In partnership with Why Arts, Autism Action Partnership is excited to announce Let it Shine Summer Art Camp!

Campers will combine performing and visual arts with imagination to have an art experience that encourages them to be the best they can be!

Campers | targeted to 6-12 y.o. - 9:00am - 11:30am

Campers | targeted to 13-19 y.o. - 1:00pm - 3:30pm

For both camps, the first hour will be dedicated to exploring performance arts such as dance, movement, and acting. There will be a 30 minute break for campers to enjoy a home-provided snack and drink.

The second hour campers will explore visual arts such as painting and drawing. Parents are welcome to stay, but it is not required. There will be an artist from Why Arts for each session and one AAP staff person.

Please only select one session per camper. Limited space is available.

For any questions, please email info@AutismAction.org.

If you would like to register and the registration is now closed, please contact info@AutismAction.org or call 402-763-8830.

Special thanks to our friendly hosts at the Autism Center of Nebraska!

About the Artist Instructor

Katy Jones

In the session for children 6- 12 year olds and 13-19 year olds, campers will work with Katy Jones of WhyArts! Katy is a sculptor born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. After earning her Bachelor of Arts with a professional emphasis in Art, from Doane University, she moved to Hays, Kansas to earn her Master of Fine Arts in sculpture, metal casting, blacksmithing, and fabrication, from Fort Hays State University. Katy has exhibited at the state and national level and after a brief hiatus from the art world that brought her back to her home state, she is currently at Midland University as an assistant professor of art and design.

Katy’s sculptural forms are created around the psychology of illusions, perception, experience, truths, and deception, bringing attention to how they affect our sense of self-constructed identities. Her work also investigates the effect our complicit acceptance of other’s illusions within interpersonal and group relationships. Katy utilizes anthropomorphic, figurative forms to give life to these narratives. Ultimately these forms, inspired by personal experience, observations, and the experiences of others confront this sense of constructed illusion and deception that we are faced with every day, while simultaneously expressing the basic animalistic impulses all human share, which must be navigated with each individual’s personal, subjective sense of truth.