By Carengie Arts Center
Summer Adventures Art Camp is underway at the Carnegie Arts Center. We are excited to announce that our art camp has 42 students in attendance, maintaining consistently high numbers for the past four years! Students attend camp three nights a week. There are two youth sessions and one advanced/teen session. Throughout our history, we have always been fortunate to receive the support of generous individuals and businesses. They have donated their time, talent, and resources to make arts opportunities possible for their community members. The Box Butte Art Society and St. John’s Lutheran Church are two such organizations who have been kind enough to grant scholarship support for students to attend Art Camp. We are also very fortunate to receive support from generous individuals who’ve donated funds to provide camp scholarships for young artists to pursue their passions. One kind individual has asked to remain anonymous but requested that his donation specifically go towards supporting student artists. Our other generous individual, Bill Doole, previously of Alliance, NE donated $1,000 last year in honor of his wife Peggy Doole. Peggy was an educator, master art historian, and life-long art enthusiast. The Doole family felt that Peggy would be pleased to see more children have access to art classes and has remained a resource to provide art camp scholarships to youth for years to come. Congratulations to our six 2024 scholarships recipients for the Summer Adventures Art Camp, and our sincerest gratitude for such benevolent support of young artists. We are looking forward to welcoming our students into the Carnegie family and can’t wait to see what these marvelous young minds produce.
As always, we want to thank our sponsors for making meaningful arts opportunities possible for our community. Thank you to our August exhibit sponsors Charles and Ellen Lierk, Walter Mischnick Contractors, and Dave's Pharmacy. Thank you to our operational grantors the Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and the Bill and Virginia Coffee Foundation who help make programming and services possible. Thank you also to our program grantors the DF Dillon Foundation, Snow-Redfern Foundation, Darold A. Newblom Foundation, Alliance Mission Store, Inc., and CA Story Foundation.