New Arts Camp

The New Arts Camp exposes junior high and high school students (entering grades 6-12) to contemporary art discussion and creation. The New Arts Camp uses four different artistic disciplines - video, performance, new music and installation - to provide an equal balance between the development of creativity and technical skills over a two-week period. The New Arts Camp focuses on research and creation of interdisciplinary artworks. Students will be exposed to interdisciplinary artists from both a historical and contemporary perspective, including visits to other organizations throughout the Arts District. Camp participants will present their own interdisciplinary project at the end of the session during the August First Friday Art Crawl. Living Arts engages fantastic local and regional artists to teach at New Arts Camp.

Camp Dates: July 22nd - August 2nd, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Camp Fee: $300 (Scholarships available)

2019 Teaching Artists:

Jenna Bryan (Norman, OK)

Jenna Bryan is an artist based out of Norman, OK specializing in printmaking, sculpture, performance and installation art.

Sarah Hill (New Orleans, LA)

Sarah Hill is a video and performance artist in New Orleans, Louisiana that has a research-based practice grounded in ideas of queer, trans and feminist theory.

Matt Magerkurth (Tulsa, OK)

Matt Magerkurth is a composer and cellist who blends elements of multiple music styles to create chamber works involving improvisation, electronics, and elements of choreography and staging.

Phetote Mshairi (Tulsa, OK)

Phetote Mshairi is a renowned spoken-word, performing artist, and author from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who accepts the immense responsibility as a writer to write about (and even rewrite) reality.

Jalisa Roberts (New Orleans, LA)

Jalisa Roberts is a writer, educator, Black Studies scholar, singer, and choreographer with more than 20 years of dance experience, whose mission is to use dance to create space for dialogue and change.

Paul Waddell (Los Angeles, CA / OKC, OK)

Paul Waddell is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated in 2005 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and who has taught fine art at both the high school and college level.

For New Arts Camp Sponsorship information or other questions, please email the Education Organizer at education@livingarts.org.