Help your children build lifelong skills, creativity and self-confidence at an arts camp this summer. Below are some of SJ’s many options. (Several offer scholarships and financial aid, so be sure to ask.) For camps that focus primarily on theater arts, see the story below.
• Appel Farm offers an overnight program for ages 9 thru 17 in rural Salem County. Campers pick a major and two minors from a wide range of arts offerings. Sports, concerts and field trips round out the program. From June 25 thru Aug 19. 856-358-2472 x107
• Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown provides two-week sessions for ages 6 thru 13. This year’s theme focuses on nature. Campers take workshops on multiple visual and performing art forms, culminating in a performance. From June 26 thru Aug 18. 856-235-6488
• Creative Genius, a Medford gallery and studio, will offer four five-day sessions, each focusing on a different art form: pottery (July 10 thru 14), book-making (Aug 14 thru 18), art as fashion and decor (July 24 thru 28), and teen jewelry-making (Aug 21 thru 25). Hours are 10a to 12n. 609-714-1131
• The Haddonfield Symphony offers a program for students in grades 6 - 12 who are studying woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments. The program provides private lessons from symphony musicians and side-by-side rehearsals with instructors, concluding with a symphony concert. The session takes place in August at Rutgers-Camden’s fine arts complex. 856-429-1880
• Parsons Center for the Arts in Merchantville offers one-week camps for ages 6 - 14, from 10:30a to 12:30p and 1:30 to 3:30p. Each session focuses on a particular art form, including painting and drawing, beginner guitar, pottery, and sculpture. Sessions start June 26 and end July 28. 856-904-1971
• Jubili Beads & Yarns, a Collingswood shop and studio, holds craft camps for ages 7 - 13. Sessions range from single classes to the full eight-week program. Kids can make such items as mobiles, jewelry, needlepoint bookmarks, beaded windsocks, a photo album and more. Sessions run July 6 to Aug 29; hours are Tue and Thu from 10:30a to 12:30p for ages 7 - 9, and 1 to 3:30p for ages 10 - 13. 856-858-7844
