Session 6: Artspace Summer Art Program

This weeklong program gives rising first- through twelfth-graders a choice of morning and afternoon studio classes taught by professional artists. Students experiment with traditional, digital, and sculptural media while spending time in a working visual-arts center.

Session 6 classes

• Grades 1–3: Nature Up Close turns wildlife patterns and natural details into mixed-media projects; Exploring Famous Masters introduces art history and modern painting techniques, with students able to select a piece for the Summer Celebration exhibition.
• Grades 3–5: Artsy Appetite studies food imagery through drawing, painting, collage, color, and mixed media; Superior Sculptures works with materials such as plaster, wood, clay, papier-mâché, and modeling compound.
• Grades 6–8: Clayworks covers tiles, pinch pots, mugs, lidded vessels, trinket dishes, and wall pieces; The Art of Digital Media explores branding and design through logos, mockups, buttons, and posters.
• Grades 9–12: Experimental Animation creates frame-by-frame work with light, shadow, found objects, and the body rather than conventional animation tools; Portrait Painting studies facial proportions, planes, measurement, light, color, and work from a live model.

Parent logistics

Each three-hour class is $160 for members or $182 for nonmembers, and registration closes the Wednesday before class begins. Drop-off is 8:30–9 a.m.; lunch and early pickup are noon–1 p.m.; afternoon pickup is 4–4:30 p.m. Full-day students can bring lunch or order from A Place at the Table by the prior Thursday; vegetarian meals are offered.

Parents or guardians bring children into the lobby for daily sign-in and show identification at pickup. Only adults on the authorized sign-out list may collect a child. A waiver can allow students 14 and older to check themselves in or out. Davie Street can be used briefly for drop-off, and a paid lot is available at Martin and Person streets. Accommodation requests may be directed to the education-program staff.