Camp Aldrich

Camp Aldrich is a full-day, week-long arts experience with Museum Educators and a practicing teaching artist. Campers explore the Museum’s three-acre campus, learn in the galleries, and incorporate the world around them into their art.

Each week, campers are guided through art-making workshops and activities led by a professional, practicing artist and our dedicated team of camp counselors. Weeks are tailored to specific age groups for the ultimate creative learning environment.

Each session culminates in a celebration for family and friends on Friday evenings, displaying works or art that the campers developed throughout the week.

Family level Members ($150) and above receive a 10% discount on Camp Aldrich

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Two Campers making a structural art project

Children and teacher playing outside with a colorful parachute

Children in an art studio with their teacher

Camp Aldrich 2024 participants will explore the following exhibitions:

Loie Hollowell: Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years
January 21 to August 11, 2024

Loie Hollowell’s exhibition includes new pastel drawings and paintings with three-dimensional reliefs. Main exhibition themes include: symmetry, geometric shapes, abstraction, feminism, and motherhood.

Layo Bright: Dawn and Dusk
April 7 to October 20, 2024

Layo Bright’s glass and pottery works of art are influenced by her matrilineal heritage, Nigerian Ife bronze heads, and West African textiles. Main exhibition themes include: identity, womanhood, migration, and the African diaspora.

Elizabeth Englander: Eminem Buddhism, Volume 3
April 7 to October 20, 2024

Nutcrackers, toys, outgrown children’s furniture, and other discarded wooden tchotchkes are the material base of Elizabeth Englander’s sculptures of gods, goddesses, and saints, referencing the pantheons of Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Main exhibition themes include: figurative wooden sculpture, meditation and mindfulness, spiritual iconography, and nostalgia.

Dates and Cost

Week 1: Monday, July 15 to Friday, July 19
Grades 1 to 3

Week 2: Monday, July 22 to Friday, July 26
Grades 1 to 3

Week 3: Monday, July 29 to Friday, August 2
Grades 4 to 6

Cost:

Members: $435 per week

Non-Members: $480 per week

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Sample Schedule

Daily Schedule

Drop Off
9:30 am

Campers have the option to draw, read, play, or participate in group activities while all the children arrive.

Mindful Movement and Studio Time
9:30 to 10am

Campers will be guided through a mindful movement activity or engage in free studio time before the gallery tour begins.

In the Gallery
10 to 11:30 am

Campers will begin by exploring a particular gallery or work of art currently on view in the museum with our staff. Following the tour, campers will engage in creative gallery activities.

Lunch and Outdoor Play
11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Time to eat (outside if weather permits) and then participate in games and activities in the sculpture garden or The Studio

Artist Session
12:30 to 3 pm

Campers work with the teaching artist on their projects, experimenting with art-making techniques, and exploring the galleries and sculpture garden.

Snack/Extra Flex Time
3 to 4 pm

Children enjoy a snack (outside if weather permits), then have time to add final touches to their work for the day and/or take part in games/activities.

Pick Up
4 pm

Campers clean up from the day’s activities and have the option to draw, read or play while caregivers pick up the children.