Textiles and weaving are all part of the exploration process of fashion and design. Students will create these, along with preliminary sketches inspired by designs from the past, nature and animals. Join us in this mixed media class as we create innovative wearable fashion, magazine story board collages, weaving looms, and more!

During this week-long camp, students will discover public art by visiting local murals in downtown Troy, and explore their own ideas through a number of public art-inspired projects. Come create a larger than life Keith Haring artwork, use printmaking techniques to create posters, and work together to create a larger than life collaborative mural for display at the Arts Center! This hands-on camp is for artists who like to dream big, and paint bigger!

Can’t get enough stop motion action? Join us for a second week of filming fun! This camp is for students with a range of experience with stop motion animation; come to learn the basics, or take your film to the next level with sound and special effects! Students will create their own films using a variety of art materials. See your own stories come to life during this hands-on camp

This camp’s creations are anything but flat! Transform your drawn ideas into 3D interactive objects. In this sculpture camp, you will work with paper, clay, cardboard, and more! You will learn a variety of sculpture techniques, including how to create your very own mask out of clay.

Go mad for the masters in this fun-filled and educational camp! We will recreate famous works of art like Frida Kahlo’s folk art portraits, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Degas’ ballerinas, and many others all while using a variety of different art materials and techniques. These magnificent works of art are sure to inspire your young artist!

Navigate, explore, and discover the great city of Troy, NY. Using a variety of art materials, you’ll transform the studio into a fun, interactive mini city. Construct buildings, plant trees, build a park, or catch the trolley to the Farmers’ Market right inside The Arts Center!

This week of fun and adventure combines the great outdoors with artistic expression in the natural environment. We will make plant prints, journey rain sticks, natural dyes for tie-dye shirts, rock sculptures, and more! It is the perfect program for campers who want to link their creative and artistic expression using the outdoors as their canvas . NO CAMP ON JULY 4th.

Love your dog, cat, or guinea pig? Campers will learn how to draw fur that they will want to pet and paint with all the colors of a parrot! See pets in famous works of art. Meet a live Easter Box Turtle and make a turtle statue! Each day campers will discover a different type of art inspired by their favorite animals. This is the purrfect class for pet lovers!

Summer and water go together! Campers will dive right in and create their own swimming pool scenes. They will brush stroke around rocks to make rushing streams. The whole class will have fun jumping together into an ocean mural and much more! Campers will have fun all week using different medium every day to create their refreshing water art and will learn about a number of famous artists too!

Enter a world of oceanic adventures! Campers will dive right in and create a world of sea creatures including fish, whales, and jellyfish after learning about different ocean habitats. We’ll create papier-mâché fish, a pirate ship, sing songs and more! A new, neat underwater topic will be introduced each day to inspire a ship’s-load of fun ideas and activities!

Every good story has a beginning and end. Memorable stories, however, have “larger than life” characters. Develop these characters and they can make your story come alive. In this camp, you’ll refine your existing artistic ideas, characters, stories using software packages in the Adobe Creative Cloud. In this session, we not only build on ideas covered in the first camp, we’ll look more into the branding and merchandising related to storytelling.

In this camp, you will design and create a colorful, light-catching mosaic with stained glass. Discover the many decorative and functional possibilities this style of mosaic offers. You’ll learn to work safely with appropriate tools to practice construction, glass cutting, copper foiling, soldering, and cleaning. Create your own unique stained glass pieces to take home! Please note: fine motor skills required.

In this camp, we will have the chance to explore the culinary creations from 5 different countries! Ever wonder how Italy makes homemade pasta? Or how crepes from France are made? Maybe you have always wanted to learn how to make your own sushi from Japan! Take this week to let your tastebuds travel to far away lands and learn how some of your favorite cuisine is made.

This camp will allow students to explore color theory, color mixing, mood, tone, texture, and color harmony. We will cover topics such as landscape, realism, abstraction, and more. Students will work on several in-depth projects to develop creative thinking skills and gain knowledge of painting media. Students are encouraged to express themselves freely and develop their own visual style. By the end of the week, each student will have a portfolio of several completed artworks