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Spring Has Sprung, And Summer Camp is Soon to Come!

3/17/2020

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Summer is right around the corner, and Portside has many options for Summer Camp this year!

Portside’s Summer Camp Curriculum is focused on Empowering the Artists of Tomorrow. Portside will be offering 8 weeks of summer camp, beginning on June 22nd and ending on August 21st, and features two types of camp; Summer Art Camp and Summer Art Studio. Summer Art Camp occurs during the two weeks of June and two weeks of August, and involves a variety of different art forms and mediums throughout each week.  Summer Art Studio, back by popular demand, takes place in July and features a different art form each week. The specialty camp for budding young artists includes weekly themes of Anime & Comics, STEAM & Robotics, Nature & Mindfulness, and Fashion, Fibers & Textiles. Families have the option to sign up for one week at a time or multiple, depending on their needs.

In both Summer Art Camp and Summer Art Studio, Portside students are introduced to the work of local and international artists and each week, and campers will visit Philadelphia’s local arts and cultural hotspots like the Fabric Workshop Museum, Franklin Institute, Please Touch Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.


To accommodate parents' busy work schedules, Portside camp and care hours are similar to a regular school day, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm and offer before care at 7:30am and aftercare until 5:30pm. Portside offers a special sibling enrollment discount and an affordable monthly payment plan. ​
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​Art classes provide children with invaluable learning that has life long benefits. Learn about the importance of art in child development below:

Benefits of Art in Child Development

Motor Skills: Many of the motions involved in making art, such as holding a paintbrush or scribbling with a crayon, are essential to the growth of fine motor skills in young children.

Language Development: For very young children, making art—or just talking about it—provides opportunities to learn words for colors, shapes and actions.

Decision Making: The experience of making decisions and choices in the course of creating art carries over into other parts of life.

Visual Learning: Children need to know more about the world than just what they can learn through text and numbers. Art education teaches students how to interpret, criticize, and use visual information, and how to make choices based on it.

Inventiveness: When kids are encouraged to express themselves and take risks in creating art, they develop a sense of innovation that will be important in their adult lives.

Cultural Awareness: Teaching children to recognize the choices an artist or designer makes in portraying a subject helps kids understand the concept that what they see may be someone’s interpretation of reality.

Improved Academic Performance: A report by Americans for the Arts states that young people who participate regularly in the arts (three hours a day on three days each week through one full year) are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, to participate in a math and science fair or to win an award for writing an essay or poem than children who do not participate.
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  • Home
  • About
    • Board | Staff
    • History | Mission
    • Reviews
    • Supporters
    • Opportunities >
      • Jobs
      • Teaching Artists Work Trade Program
      • Summer College Internship
      • Young Artists Residency Program
      • Volunteer
    • Portside Videos
    • Portside's Blog
    • Contact Us
    • Gift Card
  • Programs
    • Virtual Art Classes
    • Kids & Teens >
      • Portside Creative Classroom
      • Saturday Youth Class
      • Teen Portfolio Building Workshop
      • Family Art Night
      • Summer Arts Camp
    • Adults >
      • Upholstery
      • Beginning Knitting
      • "Artists at Lunch"
    • At Home Art Resources >
      • Art Activities >
        • #PortsideArtChallenge
  • Events
    • Day of the Dead Celebration
    • Kids Halloween Party
  • Gift Shop
  • Donate
    • Donate
    • Sponsor PAC
    • Mobile Advertising
  • Portside at Cherry Street Pier