques and tools, including hand sewing, simple machine sewing, embellishing, patching, and more! No garment is ever ruined or out of style when you know how to upcycle your old looks! Campers will learn to:
Use a sewing machine to alter clothing to fit their measurements.
Patch and mend clothing in creative and decorative ways.
Deconstruct clothing to create patterns and pieces for new designs.
Combine multiple articles of clothing into one new design.
Add snaps, hooks, and other closures.
The week will conclude with a live fashion show and gallery display of camper’s creations. This camp includes an optional TH lunchtime collaboration with Digital Photography camp to create fashion photography of their work.
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Camp Cosplay
Brings together costume design, prop construction and character performance. Campers are invited to bring an in-progress cosplay or start work on one in camp. This camp focuses on working with common materials, tools, and techniques used in cosplay construction, including:
EVA (craft) foam sculpting and patterning techniques
Fabric identification and selection
Adapting character designs to your own style and proportions
Cosplay comfort— wearable layers that can be managed by the designer alone.
Cosplay character performance— moving in cosplay, stage contest skills, and posing for photos.
This camp ends with a staged “costume contest” for the entertainment of family and friends with peer-selected awards for all campers. The event will be held during the last hour of camp on Friday, and will be followed by a brief reception celebrating the designer/performers.
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Prepare and Perform
offers campers in Grades 1-3 an opportunity to start building props and costumes right away the first day for an exciting original performance. Each week has it’s own unique theme— Click the image for more info!
Full summer series
Jun 22- Aug 7
Different themes each week.