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.

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: July 7- 11 (Ages 6-11) & (Ages 12-16)

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

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

$165/session ~ No lab fees

Session IV: July 28 August 1 (Ages10+)
Ceramics & Fibers

$165/session ~ $20 lab fee

(multiple session/child discounts are available)

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

Click here for FORM

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

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 is a practicing fiber artist concentrating on color, demonstrated by her hand painted silk scarves. She is also a painter specializing in life like portraits of people and animals. She received her art education degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, and also has a Masters Equivalency + 54 graduate credits in art education and studio art. Suzanne has been teaching and facilitating the creative process in public schools for 33 years. Besides teaching Kindergarten through 12th grade art classes, she also teaches a course entitled "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" to adult students.

Liz Pemberton is a Quilt/Fiber Artist and Fabric Collage Muralist, presently working as an Artist-in-Residence for public schools throughout Monroe County, Pennsylvania since 2003.  Her large Murals, created with the school students have been highly publicized. She gives lectures to Quilting Guilds as well as being an instructor for adult workshops.  Her skills also include beautiful beadwork (all levels), jewelry making, and macrame.  Her Quilt-art has been exhibited in many galleries, and she has received numerous awards for her work. Currently, one of her Quilts has been juried, and is part of a 64 Quilt traveling exhibition called “Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition”.  These Quilts will be on tour throughout the United States until 2010.  There is also a companion book that goes with this exhibition.