PDT March 26, 2016
Oscar Ibarra, 12, works on a habitat project at the Ash Creek Arts Centeras Spring Summer Art Camp.(Photo: GEOFF PARKS/ Special to the Statesman Journal)
The Ash Creek Arts Centeras second year of a summer Art Camp for children has grownA to include an inaugural Spring Art Camp.
Itas a natural progression from lastA summeras miniature garden construction to this springas exploration ofA cloud forests aA and the exotic bugs and birds found therein.
Margaret Tomlinson, president of the ACACas eight-member board of directors, said grants from the Oregon Community Foundation, the Polk County Cultural Coalition and the Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation aA along with membership funding aA made the arts camps possible.
aMore than 500 local children have participated in all of the more than 50 arts-related events and workshopsa put on by the ACAC in its shortA two-year history, she said.
The first Summer Art Camp was held July 15 through July 21, 2015. aWeare hoping to expand (classes and camps) even further,a said Francie Zandol, coordinator of the Spring Art Camp.
Artist/instructorA Cheryl Lewis kicked off last yearas Summer Art Camp by leading the 16 students in creating aclay hobbit housesa and miniature gardens, while artist/instructorA Sonia Allen helped guide the kids in creating watercolor landscape backdrops for those gardens, as well as colored pencil studies of garden art and plants.
Ash Creek Arts Center Spring Summer Art Camp student Jessie Welborn, 15, works with instructor Kathy Lord on a clay abug habitata art project.
