Riveropolis: Escape From Atlantis

 

Welcome to Riveropolis Maker Camp!  ​​There’s nothing like the sight, sound, and feel of cascading water to stimulate the imagination! In Riveropolis, kids explore art, architecture, and engineering as they construct a fantastic model river world with real rain, waterfalls, lakes, and islands. Along the banks of the river, campers will learn arts and craft techniques as they build houses, towers, castles, forests, gardens, statues, and more. Creating special features that link individual plots such as fences, walls, gates, roads, bridges, sky-rides, and boats introduces concepts of collaboration, civics, and urban design. The resulting 35-foot river landscape becomes the centerpiece for a Grand Tour for parents and friends on the final day of camp! 

This year we will immerse ourselves in the mythic land of Atlantis. We will explore historical ideas of the lost continent through slides, videos, student drawing exercises and even
Atlantis-inspired music! Young architects and storytellers will then work individually and together to design and construct an ancient island village society as it might have existed as
part of the legendary continent. In addition to creating riverfront village habitats, each young architect will also design an elaborate, tall-masted sailing vessel or outlandish airship. These
ships will be be installed along the river “at-the- ready” for their inhabitants to escape when the continent starts to sink below the angry waters of the Atlantic ocean. Our creative
process involving art, craft, design and plenty of social play will be the centerpiece of a Grand Tour for parents and friends! After the river camp exhibition, which will include a 35
foot river with real running water, each child will be able to take home their sailship / aircraft to be played with and shared with others.              

 

Taught by: Gregory Gavin visual artist, designs public art and educational projects for schools, museums and public places. He’s been commissioned by theYerba Buena Center for the Arts, the de Young Museum and has piloted summer camps for the Bay Area Discovery Museum and MOCA. Dolores Elkin has over 30 years of experience teaching 25 of them at The San Francisco School). She has a CA teaching credential for art, along with a CA credential for teaching grades pre-K-12. Session two will be taught by Gregory and Angelica Faustino, 2nd grade teacher at SFS. This is her 6th year at SFS. Angelica has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Francisco State University, and is working toward my Master of Arts degree in Asian American Studies. 

Note* This is a 2 week camp, pricing for camp, early care, and aftercare reflect this.

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