Usdan Welcomes Campers for its 50th Season

Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, the critically acclaimed summer day camp for the arts celebrating its 50th anniversary in summer 2018, today welcomed back campers ages 4 through 18. Nearly 1600 campers —one of whom is Brianna Perez, the star of the Oscar nominated film, Joe’s Violin—stepped off the bus and into studios, with classes in everything from theater to studio art; photography and music to Quidditch and swim. This year’s students are now part of the Usdan family, which boasts over 40,000 alumni, including many top names in entertainment and theater such as Mariah Carey, Natalie Portman, Jane Monheit, Seth Rudetsky. Jackie Hoffman, and more.

This summer marks the camp’s “Golden Anniversary” and will incorporate a specially curated Festival program, featuring performances from Broadway and beyond including Danyel Fulton, Douglas Lyons, Adam Kaplan, Laura Osnes and Mat Eisenstein, to name a few.

Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts (usdan.org) is the nation’s preeminent not-for-profit day camp for the arts and has been named a “Best Of” camp by TimeOutNY/Kids, and by NY Metro Parents. Diverse and playfully rigorous from the start, Usdan brings world-class teachers and visiting artists – actors, directors, playwrights, painters, sculptors, musicians, composers, dancers, poets and novelists – to teach and collaborate with Usdan campers ages 4 to 18. Usdan ignites each child’s artistic spirit in a fun, welcoming environment. We believe art making is brave making, friend making, freedom making and future making.

Usdan is an agency of the UJA-Federation of New York. All programs will take place at the camp’s magnificent 140-acre woodland campus, located at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Wheatley Heights, NY 11798.