Beam Camp Staff are the teachers, builders, students, and mentors who work and play alongside campers, all while providing a safe and enriching camp experience. The Leadership Team and Instructional Staff are individuals over the age of 19 who make a life and living from pursuits involving invention, design, planning, and production. They are artists, architects, engineers, craftspeople, teachers, designers, chefs, scientists, and musicians.
SENIOR STAFF
Camp Co-Directors Brett Ricard and Pearl Cohen manage a staff of full-time and seasonal Beam Center employees who assist in planning, coordinating, and executing camp programming and day to day activities.
INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF
Professional artists, makers, and craftspeople whose time at Camp is primarily dedicated to leading Fundamentals, Domains, and guiding a camper’s Independent Work in their Guild space, as well as supporting Project construction.
COUNSELORS
Two Counselors live in each camper cabin. In addition to helping the campers build a unique cabin culture and camaraderie, Counselors act as instructors and assistants throughout the Beam Camp program. Many of our Counselors are Camp alumni and current college students working on degrees ranging from fine arts to urban sustainability.
DOMAIN GUESTS
In the second and third week of camp visiting artists joins us to share their unique practice. Previous guest domains include: Reid Bingham, Jamie Warren, Ian Charnas, Allen Riley, David Kirshoff, Beam life-time achievement award winner Gerbo, and hundreds more artists, designers, engineers, musicians, writers, and makers of all kinds.