Mission
The Summer Arts Camp is an arts-based educational program for children of diverse cultural and economic backgrounds that aims to facilitate and encourage the creative, personal, and social growth of youth through the development of creative skills, socialization, and community engagement.

Each year we celebrate the end of the program by bringing together parents, campers, and the Columbia College community to exhibit the campers' work in a culminating final performance and exhibition.

Sample Schedule

8:30-9:00am Morning Drop-off

9:00-9:10am Announcements

9:15-9:45am Group Time

9:50-11:10am Visual Arts Class

11:15-12:40pm Outdoor Lunch & Play

12:45-2:05pm Performing Arts Class

2:10-3:35pm Media Arts Class

Performing Arts classes work throughout the program to write, rehearse, and perform an original piece using a combination of dance, music, improvisation techniques, and acting. On the final day each group of campers performs their piece onstage in the Getz Theater.

Visual Arts classes explore and introduce campers to a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, comic book illustration, as well as teaching them how to create large-scale installations for an art gallery. On the final day campers display their work in a professional gallery space. Gallery installations have ranged from presentation of all the artwork produced over the summer, to camp-wide large-scale installation projects.

After Camp is our extended care program that runs daily, Monday through Friday, from 3:30-5:30pm. We provide juice and a snack and play outdoors, work on small art projects, or occasionally we'll watch a movie. After Camp costs $450 for the six-week session OR $16 on a per day basis.