Summer Art Camp

Art Camp complements our year-long SITE Program during the summer.  The goal is to introduce American middle and high school students of the various cultural backgrounds to the treasures of Polish culture, architecture and nature. Our unique Summer Camp program combines daily artwork with hiking and site-seeing. The camp represents a wonderful opportunity for meeting the both: Polish and American cultures, and Polish and English languages. Participants will meet also students from Poland and other European countries.

ART PROGRAM:

Our camp helps to discover and promote young people’s interest in the art. The participants will work on their art projects led by experienced, licensed, bilingual art teachers.  Daily excursions will provide topics for artwork. The students will illustrate their daily experiences when working in a nice and student-friendly atmosphere. We will make sculptures, paint dry and oil pastels, tempera, watercolor, and will enjoy drawing with coal, pencil and sepia. They will have fun with collage and linoleum-print.

All participants’ art work will be presented at an after-camp exposition and in the Polish Consulate in New York, and the other locations.

HIKING PROGRAM:

Camp purpose is to raise students’ interest for hiking and to instill them with love for nature represented by Polish Carpathian Mountains. We plan daily hiking trips from easy to more advanced and longer to build better fitness in students. We are also taking bus trips to interesting local sites, depending on Camp location. For instance recently we visited Sucha Beskidzka with Renaissance Castle and 18^th century Inn “Karczma Rzym”. We can visit and paint the picturesque market squares of Wisla and Zywiec, eat “Pope’s Wojtyla Kremowki” in Wadowice, or swim in Sola River in Wegierska Gorka.

The last two days of the camp members will spend in “Magic Krakow”. Our program in Krakow includes visits to Wawel Royal Castle, The Market Square (Rynek), and to the Czartoryski Museum. We will also make a stop at a restaurant on Slawkowska Street where, following the Camp’s tradition, we will dine on pizza and dumplings (pierogi).