summer art camp bridgehampton

Learning from the Masters in Music, Art, Theater

At our summer arts camp in Bridgehampton , New York, close to Sag Harbor, Southampton, Sagaponack, and East Hampton, one of the concepts that underpins all of our classes is the idea of learning from the masters. What does this look like practically?

In music, both in Rock Camp and Jazz Workshop, it means learning songs that resonates with you, transcribing solos, deconstructing the aritecture of a song, copying scores, and more. In art, both in Diving into Art and Explore Ceramics, it means copying the drawings and paintings of past masters to learn their technique and style. In our Theater Workshop program, actors may study a specific acting style of another actor to understand the nuances of that approach, then adapt those skills to create their own unique performance.

The second part of this process is to bring all of these new found techniques into your own music, art, and acting. This process develops organically. Once you have internalized your new techniques and knowledge, the next step is to paradoxically “forget what you have learned .” You often find your music, art, and acting is now in a whole new place, and your own voice is strengthened.

Diving into Art Faculty Meeting, Summer Camp 2024, Bridgehampton

Just wrapped up this morning a great meeting with our faculty for our Diving Into Art summer art camp in Bridgehampton happening this July 2024. We talked about a couple things.

1. Fundamentals of Painting and the best way to strengthen them.

We decided that our morning fundamentals class should be divided between drawing and illustration and then a separate part of the class should focus on still life.

2. Electives

We brainstormed a number of electives and in the end we decided that we would offer: Animation and Artist Study (taking a deep look at the techniques of artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and others) took the top of the list. We would also like to explore painting on clothing, printmaking, and other areas of art for this short segment in the afternoon.