A summer program hopes to encourage students to get in touch with their creative sides.

A ceramic art program will be held at the Old Dallas Academy Building on the corner of Selma Avenue and Church Street. Two camps will be held this summer. The first camp will be June 8-12. The second camp will begin July 6-10. The camps will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 2 p.m. On Fridays the camps will end at noon. The art camp is geared toward children ages 8 and up. The cost to attend the camp will be $125 per child. Program director Candi Duncan said participants will be able to get their hands involved with ceramics, tissue paper sculpture and much more. If participants don’t like to dabble in drawing or another form of art, there will be more to do.

“We expose them to so many different areas of art,” Duncan said. “There’s so many different areas they get exposed to. If there’s one thing they don’t like, there might be something else they can work with.”

Creativity thrives at the camp, so sometimes the projects vary from year to year, she said. A lot of the camp’s supplies are donated, which means if they get an abundance of jar tops, then they will base activities around the donated items.

Parents won’t have to worry if their children have been fed during the camp. Lunch will be served and participants will help prepare the meals as a group. After about 38 art programs since 1996 the camp not only draws the attention of the youth, but adults as well, Duncan said.

“It’s for children,” she said. “Although we have a lot of adults who wish they could come. It’s designed for children ages 8 and up until they don’t want to come anymore. We usually lose them when they start driving a car or get interested in boys and girls,”  she joked.

For more information call 412-8550.