Summer 2025
Art Camps for Ages 6-12*
All Aboard for Art Adventures
Kids ages 6-12* create their own art adventure with these art camps. Camps are offered for just $225 per week with art supplies included.
*Ages as of June 1, 2025
SCHEDULE
Art Camp #1: Making a Mark
June 9 – 13, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
Cartoon & Comics Workshop (10AM-12 PM)
Love to draw? Love cartoons and comic books? Learn the basic principles of creating comics that include developing a concept, story & characters, panels, art and lettering. Students will create storyboards and character portraits that culminate in a personal comic book. Young artists are welcome to bring in drawings and sketches for portfolio review.
Instructor: VET
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
Discovering the World of Japanese Printmaking (1PM-3PM)
After looking at examples of mokuhanga, traditional Japanese woodcut prints, campers will carve their own original drawings into a printmaking plate to create a nature-inspired relief print. Next stop on this international art tour is exploring the gyotaku tradition of printmaking with fish (but we’ll use rubber ones!). Designs will be printed on paper and T-shirts.
Instructor: Kimberly Black
Art Camp #2: Cool Creations
June 16– 20, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
A fresh take on 3-D design and fiber arts provides a fun & funky twist to this week’s creative adventures!
Journey to the 3rd Dimension (10AM-12 PM)
Campers will explore various techniques and materials to make sculptures and other three-dimensional art. Projects, inspired by the history of art and works by famous artists, will include feet/shoe casting, mummy’s hand wrap, a carved clay relief and a mosaic box.
Instructor: VET
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
Weaving the Rainbow (1PM-3PM)
Go on a fiber art adventure by dyeing your own yarn the colors of your choice and using it to create a woven basket and other fun woven projects. We will use safe, non-toxic materials like water and Kool-Aid drinking mixes to create a rainbow of multicolored yarns.
Instructor: Kimberly Black
Art Camp #3: Hand Made
June 23– 27, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
Hands are the focus of artmaking as both subject and tools in this week’s “hands-on” mixed media camp.
It’s All About the Hands (10AM-12 PM)
Campers will learn faux felting, drawing and sculpture techniques in this unique class. Using their own hands as a model, campers will draw expressive “hand-portraits,” make 3-D felted hands and create kinetic hands that really move.
Instructor: Linda Disosway
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
Origami Books & Ornaments (1PM-3PM)
Campers will learn about origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, and then create mini books and ornaments using simple origami folds.
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
Art Camp #4: Out of this World Designs
July 7– 11, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
This week campers explore color, design and their imaginations to craft one-of-kind creations that are truly “far-out!”.
Dip, Dye and Design (10AM-12 PM)
Campers will learn how color and design can create a galaxy of amazing patterns on cotton, silk and other fabrics by using the traditions and techniques of resist dyeing, printing and batik.
Instructor: VET
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
Cosmic Pop-Up Books (1PM-3PM)
Campers will create a story about an interplanetary adventure & then construct a pop-up book with three dimensional and
interactive elements to illustrate their tales of traveling through the universe — and beyond!
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
Art Camp #5: S.T.E.A.M. Powered
July 14– 18, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
The worlds of science, technology, engineering, art and math collide in this week’s projects.
Automaton Toy Creations (10AM-12 PM)
Automatons (or automata) are simple machines powered by cranks, gears, cams and followers. In this class campers will learn how to make their own automaton, a hand-operated mechanical toy. Using decorative papers and air-dry clay, students will design and construct a whimsical winged creature, set into motion by a paperclip crankshaft!
Instructor: Linda Disosway
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
The Art of Geometry
Artists from Leonardo da Vinci to masters of the modern era, such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Frank Stella have utilized the principles of geometry to compose works of balance and symmetry as well as complexity, use forms and patterns as mystic symbols, create perspective (the illusion of depth three dimensionality) and make abstract art focused on color and shapes. Learn about them and make your own geometric art using tools such as compasses, protractors, triangles and rulers.
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
Art Camp #6: Pop Art & Patterns
July 21– 25, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
Pop Art and collage techniques provide inspiration for campers to experiment with creating dynamic abstract compositions.
Pop Art Letters & Numbers (10AM-12 PM)
Explore Pop Art techniques inspired by artists such as Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns to create artwork featuring lettering and numbers.
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
Collage & Mixed Media
Inspired by the teaching methods of Japanese artist, Kanae Yamamoto, campers will learn drawing, composition and collage techniques utilizing a combination of oil pastels and metallic paper. This “oil & foil” technique/method offers a new and expressive way for experimenting with texture, color and light.
Instructor: Linda Disosway
Art Camp #7: Rinse & Repeat
July 28– Aug 1, 2025 (Mon-Fri), 10AM-3PM
Ages: 6-12 (Ages as of June 1, 2025)
Class participants/enrollment max: 15
Class Fees: $225; art supplies included
This camp week we’ll experiment with special effects using water and paint as well as making stencils and stamps to create multiple images & repeating patterns.
Spritzing, Marbling & More (10AM-12 PM)
Experiment with water & paint to explore many fun techniques that use water to move paint around and create stunning results for your projects.
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
(Lunch 12PM -1PM)
Stencils & Stamps
Campers will design unique stencils and milti-sided relief blocks for fast, repetitive printing and pattern-making stamping. Campers will print and stamp in layers making abstract pieces that are full of depth and rich overlapping colors.
Instructor: Linda Disosway
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available for IAC Summer Art Adventures camps. Scholarships are awarded for one camp per recipient.
The deadline for priority consideration of scholarship applications for the 2025 Summer KidsArts program is May 12, 2025 (postmarked, hand-delivered or by email). Applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and will be made based on availability. The last day to receive applictions is July 7, 2025.
For more information, please contact minman@cityofirving.org or call 972.252.7558, ext. 1225.
