Superhero Training Academy!

Everybody has dreams of being a Superhero, fantasies of leaping over tall buildings, outracing jet planes, and saving the day with spectacular super-powers. But being a Superhero isn't just about having super-strength and fighting crime in your underwear.
Join us as we learn what it takes to be a real Superhero in the ToonSeum’s first ever Superhero Training Academy!
Students will begin the day by developing their very own Superhero design through a series of drawing lessons and costume creation. Then, strap on your utility belts for a series of problem-solving games and hands-on activities designed to strengthen super-strong wits! Our Super-recruits will meet with local local civic leaders to help solve the challenges that face our community and offer their skills toward making Pittsburgh a Super City. 
Superhero Training Academy is designed to reinforce creativity and civic responsibility by exploring the basic moral codes of community activism, good citizenship, and personal fitness in a fun and challenging format. Students will meet real-life “Superheroes” including firefighters, police officers, and local politicians who work for the good of the people of Pittsburgh and will be asked to offer their solutions to the problems that face our city. 
All heroes will receive a diploma from the ToonSeum Superhero Training Academy, a Superhero cape, mask, and design-it-yourself t-shirt, as well as all supplies needed for the day (students should bring a lunch).

August 5th-7th
Ages 6-12
10am-2pm
Cost $150 non-members
$125 members

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 How to Toon Cartooning Basics Learn the basic skills needed to create your own cartoon characters and then bring them to life. Through simple line exercises and easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons, students will be amazed at their own skills and abilities. With a strong emphasis on character development through personality, costume, character relationships and plot, this class not only reinforces drawing skills, but provides students with logical formulas for visual storytelling.

All supplies are included, art supplies cases, cartooning book, markers and pencils are provided for students to keep.
Recommended for ages 6-12

Class size is limited to no more than 25 students.

August 5th-7th, 9:30am-3pm each day.

Cost is $150 for non-members and $125 for ToonSeum members.

Students should bring a lunch with them each day.

About the instructor:

Joe Wos is not only the founder and executive director of the ToonSeum he has been a cartooning instructor for over 20 years! His popular How To Toon has been taught nationwide. Joe was the first resident cartoonist of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa California, where he continues to teach workshops every year.

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