Enrollment for a week long camp this summer offering students the opportunity to discover the arts is near capacity.

Artscape, sponsored by the Allied Arts Council, is an arts camp for students in third through 10th grades. Students can participate in five full day classes with six classes each day or half day classes with three classes in the morning or afternoon.

Allied Arts Council Operations Manager Cathy Ketter says the classes offer a variety of arts options.

“We have hands-on art: basketweaving, sculpting, drawing and we also have the performing arts: we have a dance class and a Stage Stars class,” Ketter said.

According to Ketter, Artscape began 29 years ago as an enrichment camp for students.

“It gives them access to different types of arts that maybe they don’t have in school or it whets their interest a bit,” Ketter said.”

According to Ketter, only 180 spots are available for the camp and they only have a few spots left.

Artscape takes place August 1st through the 5th at Missouri Western State University’s Potter Hall. Find registration forms online, or pick up a form at the Allied Arts Council on 118 South 8th Street in St. Joseph. For more information, call (816) 233-0231.