Additional week added to Key West Art & Historical Society ArtCamp

 

The Key West Art & Historical Society has announced that due to the popularity of its children’s summer ArtCamp!, a special holiday session has been added to the original 9 weeks of programming.  Big Fish: Catching Creativity with an Art Journal will be held June 8 through August 14, led by writer and artist Cricket Desmarais.

 

In it, children 5-12 will make their own art journals, “great receptacles for creative brainstorming over a multitude of mediums,” says Desmarais, who has taught creativity-based workshops and classes widely over the last two decades.   Big Fish is modeled after Key West writers Ernest Hemingway, Shel Silverstein and Elizabeth Bishop, writers who embraced other forms of creativity in addition to the written word.

 

“The intention is to not only educate them about our island’s historic artists, but to get them fired up about their own creativity,” she says.

 

Campers will be introduced to techniques to fill their journals: creative writing prompts to help them write their own stories and poems, instructions on how to create “field notes” and make sketches of a specimen or landscape, lessons on fish print painting (gyotaku), and a series of art-journaling prompts that will help generate creativity and confidence.  They will also explore how to use the ideas they’ve compiled in the journal to inspire them towards a performance, story, painting or poem.

 

Other ArtCamp! weekly sessions, operated in partnership with The Studios of Key West, run the creative gamut to touch upon a variety of art, culture and the humanities to get children thinking, moving and making: Exploring Key West’s Sweet Sounds; Let’s Explore Pinhole Photography; Journey through the Mediums: Batik Prints and Mixed Media; Environmental Education Through Art; From Cuba to Cayo Hueso; Islands of Song: The Bahamas; The Kid Stays in the Picture:  Key West’s Wild Picture Show; Key West Flora and Fauna Through an Artist’s Eyes; and Music and Dance from the Isle of Key West.

 

Each week offers auxiliary activities and excursions outside of the Fort including field trips to local museums, nearby beaches and gardens— all highlighting the abundant history and cultural assets of our islands and encouraging and expanding students in their knowledge of their local community.

 

ArtCamp! runs from 9:00AM-4:00PM, Monday – Friday, is $185 a week for members and $200 a week for non members and offers an early morning drop-off at 7:45 for an extra $25 a week.  Included are all supplies, light snacks and weekly Friday pizza parties.  Families who want to register for more than one session may reserve their spot with a 50% down payment.

 

Detailed description of the various sessions and registration information can be found at KWAHS.ORG/LEARN  or by calling  305-295-6616, extension 102. Your museums.  Your community.  It takes an island. 

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