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Grades refer to the 2013/2014 School Year

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Pottery Wheel Camps: Let the Mud Fly!

Rad Roomz: Decorate with Personality!

Art of Performance Magic: Learn Magic Illusions the Pros Use!

How to Capture Humans: Drawing the Human Figure

Musical Theater Camp: Into The Woods!

Movie Magic: Make Your Own Movie Trailer!

Write a Way: Creative Writing Camp

Run with Scissors: Textile Camp- Sewing, Knitting, Felting and Tape!

Comic Book Camp: Make Your Own!

Under the Sea: Painting and other fun stuff for Grades 1-3

Over the Moon: Painting and other fun stuff for Grades 4-6

Messy Munchkins: Hands-On for the Little People! Ages 3-6

Gurgle Madness: Create Your Own Indoor Clay water fountain!

What's in a Name? Hand-Building Personalized Clay Projects!

Paint Your Pet: Caricature Canvases of Pets, Real or Imagined

JamFest '13: Rock 'n' Roll Band Camp

Click here to see a bunch of fun pictures from previous camps!

Rad Roomz
Personalize Your Room with Art!

Five day session: $148
Monday-Friday, June 17 - 21.
Grades 3 - 5: 9:30am - Noon.
Grades 5 - 12: 1 - 3:30pm.

It’s YOUR room – so make it truly your own with some fabulous art projects made by YOU!

Create lighted stars with beautiful patterned paper and cutouts that let the light cast shapes on your walls. Paint a canvas floor mat in just the right colors and any pattern or scene you want. Make flipping the switch an artful act with a one-of-a-kind switch plate cover decorated with three-dimensional, colored polymer clay. And use magnetic paint to create a memory board to hold all your favorite notes and photos.

When this camp is over, your room will sparkle like never before!

Instructor: Rose Mish. Rose grew up loving art and music. She is drawing, painting, and throwing pottery when she is not singing and playing her violin. Rose has led youth camps in Pine Island and Rochester. She enthusiastically shares her love for art with her students!

Art of Performance Magic
Learn Magic Tricks and Illusions Like the Pros

Five day session: $138
Monday-Friday, June 24 - 28.
Grades 2 - 4: 9:30am - Noon.
Grades 5 - 12: 1 - 3:30pm.
(Combine with Pottery Wheel #1 or Capturing Humans for an all-day camp! Supervised lunch break.)

Have you ever seen a magician perform magic and wonder how they do that? Come learn one of the most mysterious performing arts in the world! Have fun learning magic illusions that also teach the basic principles used by professional magicians.

Magic words: learn to use the power of good story telling skills. Campers will learn presentation skills that last a lifetime. This camp can be an opportunity for magicians-in-training to develop self-confidence as they develop the skills needed to perform the magic tricks taught in this camp.

Greg Chalmers is an award winning magician and clown; voted the 2010 America's Funniest Magician. He brings fun, experience, and professional training to the classes he teaches. Greg is a professionally trained performer in the fields of magic, clowning, and balloon tying. For the past three years he has taught performance arts at the Fellowship of Christian Magician International Convention's Kids Program.

How To Capture Humans
Drawing the Human Figure

Five day session: $138
Monday - Friday, June 24 - 28.
Grades 5 -12: 9:30am - Noon.
Grades 2 - 4: 1 - 3:30pm.
(Both sessions can combine with Performance Magic for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch. Grades 4 and up can combine with Pottery Wheel #1 for a full day of camp!)

Humans are tricky to capture, from their strange feet to their fascinating faces. In our camp we will learn some basic drawing skills along with tips and tried and true tricks to help you become more comfortable with drawing people and capturing the amazing human animal!

Drawing is at the root of many art forms, but the root of drawing well is having fun, unleashing your creativity and finding out how to make an interesting drawing. On our hunt, we will train our eyes to pick out the features of our human “quarry” and engage our imagination, as well. Drawing fundamentals pair with fun, techniques with experimentation.

If you can see it or imagine it,
you can draw it!

Camp Instructor Sarah Kenyon Nygaard loves to draw and paint. She is a seasoned drawing instructor, and just finished illustrating her 2nd children’s book. She works in the Zumbrota Mazeppa Early Ed building as a Preschool Paraprofessional and lives in Zumbrota.

Musical Theater Camp
Into the Woods

9-day session for Grades 4-12: $238
Monday- Friday, July 1 - 12, 9am - 3:30pm.
(Skip Thursday & Friday, July 4th & 5th.)
Saturday, July 13, 9am till break for pizza. THEN:

Performance for friends and family on Saturday, July 13 at 2:30pm
on stage at the State Theatre in Zumbrota, next door to Crossings.

Kids should bring a sack lunch with them for this all-day camp.

Where would you find all your favorite fairy tale characters together? Only in the Woods! You can be Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (of beanstalk fame), Rapunzel, Cinderella or one of the many other colorful inhabitants of this Stephen Sondheim, Tony-winning musical!

If you have ever heard people talk of the musical Into the Woods you understand the passionate words used to describe what they think about it. Amazing. A wonderful musical. One of Sondheim’s strongest scores.

You don’t need a singing voice or acting experience to take part in this camp, where you will learn many aspects of producing a musical.

Camp ends with rehearsals and a pizza lunch, then a performance on stage at the State Theatre next door to Crossings. Your friends and family are invited to see the show at 2:30pm on Saturday July 13.

Actors will learn, rehearse and perform musical selections from Into the Woods.
Campers will be directed in all facets of putting on a musical.

Movie Magic
Make Your Own Movie Trailer

Five day session: $158
Monday -Friday, July 15 - 19.
Grades 3 - 5: 9am - Noon.
Grades 6 - 12: 1 - 4pm.
(Combine with Write a Way for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch. The afternoon group can combine with Advanced Pottery Wheel for a full day of camp)

Find out what goes into producing a movie! Campers will come up with a movie idea, write dialogue, shoot scenes, edit the video and do voice over and background music to produce a 1-minute movie trailer.

Learn these basic techniques and maybe one day you'll be the next big Hollywood hotshot! Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops, video cameras, tripods and film editing software, PCs or Macs. Equipment and software will be provided, if needed. Also, remember to bring a notebook, a pen and your imagination. Experience the magic of movie making!

Instructor: Michael Brafford. Michael is a graduate of the University of Iowa and is an alumnus of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. He trained at the International Stunt School in Seattle and has eight years stage combat experience with the Society of American Fight Directors. He moved to the Twin Cities in the summer of 2008 and immersed himself in the theatre scene and local film industry. He has performed onstage and on camera and has enjoyed participating the TC 48 Hour Film Festival. Michael loves every aspect of theatre and hopes to inspire others with his passion for performing, directing and producing. Theatre Credits include Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Footloose, All Shook up, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oklahoma, Swing!; Commedia Beauregard: A Klingon Christmas Carol) Film Credits include The Wedding Dress, Case 322, The Cabin.

Instructor Ahren Locke has worked as a cameraman, a graphic artist, a technical director, and a director. In 2007 Ahren moved to Minneapolis and started his own production company with a colleague. He currently produces, directs, shoots, edits, and creates graphics for a variety of instructional and commemorative films.

Write A Way
Creative Writing with Emily Urness

Five day session: $138
Monday - Friday, July 15 - 19.
Grades 6 - 12: 10am - 12:30pm.
Grades 3 - 5: 1 - 3:30pm.
(Combine with Movie Magic for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch.
4th Grade and up can combine with Advanced Pottery Wheel for a full day of camp.)

Explore poetry, fiction, and nonfiction as you go on a storytelling adventure!

Grades 6-12 Morning group
Campers will keep observation journals, play storytelling games, and read and discuss examples of writing. We’ll explore and cultivate storytelling skills in genres ranging from poetry (haiku, free verse, etc.) to fiction (flash) to non-fiction (memoir, interviews, personal journals) to playwriting (dramatic dialogues and more). We will write both independently and collaboratively. Each student will leave camp with a background in a variety of writing styles, an inspiration to keep writing and a set of techniques for editing.

Grades 3-6 Afternoon group
Come join in the fun as we create characters and tell stories. We will explore poetry, fiction and non-fiction through games and exercises. We will create characters, storyworlds and plotlines. Campers will collaborate with each other and write on their own. They will leave with a variety of ways to tell stories and a bunch of fun exercises and ideas to inspire more stories in the future.

Emily Urness was born and raised in small town Minnesota. She has been all shades of writer from poet to playwright. She has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She has led at-risk youth in an after-school writing program. She is a proud recipient of a McKnight Established Artist grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council.

Textile Camp
Run with Scissors!

5 day session for grades 3 and up: $230
Monday - Friday, July 22 - 26, 9am - 3pm.

Kids should bring a sack lunch with them for this all-day camp!

Create your own art to wear and carry!
4 amazing instructors!
Suitable for girls AND boys.
Every day is broken into 3 different classes,
each with new projects.

Hand and Machine Sewing with Deb Wilkinson

New campers will learn how to measure, cut with scissors and rotary cutter, and use a sewing machine to make drawstring pants!

Returning campers will make something to wear or something for their room OR have the option of bringing their own project. Materials, trims and supplies provided! It’s all about personalized creations!

All campers will have access to their own machine, and will also try sergers, rotary cutters, pressing aids and other sewing tools. We’ll use fancy machine stitching, serging and complex cutting.

Deb Wilkinson returns to teach machine sewing and cutting skills. From patching long underwear to elaborate celebration sewing, there’s nothing she hasn’t tried on a sewing machine or serger. She uses all kinds of cutting tools from straight edge razors to rotary cutters to achieve results.

Knitting with Jennifer Georgieff

Campers will learn the basic knitting stitches and how to begin and end a project, and will go on to create a useful and fun knitted item. As students progress, they will be aided in learning new techniques and skills. More advanced students are encouraged to bring a project they would like to knit and their preferred materials, as they will have access to help and encouragement from the instructor. 

Jennifer Georgieff learned the joys of crafting at an early age and learned to knit at 10 years old and has since turned her hobby into much more. A graduate of Winona State University, Jennifer now works in Winona at Yarnology, a local yarn store where she teaches classes and helps people of all ages with their knitting.

Duck Tape Unstuck! with Lana Sjoberg

Learn the art of creating with Duck Tape. Not your grandpa’s gray.... but three shades of blue and green, four shades of purple, reds, oranges and yellow!

Learn to create Duck Tape  fabric that can be used to make bags, pouches, and wallets. Or recycle your old shoes or notebooks into works of art for next school year. This class is set up like a studio where you are shown many possibilities and given instruction, helpful hints, tools and lots of Duck Tape – but it is your imagination that gets unstuck!

Instructor Lana Sjoberg.

Fuzzy Fotos with Becky Knutson

Using one of your own photos printed on fabric, you will create a scene around it using needle felting techniques. You can be as realistic or whimsical as you like. Using unspun colorful wool and a special felting needle, you will grow your photo into a work of art ready to hang on the wall. Wonderful to look at, and wonderful to touch!

Campers will need to email their photo to admin@crossingsatcarnegie.com before the start of camp. The photos can be of anything you love (pets, scenery, stuffed animals, flowers, friends, etc.)

Becky Knutson has had lots of fun taking classes in various forms of art over the past 15 years. She loves the tactile quality and endless color combinations of working with fabrics, wool, and other fibers. She owns a sewing machine and a felting machine and has found a way to make use of both of them when working on a single project.

Comic Books
Make Your Own!

Five day session: $138
Monday - Friday, July 22 - 26.
Grades 6 - 12: 9:30am - noon
Grades 3 - 6: 1 - 3:30pm

Step into a universe of your own creation – make a comic book!

Learn to draw your favorite comic book characters, from superheroes to funny animals, or draw on your own imagination to make up something else completely.

Hey you. Yes you! That kid in the corner there. I see you drawing the laser shark. And you over there, the one sketching Little Red Riding Hood as a super hero. Do you want to take this stuff to the next level? Do you want to learn how to make your own comics? Heck, haven't you ever wanted to take a class where you're supposed to doodle in your notebook? I think we can help you out here.

How about going to a camp where you learn how to take those crazy ideas and put them to work making your own comics! In this course we will cover a variety of techniques used by professional comic book makers and graphic novelists in order to bring the world of your imagination to life. Students will learn the craft of dynamic figure drawing, how to design characters, how to plan stories, and develop the skills needed to produce their own comic adventures.

This camp is an excellent introduction into Graphic Design techniques.

Instructor Daniel Bruins began making comics about giant robots in school notebooks back in sixth grade. Now, nine years later, he is pursuing a career in visual communication, which includes comics, illustration, graphic design, and animation. He has worked on graphic communications for a number of nonprofits, including logo designs for a Virginia Senate political caucus, a comic book for the Humane Society of North East Iowa, and has previously taught a comic-making class at the ArtHaus in Decorah, IA. Dan is a current student at Luther College.

Under the Sea, Over the Moon
Painting and other Fun Stuff!

Five day session: $138
Monday - Friday, July 29 - Aug 2
Grades 1 - 3: 9:30am - noon
Grades 4 - 6: 1 - 3:30pm
(Combine with Pottery Wheel #3 for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch hour.)

Grades 1-3: Dive into art Under the Sea! Campers will learn how to create a realistic watercolor-painted ocean background while experimenting with several watercolor effects. Then they will practice drawing skills to add sea life and details! Make a translucent jellyfish complete with patterns you design, and tentacles made from textiles. The inside of your jellyfish will glow after adding a neon glow ring inside. Make a 3D starfish out of card-stock using paper folding techniques. Then learn textural painting effects and use found objects for additional texture and interest! Learn about color mixing with printing ink as we make ocean-inspired monoprints.

Grades 4-6: Over the Moon will take campers on an artistic adventure to a galaxy far, far away! Campers will create aliens using clay. We’ll kiln-fire the aliens paint them with out of this world acrylic colors! Campers will also explore outer space and discover their own nebulas using textiles and acrylic paint. Artist-astronauts will build rockets blasting off into space-scapes using mixed media and pop-up paper manipulation. Also, make Shooting Stars in a Bottle - Found object art encased in a bottle, and try Relief Printing using layers of cardstock.

Returning Instructor Jill Neumann has taught art camps in and around Rochester, and taught elementary art for 10 years in St. Cloud. She teaches weekend art workshops and week long art camps at the Theo Art School in the High Plains Arts and Sciences Center in Bismarck. She holds a BFA in Art, a BS in Art Education and is working on her MS in Curriculum and Instruction.

Preschool Camp
Messy Munchkins!
Five day session for ages 3 - 6: $138
Monday - Friday, August 5 - 9; 10am - noon.
Show and Tell on Friday, 11:30am!

Children can use all of their senses during this 2-hour, hands-on experience.

Puppets, painting, clay projects, songs, stories, movement, and snacks in a safe, nurturing environment. The variety of daily activities will spur their curiosity and expand their sense of wonder. Parents and guardians are welcome to stay and join in the fun. Children will put on a little show the last half-hour of camp.

Instructor: Alexis Zaccariello. Alexis traveled the world in the Peace Corps, and has taught integrated arts programs in over 100 k-12 classrooms. She continues to create her own paintings and drawings and loves integrating the arts into all settings.

Gurgle Madness:
Make Your Own Indoor Clay Water Fountain!
Five day session for Grades 5 - 12: $148. All supplies are included.
Tuesday - Monday, August 6 - 12; 1 - 3:30pm.
(5th graders can combine with Clay Handbuilding for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch.)

Clay camps run from Tuesday through Monday. Kids get the weekend off
while the kiln is firing, and return on Monday to glaze their work.

Kids should wear mud-friendly clothes and shoes to this camp, and,
please bring an old towel every day for your lap.

Create your own indoor tabletop clay water fountain!

Campers will have plenty of time to play with clay – rolling, pinching, stamping and glazing – and will go home with a beautiful fountain of their own design. Will your fountain feature Chinese mountains or be home to frogs and bunnies? It’s all up to you!

Instructor Maria Poliszuk has been teaching art and engineering in the home school setting for six years.

What's in a Name?:
Handbuilding Personalized Clay Projects!
Five day session for Grades 2 - 5: $138. All supplies are included.
Tuesday - Monday, August 6 - 12; 10am - noon
(5th graders can combine with Gurgle Madness for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch.)

Clay camps run from Tuesday through Monday. Kids get the weekend off
while the kiln is firing, and return on Monday to glaze their work.

Kids should wear mud-friendly clothes and shoes to this camp, and,
please bring an old towel every day for your lap.

Creativity and fun combine for an imaginative introduction to clay and pottery. Learn how to hand-build using curls, slabs and swirls of clay coils; create your personalized nameplates, sculptures - some functional, some decorative, all your own! A cup with your name? A pendant with your initials? Think of it and we’ll help you make it!

Instructor Maria Poliszuk has been teaching art and engineering in the home school setting for six years.

Paint Your Pet
Caricature Canvases of Pets, Real or Imagined!

Five day session: $138
Monday - Friday, August 12 - 16
Grades 5 - 12: 9:30am - noon
(Combine with Pottery Wheel #4 for a full day of camp! Supervised lunch hour.)
Grades 2 - 5: 1 - 3:30pm

Put your pet in a picture! Paint a caricature of your favorite pet, real or imagined, on a large canvas! Whether it’s your loveable chihuahua or your snarly black dragon, you can create a portrait that will keep your pet with you for the rest of your life.

Explore ways to capture the unique personality of your animal through color, design and texture. Bring some photographs of your pet (or animal) for inspiration and reference.

Instructor Susan Waughtal has always been an animal-lover extraordinaire, and an exuberant painter. She is combining her two loves as an artist-farmer at Squash Blossom Farm. Since she became a farmer, many of her paintings feature the cows, chickens, and the other furred and feathered inhabitants of her farm. They are her favorite models.

JAMFest '13
Rock 'n Roll music camp with Tat Thompson
Six-day session: $148
Grades 8 - 12 (2013/14 school year)
Monday - Friday, August 12 - 16, 6 - 9pm
Saturday, August 17, 5 - 8pm (rehearsal for concert, sound check and pizza; 7pm: concert.)
The performance will be on stage at Zumbrota's State Theatre, next door to Crossings

Love to play Guitar Hero? Well, here’s your chance to get off your couch and be in a band for real.

If you’re a guitar player, a drummer, a singer, a trumpeter, or a musician who loves to rock---JAMFest is the place for you. Any song/style/groove you want to play, we'll play it, or jam it out, and have fun either way. Get together with kids your age, start a band, and play a real live gig for your friends and family by the end of the week! Students can bring their own instruments to camp.

By no means do you have to be the next Brandon Flowers or P!nk to participate! Just come with a love of music and the desire to have a lot of fun!

Instructor Tat (Thompson) Daniels Erredge has been playing, writing, and performing music since 2008. He has performed live in venues in many cities including Duluth, Minneapolis, and Rochester. In 2012 he released his debut album “Tat Thompson.” Besides playing solo, he has fronted two bands.

Grades are for the school year 2013-14.
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available
through the Zumbrota Community Trust.
Call for 507-732-7616 for more information.

Keep in mind... all or part of camp registration fees may qualify
for a state tax deduction! Ask your tax advisor.

Cancellation and Refund Policy
Campers who withdraw 30 or more days prior to the camp start date will receive a 100% refund and charged a $15 cancellation fee.

Campers who withdraw 15-29 days prior to the camp start date will receive a 50% refund and charged a $15 cancellation fee.

No refunds will be issued 0-14 days prior to the camp start date.

Campers may transfer from one camp to another up to 14 days prior to the camp start date with a $15 administrative fee.

No refunds will be issued after the start of the camp due to illness.
Family emergency situations will be dealt with on an individual basis.

Lunch & Snack Breaks
All camps have supervised healthy snack breaks; juice and water are provided along with the snack.

Students participating in full-day classes have a supervised lunch break. Crossings does not provide lunches, so please pack an appropriate lunch for your child. Recycle-Reuse! Refrigerator and microwave are available.

Camp Dress Code!
Some pigments and materials may stain clothing, so please dress your children in clothing that will not break hearts if it sustains spills and messes. Crossings is not responsible for clothing that is damaged in art classes. Weather permitting, children play outdoors during snack and lunch breaks.

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