Camp Metalhead: Cool, Creative, and FREE
Monday, June 14, 2010
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This may be the best summer offer for teens of the summer. Providence's Steel Yard just let GoLocalProv know that it is offering Camp Metalhead, a two-week-long intensive introduction to creative metal fabrication being held this summer from July 19-30, for FREE. Yes, FREE.
For those unfamiliar with the city's remarkable center offering courses and workshops in many trades and arts that played a central role in Providence's industrial heyday, the Steel Yard has emerged as one of the city's dominant arts centers. Welders, ceramicists, blacksmiths, and other creative artists use spaces on site for their own professional work. Their presence inspires and fuels courses for adults as well as for teens and younger kids (for more on that, go here).
A Rare Kind of Camp
Camp Metalhead, though, is a rare combination of education and practice. It's a tuition-free two-week intensive introduction to creative metal fabrication. Kids 14-18 learn about the history and profession of metalworking in Providence and beyond. Metalheads visit local manufacturing businesses and artists' studios in the morning, and then return to the Steel Yard's studios learning how to weld. By two weeks' end, everyone helps design and fabricate a piece of functional public art - another hallmark of the work here.
Past Metalheads projects have included the design and fabrication of the Peace and Plenty playground gates inspired by drawings of neighborhood kids, trashcans for the Olneyville Housing Corporation, and a composter for William D'Abate Elementary School's garden.
Sign Up Now
Know a potential Metalhead attendee? They need to be 14-18 and a Rhode Island resident. Enrollment is limited, and they've got until June 19th to apply. Click here for the application; for more information on the camp or applying, contact Alma M. Carrillo by phone at 273-7101 or by email at [email protected].
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