Collage/Mind     

            Limited to 12 participants

When: Monday, June 14-Friday, June 19

             10:00 am-3:00pm

Cost: $170

Scholarship Assistance available

Please bring:Lunch

                        Water bottle

                        Writer’s notebook

                         For use for collage work--which means they'll be modified or cut!:

                         One magazine, one book, found papers ( such as writing,   

                        letters, copies of photos etc)

     What happens when you take two things that seem unrelated like, say, visual art and writing, collage art and poetry, non-fiction and creativity, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial site and mix them all up in a one week camp?

     We don’t know exactly—though we’re sure it will be something new and exciting and we're sure it will              surprise us. We’re also sure it will help all of us to enter what Beat generation novelist William S. Burroughs called “the third mind”—a mind-set that will inspire our poems, short memoir pieces, or lively personal essays.  Participants will begin the week at the BMCMAC by exploring the art of collage artist Ray Johnson, one of the seminal figures of the Pop art Era and who attended the Black Mountain college from 1945 to 1948. Tuesday through Friday will offer time at both the BMCMAC and the Wolfe Memorial, for writing, making collage art, and having great conversations about creativity. Poet Sebastian Matthews, curator of the Ray Johnson show, will take the lead on poetry, beginning with his workshop, 7 Things Ray Can Teach Us About Poetry. In the house that Asheville’s most famous novelist, Thomas Wolfe, made famous with his barely fictionalized novel Look Homeward, Angel, Janet Hurley and camp participants will explore the creative non-fiction genre—where murkiness and clarity are both inspirational.

     To cap the week, participants will share their writing and art in a public reading and artshow at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Visitor Center.

A note to parents: Please be advised that a few of the images in the Ray Johnson show are intense and provocative. You are invited to visit the show, now on display through June 12 before registering your child for this camp.

For more information about Sebastian Matthews click the poster to the left.

                                                  For more information about the Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center,

                                                  click the image to the right.

All work of Ray Johnson on this site is used by permission of The Ray Johnson Estate.

 



Hand in Hand: Drawing and Writing

 

Who? Rising 5th-Rising 6th grade (age approximate 9-11)
           Limited to ten participants
When: June 21-25, Monday through Friday
              9:00-4:00 p.m.
Cost: $235 ( includes a collaborative, professionally produced full color publication of participant's work)
Some scholarship assistance available.

Please bring:

              Lunch and Snacks

              Water Bottle

              Writer's notebook
              Pens/Pencils
             White index cards
             Sketch pad
             All other supplies will be provided.

 

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Cool Scribbles
Who? Rising 4th-Rising 6th grade
              8 participants max
When? Please note: sessions are Tuesday-Friday                                                 
              Session I June 29- July 2
              Session II July 20-July 23
              Session III July 27-July 30

               9:00 am-3:30

Cost? $135
Please Bring:
            Lunch and snacks
            Writer's Notebook
            Pens/pencils
            White index cards


    
Cool Scribbles is a fun, experiential camp for young writers. We explore "writerly habits" and exercise our right and left brains through wordplay, improv games, collage work, and getting out in the world to hunting interesting characters, stray pieces of dialog, physical details     from the mundane to the amazing, and moments we can explode into scenes or poems. In addition, the campers explore the old Kentucky home, featured in Thomas Wolfe's novel, Look Homeward Angel,  with Wolfe memorial site interpreter, Christian Dwight.  Her high energy and ever-changing stories always entertain, inform and inspire!

If that wasn't enough fun--Cool Scribbles campers will have a "Haicootie" workshop with poet Allan Wolf. They'll experience this ancient, Japanese poetic form in a way that they never have before--and make an Allan-designed manipulative based on the old "cootie catcher" model-- but instead of catching cooties--
they'll be making up haikus!  What?! You gotta see ( and hear) it to believe it.

To learn more about Allan, click on his photo!

The camp will end on Friday afternoon with a reading and reception in the Thomas Wolfe Memorial site Visitor Center auditorium.

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 Her Story
Who? Rising 7th-Rising 9th, Girls Only
             Limit 10 participants
When? Please note: session is Tuesday-Friday
                 July 6-July 9                                                          
                July 13-July16
                10-4:00
Cost: $145
Please Bring:
            Lunch and snacks
             Writer's notebook
             Pens/pencils
             White index cards 
     

         All the fun of our Cool Scribbles camp and just as experiential  but for the more mature, female writer . We'll explore the writerly life through exercises, explorations of the downtown area including a 90 minute walking tour by Asheville's Herstory. Camp participants will "hear the tales of the famous, the infamous and the unsung heroines of Asheville" and then explore their own her-stories (drawn from real life or entirely fantastic!) in a variety of genres including memoir (you are never too young to write a memoir piece!), short story, and poetry. The camp will end on Friday afternoon with a reading and reception in the Thomas Wolfe  Memorial Site Visitor Center auditorium.

 

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Ink Beast
Who? Rising 7th-Rising 9th--Boys Only
             Limit 10 participants
When? Please note: session is Tuesday-Friday
                July 6-July 9
                 July 13-July16
                10-4:00
Cost: $145
Please Bring:
            Lunch and snacks
             Writer's notebook
             Pens/pencils
             White index cards 
     

         All the fun of our Cool Scribbles camp and just as experiential  but for the more mature writer. We'll explore the writerly life through exercises, explorations of the downtown area, and discussion. We'll exercise writerly  muscles in a variety of genres including memoir (you are never too young to write a memoir piece!), short story, and poetry.
The camp will end on Friday afternoon with a reading and reception in the Thomas Wolfe  Memorial Site Visitor Center auditorium.


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