Printmaking & Drawing Summer Camp: Meet Your Teacher, Dexter Brightman

Advanced Art for Rising 6th-9th graders

First two-week session: July 20 -31. Second two-week session: July 27 - August 7

All sessions are Monday - Friday 9am-1pm

Please note: You must sign up for two-week session(s) in order to register for this camp.

Deepen your artistic skills in both life drawing and landscapes with peers who share your interest and passion for visual art. You will explore new artistic techniques and strengthen your skills through observation of different art styles and drawing exercises. Activities will include life drawing, contour drawing (blind, continuous, etc,) and blocking techniques. Camp projects will feature outdoor landscape drawing and studies of the human form. Available drawing materials will include: charcoal pencils, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, conte crayon, pastel (soft or oil) and pencil & watercolor.

PWS Middle School Art Teacher Dexter Brightman brings his expertise as a renowned artist and Waldorf alum to enthusiastic young artists in this one-of-a-kind summer camp. Dexter studied printmaking and illustration at The Academy Of Art San Francisco & The San Francisco Art Institute. An alumnus of the Santa Cruz Waldorf School, he began his teaching career in 2011 at the San Francisco Waldorf School before returning to his childhood school in Santa Cruz where he taught in the grade school for 9 years.

He is enthusiastic and curious to explore all creative mediums and passionately pursues a personal engraving practice, heavily inspired by incunabula, folk and esoteric art. In addition to art and being in nature, Dexter enjoys personal study and furthering his understanding of history, science and philosophy from around the world. Cultivating a rich inner life is the source from which he draws in order to foster a more just and beautiful shared world for all the students in his care.