EMU’s Summer Art Academy for Children and Youth

Letter from the Director

Welcome to EMU’s premier Summer Art Academy for children and youth! We’re so excited to launch an art program for your kids on our beautiful campus. I’ve been teaching art to children at summer camps and programs for 20 years, and I’m so happy to bring my experience and love for kids’ art home to EMU. The program offers small classes with lots of attention for each child and the university’s art studios and campus as our classroom! What a unique experience for students interested in exploring the techniques and language of painting and drawing. Immersive opportunities like this allow students to grow. And we have a lot of fun in the process.

If your child loves art, check out our classes below!

Hope to see you and your young artist here this summer,

Cyndi

Cyndi Gusler M.F.A.
Director, Visual  and Communication Arts 
Professor of Art, EMU
 

Classes

Week 1: Art Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (June 19 - 23)

Ages 8-10: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Explore the world of painting and drawing in this hands-on class. Hike a trail, collect sketches on a nature walk, then use the inspiration to make paintings and drawings full of vibrant color!

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Cost: $150 per class

Week 2: Acrylic and Watercolor Painting (June 26 - 30)

Ages 8-10: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Ages 11-13: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Create beautiful paintings in watercolor and acrylic paint. Improve your painting technique, build your artistic imagination and learn to paint from life at easel in our university studio and outside in the EMU Peace Park.

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Cost: $150 per class

Week 3: Amazing Animals and Beautiful Botanicals (July 10 - 14)

Ages 8-10: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Ages 11-13: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Improve your drawing, painting, and printmaking skills while delving into the natural world. We'll explore EMU’s campus, including the amazing discovery room full of once-wild animals drawing from life and our imaginations. Add washes of color to your drawings and make one of a kind watercolor prints from your sketches.

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Cost: $150 per class


Notes

  • Please dress in comfortable clothes and walking shoes that can go outside and into the painting studio without worry! ☺  
  • Wear sunscreen and a hat for sunny-day outings.
  • Bring a snack and a water bottle to keep fueled. We’ll take a snack break about half-way through class each day.
  • Drop off and pick up your students in front of University Commons Park Rd. entrance.
  • Contact cyndi.gusler@emu.edu with any questions.

Instructors

cyndi guslerCyndi Gusler, MFA

Cyndi Gusler is an EMU alum and an MFA graduate of James Madison University. Cyndi has a background in painting and drawing and working with mixed-media.

Currently in the Chestnut Art Studio are oil and acrylic paintings combining Cyndi's physical environment with her imagined reality.  Daydreams is an evolving playground of imagery that grounds the artist and allows her to fly.

Cyndi’s work includes a mosaic mural inspired by the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read Project. The mural wall, depicting a mockingbird perched atop a tangling vine of bittersweet, guards the exterior patio of the Massanutten Regional Library in Harrisonburg, VA.  

Cyndi's best of life list: new ideas, painting, growing food, biking, hiking, water, laughter, and other people's inspiring creative work.  

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