Visual Arts
Tap into your Creativity
Our art program offers a diverse range of artistic disciplines, making it ideal for the creative girl who wants to explore a new medium or is looking to refine her existing skills. With each discipline you explore, our expert instructors will help you learn, grow, and create amazing art. You'll learn how to apply the principles of design and elements of art, such as balance, contrast, movement, shape, texture, color, and more. Whether you’re a novice or a more advanced artist, you are guaranteed to try something new and expand your artistic skill set!
Our lessons and projects are intentionally designed each summer so that the learning process is approachable for new campers, and fresh and exciting for returning campers.
Our facility features four newly outfitted art studios with brand new cameras, throwing wheels, kilns, 3D printer, and more. Classes are also held outdoors, where you can tap into your creativity surrounded by our serene, stunning lakefront.
Meet Our Art Director
Kate Miller
Girls craft unique pieces through techniques like wire wrapping, beading, and resin work. They also explore etching, hammering, and stamping to create unique metal pieces like charms, bracelets, and rings.
Jewelry & Metalworking
Ceramics
Girls master techniques like coiling, pinch pots, and slabs. They create pottery and sculptures using both wheel and hand-building approaches with a variety of underglaze and glaze techniques.
Digital Arts
Girls cultivate 21st century media literacy skills by experimenting with graphic design, animation, and digital photography. They will not only learn to create, but also master the art of editing using Adobe Photoshop.
Fine Arts
Girls explore an array of mediums, from still life studies with charcoal and oil to the depictions of the beautiful Berkshires scenery, using acrylic and watercolor. They explore color theory, create collaborative murals, and study and emulate great artists from throughout the ages.
3D Printing
Explore the exciting intersection of art and technology. Girls will delve into the fundamentals and principles of design, learning to bring ideas to life as 3D objects. Then, their creations can act as tools to use in other artistic media or stand alone as their own unique piece of art.
Girls explore the world of printmaking, employing techniques like screen printing, linocuts, etching, solar, and relief printing. Their designs will then be transformed into intricate paper prints, fabric patterns, and graphic clothing designs using a variety of water soluble and oil based inks.
Printmaking
