Have You Signed Up Your Child for Summer Art Camp in Eagle Rock?

The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock has begun registrations for its highly popular summer art camp for children aged six years to 12 years in a variety of subjects ranging from visual arts, playwriting and dance to ceramics, cooking, gardening.

The art camp, from June 10 through August 9, is split up into nine weeks, and children may be signed up for any of the weeks or all of them. The programs are taught by local contemporary artists with backgrounds in art history and play-based learning. The instructors incorporate their own studio practices into the program, creating an innovative curriculum that allows children to explore their creative talent, express themselves artistically and create bonds with community peers.

“It is so much fun to dream up projects and collaborate with our amazing teachers to create an enriching, holistic arts experience for our campers,” said CFAER Education Director Laura Marchetti. “Our projects are all student-driven, which means that we facilitate, never squelch, camper creativity.”

While camp teachers come up with project concepts, they give campers “the freedom to play within the concept, setting out lots of different materials and opening up the room to collaboration,” Marchetti said.

The summer art camp is divided into three groups: Visual Arts, Performance, and Pioneering. In the visual arts class, campers work with our Art Teacher Brooke Sauer, to learn more about art history while sculpting with clay, painting, drawing—and even creating science-based experiments, Marchetti said. 

In Performance, Jemima Wyman collaborates with students to produce a student-directed weekly play, as well as lead students in creative movement and practice yoga. 

And in Pioneering, teacher John Burtle, who likes to bike to work, explores the domestic arts with campers. “While talking about different kinds of historical architecture, campers build extensive forts with a variety of materials,” Marchetti explained. Burtle also teaches campers about sustainability at the Center’s vegetable and succulent gardens. Produce from the vegetable garden is used to cook delicious snacks collaboratively.

Tuition fees for CFAER family-level members (or higher) is $225 per week. Tuition for non-members is $250 per week.

Seats are filling up quickly, and the Center staff encourages community members to sign up for the camp as early as possible. Click here to register.