Summer Camp Week 1: Meet Your Gremlin, Make Your Gremlin
RECOMMENDED AGES: 8-11 (3rd-5th grade)
PRICE: $250 / $325 / $400, sliding scale
or get 20% off with our 4 week camp package
DATES: Monday July 7th - Friday July 11th
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
FOOD: Campers must bring a lunch, water bottle, and two snacks
POLICIES: Click here to see our full camp policies
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For this year’s special featured artist camp, ILY2 and ILYouth2 are excited to be bringing Umico Niwa to Portland!
In this camp, campers will utilize Jungian active imagination techniques to go into our inner subterranean spaces and meet the inner gremlins—the little aspects of self that delight in producing chaos and malfunction. Campers will sculpt these figures out of organic materials such as discarded potatoes, orange peels, sticks and flower petals.
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About the Instructor:
Umico Niwa received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond in 2020. Rejecting Western notions of personhood, Niwa considers alternative modes of existence unbridled by bodily restrictions or gender constructs. Her creations speak to a state of being defined by perpetual movement - a flower, wilting; a fruit ripening. A seed vault, a genetic sequence, a sensorium, a somatic memory bank. A valley full of weeds, bursting with life.
image via https://umiconiwa.com/
RECOMMENDED AGES: 8-11 (3rd-5th grade)
PRICE: $250 / $325 / $400, sliding scale
or get 20% off with our 4 week camp package
DATES: Monday July 7th - Friday July 11th
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
FOOD: Campers must bring a lunch, water bottle, and two snacks
POLICIES: Click here to see our full camp policies
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For this year’s special featured artist camp, ILY2 and ILYouth2 are excited to be bringing Umico Niwa to Portland!
In this camp, campers will utilize Jungian active imagination techniques to go into our inner subterranean spaces and meet the inner gremlins—the little aspects of self that delight in producing chaos and malfunction. Campers will sculpt these figures out of organic materials such as discarded potatoes, orange peels, sticks and flower petals.
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About the Instructor:
Umico Niwa received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond in 2020. Rejecting Western notions of personhood, Niwa considers alternative modes of existence unbridled by bodily restrictions or gender constructs. Her creations speak to a state of being defined by perpetual movement - a flower, wilting; a fruit ripening. A seed vault, a genetic sequence, a sensorium, a somatic memory bank. A valley full of weeds, bursting with life.
image via https://umiconiwa.com/
RECOMMENDED AGES: 8-11 (3rd-5th grade)
PRICE: $250 / $325 / $400, sliding scale
or get 20% off with our 4 week camp package
DATES: Monday July 7th - Friday July 11th
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
FOOD: Campers must bring a lunch, water bottle, and two snacks
POLICIES: Click here to see our full camp policies
***
For this year’s special featured artist camp, ILY2 and ILYouth2 are excited to be bringing Umico Niwa to Portland!
In this camp, campers will utilize Jungian active imagination techniques to go into our inner subterranean spaces and meet the inner gremlins—the little aspects of self that delight in producing chaos and malfunction. Campers will sculpt these figures out of organic materials such as discarded potatoes, orange peels, sticks and flower petals.
***
About the Instructor:
Umico Niwa received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond in 2020. Rejecting Western notions of personhood, Niwa considers alternative modes of existence unbridled by bodily restrictions or gender constructs. Her creations speak to a state of being defined by perpetual movement - a flower, wilting; a fruit ripening. A seed vault, a genetic sequence, a sensorium, a somatic memory bank. A valley full of weeds, bursting with life.
image via https://umiconiwa.com/
Additional Purchasing Details:
Our pricing tiers are sliding scale. Please choose what is comfortable for your family. “Tier One: Full Cost” is for families who are able to comfortably and consistently meet their needs, and enjoy leisure. “Tier 2: Discounted” is for families who are generally able to meet their needs and do not experience significant financial stresses, but cannot comfortably afford Tier One. “Tier 3: Discounted” is for families who lack significant financial privilege and are not always able to meet their needs. Reference the graphic below or visit our Scholarships & Sliding Scale page for more information.
We recognize that the discounted tiers may still not be accessible to every family, so we have both partial and full scholarship spots available. Please fill out the form on our Scholarships & Sliding Scale page to request a scholarship code.
For information on cancellations and refunds please see our policies here.
