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Bio Art - San Francisco Bay Area, CA

  • Led by Dani Bogenhagen
  • Grades 1-2
  • Status Wait List
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Bio Art

Albert Einstein wrote his special relativity theory without conducting a single experiment.  He based it solely on his imagination.  We will look for the unpredictable and stunning ways that art and science intersect by looking at the natural world, draw inspiration from it to create art.  We will search the natural world, for examples of pure mathematics like Golden Mean and the Fibonacci sequence.  We will exam the strange numerology of the plant kingdom, the structure of cells and viruses, patterns in water and sand, cosmic arrangements in space and more.  We will use many different materials to create our art:  acrylic and water paint, resin, printed paper, china markers, wax, fabric and more. On Friday afternoon, parents are invited to our art show to see how we elevated the beauty of science into a true art form.

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Bio Art
Dani Bogenhagen

Dani Bogenhagen

Led byDani Bogenhagen

Dani’s photographs have been exhibited in many galleries and magazines in the US and France. Her work hinges on her observant nature, pulling viewers into another world that piques their interest and makes them wonder. She was formally the Visual editor at Amorce Magazine, France, and the studio manager at the legendary Larry Fink Center of Photography. Growing up, she hung out in her microbiologist father’s lab where she developed her love for the natural world. She later moved to a small town in France where she learned age-old culinary savoir-faire and adopted the French passion for fresh, regional products, wine and jam making, wild mushroom foraging, and training her dog to find truffles.
Dani is a graduate of Bard College, where she earned her BA in Liberal Arts, with a concentration in photography and French language. She also holds foreign language teacher certificate from TEFL in Toulouse, France.

Fees and Policies

 

  • Material fee: Surgery! and Metalsmith $35

Discount

  • Multiple Session Discount – Also applicable to siblings
    • Sign up for 2 sessions: receive a total of $50 off
    • Sign up for 3 sessions: receive a total of $105 off
    • Sign up for 4 sessions or more: $180 off or more ($45 per additional sessions)

    Discount is calculated automatically by the system.

  • Refer a family who has never attended a Celsius camp before and receive either a credit of $75 off a future camp or a refund of $30 per referral that signs up and pays for a 2024 Summer Camp. Email us with your referrals once they are committed to sign up. No cross family referrals will be accepted.

Extended Care

  • Early morning extended care from 8am to 9am
  • Afternoon extended care from 4pm up to 5:30pm.
  • Advanced payments (prior to start of camp) for early care: $85 per week. Aftercare: $125 per week.
  • Ad Hoc during the week of camp are billed at $25 per hour.
  • Pick up after 5:30pm will be charged at a rate of $2.00 per minute (no grace)
  • Extended Care is billed in one-hour increments after a 10-minute grace period.

Cancellation Policy

-Any changes (other than cancellation) to previously confirmed sessions shall be assessed a $45 fee. Transferring sessions is subject to availability.

– $250 deposit is non-refundable if you need/choose to cancel greater than four weeks prior to the start of a camp, for whatever reason you may have. The balance paid will be refunded to you.

deposit.
– No refunds will be issued for cancellations made by you for any reason less than four weeks prior to the start of a camp session, however partial credits on your Celsius account are available as follows:

– More than 3 weeks’ notice prior to the start date of the session, a credit for 80% of the total price paid less the $250 non-refundable fee.

– Between 8 days and 21 days notice prior to the start of the session = 50% credit of the total price paid less the $250 non-refundable fee.

– Less than 8 days notice 20% credit less the $250 non-refundable fee for any cancellations.

Please Note: We are sorry, but there are no refunds or reductions in fees for days missed due to illness, absence, last-minute vacations/trips, change in family circumstances during camp sessions, suspension or dismissal

Minimize fees: You may change sessions to a different week for a change session fee of $45, plus any changes in the new camp price, subject to availability.

-Can’t make it all? Turn a lemon into lemonade by donating your unused session to enable a child from the Rafael House family homeless shelter to attend a camp.

We accept cash, check, e-check, and Zelle payments. For Zelle payments, please use our email address (Hello at CelsiusandBeyond dot com).
Reservations are not confirmed without payment received. Online registration and payment ensure immediate confirmation. Payments by check should be sent in within 3 days of making an online reservation or the spot will be released.

Schedule

8-9 am Early Care
8:45-9:10 Drop off
9:10-11:30 Activities
11:30-12 pm Lunch
12-1 pm Recess at blacktop or Rossi Park
1-3:45 Activities
3:45-4:15 pm Pick up
4-5:30 pm Aftercare

Discover the beauty of science by manipulating the living cells of plants and bacteria!
We will create beautiful art by drawing with live bacteria of different colors, watching it evolve over the week. After extracting chlorophyll cells from plants, we will document their mesmerizing movement in water using our cameras. Our decaying lunch compost will be turned into art on film as we use time-lapse to follow its biological evolution. These projects and others will introduce us to the grandness of micro life!

Campers who are interested can submit their work to the ASM Agar Art Contest.