Applications for this summer’s Art Camp 2012 program have only been out for two-and-a-half weeks and already nearly every seat is filled, said camp director Candi Duncan.

The camp, which hosts two one-week long sessions for children age 8 and above, teaches participants about various art projects, including ceramics, watercolors, sculptures, weaving and other activities.

“We expose them all kinds of different areas of art,” Duncan said. “If you were to do a class at the school of fine arts, you’d have to say, ‘I just want to do drawing,’ or ‘I just want to water colors,’ the same thing if you go over to Montgomery at AUM, they make you focus on one area. We give them a little taste of a lot of different things. That way they may find they’re interested in something else and they may do well in one area that they didn’t have any idea that they had any talent for.”

Duncan said it was rewarding to watch the light bulb in the camp participants’ heads go on when they figure out how to do a project she and the camp volunteers have taught them.

“Some of them are really talented when they enter,” she said. “And others, when you hand them a ceramic piece to paint and tell them they can paint anything on it, they just look back and you and they’re totally blank. But then you see them draw something on there and you had no idea that that could come out of them. Just seeing them make masterpieces of their own is rewarding.”

The first session of this summer’s camp, which runs from June 11-15, has already reached its around 50-person capacity, Duncan said, but those interested in the camp’s second week, July 9-13, still have time to enroll.

Duncan said there is no deadline to apply, as the camp accepts participants until it reaches maximum capacity.

The non-refundable fee for each camp is $110, which includes lunch each day. Payments and enrollment forms may be delivered or mailed to the Dallas Academy Building on the corner of Selma Avenue and Church Street.

The camp runs from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Monday-Thursday, and 9 a.m. until noon on Friday. More information is available by calling 874-2143 or 412-8550.