At ArtVenture Camps children spend their day immersed in hands-on art making, cultural history, and creative problem solving. All camps include a visit to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art to learn about and be inspired by original works of …

Tattered, water-stained, and obsessively underlined, my copy of the Tao te Ching was a gift from my mother before I left for college. This classic, by the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, seeks to council humans on how to be in …