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JESSICA HOLT Jessica Holt is the Founder, Executive Director, and Camp Director of The Bauen Camp, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) non-profit educational corporation, resident arts camp and outreach program for youth ages 13-18. Jessica is also a practicing artist and former member of the Wyoming and Utah Arts-in-Education Rosters. She has been a professional artist since 1980 and has an extensive record of community service since 1970, including a four-year elected term on an Illinois County Board. Jessica has exhibited at more than 60 venues, including artist-run NAME and Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago, IL; Abel Joseph Gallery, Chicago; Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC; the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL; the Nicolayen Art Museum, Casper, WY; the Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne; the Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, and the University of Calgary, Alberta. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; the Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, WY; the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, and the Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta. Jessica has led interactive installations, community celebrations and collaborative performances at the Kerns Wildlife Habitat, WY (“A Celebration of Quiet Spaces”), the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, CA (“The Voices of Bankhead”); the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL (“Some Kind of Grand Balance”); the Big Horn National Forest Pine Island Camp ground (“The Big Horns and Us'); Straumur Art Commune, Iceland (Kvoldvaka: A Mid-Summer Celebration”); and the Civitella Ranieri Castle, Umbertide, IT (“Repent”, a collaborative puppet show). Jessica is the recipient of fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council (the Visual Art Fellowship, an Underserved Project Grant, and Individual Artist's Grant), The Banff Center, Alberta, Canada; Straumur Art Center, Hafnarfordur, Iceland; and the Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy. Jessica has also been an Artist-Teacher in the Vermont College MFA Low-Residency Program in 1994, 1995, 2000 and 2001. She holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois, Chicago (1988), an MA in Philosophy from CSU, Fort Collins, CO (2000) and a BS in Business from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1957). Jessica has four grown children and six grandchildren and lives in the foothills of the Big Horns Mountains, 12 miles from Parkman, WY. 2007 BAUEN CAMP SUMMER STAFF LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE JANUARY 2008. THE STAFF WILL INCLUDE SOME RETURNING STAFF AND SOME NEW STAFF COMPRISED OF 3 FEMALE LEADERS AND 3 MALE LEADERS AGES 22-35 WHO'S EXPERTISE INCLUDES: *Photography *Painting *Dance *Writing *Cartooning *Theater *Outdoor Education *Leadership Training *Drawing *Music *Camping *Sculpture *Costuming *Poetry
SOME EXAMPLES OF (2006-2007) FORMER BAUEN CAMP STAFF CLARA WALOFF 2007 will be Clara's fourth year as a Teacher/Counselor at the Bauen Camp. Clara is 24. Her skills as book-making teacher and grandiose puppet maker are legendary. Storytelling is a key factor in Clara's education and experience. She is a passionate writer, whether it be creative poetry, fiction, analytical, journalistic or other. She credits her Quaker lower grade and high school progressive education for her interest in many different artistic disciplines, including writing, sewing, use of functional materials to make art objects and love of the dark room and black and white photography. In 11th grade Clara and a friend started their own business, "unbroken Threads," where they marketed quilts and other hand sewn craft items, later leading Clara to an apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, an organization using student apprentice and artist-in-residence drawings to create printed fabric in a community atmosphere. Clara is a 2004 NYU graduate in community-arts, where her classes have offered an opportunity to work in community gardens and to lead urban workshops for youth of all ages in gardening, making banners, puppets, lanterns and masks. She says, "The kids I work with never cease to amaze me in their ability to create such wonderful work when they are given the freedom to do so." A class in community-based arts in the fall of 2001 involved a project with a Brooklyn firehouse, working with the firemen to make a mural on their firehouse that commemorated the fireman lost in the 9/11 tragedy. Clara spent the summer of 2002 working with a group of youth in inner-city Philadelphia on a community garden project that she founded. During the summer of 2003 she studied in Ecuador, researching community rituals and performances. Clara attended camps as a youth and as an adult has spent many weeks camping and hiking in the out-of-doors.
MARION WILLIS Marion was a Teacher/Counselor in 2003, 2004, and 2005 Bauen Camps and returns to continue his beloved ‘not to miss' daily creative movement sessions, Ph Balance for the Body. Marion is skilled in Horton and Contemporary modern dance, in addition to Jazz, Hip-Hop and Musical Theater movement. His methods of mentoring young people are highly valued and practiced. He is “devoted to teaching and collaborating with authenticity, engrossed in working with the best part of the human soul, and committed to maintaining the discipline and integrity of artistry.” His teaching experiences include: Kids Can Dance Troupe, Evanston, IL; Deeply Routed Theatre Children's Ensemble, Chicago, IL; Studio One Dance Conservatory, Chicago, IL; and Bertino's School of Danceology, Harvey, IL (co-founder). In 2001-2003 Marion served at the Salina Arts and Humanities Commissions's as guest dance instructor and choreographer, Salina, KS. He has also served as the youth choreographer for Scrap Mettle Soul, directed by Richard Geer, Written by Jules Corriere, and as guest choreographer and dance instructor for the Peggy Simms School of Dance. He served as the Theater Director for the Chicago Pullman Park District Summer Program, and developed a class called PHBalance for the Mind, Body and Spirit. Marion taught a Contemporary Modern Summer Workshop at The School of Ballet, Chicago, and was a guest teacher at the Fieldcrest School of Dance, Chicago. He has choreographed performances for Kids Can Dance Alumni and for the Deeply Rooted Theatre Children's Ensemble, Chicago. Marion is a 1998 graduate of Evanston Township High school, Evanston, Il. He moved from Chicago to New York City in August, 2003, and is 25.
JARED BELDEN Jared returns to the Bauen Camp for his second summer, as chief poet, clever joke teller, provider of on-site health care, and leader for ‘climb the mountain', or was that ‘capture the flag?'. He holds a BA in English and Writing & Rhetoric(Magna cum Laude) from Northwestern College in Orange City, IA and an MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. He is now employed as a High School English teacher in St. Paul, MN. He spent many summers in and around camp venues – as a camper and as a counselor for all age groups. At EWU he taught college composition and introductory creative writing and also participated in Writers in the Community, teaching a weekly writing workshop at the Academy Retirement Community in Spokane. Jared was responsible for encouraging some outstanding writing by Bauen campers in 2005. Jared is 25.
EMMA O'BRIEN Emma returns to the Bauen Camp for her second summer, serving as our all-round, hands-on, pitch-in, super listener, multi-disciplinary artist, song-leader and friend to all. Emma teaches Music/Drama at an elementary school in Australia, and holds a Bachelor of Teaching and Bachelor of Education degrees. She has a very keen interest in the creative arts and building an understanding of the possibilities inherent in social justice and use of the arts to achieve social justice. She is a part of the growing Australian outreach team, under the direction of her uncle - Bauen BOD Member Rob O'Brien - who are seeking the human and economic resources to develop a Bauen-like venue in Australia. Emma is 23.
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