Session 7: Artspace Summer Art Program

Rising grades 1–12 can choose from grade-banded morning and afternoon workshops led by professional artists. The week spans mixed media, sculpture, animation, jewelry, photography, and puppetry, with students creating finished pieces they can take home or present.

Session 7 classes

• Grades 1–3: Colorful Sea Creations combines watercolor, stamping, printing, collage, and three-dimensional paper sculpture; Creating Cool Cities uses cardboard, foil, yarn, and other everyday materials to build a collaborative imaginary city.
• Grades 3–5: Small Silly Sculptures uses reclaimed and unconventional materials to make several fantastical plants and animals; Paper Playground covers collage, drawing, printmaking, artist trading cards, buttons, boxes, and postcards.
• Grades 6–8: Stop Motion Claymation moves from storyboarding and character design through photography and editing to a completed short film; participants use personal devices. Build Your Bling teaches metal stamping, chain assembly, beading, and wire wrapping through several wearable projects.
• Grades 9–12: Digital Photography + Portraiture covers camera operation, composition, lighting, editing, and presentation; students supply a digital camera and laptop or tablet. 2D Paper Puppetry explores illustrative and shadow puppets, story development, character design, cutting, and wire-joint construction.

Parent logistics

The price is $160 for members or $182 for nonmembers for each three-hour class. Registration closes on the preceding Wednesday. Morning drop-off is 8:30–9 a.m.; lunch and early pickup are noon–1 p.m.; final pickup is 4–4:30 p.m. Full-day students may bring lunch or preorder from A Place at the Table by the prior Thursday, including vegetarian choices.

Children are signed in inside the lobby each day, and pickup requires identification and an authorized sign-out adult. Students 14 and older need a waiver to check themselves in or out. Brief drop-off parking is available on Davie Street, and the nearest published paid lot is at Martin and Person streets. Families can contact the education-program staff about inclusion or disability accommodations.