The theme for Art Camp 2025 is Then and Now, Near and Far. This summer camp will consist of five weeks with unique World Culture related themes ranging from local Appalachian handcrafting traditions to Art History focused-projects from cultures around the world. Children will make a variety of projects each week; including paper basket weaving, exploring ancient cave art, studying brushwork of the French Impressionists, or even learning about animals all around the world!
June 2nd–6th
This week of art camp is inspired by artwork created thousands of years ago! We are going all the way back to prehistoric times and creating artwork inspired by cave paintings. Then, campers will join us on a journey through time and explore various artworks from major civilizations throughout history. Campers will create art based on Ancient Egypt, Neolithic China, Mesopotamia, and more!
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June 9th–13th
This week of art camp will be focused on artwork created from the 1860’s and beyond! Campers will begin the week with art movements like Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Then, as the week progresses, we learn about other art movements in the modern and contemporary world; such as Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and more. Campers will have a blast with all the experimental techniques that blossomed during this period of art history!
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June 16th–20th
This camp week will be very cozy and close to home, by celebrating Appalachian arts and crafts all week long! Campers will be very active with their hands with all the various mediums we will be exploring during Appalachian week. We will begin the week with pottery and working with clay. Then, we get experimenting with textile projects. Lastly, we round off the week with carving and toy making. Crafting projects will be tailored toward skill levels of each age range, but will be a wonderful way to build motor skills and learn Appalachian culture!
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June 23rd–27th
Campers will begin to expand their horizons during this exploratory week of art camp! The week will focus on various continents like South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Each day campers will create two pieces of artwork; one based on ancient or traditional work from the continent of origin and another piece based on a contemporary artist from the continent. This will give campers a scope of the range of artwork created from the region that we will discuss that day.
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July 7th–11th
For this final week of art camp, we will be making artwork inspired by all the creatures who inhabit our earth; furry, scaly, and otherwise! As an exciting precursor for the Worrell Collection of Animal Art opening next year, this week of art camp will be so much fun as kids will get a chance to create art based on all kinds of different animals. We will use various artistic mediums and learn fun animal facts along the way. We may even take a few nature walks and draw some living creatures we see out in nature.
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Art Camp is funded in part by the Stuart Endowment Fund.
