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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. In 2007 Jessica received the Purpose Prize Fellow Award from Stanford University Civic Ventures project, participating in the Purpose Prize Summit at the University. She was invited to return to Stanford in 2008 to participate in Civic Ventures Encore Summit. The Bauen Camp was also honored in 2008 by the American Camp Association, who invited Jessica to write an article about the camp, see ACA 2008 Nov/Dec Camp Magazine, More Than An Art Camp: The Bauen Story. Jessica was also invited to participate on a panel addressing diversity and creativity at their February 2009 Annual Conference in Orlando. 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. 2009 BAUEN CAMP SUMMER STAFF LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE MARCH 2009. 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 BAUEN CAMP STAFF CLARA WALOFF- 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, & 2009 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.
JARED BELDEN - 2006, 2007, & 2009 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. Jared was employed as a High School teacher in St. Paul MN for two years prior to his enlisting in the Peace Corp in Milawi, Africa for two years. Every few months during that time he sent wonderful emails back to the former Bauen Camp staff and campers describing his experiences teaching local youth and learning from them as well. Jared is a though provoking and exceptional writing teacher. We are delighted that Jared is returning to Bauen this summer after serving as a Counselor
JACOB CAMPBELL 2005 & 2009 Jacob served as a Bauen Counselor/Teacher in 2005 instructing campers in outdoor sculpture, local history, and outdoor living. Prior to his Bauen service, Jacob was Project Manager at the ACT Charter School, run under the auspices of Columbia Colleges outreach program in Chicago. The following school year he worked in San Francisco, and the next fall began his MA & PhD studies in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Arizona. Jacob holds a BA, cum laude, in Anthropology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and will receive his PhD in 2009. Jacob is an avid outdoor enthusiast who loves hiking, rock climbing, camping, back country skiing and most anything to do with the mountains.
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