Summer Camp: Balanced Artist Camp 2

Theatre, Music, Visual Art, Design.

Instructors: Clayton Pearce, Dane Eisenbart, Amanda Boekelheide

Ages: Rising 1st - Rising 9th Graders

Dates: Monday, July 3, Wednesday, July 5 - Friday, July 7th.

Description: 

Students will immerse themselves in a week of art in multiple disciplines. While this camp is available for ages 7-15, students will be grouped by age to receive instruction appropriately scaled to their skills in the areas of design, visual arts, improvisational theatre, and more. Seven Peaks’ own Clayton Pearce and Tori Nickels will be teaching at this camp, and Guest instructors include Dane Eisenbart, accomplished artist and illustrator of the children’s book “I Love You Monster."

This camp is all about building skills and process without the pressure of a final performance to end the week. There will be no camp on Tuesday, July 4th in observance of American Independence Day. 

Additionally, Amanda Boekelhide will join our Balanced Artist Camps for both weeks. Currently working in Brooklyn, Amanda's educational background includes a BA in theatre from Pitzer College in LA & Marymount College in London, then continued study in physical theatre at L'ecole de Mime Corporeal Dramatique. She earned an MFA in Acting from Columbia University, studied on grants in China, Poland, & Indonesia, & had the fortune to reside at the International House, Green Gulch, & Hall Farm.

As one of the founding members of Liminal Performance Group, she taught & performed for several decades in PDX, winning awards for movement & ensemble acting. She enjoys continued involvement with Liminal and other groups’ projects, & often returns to the west coast to perform or consult.
In 2019, the press Scientists & Poets published Eugene & Company, her first collection of poems. Subsequent books Moving Darker, & Bending were published in 2020.

This camp is all about building skills and process without the pressure of a final performance to end the week.