Summer Art Camp At The Art Spot

 

Serving Danbury, Ridgefild, Wilton, Redding, Bethel, Newtown, Brookfield and surrounding region

Summer Camp as it should be – fun, exciting, different, a chance to learn something new, play and make new friends!

Our camps focus on art! – process, technique, many different mediums, and a chance to explore. We even have international themes.

Learning to use the right side of their brain is a huge gift you can give your kids! And the opportunity to be free to create, to enjoy their creative side, use wild imagination, and make art, is just priceless.

We offer many different camp themes so there is choice about mediums and topic. But we are also very flexible about what a camper would like to pursue. We like to offer our young artists options that appeal to their style and interests.

As always, portfolio development is available all summer for those high school students pursuing higher education at an art school.

2026 Camp Schedule

Join our Summer Art Camp Program where creativity meets fun and learning!
Our broad variety of camps offer a range of activities designed to develop artistic skills, encourage creativity, and provide a memorable art experience for children and teens.

 

All our Summer Art Camps offer a Full Day Option!
Half Day/$285   AM: 9:20-12:30  or   PM: 1:30-4:30
Full Day/$595 / 9:30-4:30

June 22-26

AM Camp Options

Learn the theory and practice of watercolor-palette and color work, brush use, pigments, techniques galore! Discover the bright & vibrant and the soft subdued aspects. Then we’ll add inking to the mix!

Cartoon Storyboard Summer Camp Project Example

Learn to tag, ink, write, and create your own character, in manga or your own style. Create your own storyboard, then illustrate your character as the star of your story!

PM Camp Options

Fine Art Frolics

Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.

Let your wild side out in watercolors, tempra and acrylic paintings – jungle animals, pet portraits, zoo animals or whatever animal you like! Learn how to make body shapes, realistic fur, patterning and natural habitats.

July 6 – July 10

AM Camp Options

Learn about color mixing/pigments, palette set up, composition, additives & techniques, working from still life/photo, use glazes and more while we create gems of paintings!

A fast-paced camp that works with making miniature foods, beads, insects, armatures, animals & using some additives to enhance your sculptures. You’re going to love working with your hands to make a lump of clay come alive!

PM Camp Options

Design your own clothing & accessories! Learn the exciting ins & outs of the Fashion industry while working with your own story boards, colors & fabric choices for your season clothing designs & illustration croquis.

Draw Humans from action poses/intricate extremities/portraits/line of balance figure work

July 13-17

Full Day Option Available

AM Camp Options

Working really LARGE – learn about proportions, how to grid up, and techniques of scaling up. You will work on an acrylic painting the size of a table – this is going to be HUGE fun!

Observe the way artist’s eyes do, using ink, graphite, charcoal, pastels, & colored pencil. Proportion, light, shadow, shading, perspective, line & tone will make your drawings spring to life.

PM Camp Options

MINIATURE CLAY SWEETS TRY-IT CLASS

Sculpture the fun way!! Explore the techniques for armatures and creating sculpture. Make abstract pieces as well as realistic animals and even a cartoon character of your design! Learn the properties of polymer clay and the use of sculpting tools. So much to do!

Mosaic Camp

Learn the techniques and process of using tesserae to create mosaic mural work. Your kids can learn and create art while they study Mosaic Art with a modern twist.

July 20-24

Full Day Option Available

AM Camp Options

Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.

The simple definition of sculpture -turn one thing into something else! Work with Paper, Clay, Stone, Wood, involving texture, color, movement and more.

PM Camp Options

Learn the theory and practice of watercolor-palette and color work, brush use, pigments, techniques galore! Discover the bright & vibrant and the soft subdued aspects. Then we’ll add inking to the mix!

Learn the theory and practice of watercolor-palette and color work, brush use, pigments, techniques galore! Discover the bright & vibrant and the soft subdued aspects. Then we’ll add inking to the mix!

July 27-31

Full Day Option Available

AM Camp Options

PM Camp Options

Learn how and why color adds a whole other dimension to drawing. You’ll use Prismacolor pencils and inks to create dramatic and interesting color art with a flair for the unusual. We will also look at drawing skin tones in portraiture.

We could work on how to carve wood, form copper into art, quilling, create your own Ukrainian dyed egg with incredible patterns.

Aug 3-7

Full Day Option Available

AM Camp Options

Learn the techniques and process of using tesserae to create mosaic mural work. Your kids can learn and create art while they study Mosaic Art with a modern twist

Print Making Summer Camp Project Example

Discover the fun of producing multiple prints in the color of your choice! Lino block, monoprints, etching and more.

PM Camp Options

charcoal/pencil/clay sculpt/WC/ and painting/acrylic/monoprints/pastels   

Lots of fun as you use vibrantly colored pastels. Work from still life and imagination, mix these pastels with glue, transfer liquids or other mediums. You won’t believe the masterpieces you make!

Aug 10-14

Full Day Option Available

AM Camp Options

Incorporate the traditional way of famous realistic painting including lighting, glazes, composition and content.  But then, make it your own with distortion, big color changes and more!  Lots of fun for our painters!

Ages 4-7 only….…exciting art experiences that could include drawing, acrylics, printing, watercolors, clay, collage, paper sculpture, papermaking and more. We learn about master artists and their techniques, as well as basic artists skills or international culture.

Full Day Option Available

PM Camp Options

Art that does not represent an accurate depiction of reality but instead use shapes, colors, forms to achieve its effect. Throw the rules out the window and focus on balance, color, rhyme and balance.

Experiment with color/chromatography, make/use your own paints, recreate cave paintings, dissect a flower and do botanical drawing, create optical illusions with pointillism, change of state sculpture, colorful crystals, color wheels and MUCH MORE!

Aug 17 – 21

Full Day Option Available

AM Camp Options

a taste of calligraphy and cultural art pieces.

Wire Sculpture Summer Camp Project

With your own drawings, create copper wire pieces with your own drawings and learn to SOLDER your sculpture together!

Full Day Option Available

PM Camp Options

Batik hanging/Silk Scarf/Theorem & Moli painting.  

Drawing?  Yes!   Sculpting?  Yes.  Watercolors?  Yes.  Acrylics?  Yes.  Repousse?  Yes.  Cartooning?  Yes. There’s going to be A LOT going on in this class with so much excitement and varied art!  The basic rules of art apply to so many things, wait till you experience the broad variety of mediums!

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