Make Up Policy at the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center
By Lofton Wheeles
For the Opelika Observer
The Jan Dempsey Community Arts Heart (JDCAC) in Auburn volition be hosting summer camps for kids ages 4 to 18, beginning on June 14 at 222 E. Drake Ave.
City of Auburn Cultural Arts Director Sara Custer is coordinating the camps this year and is excited for what'due south in store for the summer.
"These camps were created by Chichi Lovett, a retired Auburn University art instruction professor," she said. "As of a few years ago, she was not able to coordinate camps. I took on this office to fulfill her legacy as she coordinated art camps for over twenty years while teaching at Auburn and working with the Auburn Arts Association. Professor Lovett was my mentor in college and I taught at art camps as her educatee. Then, these camps have always been dear to my center and I strive to provide children with a supportive and inspirational learning surroundings."
JDCAC is partnering with the Auburn Area Community Theatre (AACT) to offer a diversity of theatre camps this summertime.
"Musical theatre camps have been a favorite for children for many years," Custer said. "They e'er make full up and these campers shine all week long. [AACT's] children's theatre continues to grow along with their students."
AACT has also brought in more than opportunities for local children to express themselves through the art of theatre.
"They've added more intensive theatre opportunities that focus on skills and techniques for all different levels," Custer said. "They even have a army camp where immature actors produce an entire play where they write lines, design their own set, sketch costume and make upwardly designs and attain props needed for their play. They also offer All Day Arts Experiences, BYO Lunch Break and Afterward Hours Theatre, which bridge forenoon art camps and afternoon theatre camps to provide children with an all day, visual and performing arts feel."
JDCAC is also providing camps that cater to those that want to create some magic with a castor.
The campers will learn more nigh the different kinds of art materials while diving into the history, the unlike artists, the movements and the culture surrounding art. This, co-ordinate to the website, will inspire the children to try something new with the materials while learning about art elements and the principles of design.
While the summer camps are bursting with opportunities, COVID has made planning the unlike programs adequately challenging. Nevertheless, Custer is gear up to go back to serving the community through the arts while doing so in accord with CDC guidelines.
"I am very grateful to be able to hold camps this summer," she said. "Summer is my favorite flavor at the JDCAC. Our arts center is full of free energy in the summer and we all really missed having camps last year. We got creative with virtual opportunities, but nosotros missed everyone. Planning during the pandemic has involved a lot of trouble solving. Nosotros've worked hard to make events and programs Covid friendly. We continue to adapt in gild to meet CDC and Alabama Deptartment of Public Health guidelines."
There are several aspects of planning these camps that keep the job fun, however Custer says that there is i thing that stands out to her the virtually — collaboration.
"Our partnerships with the Auburn Arts Association and Auburn Surface area Community Theatre are fundamental to our cultural customs," she said. "The arts are essential to a thriving community and these opportunities requite cultural access to children, families and citizens.
"I'm also excited Emillie Dombrowski, our new Fine art Teaching Specialist, will be coordinating camps with me this summer. She is an experienced art educator and has brought and then many inventive ideas to our programming and events. So, I believe information technology'southward going to exist a productive and inspiring summertime."
The camps that are offered include:
– Art for Young Children, ages iv to vi
– Visual Arts Workshops for Children, ages iii to 12
– Subsequently Hours Theater, ages 3 to 12
– AACT Academy Summertime Intensive, ages three to 18
– AACT Academy Summertime "Play", ages seven to 12
– BYO Dejeuner Break, ages 3 to 12.
– Musical Theatre Camp, ages three to 18 (dissever into four different groups depending on age).
For more than information on the summer camps, go to auburnalabama.org/parks/facilities/jan-dempsey-community-center/jdcac-summertime-camps or yous can electronic mail Sara Custer at scuster@auburnalabama.org.
Source: https://opelikaobserver.com/jan-dempsey-community-art-center-to-host-summer-camps/
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