Charlo-Dixon Art Camp teaches art of sound
Nicole Tavenner
Yvonne Baty makes a mold of her face out of tinfoil.
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Charlo teacher Christina Madden helps Lilly Thinglestad try out some homemade maracas.
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Marina Kestner Pavlock plays a song on a guitar.
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CHARLO – Tinkering xylophones and melodic tiny voices filled the halls of Charlo Schools last week as Ninepipe Arts Group hosted its 15th annual fine arts camp.
The four-day camp attracted more than 50 children who painted mosaics of guitars, learned to play the xylophone, sing, and much more from professional artists who volunteered time from across Montana. This year’s theme was sound, and students got to explore multiple mediums. The tiniest tots made maracas and then got to use them in a music lesson.
Older student Miriya Hurey-Acevedo thumped away to create bass notes from a metal drum, stick and string. She smiled during the exercise, but not nearly as much as she did during the sculpting lesson where Red Poppy artist Olivia Olson had students fashion aluminum foil into sculptures of the face and hands.
“I have two heads,” Hurey-Acevedo said in a half-joking, half-grim tone, presenting the masterpiece to Olson as if she were the legendary Headless Horsemen.
Olson praised Hurey-Acevedo for her top-quality work, and the creativity of another student who made rock, paper, scissors displays of their pieces of cardboard. Olson said the work teaches the students to work in a medium they aren’t familiar with.
“They have to learn how to make space and curves,” Olson said. “They have to learn how to mold and form. Sometimes they have to work with a neighbor because they only have one hand, or if doing the face, they need a neighbor to hold the back of the face. They are learning how to manipulate a material they aren’t familiar with. They’ve done a pretty good job. There’s one hand that’s really nicely done. Hands can be hard.”
Sculptures, paintings, and other artistic keepsakes were made at the camp, and 10th grade volunteer Paije Bauer said if the youngsters are anything like her when she was a camper, there will be things they keep for a long time. Bauer still has a flute she made during a camp 10 years ago, and she’s kept every camp T-shirt since her inaugural summer. Bauer enjoyed camp so much she can’t stay away.
“It’s just a great space to be creative,” she said.
