Summer in Color: JECSD Students Get Creative at Art Camp

The Jordan-Elbridge High School art room recently opened its doors to students ranging from fifth grade to ninth grade, allowing them to get their hands dirty while exploring their artistic interests at Jordan-Elbridge Central School District’s first-ever summer art camp.
 
On the first day of camp, students were asked to bring an old, oversized button-down shirt and a white shirt so they could be tie-dyed. Other art activities that were planned for the camp included nature prints, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, clay molding, glow-in-the-dark painting and a Bob Ross painting party.
 
JEHS art teacher and camp organizer, Theresa Bondgren, says she wants her students to not only get creative and delve into their artistic expression, but to also relax and enjoy it. “After 25 years of teaching, I’m so incredibly excited that we are having our first-ever summer art camp at JE,” said Bondgren as she was preparing the tie-dye station. “Nobody is graded. The purpose of the camp is to explore many types of art and have fun while doing it.”
 
The camp runs for three hours in the morning, four days a week, during the second and third week of July.