Late registration is still available for the Kaua‘i Academy of Creative Arts’ summer program, which seeks to nurture imagination through creative arts for children ages 6 to 13 . The program will begin Monday and run through July 13. Classes
Late registration is still available for the Kaua‘i Academy of Creative Arts’ summer program, which seeks to nurture imagination through creative arts for children ages 6 to 13 .
The program will begin Monday and run through July 13. Classes will be held at Island School. Late registration will be allowed Monday from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Island School, behind Kaua‘i Community College.
Under the direction of Program Director Sheri Majewski , the summer program offers a range of art classes for young people in the elementary and middle school age group.
“I am especially proud of our curriculum this summer. We have an excellent teaching staff that has come together to share their artistic talents and expertise with our students,” Majewski said. “The diversity of our classes allows the children to experience new things in the arts during four weeks of intensive study.”
Students choose three to six classes to satisfy their inner performer or visual artist. Students can mix and match classes as they like according to their preferences, ranging from the thrill of getting onstage with an ‘ukulele, performing a dramatic skit, beating ancient rhythms on taiko drums, or funky hip hop moves. Or, if a visual arts experience is desired, the choices are just as unique with cubist art in the way of Picasso, digital photography, and projects to expand on drawing, painting and sculpture.
One of the classes this year will focus on art in public places and will feature a community art project in collaboration with the Friends of Kamalani Playground. Students will paint scenes on picnic tables that will be installed later at Lydgate Park’s Kamalani Playground.
“It’s very exciting for students to have their work on display in public places,” Majewski said. “They continue being inspired by the sense of accomplishment and it inspires others in the community as well.”
In all the classes offered, students will be challenged to stretch their creativity, technical skill and imagination as they work with the guidance of professional artists who are experienced arts educators.
“Practice in the arts develops skills that apply to every area of a student’s life,” Majewski said. “Arts education activates the creative process, cultivates imagination and observation skills, and gives experience in innovative thinking and creative problem solving for practical purposes.”
Majewski cites Albert Einstein as a favorite example because of his insistence that it was neither verbal processes nor mathematical calculations that had a role in his process of creative thought. Einstein maintained that it was through visualizing the effects, consequences and possibilities that he mentally “saw” in his mind’s eye and was prompted to formulate his special theory of relativity. According to Einstein, science is one field that makes very good use of imagination and visualization to intellectually devise solutions to real problems.
There is still space available for children to enroll on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, call Majewski at 346-7586, or go to www.kauaicreativearts.org.
