ToonSeum 2011 Summer Camps and Workshops

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ToonSeum Cartooning Mini Kids Camp.

Sign up now for the ToonSeum’s Kid's mini-camps, July 25th, 26th, and 27th from 9:30-12:00 each day. Children ages 6-12 are invited to be a part of these unique, hands-on cartooning classes, designed to inspire confidence, imagination, and development in children of any skill set.
Each day's lesson will focus on easy-to-follow cartooning basics and tips, featuring illustrated instructions and story performances with instructor Joe Wos.
All supplies are included. Sign up for a single camp, or all three at a discounted tuition.

Monday, July 25th: How to Toon Cartooning Basics
Learn the basic skills needed to create your own cartoon characters. Through simple line exercises and easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons, students will be amazed at their own skills and abilities. With a strong emphasis on character development through personality, costume, character relationships and plot, this class not only reinforces drawing skills, but provides students with logical formulas for visual storytelling.
Recommended for ages 6-12
Monday July 25th
9:30am-11:30am
Price $60
Members $50

Tuesday, July 26th: How to Toon Holiday Edition
Learn how to draw cartoons for all seasons and holidays!
Students will learn how to draw and develop characters and motifs for a variety of holidays. From the Easter Bunny to Uncle Sam, Santa Claus to Groundhogs, kids will create gift items, greeting cards, and more to provide for holidays and birthdays the whole year round.
Using simple step-by-step instructions, cartoonist Joe Wos will teach children how to create iconic characters for holidays while taking a light-hearted stroll through history … even making up a few new holidays of our very own.
Recommended for ages 6-12
Tuesday July 26th
9:30am-11:30am
Price $60
Members $50

Wednesday, July 27th: Monsters, Mazes and Cartoon Critters!
Dragons, dinosaurs, monsters, mazes and more! Cartooning instructor Joe Wos will lead the class in creating wild imaginative creatures in both pencil and clay! Students will hear the Folktale of the Squonk (the world’s ugliest creature) and make Squonks of their own. The second half of the lesson focuses on Joe's world-famous maze making skills as featured in Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Students will learn the tricks of creating brain-busting mazes while incorporating their own cartoon creations.
Recommended for ages 6-12
Wednesday July 27th
9:30am-11:30am
Price $60
Members $50

All three camps are $150
$125 for members


Superhero Training Academy!
Everybody has dreams of being a Superhero, fantasies of leaping over tall buildings, outracing jet planes, and saving the day with spectacular super-powers. But being a Superhero isn't just about having super-strength and fighting crime in your underwear.
Join us as we learn what it takes to be a real Superhero in the ToonSeum’s first ever Superhero Training Academy!
Students will begin the day by developing their very own Superhero design through a series of drawing lessons and costume creation. Then, strap on your utility belts for a series of problem-solving games and hands-on activities designed to strengthen super-strong wits! Our Super-recruits will meet with local local civic leaders to help solve the challenges that face our community and offer their skills toward making Pittsburgh a Super City.
Superhero Training Academy is designed to reinforce creativity and civic responsibility by exploring the basic moral codes of community activism, good citizenship, and personal fitness in a fun and challenging format. Students will meet real-life “Superheroes” including firefighters, police officers, and local politicians who work for the good of the people of Pittsburgh and will be asked to offer their solutions to the problems that face our city.
All heroes will receive a diploma from the ToonSeum Superhero Training Academy, a Superhero cape, mask, and design-it-yourself t-shirt, as well as all supplies needed for the day (students should bring a lunch).

Monday, July 18th
Ages 6-12
10am-2pm
Cost $125 non-members
$105 members

How to Toon Summer Camp: Capes, Cowls, and Cartoons



The ToonSeum is proud to offer Capes, Cowls and Cartoons, a new three day summer camp helping teen artists turn their super-ideas into superheroes. This intermediate level program is designed to refine penciling skills with lessons on drawing expressive anatomy, body structure, and action sequences, as well as character and costume design and panel layout. Students will also explore the history of superheroes through the ToonSeum's Superheroes: Icons and Origins exhibit, featuring original artwork from industry legends like Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, and Gene Colan. Capes, Cowls and Cartoons, instructed by comics artist Marcel Walker, will allow campers of varying skill levels to focus their abilities and imagination into the creation of their very own, one-of-a-kind superhero! Penciling, paper, and ink supplies are included with enrollment price. Space is limited.

ToonSeum of Pittsburgh

945 Liberty Avenue



August 1st-3rd , 2011

9:30am – 2:30pm

$275 non-member / $230 member (includes supplies)

Ages 12-17


Sign up before May 14th and receive an additional $25 early-bird discount!