Session 8: Artspace Summer Art Program

The final week of the summer program offers professionally taught, grade-banded workshops for rising grades 1–12. Children and teens can register for a morning class, an afternoon class, or both, with projects ranging from sculpture and printmaking to visual storytelling and sustainable design.

Session 8 classes

• Grades 1–3: Let’s Make a Mess builds three-dimensional art from foam, cardboard, found and recycled materials, and modeling compound; Epic Printmaking introduces several beginner-friendly printing methods and repetitive design.
• Grades 3–5: Budding Artists interprets flowers and plants through color theory, tempera, watercolor, and collage; Mind’s Eye looks at eye imagery in Surrealism and portraiture before students create work with paint and papier-mâché.
• Grades 6–8: Pack Yourself Posters uses a symbolic “personality suitcase” to explore identity through drawing, collage, objects, and words; Trash to Trinkets turns soda tabs, plastic bags, and household discards into chainmail-style jewelry, woven cord, pigments, and functional art.
• Grades 9–12: Reuse Rebels teaches mending, dyeing, stitching, painting, and garment modification; Fashion Recycling + Redesigning applies sustainable painting and sewing techniques to older clothing, which students are encouraged to bring.

Parent logistics

Each three-hour class costs $160 for members or $182 for nonmembers. Registration closes the Wednesday before the session. Drop-off runs 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 may pack food or order from A Place at the Table by the previous Thursday, with vegetarian options offered.

Daily sign-in takes place inside the lobby. Pickup requires identification, and only adults on the authorized list may sign a child out. Students 14 and older may self-check in or out with a waiver. Families may briefly use Davie Street for drop-off or use the paid lot at Martin and Person streets. The education-program staff accepts advance requests for disability accommodations and inclusion support.