Completed Grade 7-10
Tier Pricing
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Tier 1: $635
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Tier 2: $535
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Tier 3: $465
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Non-Refundable Deposit: $150
Program Info
Check-in: Sunday, 3:00-4:30 PM
Art Show: Friday, 11:30 PM
Closing Program: Friday, 1:00 PM
Encounter God Through Art
At Artful Camp II, creativity becomes a spiritual journey. Designed for older campers, this week-long program provides space for reflection, imagination, and deep exploration of how we experience God in our lives.
Whether you're a painter, poet, sculptor, songwriter, or simply curious about expressing your faith through the arts, this camp is your canvas.
Creative highlights include:
- Meet a new guest artist each day and try out a different medium.
- Get hands-on with block printing, sketchbooks, sun prints, and more.
- Make your own art that shows off your style, ideas, and creativity.
- Explore how God speaks and inspires through your artwork.
Join us on Friday at 11:30 AM for our Art Show, where parents can celebrate and admire all of the campers’ creative masterpieces. Stay afterward for lunch before closing worship and share in the fun!
All the Best of Camp
In addition to your art experiences, Artful Camp II includes:
- Worship and Bible Study
- Nature Exploration and Hikes
- Campfire Cookout and Songs
- All-Camp Games and Fellowship
- Canoeing and Creek Splashing
Campers will stay in our welcoming Main Street cabins and spend time outdoors connecting with nature, their peers, and their own creative spirit.
Get Inspired. Come As You Are
To keep the creative energy flowing, you’ll also engage in smaller group projects each day, designed to explore new techniques, perspectives, and artistic forms.
No experience required—just bring your curiosity, your questions, and your openness to explore faith through creativity.
Program Goals
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Cultivate Creativity and Confidence - Campers are given space and encouragement to express themselves, try new art forms, and share their work in a safe, supportive environment.
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Deepen Their Faith Journey - Through reflection, Bible study, and artistic exploration, campers engage with their faith in a personal and meaningful way.
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Build Resilience and Self-Awareness - Creative challenges, time in nature, and meaningful conversations help campers build emotional strength and explore their identity.
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Experience True Connection - Living and creating in community fosters strong friendships, teamwork, and a deeper relationship with God, away from screens and everyday distractions.
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
NICOLE SMITH
My art is deeply inspired by world travel and the natural landscapes that shape our experiences. I am a mother of three wonderful children and wife to an incredibly supportive husband, and family is at the heart of everything I do. Beyond my work as an artist, I am a certified travel agent, art teacher (Master's in Teaching), and actively involved in bringing international exchange students to the United States, which has allowed me to build a broad and diverse network.
Our family is deeply engaged in our church community, including serving and singing. We also participate enthusiastically in music, sports, and creative pursuits of all kinds in our local community. As avid National Park enthusiasts, we make it a priority to visit at least one National Park, monument, or historic site each year.
We live on a hobby farm in Northeast Iowa, where we are known for welcoming animals in need—currently goats, bees, and chickens, and previously guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, and chinchillas—while also actively participating in my husband’s multi-generation family farm.
Planned activities:
- Discover the art of sun printing in this hands-on creative workshop. Participants will scavenge for natural botanicals, arrange their findings into unique compositions, and set their prints in the sun for approximately 15 minutes. After exposing the prints, we will rinse them until the water runs clear and lay them out to dry.
- While the prints dry, we will craft personalized sketchbooks. If time permits, participants will also have the opportunity to practice sketching the same botanicals used in their sun prints, enhancing both observation and artistic skill.
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Tiffany Erie
I have 17 years of experience teaching elementary art, 12 years teaching art in community settings and hold a Master’s degree in Education, a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts, and a minor in Design from the University of Minnesota. Since becoming a teacher, I have explored a wide range of media while developing a practice rooted in curiosity and experimentation.
Although I enjoy working across many materials, my primary interests include drawing, printmaking, and recently, fiber arts. I live on a small hobby farm near Stewartville with my husband and four children, where caring for chickens, goats, cats, a dog, and my vegetable garden is an integral part of my daily life.
Planned activities:
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Acrylic pour art
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Ginesa Klocke
- Nature monoprint - Create last impressions of leaves and other plants you find with colorful ink and paper!
- Students will have a choice of creating one of the following:
- Relief print - Draw your own design and practice printing it in different ways. This can be combined with painted paper or other drawing techniques.
- Collograph print - Glue interesting shapes and textures on a printing plate. Use ink to print your design, and you'll be surprised at the endless possibilities!
- Relief print - Draw your own design and practice printing it on colored paper. You can rotate and layer relief prints to experiment with various effects.
- Linocut - You can choose from realistic or abstract designs, or come up with your own idea! With a little guidance and patience, you will carve a design into a linoleum printing block and create a series of prints. This can be combined with other painting and drawing techniques.
- Wood block letter print - Use real wood block printing letters in creative ways to make interesting patterns and designs.
Have Questions? We're Here to Help
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507-346-2494
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info@goodearthvillage.org