Animating in Blender: Have you ever wondered how 3D animated movies are made? Come join us for the week and learn how to use Blender, an open-source 3D animation program. We will go over the basics of navigation, keyframes, and materials, with the final day of class dedicated to an organized critique of every student's work. Every level of experience is welcome!

Jumping into Creating Comics and Manga: If you love comics and manga, join us for this exciting program and discover how to get started with creating comics of your own. You’ll learn the techniques you need to draw your characters, their worlds, and the stories they're a part of. We’ll cover comics drawing fundamentals such as perspective, linework, different kinds of shading, and how to draw facial expressions and figures in action. We'll learn about comic page layouts and lettering, and how to design exciting comic panels. We’ll use pencil and ink, or digital art programs to create characters, plan a project of your own, and get started with drawing it.

Crafty Jewelry: In this class, create wearable items that embrace the childlike whimsy of arts and crafts. We will build a community creating jewelry for ourselves and each-other in a shared space, learning time intensive therapeutic crafts that can turn into functional items. Build skills in embroidery, weaving, bead-making, and design through daily changing lessons in a different skill set. Potential outputs include but are not limited to paper bead necklaces, embroidery thread friendship bracelets, "shrinky-dink" buttons and rings, collaged pins, crochet hats, and more. Learn useful, cost effective, and functional methods of making jewelry without negating the fun of a DIY attitude and aesthetic.

Ceramics:  In this class, students will learn ceramic hand-building techniques. Students will create functional and nonfunctional ceramic art. Learn how to create with coils, slab construction, and clay pinching methods. Students will create their own pieces and learn how to glaze finished artwork. All skill levels welcome.

Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeons & Dragons is a collective storytelling game played amongst friends with dice telling you what you can and can't do. Over the course of one week, you are cordially invited to come play D&D, build a character, and go on an adventure. What makes this particular D&D game unique is that we will be taking a break over the course of the game to allow writers space to write the story of their character, with the hope that -- at the end of the week -- the story will continue. No previous D&D experience necessary. Extra readings available.

Fight Songs: Narrative Poetry: What frustrates you so much you want to scream? The things that annoy us are powerful inspiration for writing, whether we’re protesting systemic injustice, or the fresh hole torn in your favorite sweater. In this workshop, we’ll transform our pet peeves into poetry, reclaiming our complaints through fun writing prompts.

Build Your Character Discover Your Story: This workshop will focus on building a short story around the main character. To ensure that this story is something that can only happen to your unique character in this unique way, we’re going to create the character first and get to know what I call their 4W’s: their wounds, wants, whims, and wins. A character’s 4 W’s work in conjunction to build potential for tension in their lives, and they all inform how they think, behave, look at and engage with the world, especially if the 4 W’s conflict. Students will also consider narrative point of view, which will dictate how these 4W’s show up on the page.

School One Humanities Comp: School One is offering this humanities skills classes as part of our summer program. This is a great opportunity for students to brush up on the basic skills required to pass the School One Competency Exams.