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. In 2005, the Barnstormers worked with the campers to create a 45′ mural to hang on the Nexus Canopy. In 2006, sculptors Andrew and Nancy Hunt created the RoosterMobile that we put at the head, so to speak, of the Beam Parade. In 2007, campers made hand-written t-shirts and created and broke their own World Records with Dan Rollman. In 2008, Beamers collaborated with Daniela Kostova and Jessica Findley on works in video.