Traveling summer art camp returning to Lincoln

[July 20, 2012]  Kit Sunderland will present her "traveling" art camp in Lincoln from July 30 to Aug. 3 for students in first through eighth grade. The camp will meet from 1-4 p.m. each day at the studio of local artist Kerry Rolewics, 519 Pulaski in downtown Lincoln.

The art camp is offered through the Sunney Art Center, which is dedicated to the fun of being a kid and being creative.

The camp will include a variety of media and techniques, such as pencil drawings and painting, collages, and also sculptures.

The tuition is $100, which includes a camp shirt. Registration is available online at www.sunneyartcenter.com.

2012 is the fifth year Sunderland is offering art camp in Lincoln and the second year she has traveled from her new studio in Plainfield to do so. She also travels to her hometown of Tuscola and her husband's hometown of Clinton.

Sunderland, the owner of Sunney Art Center, and her husband, Jason, moved to Lincoln in 1995, and she began teaching private and group art lessons and selling her work in 1996. Sunderland's two children -- Jonah, 16, and Selah, 14 -- were born in Lincoln. A collection of her work can be seen in the new Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

Sunderland received a bachelor's degree in fine arts with an emphasis on painting from Northern Illinois University in 2006.

The Sunderland family moved to Plainfield in 2010. She is excited to come back to her "second" hometown, hoping to in some way enrich the community.

For additional information, contact Kit Sunderland at 815-979-6334, [e-mail] or go to www.sunneyartcenter.com.