Summer Art+Design Camp

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Join us for Summer Art+Design Camp

2025 Summer Camp Dates | June 15-20, 2025

An integrative and collaborative week-long art intensive held on the Marion, Indiana campus of Indiana Wesleyan University.

This year our Wildcat Summer Academy Art+Design camp will take place in the Beard Arts Center on IWU’s campus while Center Hall (our second studio building) is undergoing some exciting renovations. We will work in a variety of media from drawing a painting to digital illustration, graphic design, print media, and sculptural forms. 

Register for Camp

Total Camp Cost: $550

  • Base Cost: $500
  • Registration Fee (non-refundable): $50

Cost includes resident hall lodging, three meals a day, snacks, and all major aspects of the camp. Our dining hall has many options for those with food allergies. However, we encourage you to bring appropriate snacks since not all snack options will meet all dietary needs.

Note: The $50 non-refundable registration fee is due at the time of registration. No student will be considered registered until they have submitted this fee. Balance of tuition and fees are due by May 31, 2025. Any registrations after June 1, 2025 will incur an additional $50 late registration fee.

Meet the Camp Directors

Henrik Soderstrom, MFA

Henrik Soderstrom is an artist, designer, and idea enthusiast. Raised in Rochester, New York by an exuberant Californian and a Swedish visionary, he grew up sanding historic floorboards and eating green peppers like apples from the vegetable garden.

After absorbing inspiration and general excitement about life at the Rhode Island School of Design, he went on to work with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, designing the set for their production of Leyli & Majnun, which opened in 2009 at the Lincoln Center in New York, and creating album artwork for their Grammy-nominated recording Off the Map.

Henrik has enjoyed collaborating with the Society for Freshwater Science, the Music of Difference Project (designing the artwork for their Grammy-nominated album), the Knights Orchestra, the Attacca Quartet, Thomas Warfield, and FuturPointe dance to produce shows and performances. He has been an artist-in-residence with I-Park Enclave, Stonecry, and the Julia and David White Artist Colony, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, and now lives in Indiana with his brilliant wife Dottie, where they both teach at Indiana Wesleyan University.

Will Carpenter, MFA

Will Carpenter is a passionate painter and educator. He came to Indiana Wesleyan University from Miami, Florida, where he earned his MFA, studied painting under Walter Darby Bannard, and worked for glass artist, Bill Carlson.


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