The Center for Arts and Crafts at Penn State

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During the summer between my sophomore and junior year, I worked at Penn State's Center for Arts and Crafts summer camp. I taught four different camps for middle school aged students on ceramics and wheel throwing. The middle school camps were half-day camps and were two weeks long. The first week of each camp I focused primarily on teaching them how to throw on the wheel. Then, the second week we focused on glazing our work, glazing factory bisque ceramic work, and making place mats to put the student's work on at the end-of-camp art show.

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The camp ran for an odd number of weeks so the final week there were no camps for middle school students. During this week, I assisted a camp for eight to ten-year-old students. This was a one week, full-day camp. The theme was "road trip," and I assisted the main instructor on lessons that revolved around that theme.