JOY FOR HER SOUL
(ART LAB)

SUMMER CAMP LAB DESCRIPTION:

It’s said that “every canvas is a journey all of its own,” and in this Summer Lab, Joy For Her Soul, Black girls will have an opportunity to create or recreate joy through canvas painting. Lovingly led by Ms Passion Art, girls will be encouraged to paint freely, but with intention. With strokes of their brushes, campers will learn what it’s like to cultivate, incite and celebrate their Black girl individuality as well as their collective experiences. Leaving behind all the societal norms that tell us to conform, and all of the norms that tell Black girls to put everyone else’s joy, stories, and experiences before our very own, in Joy For Her Soul, we will paint us. Center us. And celebrate us.

Must be enrolled in camp to participate.

camp INSTRUCTOR:

Serena Saunders is a Philadelphia-bred, but Los Angeles based Artist. Though her concentration is in portraiture, she also has meaningful work in the fields of sculpture and writing. Her work as a painter has a fresh, color-strong perspective that speaks to our human condition, most notably the condition of our society's youth, women, and communities. Her often large-scale, graphically bold and poetically composed paintings offer the viewer layers of narrative, almost as if the poet and the painter in her are collaborating to tell the story. With a color palette that gives her intricate prints a world of their own, Serena works to intrigue the imagination while not only documenting the truth but also speaking to what’s possible. Check out her website, www.mspassionart.com and on IG at @mspassionart.

WEDNESday’s Schedule:

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM EST
Campers should join the Zoom meeting at 10:50 AM each day where attendance will be taken.