For immediate release: contact, Austin Thomas: ats@toast.net - 917-400-3869

This is a good time to make your summer plans. Come to Camp Pocket Utopia - July 21st through July 28th - in Rouses Point, New York. Classes include: tennis, basic knitted structures, chess, swimming, ping pong, dance, and drawing with stick and spit.

Additional activities: pancake breakfast, film screenings, field trips,, a library and free time. Camp Pocket U will offer a variety of lodging options, including cabins, camping, dormitory-style living, and even more. Our meal plan will provide you with the nourishment you need for whole body enrichment.

For more information contact Austin Thomas directly, space is limited - ats@toast.net or call 917-400-3869

Saturday, April 17th @ 7:30pm information session and cocktail party at Storefront in Bushwick, 16 Wilson Street - L train to Morgan Avenue (Morgan turns into Wilson after Flushing Avenue. From the train walk four blocks on Morgan to Flushing Avenue. Cross Flushing Avenue to Wilson Avenue. Gallery located between Noll and George Streets.

Camp Pocket U. is based on a learning model started at Black Mountain College.

Background:

Norte Maar announces a new collaboration, "Camp Pocket Utopia," with artist and former Director of Pocket Utopia, Austin Thomas

Camp Pocket Utopia is a school for community children and invited artists including painters and sculptors, musicians and choreographers, architects, scientists and historians, and others both local and foreign who will be in residence in Rouses Point for the duration of the program. 

These artists will be instructors in a summer camp program offered to the immediate community and beyond.

Camp Pocket Utopia will inspire a creative conversation amongst artists and creative thinkers, and the community, empowering participants and observers to think for themselves. 

This summer camp summer is for everyone, kids and adults, artists, non-artists, experienced tennis and chess players and the uninitiated.

At the center of this unique project will be invited artists and the bond formed between them and the community. Learning is a two-way street, whether on the courts, in the pool, over a chessboard or at the dinner table; relationships are the lessons.

Camp Pocket U. will begin on July 21st 2010 and continue through July 28th 2010

Travel in style on Amtrak from Penn Station to Rouses Point on on July 21st, attend an evening lecture with art guru Kevin Regan or dabble in sumie ink with Kay Thomas.

Run in 100 yard dash and dine nightly with artworld impresarios.

Workshop Schedule: Thursday/Friday with evening program and Saturday/Sunday with dinner and community events. Monday/Tuesday will include off-site visits to Montreal, Canada.

Classes include: tennis taught by Deborah Brown, basic knitted structures by Brece Honeycutt, chess with Adam Simon, swimming, ping pong with Phong Bui, dance by Julia K. Gleich, and drawing with stick and spit with Matthew Miller (more classes to be added).

Additional activities: pancake breakfast, film screenings, blogging, a library and free time.

Camp Pocket U. is based on a learning model started at Black Mountain College. There will be many ways to participate!!

Rouses Point, NY was the one time summer home of Fernand Léger.

Camp Pocket U., for more information, including room, board and program cost, contact, Austin Thomas: ats@toast.net - 917-400-3869