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JumpstART 2023 takes place from June 25-30 on Oregon State University’s beautiful Corvallis campus in the heart of the Willamette Valley.
Students may opt to attend the program as a residential student (housing and dining included) or as a non-residential student (day camp only).
JumpstART provides students (grades 9-12) with a week of accelerated art instruction including classes such as drawing, painting, digital animation, color theory, printmaking and photography. Our faculty is comprised of successful, working artists, who exhibit their work throughout the U.S. and beyond.
Two, three-hour courses and one visiting artist lecture will be offered daily. Our morning session will be taught from 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. There will be an hour break for lunch from 12 - 1 p.m., followed by an artist's talk at 1 p.m. Afternoon courses will be held from 2 - 5 p.m. Each day will include instruction, discussion, time to make art and time to ask questions and receive feedback.
Dorm Check in:
Sunday, June 25 at 4-5pm, Weatherford Hall front entrance
Sunday, June 25 at 5pm, Fairbanks Hall front entrance
Camp Orientation and Pizza Party (day and overnight students welcome)
For overnight students, there is an 8:1 student to RA ratio in the dorms. Teaching Assistants and Residential Assistants have cohorts of eight students. RA’s have dorm rooms in close proximity to their cohort. Meals are taken as a group in the dining halls (including day camp students who may bring a bag lunch). Evening activities are led by JumpstART staff between 6-8pm. Students will always be in the company of JumpstART staff.
List of evening activities coming soon!
*All need-based scholarships have been filled at this time. Thank you for understanding.
Twenty scholarships will be offered on a first come, first served basis to applicants who qualify for free and reduced lunch (see criteria.) To apply for a scholarship, please fill out the online application and mark ‘free/reduced lunch eligible’.
Scholarship deadline is June 2, 2023. You will be notified June 9 via email if you have been awarded a scholarship.
If you are a returning JumpstART scholarship student, or have been awarded a Scholastic Scholarship, please identify that information in the "Scholarship" section of your registration.
High achieving participants at the 2023 program will be eligible for and may receive a full scholarship to return to JumpstART in 2024.
In addition, one outstanding JumpstART participant who has completed high school may be awarded a $2,000 scholarship to attend OSU to study art the following fall!
Anna is an artist and instructor in Corvallis, Oregon. Fidler moved from Traverse City, Michigan where she attended Interlochen Arts Academy and Western Michigan University (B.F.A. Painting) to the Pacific Northwest where she received her M.F.A. in Studio Art from Portland State University.
Fidler’s large-scale works on paper are composed of glittery mica-enriched acrylic washes and colored pencils. Her work depicts invented landscapes, mythical happenings, and unseen energy in the universe involving such diverse subject matter as Victorian feminists, vampires and rock stars. Her work has been exhibited worldwide in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Washington D.C and has been shown in The Portland Art Museum’s APEX series, The Boise Art Museum, The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art, The University of Southern California, and The Japan Society in New York. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in Art in America, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Fidler has received numerous grants and awards, including an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, and Residencies at Painting’s Edge in Idyllwild, California. Fidler is represented by Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland, Oregon and Johansson Projects in Oakland, California.
Katherine is an artist living in Portland, OR. She currently works as an Adjunct Instructor at Oregon State University, Portland State University, and Linn-Benton Community College teaching printmaking and art foundations. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Oregon in 2013 and served many roles at the Independent Publishing Resource Center from 2014-2018.
In her studio practice, Spinella transports the refuse of commerce into fractured, elevated, and philosophically personified artifacts through multi-media collage. Using digital manipulation, printmaking, sculpture and video installation in her process, recent projects examine the conflation between language and image in relation to our perceptions of nature. Spinella is Co-Founder of Carnation Contemporary (est. 2017), Thunderstruck Collective (est. 2018), and Well Well Projects (est. 2021). She is preparing for her first major solo exhibition at Carnation in Portland, OR (2021). Recently she has exhibited in Future Landscapes at Borders International Art Fair in Venice, Italy (2020), Thunderstruck at NARS Foundation in New York, NY (2019), and is soon to participate with WAVE Collective in What’s Different at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA (2021). Her work has been supported by the Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Portland State University, Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute, and Women's Studio Workshop.
John is an interdisciplinary artist whose drawings and digital work employs meditative methods by which personal experience is mapped. Throughout his work, the potentially ambiguous nature of signal and noise is explored as both positive and negative, signifier and obstruction, sacred and profane. Whitten has had recent solo exhibitions at Charles Hartman Fine Art and the Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University. His work has been included in group exhibitions at NARS in New York City, NY; Outback Arthouse in Los Angeles, CA; Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum in Korea; Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center and Melanie Flood Projects in Portland, OR. He co-founded Thunderstruck Collective and Carnation Contemporary in 2018 and Well Well Projects in 2021. Recent awards include a Project Grant from the Regional Art and Culture Council, a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, a Faculty Research Award from Oregon State University, a residency with Signal Fire funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and a residency at Caldera funded by the Ford Family Foundation. Whitten earned his MFA from the University of Oregon and his BFA from Watkins College of Art. He lives in Portland, Oregon, is a Full-time Instructor of Digital Art and Drawing at Oregon State University, and is represented by Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland, Oregon.
Johnny is an artist and arts instructor living just outside of Corvallis, Ore. He received his B.F.A. at Oregon State University with a concentration in painting and his M.F.A. at Portland State University, focusing on contemporary studio practice. While his work highlights painting, he also uses sound, digital and internet art, sculpture, poetry, video, and more to address personal and public narratives on mental health. Beaver is especially focused on supporting young artists and regional arts, having exhibited and curated in Oregon over fifty times throughout the last decade.
Alexis is best known for creating photographic works that focus on her experience as a mid-size woman through self-portraits. Her photographic works consist of a mixture of film and darkroom printing as well as digital photographs. Alexis has exhibited her work at the Joan Truckenbrod Gallery and the Arts Center in Corvallis, Oregon. Alexis was born and raised in Reno, Nevada and moved to Oregon to pursue her education. She attends Oregon State University where she will receive her B.F.A in Photography and Digital Media.
Nate is an artist and gallery manager at Oregon State University’s Fairbanks Gallery. He earned his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 2002. His most recent work has been described as conceptual strategies of painterly abstraction and sci-fi shamanism.
A MacDowell Colony Residency Fellow, he has exhibited nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Linda’s, Latned Atsär, and RAID Projects in Los Angeles; Crisp London/Los Angeles; and the H. Lewis Gallery in Baltimore. His numerous group exhibitions include shows the Hammer Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Cal State University, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California State University Northridge, Cirrus Gallery, Telic Arts Exchange, Raid Projects, Coachella Valley Art Center, Eighth Veil, 533 Gallery, Bonelli Contemporary, and Art LA Contemporary in Los Angeles.
Monday, June 26
Ashley Stull Meyers
Tuesday, June 27
Larry Yes
His visual art has been shown at PDX Contemporary Art Window Project and the Portland Building, and he has collaborated with Portland Museum of Modern Art. In his nearly 30-year musical career, he has toured Europe, performed with Michael Hurley, Sonny and the Sunsets and Elliot Smith, He describes his current musical style as “positive cosmic folk.” A native Oregonian, he lives in Portland.
Wednesday, June 28
Ben Buswell
Buswell is a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts (2015), a two-time recipient of the Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (2014 and 2011), and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission (2018). Notable solo exhibitions have been presented by Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles; CoCA Seattle; and in Portland, Oregon at Upfor, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and TILT Gallery and Project Space. Buswell received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and BFA from Oregon State University.
Thursday, June 29
Mika Aono
Born in Sendai, Japan. Received BEd in Primary and Special Ed from Miyagi University of Education in Japan, BA in Art from University of Oregon, and MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. Currently, she works as an instructor and a Printmaking/Letterpress studio technician in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon.
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Some are in museums and public collections.
Friday, June 30
Oregon State University Art Program Tour
Anna Fidler, Instructor and Felix Oliveros, Art Advisor
Previous visiting artists have included nationally recognized artists such as: Julie Green, Emily Counts, Heidi Schwegler, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Ivan Carmona, Holly Andres, Dan Attoe, Ralph Pugay, Elizabeth Malaska, Yuji Hiratsuka, Jessie Rose Vala, Milla Oiveira, Bruce Burris, Tia Factor.
Students will select one core class and one focus class.
Drawing is full. Please select ‘Sequential Art’ or ‘Color Theory’ during registration.
Core Studio: Drawing John Whitten, Instructor
This course will engage various materials and techniques to investigate a wide range of 2D and 3D drawing processes. We will focus on the elements of line, shape, texture, and value and how those elements combine to create visual experiences and how each can be utilized to further the artist’s conceptual endeavors. The work created will consist of hybridized drawings both from observation and imagined scenarios. Pieces will be documented in photo and video formats. Students can expect the course to have ever widening parameters as the week progresses to allow for creative evolution and impulses. Students can expect to spend each class, conducting individual studio practice, and sharing their work at the end of each session.
Core Studio: Sequential Art
Nathan Danilowicz, Instructor
Focusing on the unique combination of image and text, this 2D course will introduce students to the fundamentals of sequential art (graphic novels, comic books, cave paintings, airplane safety brochures, murals) and will emphasize non-traditional ideas of what sequential art can be– such as experimental and traditional narrative approaches.
Collaboration will be a focus in the classroom as students work together to create art that can be printed as a DIY zine and/or displayed on the gallery walls as contemporary art. This course will focus on analog creation, so there will be no need for laptops, iPads, or cell phones.
Students will use image and text/language to effectively represent ideas of time, sound, smells, feelings, thoughts, human emotion, non-human emotion, dream imagery, abstraction, representation– there are no limits!
Focus: Painting Johnny Beaver, Instructor
Painting is full. Please select from Printmaking or Photography. Thanks!
This course invites students to explore possibilities within pictorial space, integrating elements of physical locations, imagined realities, and abstract mark making. Instruction will focus on the preparation and technique of acrylic paint, as well as the conceptualization and ideation necessary to create original, compelling artworks. Through our daily classes, students will be well supported to materialize visionary creations with confidence and enthusiasm
Focus: Digital Animation John Whitten, Instructor
Digital Animation is full. Please select from printmaking or photography. Thank you!
Learn how to create magic with the wonders of animation. Students in this course will be introduced to a variety of animation techniques including stop-motion claymation, 2D digital animation, cinemagraphs, rotoscope, and more. They will create their own animations as well as collaborate on animations with their classmates.
Students will gain fundamental understanding of the creative software and digital tools used to create professional animations such as Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Animate. All participants will leave JumpstArt with a reel of their animations easily shareable with family and friends!
No prior animation experience required.
This course will utilize Adobe’s free one week trial, which works great on both MAC and PC. Unfortunately, Adobe Creative Cloud desktop apps cannot run on Chromebooks. There are many wonderful animation apps available for tablets if you need alternatives to working on a desktop or laptop computer. Smartphones would be helpful.
Focus: Printmaking Katherine Spinella, Instructor
Print + Pattern
This surface design course will dive into pattern-making methods through the use of relief printmaking. With an emphasis on tessellations, repeat patterning techniques, and printmaking, students will learn to hand-print relief blocks onto fabric and explore a maximalist use of repetition with care towards the use of color and surface embellishment.
Focus: Photography Alexis Morris, Instructor
This introductory, digital photography course will delve into the basics of photography, while also encouraging students to explore their creative visions via photographic projects. During this class, students will learn about core photo techniques—including composition, exposure, color, lighting, etc.—and basic photo editing. Throughout the week, projects/prompts will be introduced to the students. Some of these project themes include portraiture, diptychs & triptychs, and directorial image-making. As projects are completed, the class will have group critiques to observe each other’s work and exchange feedback throughout the week.
Sunday, June 25: Orientation + Button Making + Pizza Party
Orientation for all students (day camp and residential students welcome!) followed by a pizza party on the front lawn of Fairbanks Hall. Make some creative buttons to pin on your JumpstART t-shirts!
Monday, June 26: Ice Cream Social + Cyanotype Sun-type Printing + T-shirt Deconstruction Party
Ice cream buffet with every kind of topping imaginable! Pair this with an evening of using sunlight to create beautiful blue images and a t-shirt deconstruction party (yes, you get to cut apart, draw and paint on your JumpstART t-shirts!).
Tuesday, June 27: Encouragement Banners from Miranda July+ Harrell Fletcher (Learning to Love you More website)
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. In this project, you will think of something encouraging you often tell yourself. For example: Everything will be ok. Or: Don't listen to them. Or: It'll blow over. Using brightly colored felt and construction paper, you will make banners to be hung around campus during JumpstART!
Wednesday, June 28: Tape Mural
Given prompts such as ‘make a record album cover for heavy metal band’, students will make temporary large-scale murals using a variety of colorful rolls of tape.
Thursday, June 29: Task Party
For this evening event we will be holding a modified version of artist Oliver Herring’s TASK party. The rules are simple: everyone writes a task to be accomplished (such as “build a teleporter,” or “touch two sides of the room”) on a piece of paper, those tasks go into a pool, and then groups draw tasks at random. These tasks can be completed in creative ways, utilizing materials, props, actions, and the environment. Get creative! Once a task is complete, write a new one, toss it in the pool, and grab another.
Friday: Closing reception/Award ceremony
Open to friends and family. Students will display their JumpstART artwork in the OSU Praxis and Fairbanks Galleries with an opening reception and awards ceremony.
What is the time and location of camp check-in for overnight students?
Dorm Check in: Sunday, June 25 at 4-5pm, Weatherford Hall front entrance (corner of SW Jefferson and 26th).
What is time and location of check-in and check-out for day camp students?
Each morning between 8:30-9am, day camp students sign in on the front porch of Fairbanks Hall (located on SW 26th Street at Jefferson); check-out takes place at 5pm in the same location.
Can my day camp student sign themself out at the end of the day?
Day camp students may sign themselves out with consent from a parent. Parents should email anna.fidler@oregonstate.edu with consent for self-release.
When is orientation?
Sunday, June 25 at 5pm, Fairbanks Hall front entrance. Camp Orientation and Pizza Party (day and overnight students welcome).
How many students are there per room in the dorms?
There are two students per room; same age/grade.
Can I share a room with my friend?
Yes, make sure to note your friend’s name in the registration in the ‘Additional Questions: Special Accommodations Explanation’ section.
Are there Residential Assistants (RA’s) in the dorms?
Yes. For overnight students, there is an 8:1 student to RA ratio in the dorms. Teaching Assistants and Residential Assistants have cohorts of eight students. RA’s have dorm rooms in close proximity to their cohort.
Where do students dine?
Meals are taken as a group in Marketplace West Dining Center on campus (including day camp students who may bring a bag lunch).
I have dietary restrictions. Can you accommodate my needs?
During registration, make sure to fill out your dietary restrictions and preferences. Marketplace West should be able to accommodate you.
What do students do in the evening?
Evening activities are led by JumpstART staff between 6-8pm. List of evening activities coming soon!
What is supervision like during JumpstART?
Students will always be in the company of JumpstART staff. JumpstART staff lead students to activities around campus. Students may not depart from the group. There is a 10:1 ratio of students to staff during daily activities; 8:1 ratio of students to staff in the dorms.
When is pick-up and check-out on the last day of camp, June 30?
Family and friends are invited to an exhibition opening reception and awards ceremony promptly at 5pm. The ceremony will take place at 5:30pm. Sign out takes places immediately following. Students should have belongings packed and ready in the dorms earlier in the day. Day camp students sign out on the front porch of Fairbanks Hall. Overnight students sign out at Weatherford.
