Creativity runs wild at Whidbey arts camp
Green Arts Camp is a creative, free-form camp led by mother-daughter duo Joan and Torrey Green.
Photo by David Welton
Article by Kira Erickson
On an unusually drizzly summer day at Full Moon Rising Farm in Freeland, kids could be found dyeing pieces of fabric, building boats to float, running through the woods and playing with farm animals.
Fittingly, it was the water-themed day for Green Arts Camp, a creative, free-form camp led by mother-daughter duo Joan and Torrey Green. Kids between the ages of 5 and 8 spent the week using reusable materials such as cardboard packaging, upcycled fabric, corks, tubes and caps in process-based art activities. The instructors explained that this opens the discussion about why humans are overconsuming and coming up with solutions to help during this time of climate crisis.
“We’re all about eco art and connecting people to their creativity and to the earth through these reusable materials,” said Joan Green, founder of Green Art Labs.
