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About The Camp

We create art, develop friendships, and build self-esteem in an idyllic environment conducive to observation and creativity. Art Camp Amar was designed and built by Georgia Amar to maximize the aesthetic pleasure of viewing the spectacular sunsets and sunrises over Lake Ontario.

Art Camp Amar offers courses in the visual arts. We teach multimedia art with a brief survey of art history.

Each class is limited to 10 students under the supervision of a professional working artist and a camp counselor.

Food is prepared on the premises. It is always tasty, wholesome, and fresh.

Art Camp Amar is a sleepover camp with day camp sessions for local kids too!!

About Georgia Amar

Georgia Amar has been working in art and art-related matters for 30 years. She purchased the campsite property with money earned as a student furthering her higher education in Canada. She built an A-Frame cabin out of wood, studied the landscape around Lake Ontario and embarked on her career as a working, contemporary artist. Years later she built the structures which are the residences for the camp. Among Georgia's notable accomplishments is the development of a special glass laminated technique characteristic of her beautiful glass works seen in many public places in Canada and the USA. Georgia has taught as a certified teacher in Toronto.

Conceptualist art, minimalist art, post-modern art: these forbidding terms characterize works of art which generally fail to engage, involve and interest the viewer. These works are part of a closed circuit between artist and artwork. The work of Georgia Amar is entirely different. Embodying the artist's philosophical insights and aesthetic vision, Georgia Amar's work, in a wide range of media always succeeds in involving the spectator. Her thought provokes the viewer's thought; her emotions, typically cool and understated, entice the emotional response of the viewer. Georgia Amar's art transforms the witness into collaborator in a series of novel and arresting insights and restructuring.

Colour in Georgia Amar's work is never static. Any given colour imperceptibly moves through a range of hues and intensities revealing a master hand at colour gradation. Perspectives suddenly shift causing the viewer to reassess awareness of self in space. Popular but not populist, the multi-media work of Georgia Amar transforms a wall or space into a privileged place of contemplation, a place of withdrawal from the surrounding world so that the viewer, focusing on an inner calm, may emerge from the experience of concentration newly energized.

Graphics, canvas, fabric, mural, paint, glass: surfaces for the celebration of Georgia Amar's creativity.

To read more about Georgia and her work visit the Habitat Gallery

About Jack Pappalardo, Executive Director

Jack is a practicing attorney with the Denver law firm of Otten, Johnson. He has shared Georgia's vision and has been helping her achieve her dream of an art camp since the two met in 1988. Jack is originally from Long Island, N.Y., and is a big hockey fan. He now resides in Denver, Colorado, and Ontario, Canada. Jack served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Quiznos Canada in 2002 and 2003, and he is currently the President of the Art District on Santa Fe in Denver, Colorado. Jack and Georgia married in 1991 and continue to be very happy together.



Art Camp Amar
Brighton, Ontario, Canada		 georgia@artcampamar.com
303.534.9740 www.habitatgallery.com

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