Micropublishing & Storyboarding Camps!
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]
[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]
ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.
ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!
Micropublishing & Storyboarding Camps!
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]
[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]
ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.
ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!
Micropublishing & Storyboarding Camps!
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]
[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]
ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.
ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!
Micropublishing & Storyboarding Camps!
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]
[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]
ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.
ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!
Shapeshift Studio: July Hangout!
Shapeshift Studio
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)
Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.
*Shapeshift Studio will continue through the summer in our Lloyd Center Mall Studio! June 13th, July 11th, & August 8th. After our August hangout, the mall will be closing and ILYouth2 will be relocating. Shapeshift Studio may experience a short break as we move, but then it will start back up in our new location!!
Kinetic Creations & Dream Worlds Camps
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]
[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]
ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.
ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.
Kinetic Creations & Dream Worlds Camps
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]
[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]
ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.
ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.
Kinetic Creations & Dream Worlds Camps
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]
[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]
ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.
ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.
Kinetic Creations & Dream Worlds Camps
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]
[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]
ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.
ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.
Kinetic Creations & Dream Worlds Camps
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Kinetic Creations!]
[more info & enroll here for: Dream Worlds!]
ABOUT Kinetic Creations, an Automata Camp: In this camp we'll learn how to make several kinds of moving Automata toys! We'll start with clothespin automata, and then move on to simple and complex gear and crank cardboard automata.
ABOUT Dream Worlds, a Worldbuilding Camp: Do you make up entire worlds in your head? Do you wish you could make them real? In this camp, we’ll turn your imaginary world into real, tangible creations. We will explore questions like: What does a map of your world look like? Who or what lives there? What do they wear? Do they have their own language? How is their society structured? Using various art methods and mediums, we will draw, sculpt, and paint parts of each world to life.
New Sounds Skool
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.
New Sounds Skool
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.
New Sounds Skool
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.
New Sounds Skool
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.
New Sounds Skool
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A five-day “experimental music starter pack” where each day explores a different way of making and thinking about sound—from building contact-mic junk instruments to sampling, radio, field recording, and performance. Together, we’ll create our own instruments, recordings, and a collaborative “concept album,” while experimenting with how music can come from everyday objects, places, and ideas. The week ends with a playful, semi-improvised performance shaped by the group’s discoveries, open to all levels of experience and curiosity.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: David Weinberg (he/him) is the founder and lead teacher of New Sounds Skool, a lifelong dabbler of the arts whose work bridges experimental music, education, and collaborative play. With over 20 years of teaching experience across public elementary schools and Montessori and Waldorf preschools—and a background in underground noise music, intermedia art, and early childhood education (M.A.T., Evergreen State College)—his approach is grounded in the belief that “everything goes with everything.” New Sounds Skool extends this ethos into a vibrant, child-centered music program where structure and spontaneity meet, inviting young people to build skills, explore sound, and imagine new possibilities for what music can be.
Game Lab
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!
INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!
daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.
Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.
Game Lab
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!
INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!
daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.
Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.
Game Lab
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!
INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!
daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.
Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.
Game Lab
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!
INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!
daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.
Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.
Game Lab
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: This camp is aimed at storytellers, nerds, and gamers! Campers will explore all the elements of creating a card, board, or simple ttrpg. We’ll look at lots of rad, independent and DIY games, then bringing our own ideas to life. Campers can expect opportunities to make clay game pieces, zine rulebooks or gamebooks, cards, boards, and maybe even playmats!? There is no expectation to have a finished game at the end of the week (though it certainly could happen!), and campers are welcome to bring existing game projects or ideas to the table, or to come completely fresh!
INSTRUCTOR BIOS: Erika and daelyn met through Marrow PDX, and have known each other for almost a decade! Erika has previously taught ceramics and zine camps at ILYouth2, and daelyn has taught game design camps (among many others) at ILYouth2 and is also the director here. This is Erika and daelyn’s first time teaching a camp together collaboratively! They’re excited!
daelyn lambi (they/them) is a working artist, writer, educator, and youth advocate. Making and playing games is a significant part of their own creative practice, and they have made both digital and physical games. Their favorite games are ones that don’t require a lot of physical tools (like a zine and map, maybe some cards!) but still create entire worlds through player engagement.
Erika Rier (she her) is an interdisciplinary artist mostly focused these days on ceramics and art zines. Her work seems to change how feminine people are perceived in art and the world.
Comics Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.
They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.
Comics Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.
They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.
Comics Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.
They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.
Comics Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.
They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.
Comics Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: A hands-on art camp for comics, cartooning, and storytelling. We will design our own characters, make comic strips, and draw a full-page comic by the end of the week! Comics Camp welcomes artists, creatives and storytellers of all levels. Let’s explore ways to let our imaginations run wild through COMICS!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Camilo Velasco (they/them) is queer comic artist and creative living in the liminal space between Columbus, OH and Portland, OR. Their biggest inspirations are magical realism and mid 2000s webcomics.
They have been published in anthologies such as: Spitball, The OHC Comic Anthology, Pointed Circle, and Zocalo Public Square.
Shapeshift Studio: August Hangout!
Shapeshift Studio
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)
Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.
*Shapeshift Studio will continue through the summer in our Lloyd Center Mall Studio! June 13th, July 11th, & August 8th. After our August hangout, the mall will be closing and ILYouth2 will be relocating. Shapeshift Studio may experience a short break as we move, but then it will start back up in our new location!!
Micropublishing & Storyboarding Camps!
two camps this week!
[more info & enroll here for: Mircropublishing!]
[more info & enroll here for: Storboarding!]
ABOUT Mini Micropublishing 4 Zinsters in the Making!: This camp is focused on the practical and impractical lessons in zine making from two queer archivists; Buck and Blue. The history of zine making is rich and deep, and Portland is one of the best places to learn about it in the country. We bring together movements, anecdotes, moments and materials influenced by and explored within zines. We find it important to share the multifaceted cultural context behind zine making, and our experience in the local scene and enthusiasm for alternative perspectives means we're excited to give youths the means to create their own context and meaning within what they want to generate already. Art and writing can both be avenues to explore concepts that might be discouraged under a regime with an agenda. We want to create space for new thoughts and new zines, always.
ABOUT Storyboarding: In this hands-on camp, students will create their own storyboards from start to finish that is old school and drawn by hand! Taking inspiration from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey, campers will invent bold characters, face exciting challenges, and build complete story arcs.
Over the week, they will explore visual storytelling, character design, and camera angles, creating short scenes that could be animated in the future. By Friday, each student will have a colorful 8–12 panel storyboard telling a story entirely of their own creation.
This camp sparks imagination, hones drawing skills, and teaches the art of narrative storytelling - perfect for young artists, storytellers, and future filmmakers or animators!
What Do You Think? Raise Your Voice with Paper and Ink!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Become an illustrator, printmaker, poet, and journalist in this five-day camp exploring all things paper and ink! Creative projects will include collage, printmaking, papermaking, zines, political posters, and more! Together, we’ll experiment with new techniques while learning how contemporary artists wield paper and ink to tell new stories and imagine liberated futures. We’ll culminate our time together by creating a collaborative newspaper that explores campers’ interests and ideas!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Rimona (Mo) Eskayo (they/them) is a Portland-raised artist and educator who believes in the power and imagination of youth. An enthusiast for all things paper and ink, they run their own independent press, where they write, design, illustrate, and publish zines, posters, and essays that share hidden information and offer political education for our movements.
As an educator, Rimona supports young artists to find their skills and confidence across mediums and artistic disciplines, encouraging collaboration, question-asking, mistake-making, and hitting save a few extra times for good measure. They bring over a decade of experience designing and teaching arts, design, and multimedia programming for students in grades K-12 and beyond. They’ve taught across institutional and DIY art spaces including Portland Public Schools, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Make Fun Studios, Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Center, Saturday Academy, OMSI’s Teen Tech Center, Everyone On, Iowa State University, and University of Southern California.
What Do You Think? Raise Your Voice with Paper and Ink!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Become an illustrator, printmaker, poet, and journalist in this five-day camp exploring all things paper and ink! Creative projects will include collage, printmaking, papermaking, zines, political posters, and more! Together, we’ll experiment with new techniques while learning how contemporary artists wield paper and ink to tell new stories and imagine liberated futures. We’ll culminate our time together by creating a collaborative newspaper that explores campers’ interests and ideas!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Rimona (Mo) Eskayo (they/them) is a Portland-raised artist and educator who believes in the power and imagination of youth. An enthusiast for all things paper and ink, they run their own independent press, where they write, design, illustrate, and publish zines, posters, and essays that share hidden information and offer political education for our movements.
As an educator, Rimona supports young artists to find their skills and confidence across mediums and artistic disciplines, encouraging collaboration, question-asking, mistake-making, and hitting save a few extra times for good measure. They bring over a decade of experience designing and teaching arts, design, and multimedia programming for students in grades K-12 and beyond. They’ve taught across institutional and DIY art spaces including Portland Public Schools, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Make Fun Studios, Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Center, Saturday Academy, OMSI’s Teen Tech Center, Everyone On, Iowa State University, and University of Southern California.
What Do You Think? Raise Your Voice with Paper and Ink!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Become an illustrator, printmaker, poet, and journalist in this five-day camp exploring all things paper and ink! Creative projects will include collage, printmaking, papermaking, zines, political posters, and more! Together, we’ll experiment with new techniques while learning how contemporary artists wield paper and ink to tell new stories and imagine liberated futures. We’ll culminate our time together by creating a collaborative newspaper that explores campers’ interests and ideas!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Rimona (Mo) Eskayo (they/them) is a Portland-raised artist and educator who believes in the power and imagination of youth. An enthusiast for all things paper and ink, they run their own independent press, where they write, design, illustrate, and publish zines, posters, and essays that share hidden information and offer political education for our movements.
As an educator, Rimona supports young artists to find their skills and confidence across mediums and artistic disciplines, encouraging collaboration, question-asking, mistake-making, and hitting save a few extra times for good measure. They bring over a decade of experience designing and teaching arts, design, and multimedia programming for students in grades K-12 and beyond. They’ve taught across institutional and DIY art spaces including Portland Public Schools, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Make Fun Studios, Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Center, Saturday Academy, OMSI’s Teen Tech Center, Everyone On, Iowa State University, and University of Southern California.
What Do You Think? Raise Your Voice with Paper and Ink!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Become an illustrator, printmaker, poet, and journalist in this five-day camp exploring all things paper and ink! Creative projects will include collage, printmaking, papermaking, zines, political posters, and more! Together, we’ll experiment with new techniques while learning how contemporary artists wield paper and ink to tell new stories and imagine liberated futures. We’ll culminate our time together by creating a collaborative newspaper that explores campers’ interests and ideas!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Rimona (Mo) Eskayo (they/them) is a Portland-raised artist and educator who believes in the power and imagination of youth. An enthusiast for all things paper and ink, they run their own independent press, where they write, design, illustrate, and publish zines, posters, and essays that share hidden information and offer political education for our movements.
As an educator, Rimona supports young artists to find their skills and confidence across mediums and artistic disciplines, encouraging collaboration, question-asking, mistake-making, and hitting save a few extra times for good measure. They bring over a decade of experience designing and teaching arts, design, and multimedia programming for students in grades K-12 and beyond. They’ve taught across institutional and DIY art spaces including Portland Public Schools, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Make Fun Studios, Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Center, Saturday Academy, OMSI’s Teen Tech Center, Everyone On, Iowa State University, and University of Southern California.
What Do You Think? Raise Your Voice with Paper and Ink!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Become an illustrator, printmaker, poet, and journalist in this five-day camp exploring all things paper and ink! Creative projects will include collage, printmaking, papermaking, zines, political posters, and more! Together, we’ll experiment with new techniques while learning how contemporary artists wield paper and ink to tell new stories and imagine liberated futures. We’ll culminate our time together by creating a collaborative newspaper that explores campers’ interests and ideas!
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Rimona (Mo) Eskayo (they/them) is a Portland-raised artist and educator who believes in the power and imagination of youth. An enthusiast for all things paper and ink, they run their own independent press, where they write, design, illustrate, and publish zines, posters, and essays that share hidden information and offer political education for our movements.
As an educator, Rimona supports young artists to find their skills and confidence across mediums and artistic disciplines, encouraging collaboration, question-asking, mistake-making, and hitting save a few extra times for good measure. They bring over a decade of experience designing and teaching arts, design, and multimedia programming for students in grades K-12 and beyond. They’ve taught across institutional and DIY art spaces including Portland Public Schools, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Make Fun Studios, Sexual/Gender Minority Youth Center, Saturday Academy, OMSI’s Teen Tech Center, Everyone On, Iowa State University, and University of Southern California.
Sewing Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Explore hand and machine sewing! Start the week with creating one-of-a-kind stuffies (or plushies) from your own imagination, learning about patterns, seam allowances, and assembly techniques. Follow that with projects to learn and practice machine sewing, as well as measuring, ironing, and safe use of the rotary cutter.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Xea (she/her) As a child, my grandmother found me making doll clothes with tape, and introduced me to the imaginative possibilities of sewing. Through the years I have enjoyed mending, embellishing, altering, redesigning, and creating practical, functional, and beautiful things, but my favorite creative outlet is sharing the magic of sewing with others. I enjoy collaborating and working through the challenges as a project comes together. I have been teaching youth sewing since 2016, developing skill-building projects and patterns that incorporate scraps and reclaimed materials, and inspire individual expression.
Sewing Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Explore hand and machine sewing! Start the week with creating one-of-a-kind stuffies (or plushies) from your own imagination, learning about patterns, seam allowances, and assembly techniques. Follow that with projects to learn and practice machine sewing, as well as measuring, ironing, and safe use of the rotary cutter.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Xea (she/her) As a child, my grandmother found me making doll clothes with tape, and introduced me to the imaginative possibilities of sewing. Through the years I have enjoyed mending, embellishing, altering, redesigning, and creating practical, functional, and beautiful things, but my favorite creative outlet is sharing the magic of sewing with others. I enjoy collaborating and working through the challenges as a project comes together. I have been teaching youth sewing since 2016, developing skill-building projects and patterns that incorporate scraps and reclaimed materials, and inspire individual expression.
Sewing Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Explore hand and machine sewing! Start the week with creating one-of-a-kind stuffies (or plushies) from your own imagination, learning about patterns, seam allowances, and assembly techniques. Follow that with projects to learn and practice machine sewing, as well as measuring, ironing, and safe use of the rotary cutter.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Xea (she/her) As a child, my grandmother found me making doll clothes with tape, and introduced me to the imaginative possibilities of sewing. Through the years I have enjoyed mending, embellishing, altering, redesigning, and creating practical, functional, and beautiful things, but my favorite creative outlet is sharing the magic of sewing with others. I enjoy collaborating and working through the challenges as a project comes together. I have been teaching youth sewing since 2016, developing skill-building projects and patterns that incorporate scraps and reclaimed materials, and inspire individual expression.
Sewing Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Explore hand and machine sewing! Start the week with creating one-of-a-kind stuffies (or plushies) from your own imagination, learning about patterns, seam allowances, and assembly techniques. Follow that with projects to learn and practice machine sewing, as well as measuring, ironing, and safe use of the rotary cutter.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Xea (she/her) As a child, my grandmother found me making doll clothes with tape, and introduced me to the imaginative possibilities of sewing. Through the years I have enjoyed mending, embellishing, altering, redesigning, and creating practical, functional, and beautiful things, but my favorite creative outlet is sharing the magic of sewing with others. I enjoy collaborating and working through the challenges as a project comes together. I have been teaching youth sewing since 2016, developing skill-building projects and patterns that incorporate scraps and reclaimed materials, and inspire individual expression.
Sewing Camp!
[more info & enroll here!]
ABOUT: Explore hand and machine sewing! Start the week with creating one-of-a-kind stuffies (or plushies) from your own imagination, learning about patterns, seam allowances, and assembly techniques. Follow that with projects to learn and practice machine sewing, as well as measuring, ironing, and safe use of the rotary cutter.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Xea (she/her) As a child, my grandmother found me making doll clothes with tape, and introduced me to the imaginative possibilities of sewing. Through the years I have enjoyed mending, embellishing, altering, redesigning, and creating practical, functional, and beautiful things, but my favorite creative outlet is sharing the magic of sewing with others. I enjoy collaborating and working through the challenges as a project comes together. I have been teaching youth sewing since 2016, developing skill-building projects and patterns that incorporate scraps and reclaimed materials, and inspire individual expression.
Shapeshift Studio: June Hangout!
Shapeshift Studio
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)
Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.
*Shapeshift Studio will continue through the summer in our Lloyd Center Mall Studio! June 13th, July 11th, & August 8th. After our August hangout, the mall will be closing and ILYouth2 will be relocating. Shapeshift Studio may experience a short break as we move, but then it will start back up in our new location!!
Shapeshift Studio & Moonbeam Metamorphosis
Shapeshift Studio
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring. May date is May 23rd!
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)
LOCATION: ILYouth2’s Lloyd Center art studio
Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.
MOONBEAM METAMORPHOSIS
a Shapeshift Studio Prom
[ALL THE DETAILS + TICKETS HERE]
Please note that tickets require a ~secret password~ until May, so that our Shapeshift Studio youth get the first opportunity to snag them! The password will disappear and tickets will open to other folks May 1st! If you’re a Shapeshift Studio participant and need the password, email daelyn@ily2online.com or DM us on instagram @ilyouth2
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $50 / $35 / $20, sliding scale
DATE: May 23rd
TIME: 6-9pm
LOCATION: PICA (15 NE Hancock St)
Moonbeam Metamorphosis is a dance + social gathering for young therians, furries, and otherkin! We’ll have space to dance, space to sit, a photo booth, and some drawing materials and pony beads.
Our usual Shapeshift Studio hangout in our art studio is more of a craft time, while Moonbeam Metamorphosis will be more like a typical prom.
Home School Studio!
HOME SCHOOL STUDIO!
AGES:7-17
PRICE: Sliding scale: $5 - $15 - $30
DATE: Friday, May 15th
TIME: 3-5 pm
Home School Studio is recurring studio hangout for home schoolers, unschoolers, and other independent learners!
During each hangout, ILYouth2 staff will have a project that youth are encouraged to try out — but youth are also welcome to bring their own art projects that they’re working on (especially if they’d like some support from peers or ILYouth2 staff!), or to use ILYouth2’s drawing and collage materials.
Notes:
This will be the last home school studio hangout until fall!
Parents/guardians are welcome to hang out in our gallery/shop area (directly adjacent and open to the studio) during Home School, if it is helpful to and consensual with their kiddo(s).
Home School is open studio, drop-in style — youth are welcome to stay for the full three hours, or for just a portion of the time.
Intergenerational LGBTQIA2S+ Art Hangout & Stapled on my Heart Exhibition Opening
Intergenerational LGBTQIA2S+ Art Hangout
AGES: All ages!
Folks under 18 who attend without a parent/guardian must have a signed liability waiver with us.
PRICE: Sliding scale, $0-10
No one judged or turned away for lack of funds.
DATE: Saturday, April 25th
TIME: 2-5 pm
This is a monthly gathering for LGBTQIA2S+ folks* of all ages to come together, hang out, and make art!
Intergenerational community is essential for young queer people; whether it’s to discuss inherently queer topics, to model things like ‘chosen family’, or simply for representation and kinship. It’s also nice for queer folks to have a safe space to hang out, where there is no pressure to be doing anything other than just existing and creating!
We have lots of space–come sit at a table with new friends, or carve out a cozy corner for yourself! You can bring your own materials, or we’ll have some basics set out (collage materials, paper, pencils, etc!). Folks are also welcome to bring a book, homework, or other project to work on.
Access to the hangout is sliding scale (pay what you feel comfortable) from $0-10, which supports our ongoing programming and materials costs. No one turned away or judged for lack of funds.
No registration required, just show up!
Stay for the full time or just stop by for a bit!
Minors (folks under 18) who attend without a parent/guardian must have a current liability waiver with ILYouth2 (available at the door, or email daelyn@ily2online.com to sign one in advance).
*LGBTQIA2S+ folks are welcome to bring allies to these art hangouts (eg: LGBTQIA2S+ parents can bring their children who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ ; LGBTQIA2S+ youth can bring their parents and/or siblings who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ ; and any LGBTQIA2S+ folks can bring supportive friends and/or partners who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+). Allies are guests during this time, and expected to behave in ways that center the autonomy and care of our LGBTQIA2S+ community members
<3 Thanks xoxo
LGBTQIA2S+ stands for: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Trans/Nonbinary/Gender Non-conforming Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit
Stapled on my Heart Exhibition Opening
AGES: All ages!
PRICE: Free
No one judged or turned away for lack of funds.
DATE: Saturday, April 25th
TIME: 4-6 pm
Join us for the exhibition opening for STAPLED ON MY HEART! An exhibition exploring art as fragments of feelings. Featuring the work of teen artists Atlas and Ellery (possibly more, tba!)
Come out and support young artists!!!
Home School Studio!
HOME SCHOOL STUDIO!
AGES:7-17*
PRICE: Sliding scale: $5 - $15 - $30
DATE: Friday, April 24th
TIME: 12-3 pm**
Home School Studio is recurring studio hangout for home schoolers, unschoolers, and other independent learners!
During each hangout, ILYouth2 staff will have a project that youth are encouraged to try out — but youth are also welcome to bring their own art projects that they’re working on (especially if they’d like some support from peers or ILYouth2 staff!), or to use ILYouth2’s drawing and collage materials.
*Parents/guardians are welcome to hang out in our gallery/shop area (directly adjacent and open to the studio) during Home School, if it is helpful to and consensual with their kiddo(s).
**Home School is open studio, drop-in style — youth are welcome to stay for the full three hours, or for just a portion of the time.
Shapeshift Studio: April Hangout!
Shapeshift Studio
AGES: 10-17
PRICE: $30 / $15 / $5, sliding scale
DATE: Monthly, recurring (typically 3rd Saturday but check our calendar to confirm!)
TIME: 12-3pm (drop-in style hangout, stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)
Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.
Private Birthday Party
ILYouth2 will be closed from 12-2pm for a private birthday party!
We’re so excited to publicly announce that ILYouth2 is now hosting art themed parties for any age and any occasion! Interested? Get in touch for options!
Pokémon Drag Show!
All Ages Pokémon Drag Show!
AGES: All ages! Family friendly!
PRICE: $10-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
100% goes to the performers, pay at the door!
DATE: Saturday, April 11th
TIME: 4pm doors, 5pm show start!*
*If you’d like to secure a seat, and or snag some selfies with Mike Bennett’s Pokemon, please arrive prior to show start!
***
Join us for an all ages celebration of POKÉMON!!!
We’ll have youth and adult drag performers paying tribute to their favorite Pokémon, plus some SPECIAL guest appearances—some of Mike Bennett’s plywood (life sized!) Pokémon!!
Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding No School Day Camp
RECOMMENDED AGES: 7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: $40 / $50 / $60, sliding scale
DATES: Monday, April 6th
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
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In this one-day camp we’ll dive into worldbuilding… We’ll begin by exploring the mall and creating lore about hidden nooks and crannies of this weird liminal space! Then back in the studio we’ll be doing everything from map-making to clay! This camp is great for storytellers, gamers, nerds, explorers, and any other kiddo with a big imagination!
(Pairs well with our Monsters + Myths camp on Friday, April 3rd!)
Private Workshop
ILYouth2 will be closed from 2-4pm for a private workshop!
We are working to bring you offerings of private and small group classes and workshops!
Feel free to inquire if you have a kiddo with something in mind that they’d like to learn, outside a camp setting!
Umico Niwa exhibition opening at ILY2
We invite folks to join us at ILY2’s Pearl District gallery for the opening of Umico Niwa’s exhibition
the disappearance of my testicles,
and other such mysteries regarding motherhood
1-3pm
at ILY2 (925 NW Flanders)
Umico led our 2025 summer camp Meet Your Gremlin, Make Your Gremlin. She misses her campers and hopes they might come visit the opening! We invite all ILYouth2 families and communities to come to the opening, or to see the exhibition any other time while it is up!
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Last winter, in the closet of my childhood bedroom, I excavated a self-portrait from middle school. My eyes are dull, my affect flat, and in the bottom right hand the title reads: me (depressed).
I have deep seated memories of drawing myself at that age that every so often come to the forefront of my mind - a reminder that this tangled web of melancholy in my heart has been a steady bedfellow since youth.
Having undergone gender affirming surgery nearly a decade ago, I am riddled with regret. Not with being transgender, but rather I am afflicted with a constant low-grade baby fever. The hurdles I would have to clear to adopt, to have a home, to even simply maintain a steady partnership, reside high upon the moon.
The works on display are excerpts of my journal entries, interspersed with drawings. They depict times that I have experienced moments of levity beyond emptying cups and bed rotting with yet another lover. I have found that it is when I’m caring for others, solely immersed in the act of mothering, that this sense of self-indulgent angst momentarily ceases.
It is common for artists to reveal the depth of our personal lives, the tenor of our souls, the joys and grief that have taken hold of our heart from a young age, who we love and what we care for. In the midst of preparing for this show though, I made the choice to entomb a few of my journals in their frames, as I am not ready to share them with the public so readily. This selection of writings and drawings are safely sealed away and will remain so until my death, do as you wish upon my passing.
—
Umico Niwa (b. 1991, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan) lives and works between the USA and Japan. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Memory Palace at The Asia Society, Houston (2025); Gut Friendly, Public Gallery, London (2025); Becoming Feral, Towada Arts Centre, Japan (2024); The Harbinger of Luck: Made of Kisses and Clovers x+x+, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (2024) My Life Inside a Shoe, XYZ Collective, Tokyo (2023); and The Quantified Elf (and how it came to love itself), Someday, New York (2022). Select group exhibitions include: Sculpture Center, New York (2025); Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo (2024); Simon Subal, New York (2022); Kristina Kite, Los Angeles (2021); and Miriam in New York (2020). She was a resident at The Houston Museum of Fine Arts (2023 - 2025) and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2022).
Monsters + Myths
Monsters + Myths No School Day Camp
RECOMMENDED AGES: 7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: $40 / $50 / $60, sliding scale
DATES: Friday, April 3rd
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
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In this one-day camp we’ll be looking at the function of monsters across time and culture! Monsters can be ways to make tangible our fears, anxieties, oppressors—or they can act as protectors. Do monsters inspire us to be heroes, or are they misunderstood? We’ll look at monsters in art, then create our own stories and the monsters that inhabit them, using a variety of mediums ranging from 3d cardboard masks to 2d papercut collage paintings.
(Pairs well with our Worldbuilding camp on Monday, April 6th!)
Intergenerational LGBTQIA2S+ Art Hangout
AGES: All ages!
Folks under 18 who attend without a parent/guardian must have a signed liability waiver with us.
PRICE: Sliding scale, $0-10
No one judged or turned away for lack of funds.
DATE: Saturday, March 28th
It’s been a few months since we hosted one, but this is a recurring event! Typically the last Saturday of each month!
TIME: 2-5 pm
Intergenerational LGBTQIA2S+ Art Hangout
This is a monthly gathering for LGBTQIA2S+ folks* of all ages to come together, hang out, and make art!
Intergenerational community is essential for young queer people; whether it’s to discuss inherently queer topics, to model things like ‘chosen family’, or simply for representation and kinship. It’s also nice for queer folks to have a safe space to hang out, where there is no pressure to be doing anything other than just existing and creating!
We have lots of space–come sit at a table with new friends, or carve out a cozy corner for yourself! You can bring your own materials, or we’ll have some basics set out (collage materials, paper, pencils, etc!). Folks are also welcome to bring a book, homework, or other project to work on.
Access to the hangout is sliding scale (pay what you feel comfortable) from $0-10, which supports our ongoing programming and materials costs. No one turned away or judged for lack of funds.
Sign-in/sign-out is required. No registration required, just show up!
Stay for the full time or just stop by for a bit!
Minors (folks under 18) who attend without a parent/guardian must have a current liability waiver with ILYouth2 (available at the door, or email daelyn@ily2online.com to sign one in advance).
*LGBTQIA2S+ folks are welcome to bring allies to these art hangouts (eg: LGBTQIA2S+ parents can bring their children who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ ; LGBTQIA2S+ youth can bring their parents and/or siblings who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ ; and any LGBTQIA2S+ folks can bring supportive friends and/or partners who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+). Allies are guests during this time, and expected to behave in ways that center the autonomy and care of our LGBTQIA2S+ community members
<3 Thanks xoxo
LGBTQIA2S+ stands for: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Trans/Nonbinary/Gender Non-conforming Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit
Spring Break: Immersive Installation!
Spring Break Camp:
IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION!
RECOMMENDED AGES: ~7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: Sliding scale $70, $55, or $40 per day*
*register for the full week & automatically get one day free!
DATE: Friday, March 27
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
Our Spring Break Camp is PROJECT-BASED!
Each day we’ll be learning new skills as we tackle ONE! BIG! PROJECT!
On Friday, youth will learn about the elements of immersive installation (think: Hopscotch!) and then transform the ILYouth2 bathroom into an out-of-this-world art installation. As a take-away, each youth will get an (optional!) portrait photo in the installation!
Choose your favorite projects, or sign up for the full five:
Mon. 23rd : Make Your Own Plushie!
Tues. 24th : Linoprint Tote Bags!
Wed. 25th : Miniature Art Gallery!
Thurs. 26th : Game Jam!
Fri. 27th : Immersive Installation!
Spring Break: Game Jam!
Spring Break Camp:
GAME JAM!
RECOMMENDED AGES: ~7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: Sliding scale $70, $55, or $40 per day*
*register for the full week & automatically get one day free!
DATE: Thursday, March 26
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
Our Spring Break Camp is PROJECT-BASED!
Each day we’ll be learning new skills as we tackle ONE! BIG! PROJECT!
On Thursday, youth will learn what it takes to design a tabletop game! We’ll talk about the different kinds of games (board, card, dice, co-op, etc), think through game objectives and what makes a good rule, design boards and/or cards and gamepieces, and playtest our games! Youth who participated in our winter “Game Lab” camp are welcome to expand on games they started previously!
Choose your favorite projects, or sign up for the full five:
Mon. 23rd : Make Your Own Plushie!
Tues. 24th : Linoprint Tote Bags!
Wed. 25th : Miniature Art Gallery!
Thurs. 26th : Game Jam!
Fri. 27th : Immersive Installation!
Spring Break: Miniature Art Gallery!
Spring Break Camp:
MINIATURE ART GALLERY!
RECOMMENDED AGES: ~7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: Sliding scale $70, $55, or $40 per day*
*register for the full week & automatically get one day free!
DATE: Wednesday, March 25
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
Our Spring Break Camp is PROJECT-BASED!
Each day we’ll be learning new skills as we tackle ONE! BIG! PROJECT!
On Wednesday, youth will transform the ILYouth2 Mini—a miniature art gallery in an old dollhouse! We’ll look at examples from little art galleries (similar to little free libraries) to BARELY FAIR, a traditional art fair that shows 1:12 (dollhouse scale!) artworks. Together campers will decide what type of gallery(s) to create (traditional, immersive, salon-style, etc!), then build mini artworks to fill it! The dollhouse will then go on display in the ILYouth2 mall window!
Choose your favorite projects, or sign up for the full five:
Mon. 23rd : Make Your Own Plushie!
Tues. 24th : Linoprint Tote Bags!
Wed. 25th : Miniature Art Gallery!
Thurs. 26th : Game Jam!
Fri. 27th : Immersive Installation!
Spring Break: Linoprint Tote Bags!
Spring Break Camp:
LINOPRINT TOTE BAGS!
RECOMMENDED AGES: ~7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: Sliding scale $70, $55, or $40 per day*
*register for the full week & automatically get one day free!
DATE: Tuesday, March 24
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
Our Spring Break Camp is PROJECT-BASED!
Each day we’ll be learning new skills as we tackle ONE! BIG! PROJECT!
On Tuesday, youth will learn the process of linoprinting: a relief printing technique involving carving, to make a reusable printing plate (essentially, a stamp!) We’ll practice on potatoes and foam, then level up to use real lino tools and lino blocks! Campers will get to keep their stamps, as well as a tote bag they design and print!
Choose your favorite projects, or sign up for the full five:
Mon. 23rd : Make Your Own Plushie!
Tues. 24th : Linoprint Tote Bags!
Wed. 25th : Miniature Art Gallery!
Thurs. 26th : Game Jam!
Fri. 27th : Immersive Installation!
Spring Break: Make Your Own Plushie!
Spring Break Camp:
MAKE YOUR OWN PLUSHIE!
RECOMMENDED AGES: ~7-11 (2nd-5th grade)
PRICE: Sliding scale $70, $55, or $40 per day*
*register for the full week & automatically get one day free!
DATE: Monday, March 23
TIME: Drop-off 8:30-9am ; Pick-up 3-3:30pm
Our Spring Break Camp is PROJECT-BASED!
Each day we’ll be learning new skills as we tackle ONE! BIG! PROJECT!
On Monday, youth will design their own character, then bring it to life using felt, fabric, hand stitching, and various other textile techniques! For youth who are interested in getting more complex, or who are already familiar with sewing, there will also be opportunities to use our sewing machines!
Choose your favorite projects, or sign up for the full five:
Mon. 23rd : Make Your Own Plushie!
Tues. 24th : Linoprint Tote Bags!
Wed. 25th : Miniature Art Gallery!
Thurs. 26th : Game Jam!
Fri. 27th : Immersive Installation!
Shapeshift Studio: March Hangout!
Shapeshift Studio
Ages 10 - 17
$5-$15-$30 sliding scale (covers materials/studio access), scholarships available
Monthly, recurring (typically 3rd Saturday but check our calendar to confirm!)
12-3pm, drop-in style hangout (stay for full or partial time ; bring a lunch if you’d like)
Youth must have an active Liability Waiver with ILYouth2 to participate. Youth who’d like to leave the studio on their own (ie: not be checked-out by a parent/guardian) must also have an active Independent Release Waiver with ILYouth2.
Shapeshift Studio is a monthly creative hangout for young therians and other youth who are interested in or curious about therians (otherkin and furries are welcome)! It is a space for middle and high schoolers to work on masks, tails, and creative projects ; have some space for quadrobics ; share about their theriotype ; and just connect with peers with shared identities, since this can be a smaller IRL community for young folks.
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This hangout is facilitated by ILYouth2 director daelyn lambi (at the request of several of our therian youth artists!) daelyn is not a therian but is relatively educated on and hugely supportive of therians, furries, otherkins, and the many adjacent ways that people of all ages playfully explore identity and embodiment. They are especially invested in holding safe and intentional space for therian youth because of the higher rates of LGBTQIA2s+ and neurodivergent folks in the therian community. During these hangouts, daelyn really enjoys helping youth problem-solve creative projects, like constructing masks from scratch, using affordable and recycled materials.