All Specialists are responsible for helping campers in their workshop navigate through the Independent Work program area over the course of the summer. This includes guiding campers through designing, planning, developing, and constructing their original projects. Specialists are responsible for creating supplemental resources to help campers move through their independent project, monitor campers progress, and efficiently order materials to keep their shop stocked with both fundamental materials as well as niche materials needed for individual camper projects. In addition to stewarding the Independent Work program area, Specialists also run 1-2 orientation workshops at the beginning of the camp session to introduce campers to their spaces, learn how to engage with the shop space and tools safely, and gain basic skills to be able to utilize the shop. Due to its multifunctional use, the Art Barn in particular functions as a safe space that is vital for campers and staff alike. Applicants should be enthusiastic about fostering a sense of community in the Art Barn.
The Art Barn Specialist will have the support of a small rotating group of Counselors collaborating with them to host the workshop space. The relationship between Specialists and their support staff is one of mutual support and learning, in which responsibilities for maintaining the space, tracking Independent Work, and supporting Campers is shared. Most Staff Assistants are either former campers or Beam Center NYC youth employees and have basic skills in the workshops. Most Counselors are former campers and/or practicing artists or art students.
When Specialists are not hosting campers in their workshop, they will have additional responsibilities pertaining to the general upkeep and operation of camp including but not limited to: participating in the execution of the Beam Project alongside the Project Director and all other support staff on a need basis, camper village support and day off coverage, event production after dinner, luggage assistance at the beginning and end of camp sessions. organizing, setting up and leading other recreational camp activities.
About Us
Beam is a summer camp in Strafford, NH that focuses on skill-building, collaborative challenge, responsibility and mentorship. Campers ages 9-17 collaborate on a spectacular project, which helps kids explore what it means to make things with their own bodies and brains and how that kind of creativity is relevant and applicable to everything in their lives. They transform ideas into artifacts and personal achievement into community success. They also have a lot of fun.
The centerpiece of the program is the Beam Project. Each summer, Beam commissions two unique large-scale collaborative endeavors, ranging from the conceptual to the structural, built by camper teams with on-call support from staff.
Beam has two lakes and sits within a 750 acre conservation reserve of mountain and forest. Among Beam's resources are a well-equipped fabrication wood shop, digital lab, art/ceramics studio, basketball court, two large athletic fields and outdoor fire pit.
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