Local, professional artists Lee Post, Graham Dane, and others will lead campers ages 7-11 through art projects including (but not limited to) comic arts, storytelling, wearable art; painting; sketching; sculpting; creative movement activities; breakout workshops with local artists; and much more! Campers will share their work in a GREAT BIG SHOW at the end of the week open to parents and guardians.

Space is limited. Scholarships are available at a sliding scale!

We can’t wait for another wonderful year of Art Camp at The Nave.

Primary Art Instructor for Art Camp 2025

Lee Post is a lifelong Alaskan, growing up in Palmer and living in Anchorage. He has spent his career working with youth. He is a celebrated freelance illustrator and cartoonist, who had a comic strip, “Your Square Life” published in the Anchorage Press for six years, a total of 300 comic strips from 2001 to 2007. He produced several books, including a “Best of Your Square Life” and “Alaska!: Big and Small”, contributed a chapter to a collaborative Alaska history graphic novel, “A Native Lad”, and produced the book "Portraits" for the Alaska Immigration Justice Project and the Humanity Forum.   His work has been shown in several galleries in Alaska, including a solo retrospective at the Dorothy Page Gallery in Wasilla.  He’s presented at the Anchorage Museum and had his work published as far afield as Omaha, NB and Johannesburg, South Africa.   He's done live "visual harvesting" for a number of large audiences including the Salmon Project, the Foraker Group's Leadership Summit, and several sessions of Step-Up AK.  He's also taught many drawing classes for young children, teens and adults across Alaska at sites such as the Homer Library, the Anchorage Library, 49 Writers, and at McLaughlin Youth Center.

Lee is constantly developing new curriculum using his years of teaching visual thinking to help youth and adults to express themselves more clearly, reflect on their strengths and life experiences, and nurture their love of drawing.

Primary Art Instructor for Art Camp 2025

Graham Dane was born just west of London and studied Art and Art History at Oxford Brookes University (1984-87), an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Painting and Printmaking there concurrent with evening life-drawing classes at St Martin's School of Art, London (1990-91). In 2013 he was awarded a Masters in Art History from Birkbeck College.

For Graham, Abstract painting is the visual equivalence of music. Both use the same vocabulary: tone, harmony, composition, dissonance. We allow one to transport us via our ears into the beyond, to move us. We don’t ask what we "see" but how we feel. “My goal is to produce works where people don’t care what anything was/is because they’re so enveloped by them.”

Graham and his life partner Linda Infante Lyons were the founding Primary Art Instructors for the first-ever Art Camp at The Nave (previously known as Church of Love). Graham has continued to bring his creative expertise for each new Art Camp iteration here, and we feel truly lucky to have him with us in 2025!

Local Artists and Creative Movement Instructors will lead campers in creative movement activities, papermaking, painting, textile sculpting, and more! We are excited to share more about them here soon.