Session One is Here! It’s been a busy 24 hours at Appel Farm Arts Camp! After a long staff week spent building community, learning together, getting creative, and prepping for camp, our staff were overjoyed to welcome campers onto campus! Take a peek at a few highlights from our first 24 hours at camp including […]
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New Year, New Structure!
New Year, New Structure! As 2021 comes to a close, we want to share how grateful we are for our entire Appel Farm community. You camplete us! All the hard work our dedicated seasonal staff, year-round team, alumni, and board put in to gather feedback from campers and camp families has informed our 2022 Summer Camp […]
Black Lives Matter
Appel Farm Arts & Music Campus joins with artists, musicians, teachers, students, and citizens across the country and around the world in affirming that Black Lives Matter. We stand in solidarity with George Floyd and our Black and brown neighbors who have been murdered, mistreated, and silenced because of the color of their skin. As […]
Love Grows: Camp 2020
A loving message from Appel Farm to our whole community… We hope this message finds each member of our Appel Farm community healthy, and weathering this COVID-19 storm as well as possible. Thank you all so much for your patience and support over the past couple of months, as we have been trying to figure […]
Taking Care of Our Community: A Message from Appel Farm Arts Camp
Taking Care of Our Community A Message from Appel Farm Arts Camp Appel Farm Arts Camp is a creative haven for creative kids! For many of our kids and teens, we are the light at the end of the tunnel after months of stress and rigor. We are their oasis — a safe space to […]
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Alumni Spotlight: Joseph Bell!
Session Three Showcase Schedule!
Session Three, Week One!
A New Day!
Farm to Table with Peimin and Albert Appel
Last week, Green Corps majors were treated to a special, homegrown and home cooked “farm to table” lunch with Peimin and Albert Appel! After presenting a bouquet of wildflowers, campers were seated at a beautiful spread featuring green themed plates and bright red crystal drinking glasses. On the menu were potatoes, green beans, and cucumbers […]
Goodbye Session Two!
Tonight, we say goodbye to session two, but today we got the chance to celebrate all we have accomplished throughout these two weeks! Today was filled with performances and fun as our campers showed off all they have learned to their families and friends. The day began with the Arts & Technology show with a […]
Session Two Showcases!
Spread the Joy Around
A Blast from the Past
Another exciting day filled with performances and fun here at Appel Farm! Last night, the theater department put on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a Shakespearian comedy that tells the story of the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta. Our campers did a phenomenal job delivering such difficult material so flawlessly. At the […]
A Mystical Monday Evening
Trip Day!
One of the most awaited days of camp: trip day! Our different bunk areas got to explore Ocean City, NJ, Washington, DC, and the Zoo on this exciting day! Our campers at Ocean City had the chance to relax in the sand, cool off in the ocean, hit the boardwalk, ride some rides at the […]