The Michael C. Carlos Museum celebrates 17 years of providing exceptional summer programs in which children and teenagers explore the human impulse to create works of art. Camp Carlos offers participants imaginative and innovative opportunities to explore the ways in which people throughout time and across cultures have taken elements from the earth and created works of art, and how contemporary artists still use many of the same materials and techniques that have been used for thousands of years. In the galleries, campers learn from artists of the ancient world and, in the studio, from some of Atlanta's best practicing artists. A summer of imagination and creativity await your child at Camp Carlos!

Camp Carlos meets at the museum from 10 AM to 3 PM, with aftercare available from 3 PM to 5 PM for an additional fee of $60.00 per week. Campers bring their own lunch and eat on Emory's Quadrangle, weather permitting.

Registration for Camp Carlos 2009 begins on February 16 for Carlos Museum Members and on February 23 for non-members. To register, contact Nina West at 404.727.0519 or by email at nwest@emory.edu.

Click here for full information and registration form for Camp Carlos 2009!

Breaking the Mold
Ceramics Studio
June 1-5 (ages 7-9)
June 8-12 (ages 10-12)
In the ancient Americas, complex pottery was created from combinations of hand-shaped pots fused with elements cast in clay molds. One of these fascinating works in the collection, the paccha, was made entirely of clay but mimicked a wooden foot plow, an ear of corn, twine, and a small jar for storing corn beer. It was used by the Inka as a ritual watering vessel. Atlanta ceramic artist Ana Vizurraga will teach campers how to make molds and cast objects in clay using things collected from the natural world combining them with other hand-building techniques to form intriguing works of their own.
$185 for Museum members; $225 for non-members.

Glass Act
Glassworking Studio
June 15-19 and June 22-26 (two week session, ages 13-17)
Valued today for it’s beauty in transparent and colored forms as well as it’s capacity to be shaped, glass has a history that began in the ancient Near East, flourished in ancient Rome, and continues today. In this special two-week session teenagers will have a unique opportunity to work intensively with this marvelous medium in all of its sparkling flexibility. Glass artists Joan Goodyear and Kelly Thames will teach a variety of methods to work with glass in this two-week session campers from mosaics to slumping and fusing to creating images with glass frit to etching cameos.
$370 for Museum members; $450 for non-members.

Sketching Ancient Egypt
Drawing/Painting/Printmaking Studio
July 6-10 (ages 7 to 9)
July 13-17 (ages 10-12)
Egyptian art may conjure stylized formal images on the walls of tombs. Less well-known are the informal sketches on ostraca, pieces of stone. Like a contemporary artist working in a sketchbook, Egyptian artists made drawings that were often loose and playful, even showing a sense of humor in scenes such as cats being servants to rats or ducks being herded by a walking cat. Atlanta artist Leslie Kneisel will take campers into the galleries to make sketches based on the richness of ancient Egyptian art and mythology. Using the sketches campers will make playful illustrations in the spirit of ancient ostracons using a multi-media approach that combines drawing with experimental printmaking techniques such as monotypes, embossing, collograph, and collage.

$185 for Museum members; $225 for non-members.

Express Yourself
Jewelry Design
July 20-24 (ages 7-9)
July 27-31 (ages 10-12)

From ancient emperors to modern politicians, people have long understood the power and usefulness of visual images as communicators of ideas and identities. Focusing on Greek and Roman coins, portraiture and jewelry, campers will join jewelry artist Gail Walter in an exploration of how concepts are translated into visual symbols. Using a variety of materials and approaches ranging from words to polymer clay, campers will have fun looking at group and individual identities while creating their own mottos and identity boards, a bar pin, a transferred image of their own silhouette on to a “coin”, and campaign-style buttons.

$185 for Museum members; $225 for non-members.