NCLAC’s Summer Arts Camps are back!

Written by Jessica Slaughter, NCLAC Executive Director 

The North Central Louisiana Arts Council’s Summer Arts Camps are back for 2015! For more than twenty years, NCLAC has offered art camps for students enrolled in 1^st through 6^th grades (entering 2nd through 7th in the fall).

Students in 2D class - 2014

 These five-day camps, held Monday-Friday from 9am-noon, are taught by artists and art educators. This year’s camps will offer classes each day in drama, visual art, and new this year—PERCUSSION!

Camp schedule is as follows:

Ruston 1, June 22-26 at Presbyterian Church of Ruston

Jonesboro, July 6-10 at United Methodist Church, Jonesboro

Ruston 2, July 13-17 at Presbyterian Church of Ruston

This year we will have Matthew Knopps, art teacher in Ouachita Parish, and Hillary Clary, talented art teacher in Caddo Parish, instructing our visual art classes. Although these teachers teach outside Lincoln Parish, Knopps lives here in Ruston, and Clary is a Ruston native. They are both graduates of Louisiana Tech.

James Waller, a Lincoln Parish musician and former director of the Percussive Arts Institute of Ruston, will be teaching our music classes.

Stephanie Tippi Hart, a local theatre personality and soon-to-be PhD candidate at Arizona State University, will lead our drama classes. You may also know Hart as RPAR’s Zumba instructor.

For more than twenty years, NCLAC has offered art camps for students enrolled in 1^st through 6^th grades (entering 2nd through 7th in the fall).

These five-day camps, held Monday-Friday from 9am-noon, are taught by artists and art educators. This year’s camps will offer classes each day in drama, visual art, and new this year—PERCUSSION!

Camp schedule is as follows:

Ruston 1, June 22-26 at Presbyterian Church of Ruston

Jonesboro, July 6-10 at United Methodist Church, Jonesboro

Ruston 2, July 13-17 at Presbyterian Church of Ruston

This year we will have Matthew Knopps, art teacher in Ouachita Parish, and Hillary Clary, talented art teacher in Caddo Parish, instructing our visual art classes. Although these teachers teach outside Lincoln Parish, Knopps lives here in Ruston, and Clary is a Ruston native. They are both graduates of Louisiana Tech.

James Waller, a Lincoln Parish musician and former director of the Percussive Arts Institute of Ruston, will be teaching our music classes.

Stephanie Tippi Hart, a local theatre personality and soon-to-be PhD candidate at Arizona State University, will lead our drama classes. You may also know Hart as RPAR’s Zumba instructor.

NCLAC's Summer Arts Camps 1) are loads of fun 2) provide quality, creative instruction and 3) are reasonably priced. 

Dragons in Final Friday play, The Magic Compass - 2014

Weeklong camps are $60 if you register and pay by May 1; $65 after May 1. Camp fee includes supplies and a daily snack. Camp hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-noon. Space is limited to 44 per camp, so check your schedule and register your child today!

Those interested may register by phone at (318) 255-1450, or by downloading a registration form from http://www.nclarts.org/summer-art-camps/.

Forms and checks should be mailed to NCLAC, PO Box 911 Ruston, LA 71273, or dropped off at our office inside the Dixie Center for the Arts, 212 N Vienna St. in Ruston.

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