Collage/Mind 
Who? Rising 8th
grade-Rising 10th grade (age approximate--13-16)
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 readin
g 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. Do you love cartoons? Graphic novels? Comic books?
If
yes, then this camp is for you. We'll take a look at how drawing and
words work together and then create our own graphic stories and poems.
Campers will work with cartoon artist Jeff Kinzel and writer Janet
Hurley to produce a collaborative, professionally produced full color
publication* and participate in a reading/art show at the end of the
week.
*Books will arrive for pick up at the Thomas Wolfe house within 5-10 days from end of camp.
Cool Scribbles
Who? Rising 4th-Rising 6th grade
8 participants max
When? Please note: sessions are Tuesday-Friday
Session I June 29- July 2 This session is now closed
Session II July 20-July 23
Closed Session III July 27-July 30 Closed
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 "Haik00tie" 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.
Her Story Click the photos for more info on Herstory tours
Who? Rising 7th-Rising 9th, Girls Only
Limit 10 participantsWhen? Please note: session is Tuesday-Friday
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.

Ink Beast
Who? Rising 7th-Rising 9th
10 participants max
When? Please note: session is Tuesday-Friday
July 6-July 9
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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the Hear the tales of the famous,
the