Ken Crampton
Eyeclopes Studios / Everybody Drum

Everybody Drum is an outreach program empowering people through the rhythms of the visual and audible arts. The program includes visiting schools, and working in the community, travelling to festivals, and corporate conferences. Ken has been drumming and facilitating drum circles for over 17 years, and studied with master facilitators and drummers, Arthur Hull, Babatunde Olatunji, and Mamady Keita. He holds a drum circles a week, and works with festivals, public schools, Head Start, and at-risk programs. Ken also teaches drum construction and instruction workshops and classes.

Ken is the proprietor of Eyeclopes Studios, which showcases “Locally Grown Art”and empowers the wealth of regional talent (painters, photographers, musicians, actors, and visual performers). Through his work with Eyeclopes, Ken works to promote, expose, and encourage those who have taken the time and inspiration to produce art. In October of 1997, the studio was transformed into an art gallery and shop creating the most spacious gallery in historic downtown Fredericksburg. In addition to featuring exhibtions and offering classes, Eyeclopes is available for design work, has rentable gallery space, and markets a wide array of international percussion instruments.

A former student at the Corcoran School of Art, Ken Crampton has been dedicated to the regional arts scene for over twenty years. He served as President of the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (1994-97), conceived and created the now famous New Years Eve Pear (used in the First Night Celebration), and is an advocate of First Fridays, a monthly celebration of the arts in historic downtown Fredericksburg.