In creating our "Art Of The World" theme, I had no idea it would become host to so much inspiration. A whole universe of ideas and people are at work here this summer charging this place with incredible spirit. Nimbus Arts is truly taking on a life of its own. Our students and artists, like a band of merry explorers circumnavigating the globe are wrapping their arms around this giant world of art, bringing a world of good with every upstroke of creativity.

In this session we are taking a small journey through the art of different cultures as well as viewing the world beyond the making of art. The art of the world is really found in the depth of our connection to it.

What an amazing structure is this earth of ours… A globe suspended in space whose moon and sun swell our ocean tides, where honeybees have an ornate sense of natures patterns year after year; a world in which tortillas made for centuries all carry the palm prints of the women that shaped them. An inspired orb of energy to which my son marvels “that lightning actually creates ozone.” An environment where students can paint a mural of elemental beauty, opening discussions of global proportions. The power of the world and the art in it connects us to each other.

So travel to Nimbus Arts this summer and explore the world's rich cultures, wonders and art that connect us all!

- Jamie Graff, Director

Art Camps!

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giddyup: horse camp
Instructors: Sunrise Stables Staff in barn paddock, Anne Pentland, Nimbus Staff in the Studio JOIN THE NIMBUS CAVALRY and make a noble friend: the faithful horse! Our busy partnership camp with Sunrise Stables. Mornings: meeting ponies, learning horse-care, safety and equipment, then aspiring equestrians get into the saddle. Shift to the Nimbus studio for lunch and an afternoon exploring horse anatomy and movement, creating equestrian art in mixed media, learning to draw and paint the most graceful of animals. $210
**CA-1 Ages 6-13 | Tu, W, TH June 17-19; 9:00 - 3:30, bring lunch!

lights, camera, action: photo film camp
Instructors: Reuben Godinez Shahin Gholami BECOME THE ART! This joyful and active camp combines music, dance, movement, photography, cinema-tography and hands-on editing. Our cast of player/artists will mix rhythms of samba and rhumba with bright valley light to create extraordinary images of young Napa performers. An absorbing and lyrical artistic experience that builds confidence and self-image. $115
**CA-2 Ages 8-15 | M-F June 23 - 27; 9:30 - 12:30

construction camp
Instructors: Will DeLong and Owen Hale CAN-DO KIDS learning the basics of hand tools and construction. A noisy and valuable introduction to structure, tools, plans, measurement and real-world math with a real goal. Clear a space in the garage! These young Leonardos will bring home a full-sized, mechanically sound, free rolling soapbox-derby car. $170 (includes $70 materials package)
**CA-3 Ages 8-15 | M-F June 23-27; 1:30-4:00

world-art tour
Instructors: Reuben Godinez, Francine Kohn, Rob Keller, David Garden, Anne Pentland, Elaine de Man guest artists. Our young explorers will travel through an international investigation of the foods, music, and arts of the world. Through this mixed media art experience we will delve into Egyptian hieroglyphics, Inuit totem poles, Turkish tile patterns, African masks, or Japanese fans to name a few of the worldly arts we will encounter. So relax to the strumming of ukuleles as we weave magical journey through the worlds community of art! $275
**CA-4 Ages 6 - 12 | M and F July 7 - 11; 9:30 - 3:00, bring lunch!

puppet camp: making and performing
Instructors: Tim Giugni, David Garden, Melissa Baker, Mercedes Baker, and Reuben Godinez and Anne Pentland A HANDFUL OF DRAMA. Professional puppeteers and stage artists encourage young dramatists to create their own characters and perform with them. We'll make tiny finger puppets, traditional papier mache hand puppets, fabulous recycled object marionettes, and mysterious Thai shadow puppets, while constructing a puppet theater. Coax out the Shakespeare in wallflowers and satisfy the ham in drama queens. You're invited to the gala family performance and exhibition of achievement on Friday! $275
**CA-5 Ages 6-12 | M-F July 21-25; 9:30-3:00, bring lunch!

the old masters
Instructors: Melissa Baker, Anne Pentland and Mercedes Baker YOUNG ARTISTS MEET THE HEAVY HITTERS in a spirited, inquiring approach to masterpieces and artistic invention. Young artists will discover the connection between style and history, between creativity and scientific discovery. Bonus: in partnership with the Napa Museum, we'll spend a day studying their Matisse exhibit. Young artists will of course produce their own masterpieces in the various styles of the great masters and the history of each art movement. Expect everything from the watery pastel images of Monet to the abstract portraits of Picasso. $95
**CA-6 Ages 6-13 | M-F August 4-8; 9:30-12:30

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Young Artist Series Partner Classes

A tiny new series for our tiniest artists

terribly terrific twos
Instructor: Francine Kohn Toddlers and parents nourishing their bond through art, music, movement, both partner and circle activities. Through this well-planned series of delightful encounters with new stimuli and old friends, deepening social, emotional, language and visual connections. $35
**YA-1 Ages 18-24 months with an adult partner | Wednesdays June 18, 25, July 2; 9:30-10:45 am

music, art and movement
Instructor: Francine Kohn Little guys and parents creating together, experiment with paint, printmaking, collage and clay. Playing instruments, singing new and old songs, dancing together. Gentle but enormous fun. $35
**YA-2 Ages 2-4 years with an adult partner | Wednesdays July 9, 16, 23; 9:30-11:00am

I-can-do-it art
Instructor: Francine Kohn Introducing young artists to the studio and the delightful tools of creation - paints, clay, chalk, pens, papers and pencils. Learning new skills, developing creative muscles, exercising both imagination and restraint while working as a real studio artist! We will be watering your child's creativity and watching confidence bloom. $45
**YA-3 Ages 4 -5 years | M-TH August 4-7; 9:30-11:00am

environmental art for tots
Instructor: Francine Kohn In this new class focused on environmental education, we will harness your child's imagination. Using art as a path to ecological discovery, and the act of creation as a tool-we will share in environmentally themed activities. We will work with recycled and simple treasures, from natural finds to common home supplies, producing extraordinary and meaningful art. $45
**YA-4 Ages 4 -5 years | M-TH August 11-14; 9:30-11:00am

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Mixed Media

garden art
Instructors: Nikki Ballere Callnan, Anne Pentland and Nimbus Staff ART FOR SUN AND RAIN! A June madness of outdoor sculpture, creating big colorful pieces for gardens and flowerbeds. We'll build standbys like birdbaths and stepping-stones, and we'll craft off-the-wall family totems and personal gargoyles. Get your hands dirty with clay, dazzle eyes with mosaic techniques and patterns, use found objects and stones of character in big, bold, weatherproof art. $95
**MM-1 Ages 8-15 | Weds - Fridays June 18, 20, 25, 27; 9:30-12:00

ro sham bo: toddler drop-in studio!
Instructors: Araceli Soto and other Fabulous Nimbus Instructors MESSY MUCKING ABOUT IN ART. Toddlers and their adult studio partners can do some free-form, heavyweight, mixed-media, no-holds-barred creation in 2D and 3D, using paint, ceramics, collage, construction, found objects and, sure, even feathers. A wonderful opportunity to work with your little guys, empower their creative energy and applaud their budding, un-bent sense of style and color. $15/morning, $60/5 morning-pass
**MM-2 Ages 2-5 years with an adult partner | Note: moving to Saturdays; June 14-August 16; 9:30-11:30

family puppet making workshop
Instructors: Tim Giugni, Janaki Ranpura, David Garden and Nimbus Staff A total immersion family creation day! In this special workshop you will design puppets large and small from finger puppets to marionettes. Craft an oversize fish puppet and swim with the Nimbus entry in the July 4th Calistoga Parade as a walking group art exhibit, glub, glub. Our GIANT Nimbus puppet will be on hand to demonstrate its movement and design work! $20/person, $50/family
**MM-3 All ages | Saturday June 21, 9:00 - 12:30pm

image transfer art
Instructor: Shahin Gholami BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPH is a fertile ground of Image transfer, enhancing, altering and re-creating images, producing new art from photographs. Members of this intense and fascinating workshop will be guided through photography, processing, transferring to new mediums, and adding richness with watercolor and colored pencil. In a supportive atmosphere of collaboration each member will produce three handsomely mounted pieces of artwork. $75 (bring 35mm camera if possible)
**MM-4 Ages 10 and up | June 23, 25, 30 and July 2 Mon - Weds; 3:00-5:00
**MM-5 Ages Teen-Adult | June 23 - 25 Mon and Weds; 6:00-9:00

mixed media mural class
Instructors: Reuben Godinez, Nick Cann, and Anne Pentland Want a chance to work on a piece of public art? This will be a mural of unusual proportion and style. We are going to challenge these students to create our most ambitious mural yet. Another piece of collaborative art for our favorite Vasconi's exhibit wall in St. Helena. Kids will design panels of art in clay, metal and paper. Imagine 2ft squares expressed through the plans and hands of our student artists. We will collage and scribe metal, mold and shape clay, paint and draw images on paper and board. These panels will be connected to create a shared monochromatic work of art in a quilt-like grid of immense proportions! $65
**MM-6 Ages 9-16 | August 9-10 Saturday and Sunday 9:30-12:00pm

papier mache circus!
Instructor: Anne Pentland IN THE CENTER RING you'll find the circus, an ancient expression of skill and joy reaching back into Egyptian antiquity, continuing through many civilizations, and reaching a gaudy height in 19th century America. Our Napa homage to the circus will blossom as fanciful papier mache creatures on wire frames, human and animal, decorated with colorful, glittering exuberance. This is a solid family favorite. $75
**MM-7 All ages | M-TH August 11-14; 10:00am-12:00pm children 6 and below an with adult partner

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Painting and Drawing

drawing club: back due to popular demand!
Instructor: Nick Cann and Anne Pentland The LOVE OF DRAWING couldn't be interrupted by summer, so this collegial and ambitious drawing group will continue to meet exploring images from around the world. Search for new techniques and share discoveries. Grab a pencil and try your hand at blind contouring, sketching shapes, modeling light to dark, an introduction to perspective drawing and the many other rich facets of drawing. This is a basic but always very exciting class. $10/class, 5 class pass $40
**PD-1 Ages 6 and up | Wednesdays June 11-July 30; 4:00-5:00pm

figure drawing: open studio continues this summer!
Instructors: Melissa Baker and Mercedes Baker THE HUMAN FORM, the most basic and beautiful of subjects for artists of every skill level, trained or beginner. These sessions offer drawing in a wide variety of media, individual attention and critique as well as group appreciation and comment. These studio sessions will be serious but delightful evenings of figure studies and still life settings built around professional live models. Bring your own materials or call for a suggested list. $8/drop in
**PD-2 Ages Adult | continuing Tuesdays, June 17 thru August 12 7:00- 9:00pm

italian street chalk art intensive
Instructor: Will Callnan III Experience the dynamic art of Italian Street Painting with an innovative twist! In this unique community workshop a temporary art installation will be created through the combined vision and energy of its participants. The class will collaborate on an original "mural-style" design to be reproduced as a large-scale chalk drawing on exhibit at Whiting's Nursery in St. Helena. In the first class, the group will discuss and create drawings to collage, combining them into a single composition. On the following day, this design will be reproduced in colorful chalk as a group art installation. The result will be a shared vision for both the chalk artists and the public to enjoy. The workshop is split over two days, and is not for those faint of ambition, so roll up your sleeves and join the fun. A great Family activity! $60
**PD-3 Ages 12-Adult | Saturday June 28 3:00-5:30pm and Sunday June 29 Installation 8:30 am-3:30pm lunch break at noon. Drop-ins welcome on Sunday!

great wall of graffiti
Instructors: Reuben Godinez and Crew Yes, we always want to push the envelope, so here you have it! A real weekend of learning the history, social commentary, and techniques behind the underground world of Graffiti Art. Our take is one of looking at the controversy often present in the modern art world. This art form is similar to in statement to the work of some of the world's most famous artists-from Diego Rivera to Basquiat. Using a specialty art spray paint on our temporary and portable wall structures, there will be plenty of space for our students express themselves. These art pieces will travel throughout Napa as a Student Exhibit. Students will learn techniques in the safe use and art of spray paint. $60 (all students will wear proper safety gear)
**PD-4 Ages 11-Adult | Saturday and Sunday July 12-13, 9am-12pm

painting sabbatical: an art-intensive weekend
Instructors: Nancy Willis and Helen Wilson GET AWAY TO ART with this immersion weekend: three days of painting, excellent food, fine wine and civilized discourse. Don't you need it? This painting workshop is geared to beginning or working painters and will feature a "Painting Obstacle Course" of beguiling challenges. The immersion experience goes beyond brush and canvas, grappling with psychological factors in the work - the blank canvas, the unexpected, the search for control and giving up control. Overall the course is designed to nurture your talent, broaden your technique, sharpen your aesthetic vision, and indulge your inner sybarite. Friday night presents an eye-opening introduction and orientation; Saturday has a structured series of "painting gymnastics," and the weekend ends with a clinic and critique on Sunday afternoon. Exhausting, thrilling, mind-freshening fun. $375: instruction, Friday evening wine and hors d'oeurves, breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday, most painting supplies included.
**PD-5 Ages Adult | July 11-12 Friday 5pm-8pm; Saturday, 9am-5:00 pm Sunday 9am-3pm

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Textile Arts and Crafts

textile transformation: recycled craft
Instructor: Jenny Hurth visit this new instructor's work IT'S ABOUT A BAG . . . or is it? Perhaps it's really about being flexible and ingenious in any art. Recycling craft master Hurth makes your one-of-a-kind messenger bag the focus of found, discarded and re-purposed materials. Bring a stack of cloth scraps, worn clothes, flour sacks, jeans bound for the trash can, whatevah. We will have other fab recycled materials available for you to invent with too. If you have a sewing machine, bring it! We'll cut, stitch and consolidate previously unimaginable "yardage." Learn some wild techniques and speculate about recycling over the work. We'll break a lot of needles (we'll have dozens ready) but you'll leave with your personalized, just-for-you, distinctly artistic and absolutely useful bag, the envy of fashionistas everywhere. $35
**TA-1 Ages Teen-Adult | *NEW DATE* Sunday July 20, 1:00-4:30 p.m

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Nimbus Ceramics: New Ground!

TA-DAA! We're proud to announce that our new ceramics studio is wheeling and firing up for the summer. Join a powerhouse group of artists in clay, who will offer expanding and inspired programs in ceramics.

open studio
Instructors: Nikki Ballere Callnan, Will Callnan III, David Price, Anne Pentland, and guest artists. An ongoing workshop and learning space free to students enrolled in the Nimbus Clay Programs (12 and up). Just sign in and get your hands in the mud. Consult our dynamite experts, express what you've learned, try new skills, and expand your clay life. Not enrolled? No sweat you can learn more about our program by playing in clay for a day. $35 drop-in fee materials included.
**CL-00 Ages 12-Adult | Every Sunday, Begins July 20; 10am-2:00pm

foundation in clay "rusty wheels" adult ceramics
Beginning Hand Building and Wheel Throwing. IInstructor: Will Callnan III In this class students will be introduced to the joy of working with clay, beginning with hand construction and attachment techniques. Master the basics of throwing, creating both sculptural and functional forms: bowls, cylinders, vases, bottles and other goodies! This is an inspiring and versatile medium and great class for those with little or no wheel experience. $20/class or $90/5 class pass (all students are able to use open studio time free of charge!)
**CL-1 Ages 11-100 | Wednesdays 3:30-5:30pm. Begins July 16-ongoing series
**CL-2 Ages Teen-Adult | Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00. Begins July 16 ongoing series

mud kids young ceramicists
Instructor: Nikki Ballere Callnan This is a happy introduction to the basics of making clay stuff. Little artists learn to work with slabs, coils and sculpting tools as they learn to prepare their work for the kiln. All our clay creators will also learn to glaze and decorate, and watch our wares into the kiln. We'll jump into the fun of wheel throwing demonstrations and more! We are certain your clay kids will love the mud! and bring home SUPER semiprecious objects d'art. $15/class, 5 class pass $60
**CL-3 Ages 5-10 | Fridays 12:30-2:30; Begins July 11-Aug 8

african tribal wall masks
Instructor: Anne Pentland SEEDS OF ABSTRACT ART, African masks created for ancient tribal ceremonies were "discovered" by young European artists in the early 20th century. New art was profoundly influenced by their powerfully graphic forms, basic geometries, and "dream" interpretations of features from reality. This pair of workshops acquaints Napa artists with original, historical masks, deciphers some of their meanings, and pursues the mask form as a contemporary personal expression using slab clay, shells, beads and other decoration. $45
**CL-4 Ages 6 and up | Monday, July 14, and Friday, July 18 10:00-11:30am

creatures from the deep in clay
Instructor: Anne Pentland GEOGRAPHY, OCEANOGRAPHY AND CERAMICS are bound up in this set of workshops. We'll look to Australia's Great Barrier Reef as the subject of our sculptural expression and create sizeable sea-creatures in stoneware, constructing hollow forms and adding fine incised and pressed-on detail. The pieces will be colorfully glazed and should make up a thrilling oceanic menagerie. $65
**CL-5 Ages 7 and up | Thursdays and Fridays, August 7 - 8, and 14 - 15 1:30-3:00pm

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Nimbus Clay Expression Sessions

mold making replications Instructor: David Price This is a class on reproducing an object using techniques in plaster mold making. This is only the beginning of an exercise in repetition and change. Making plaster molds to press or slip-cast clay objects, we can then arrange them in new patterns, alter their forms, combine or deconstruct them, and produce new aesthetic statements. Once we have made our molds, we will start creating multiples in clay. This way of working is used in production of everyday objects, such as the toys we play with to the plates we eat from. Press molding and slip casting is a way to produce an object over and over again with little time involved and having a finished object that is completely new. Interesting items for molding will be available or bring some of your own favorite objects to duplicate into a permanent shell of clay! $65
**CL-5 Ages Teen-Adult | Saturday and Sunday; June 28-29, 9:30-12:30pm
**CL-6 Ages Teen-Adult | Tuesdays July 8, 15, 22 6:30-8:30pm

one, two, three: kids mold making and clay
Instructor: David Price YOUNG ARTISTS DUPLICATE whimsical, interesting and useful clay objects by making their own plaster molds. We will explore the topic of how immense statues in bronze are mold-made, and demonstrate the many products around us that are created from molds. Our students will then rollup their sleeves and learn the basic principles of mold making, the changing chemistry of plaster and fired clay, and design their own individual fleet of clay creations. Don't miss this one $45
**CL-7 Ages 8-12 | Saturday and Sunday June 28-29, 2:00-4:00pm
**CL-8 Ages 8-12 | Monday and Tuesday August 4-5, 1:30 - 3:30

throwing out of round
Instructor: David Price This class is designed for people who want to discover the world of clay in a new way! Students will work their way from the basics of hand building to learning the skill of wheel throwing and everything in between. Students will work on forms of "custom randomness" by combing slab construction with objects made on the wheel. Learn the art of collaboration by trading and sharing class forms and sculpture. Create traditional pots and containers or make forms from off-center ideas. We promise this will be a new way of enjoying ceramics and the creative process! All skill levels welcome. $85
**CL-10 Ages Teen-Adult | Mondays and Wednesdays, June 23, 25, 30; July 2 6:30-9:00

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Art and Science

the art of bee keeping and garden design
Instructor: Rob Keller. Our previous classes have been brimming full with bee enthusiasts. Now, in our newly designed Nimbus bee class, join our ambitious Upper Valley Beekeeping Community to learn more about this science and craft. In this two-part hands-on class, students will participate in planting a demonstration bee garden, while investigating the flora that supplies local bees with a nectar and pollen source year round. Students will also learn to construct woodenware hives, hive management, correct handling procedures at all hive stages, swarm control, disease control, and honey extraction. Don't miss learning the important techniques for "over wintering," preparing your bees for the winter ahead. Our goal is to build a village of beekeepers in this area that practice responsible hive management-with the bees at heart! Our mission places an emphasis on building a stronger local genetic honeybee stock in Napa Valley through sustainable bee keeping. Don't miss a multi-floral honey tasting and more. This class is designed for new or experienced bee- keepers. A materials list (protective gear and tools) and syllabus provided at first class. $180 **BEE-1 | 8 Mondays, July 7-Aug 25 6:00-9:00 PLUS 4 Saturday field trips to work on hives. (Dates to be chosen by students and instructor) Special Nimbus student starter beekeeping kits and bees will be available for purchase at a great savings!
**BEE-1 Ages Teen-Adult, 8 Mondays, July 7-Aug 25 6:00-9:00
PLUS 4 Saturday field trips to work on hives. (Dates to be chosen by students and instructor) Special Nimbus student starter beekeeping kits and bees will be available for purchase at a great savings!

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