West Park Cultural Center

West Park Cultural Center believes in the value of the arts as learning tools. Our instructors represent many arts mediums who design and implement projects that:

- introduce participants to visual thinking skills that can help their problem solving and decision-making at home and in school.

- provide an environment where older and young students of mixed abilities are working together and teaching each other, a place that models "lifelong learning" where the older learners are often beginners and young students are teachers.

- involve art making inspired by collaboration for positive social interaction and teamwork.

- increase the number of under-represented minority girls in STEM education

- give students a compelling reason to engage in difficult tasks by finding the spark that inspires them and keeps them invested in their projects.

Afterschool Classes

Visual Art, Theatre Writing and Performance, and Guitar

Saturday Programming:

danceLogic (combines dance and computer coding) for girls.

Summer Programming:

Camp Ginkgo is based in arts and nature for children age 5-12. After 18 years located at the Fairmount Park Horticulture Center, Camp GInkgo is now hosted at the beautiful Maguire Museum and Arboretum. The staff to camper ratio is 1-5. Three artist/counselors design and facilitate projects in visual art, theatre, and photography/poetry.