With funding support from Vermont Humanities, educators around the state develop immersive, collaborative, project-based Humanities Camps that directly meet the needs of young people in their communities.
The camps aim to center student interests, empower their voices, and offer non-traditional ways to engage with the humanities as a broad and always-expanding discipline.
Photo by Miranda Miller.
Vermont Humanities provides a grant of about $4,500 for the operation of each camp. These funds cover two middle school humanities staff who design the camp curriculum and lead the day camp, as well as supplies, field trips, guest speakers, and books.
The camps are free to students.
Camp was amazing and it’s so hard to describe in words – you just have to be there – and it will change your life!
Humanities Camper
Contact Jonny Flood at jflood@vermonthumanities.org
From our 2021 year-end highlights video, Literacy Programs Manager Jonny Flood describes attending the “Indigenous Peoples and the Environment” Humanities Camp hosted by the Blake Memorial Library in East Corinth, Vermont.
We visited humanities camps in Plainfield and Richmond to speak with directors and students about what they learned during their summer camps.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
