Gibbes Museum Summer Art Camp
What an amazing summer art camp this was! Multicultural art, fairytales, yoga sessions, field trips to Charleston art galleries, and fun at the water fountain, and weekly art show performances were all part of this magical summer experience. It was a joy to teach these kids who were passionate about art and came to art camp with a joyful attitude.
I had an intern and assistant, Naomi Edmunson, who wrote a great descriptive summary of these 6 weeks of camp in the Gibbes Museum of Art Blog. I will paste her description below and it is also from this link: (http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=5018)
The first of three camp themes was “Oh The Places You’ll Go!” During these weeks, the campers learned about art from different countries such as Egypt, Brazil, China, Morocco, Australia, and India. We started our day by fastening the seatbelts to our pretend airplane on the classroom carpet and landing in a foreign country. Campers were excited to learn about the different art and cultures of all the places we “visited” before stamping their passports after each journey. Campers’ projects included Brazilian Carnival masks, drums, and maracas, African plaster masks, Egyptian Canopic Jars, Indian Mandalas, Japanese Kites, Chinese Dragons, and Australian Dot
Paintings.
The second theme of camp was “Stories and Puppets.” During these weeks, campers would listen to stories and create artworks inspired by themes and characters in the story. At the end of the week, campers performed a play of The Rainbow Fish, which featured each camper’s uniquely designed fish. I couldn’t help but be impressed as the kids so excitedly delivered their lines perfectly for the room full of parents.
Our last theme of camp, “Art and Movement,” was probably most enjoyable for me personally. Leonora instructed the kids in yoga before each project (which proved to be very beneficial and effective in calming the campers down) to focus them on their artwork. Projects created included foam puppets, needle felting, body tracing, and Jackson Pollock inspired splatter painting (which, I must say…the kids thoroughly enjoyed). Throughout the week, campers practiced their yoga moves set to fun children’s songs, and on Friday they performed these impressive, entertaining yoga dances for their parents.
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