For over two decades, the Hammonds House Museum has stood as one of Atlanta’s bastion for the culture and the arts and is always in the forefront in showcasing artists present and past of African American descent. Originally one of the oldest Victorian manors of Atlanta’s West End, built in 1872, the Museum is now the premiere venue for showcasing African American art and history, and have long been championing the cause of the arts in Atlanta. This summer, the Hammonds House Museum is proud to feature The Art Block Summer Camp, a two-week program that aims to hone your children’s artistic talent in the visual, literary, theatrical and dance arts and mold them into future promising artists of their generation.

The Art Block Summer Camp is an art-centered, multi-disciplinary academic and creative program for young people from ages 11 to 13. Professional artists will facilitate, instruct and more importantly, inspire the campers in harnessing their creative potential in the fields of Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Theatrical Arts and Dance Arts. The campers will learn the basics and intermediate methods of the creative process, how best to tap into the artists within them and will also design, write, to create their own sets and to perform in the culminating productions.

The program proper begins on July 5 and will conclude on August 5, 2011. Instruction proper begins at 9am and will conclude on either 3pm or 5:45pm depending on the class proper. Registration for each camper is at $230 and includes all the arts materials and supplies they will need, and daily healthy snacks. Campers should be responsible to pack their own sack lunches. There is a 10% discount for two or more siblings enrolling in the Art Block Summer Camp. Registration should be in by the 30th of June and organizers may be contacted through the number 404-683-7350 and through email by theartblock@live.com. They may also check out the website www.hammondshouse.org for more information. This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs and funded in part by the Fulton County Board of Commissions under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

Visitors of the Hammonds House Museum may also take part of other activities and exhibits slated for this summer, such as the “Equal Rites: The Art of Michael D. Harris” exhibit which will run from July 10 to September 11, 2011. And the Museum, in partnership with the National Black Arts Festival Summer Institute will also showcase “Unexpected Encounters” which will showcases African American artistic talents from all spectrums of the arts. “Unexpected Encounters” is a series of breakfast and luncheon encounters and forums with famous African American artists and figures, exhibits, activities, music and arts festivals, film screenings, and musical and dance performances that runs from July 11 to July 16, 2011.

Last year, the Museum played host to the Art Atlanta Event, which is the Annual Hammonds House Museum Art Auction Benefit. Atlanta luminaries as well as patrons of the arts from all over the States came to this annual event that was as stimulating as it was sophisticated. Top gourmet restaurants provided the food for the evening, smashing music and high profile artists gave the event an atmosphere not unlike a busy movie premiere.

These and many other events make the Hammonds House Museum one of Atlanta’s central hub of African American culture and the arts, as the Museum itself receives 10,000 visitors annually. So long as the Hammonds House Museum stands, the arts will always have a place called to call home.

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