Beam Guides
The Beam Guides are the teachers, builders and brighteners who work and play alongside campers providing a safe and enriching camp experience. All the Guides are people over the age of 20 who make a life and living from pursuits involving invention, design, planning and production: artists, architects, engineers, craftspeople, teachers, designers, chefs, and musicians.
Beam Guides come in three flavors:
Beam Guides come in three flavors:
BUNK GUIDES
Two Bunk Guides live in each camper cabin. In addition to helping the campers to build a sense of home and camaraderie in the bunks, the Bunk Guides act as Project and Domain Leaders. We are proud to have Bunk Counselors who are alumni or current students at some of the country’s most important institutions of design and innovation, including Carnegie Mellon, Pratt, Cooper Union, Harvard, Brown, and NYU.
SUPPORT GUIDES
A group of non-bunk staff who coordinate all camp activities.
VISITING GUIDES
Each week of camp a different individual or group of visiting artists joins us to share their unique practice. Recent guest domains include: making and breaking our own World Records with Dan Rollman; creating stop motion videos with Jessica Findley; building sound robots with Mike Cohen, Zevensuy Rodriguez and Susan Ngo from NYU’s ITP program; producing fantastical sporting events with Greg Manley; designing and planting a greenroof on Beam’s own Jungletopia with landscape architects Katy Foley and George Harvey; constructing Balinese gamelans, learning kung-fu, and making cigar box guitars with Kay Rock; and exploring the world of flappets, sprockets, and homemade boats with Beam life-time achievement award winner Gerbo.