Kids find their muse at summer arts camp

The round room at the Bliss Centre for Performing Arts is filled with paintings and drawings by young artists. It’s a two week exhibit, showcasing the works of twenty kids who participated in the Institute of Creative Arts Summer Program. The display is in recognition of the success of the camp, which ended today. News Five got a preview of the impressive pieces and found out that most of the students were relatively new to the arts at the start of the program.

Clive Myers, Creative Arts Development Officer, ICA

“This morning concluded the drawing and painting course that we did as a part of the summer arts program here at the Institute of Creative Arts. And as you can see, around the room we have the displayed pieces from approximately twenty students that partook in this year’s drawing and painting course that was facilitated by Ms. Gayla Fuller. It was a seven week course that started June the twenty-eighth and today was the end of that class. We decided that we would just have a two week exhibition of all the pieces of work that the kids did during the seven weeks.”

Delahnie Bain

clive myers

“And what do you think of the work that came out of this art class?”

Clive Myers

“Most definitely the display and the last product shown by the kids, definitely proved that not just the kids—that they not just have the talent but that the facilitator definitely instilled in them her level of professionalism and her potential of producing art pieces like this.”

Delahnie Bain

“And the kids, had they been in painting before or for some of them was it something new?”

Clive Myers

“For three fourths of the students who took the class, they had the basics in terms of drawing and painting. There was about one-fourth of them that actually had experience in drawing and painting before. But majority of the students, they were very fresh to the whole course and so what we’re seeing today is definitely wholeheartedly and overwhelmingly excited to see that they did such great work in the past seven weeks.”

ICA’s vocal workshop is also coming to an end and tonight Kellie Cadogan and the students from that course will grace the stage with their performance at the Bliss. The show starts at eight.  Walk-ins cost twenty dollars for reserved seats and ten dollars for regular seats.