We have 8 weeks of summer fine art day camp and 2 weeks of spring break
camp.  We hire a separate staff to run the camps--3 age groups, one
instructor and one assistant for each age group, so 6 total per week.  Some
camps are half-day and some are full-day--the instructors rotate (one week
full-day, the next week half-day) and I think each instructor might get one
week during the summer off.  We also have a camp director, who plans the
program, interfaces with our regular education staff of 2FT/2PT for
materials and administration, and in addition to being one of the
instructors gets extra money for the extra duties.  I should point out that
we max out at 50 campers per week total.

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St.
Indianapolis, IN  46220
(317) 255-2464 x233
FAX (317) 254-0486
email <[log in to unmask]>
website <http://www.indplsartcenter.org>


-----Original Message-----
From: Amy West at Higgins Armory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:56 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: camp weeks/staff pool question


Again, I am trying to establish some sort of baseline based on other
museums' experiences:

I'd really like to know
1) How many weeks of camp do you do each year?
2) How large a pool of staff do you have to draw from for creating and
running the camps?

(We do 5 weeks a year, with 2 staff -- the same 2 staff -- with primary
responsibility for preparing and manning camp [*all day*]. We have
additional staff and volunteers who regularly do 1-2 hour presentations,
but that ups our manpower only by 3 or 4 at most.)



---Amy

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