3D Mystery Camp 2026

SHAMc’s 3D Mystery Camp gave young artists the chance to explore how artwork can move beyond the flat page and take shape in three dimensions. Throughout the week, campers experimented with a variety of materials and techniques while learning how form, texture, structure and imagination can all work together.

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Heather Richardson led campers in creating wooden robot portraits. Using wood and mixed materials, campers built expressive robot-inspired faces and characters, thinking about how shape, layering and construction could give each piece its own personality.

Campers also worked with Vander to create clay masks. This project introduced them to sculpting and gave them the opportunity to shape, press and build details directly into the clay. Each mask became a unique character, with campers using texture, facial features and creative embellishments to bring their ideas to life.

Cindy Engle introduced campers to the art of origami, showing how a simple sheet of paper can be transformed into a three-dimensional form through careful folding. The activity encouraged patience, precision and spatial thinking while demonstrating how structure can emerge from something completely flat.

Together, these projects showed campers just how many different approaches there are to creating three-dimensional art. They built with wood, sculpted with clay and folded paper into form, discovering new ways to think about materials and how objects occupy space.

3D Mystery Camp was a week of experimentation, problem-solving and hands-on creativity. We are grateful to Heather Richardson, Vander and Cindy Engle for sharing their skills with our campers, and to all of the young artists who brought their own ideas and personalities to every project.