Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and recent author of Interacting with Color will join us to start a week of color. Learn color relativity, gradients, and illusions of transparency to help us build <...
Mud week has become a beloved tradition here at EWMW. This week we will honor Mud leading up to International Mud Day, on Sunday, June 29, 2025. This camp celebrates a material that is often overlooked. Heighten the senses, an...
The Sun, a bright shining star, holds everything together in our solar system. The earth, moon, and planets live together circling this shining star, but what lies beyond the sun? The night sky is filled with billions of stars that make up their own so...
Viajemos por América Latina: un viaje de miles de kilómetros en tan solo una semana. Exploraremos el maravilloso país de Puerto Rico y abrazaremos un poco de su cultura. Navegaremos las aguas de esta querida nación caribeña.
Become a puzzle designer for others to solve. Carve out patterns that you see and bring meaning to shapes and colors. Devise Tangrams, pattern games, 3-D puzzles, and more. Use color, geometry, shapes, a...
Avast, matey! Join our pirate crew and help us find the treasure buried near the Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop. We’ll start by singing sea shanties and reading tales of long ago to learn the ways of pirates and seafarers. Next, we will build shi...
Humans have always recognized electricity in lightning bolts and fur that crackles when stroked. However, the practical uses of electricity—circuits—have been discovered mostly from Eli Whitney's time to the present in simple experiments and creati...
As America began to concentrate work and people in cities in the 19th Century, thoughtful educators and organizations advocated reconnecting children (and adults) with nature. We organized parks and camps where the air was fresher, schedules could be m...
Convene your troop and perform your original score. Before we get there we will create our instruments for the concluding performance of this summer camp.
During this week-long camp, campers will create instruments ranging from wooden whistles ...
Approximately 251 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth near the beginning of the Triassic Period. Archosaurs and pterosaurs thrived on our planet. In North America, Othniel Charles Marsh of the Yale Peabody Museum was the first professor of ve...
Physics is all around us and involves everything from the sun and moon to rainbows and electricity. We will explore the everyday and the more unusual aspects of physics. The week will consist of asking questions, making observations, testing, recording...
Slime is still happening, and never really went out of style. Slime was inspired by Silly Putty, another long polymer compound discovered in New Haven 81 years ago. The Chemist James Wright was looking for a substitute for rubber because World...
The Mill River is a perfect site to emulate the thoughtful treatment of light, water, and atmosphere, and mood that the Dutch Landscape painters were able to capture “en plein air.”
We will study and explore the works and styles of ...
