All of our children’s programming features projects designed and taught by professional artists, ensuring your child has an immersive experience in the creative process with quality, fine art materials within a supportive learning environment.
Each of our Gallery potters has a specific style as unique as their fingerprints. Explore Susan Nichol's incising techniques and slab built, steam punk inventions, Susan McDonald's stamps and impressions and Gayle Fairchild's animal motifs.
Paint the town red! Or Blue...or yellow AND green! Inspired by Gallery Artist Jo Ann Sturgeon's series celebrating Southampton, students will hit the streets to sketch their favourite business, learning about composition, architectural styles and pen and ink drawings in the process.
Students will use cardboard, glue and foil to create their own three dimensional "bas -relief" versions, inspired by Lisa.
Students explore Gallery artist Bonnie Gardiner's charming paintings of pigs and sheep...and pigs and sheep AND fashion!
Join Karen for a fabulous week creating flying friends and encouraging your child’s creativity to blossom
So much fun, the kids won’t even know it’s good for them!
Add to your cart to have continuous supervision of your child through the 12 - 12:30 pm lunch period to turn two half days camps into a full day one!
Colour theory and painting technique exercises help students master painting the outdoors and work through creating a seasonal cycle of paintings.
Who doesn’t love bears? From polar bears to pandas, from grizzly bears to teddy bears, we’ll explore them all.
Underwater adventures! Well, in our imaginations! Students learn about incredible reef ecosystems and explore color, shape and texture in the creation of coral, sea anemones, sea urchins, sponges, barnacles and more!
Add to your cart to have continuous supervision of your child through the 12 - 12:30 pm lunch period to turn two half days camps into a full day one!
Batik is a very old art form involving wax resists and saturated colours to create designs! Children will twist and tie fabric to create patterns, explore colour theory and make wild and wonderful colour combinations to wear, take a nap with as a cool pillowcase...or let your creativity (literal) flag fly!
In our modern times of photoshop and perfectionism, children sometimes find it hard to deal with unwanted marks, little mistakes or spills “ruining” their masterpiece. But truth is, most great inventions and amazing artworks started with “happy accidents.”
It's Marine Heritage Week and the Cardboard Boat Races beckon! Gather your own crew or join a new group of friends determined to create the most amazing boats ever sailed.
A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas!! Captain Suzy Short finger regales the crew with true Pirate tales as students transform themselves with costumes after making eyepatches and swords.
Get bent! Students explore the wondrous nature of willow construction. They will learn several willow weaving techniques and create a trivet, fish and star while learning how to weave two traditional forms of baskets (frame and stake & strand).
Add to your cart to have continuous supervision of your child through the 12 - 12:30 pm lunch period to turn two half days camps into a full day one!
Get bent! Students explore the wondrous nature of willow construction. They will learn several willow weaving techniques and create a trivet, fish and star while learning how to weave two traditional forms of baskets (frame and stake & strand).
A perfect capture! Students will learn about the principles and elements of design, through capturing images of people, nature, and landscapes.
Calling all Creature Creators! Make the wackiest, wonkiest papier mache sculptures celebrating the feathered or the furred. Colour and pattern create feather and foot, cardboard and imagination transform into masks that express our inner animal.
Add to your cart to have continuous supervision of your child through the 12 - 12:30 pm lunch period to turn two half days camps into a full day one!
Students will spend the week immersed in the visual language of acclaimed artist Travis Shilling and professional photographer Naomi Woodman, as they gently guide students through experiences that knit an understanding of Indigenous visual culture with creative exploration of different media
Bold and graphic, Gallery Artist Sandy Esplen's work inspires a day of experiments with monoprints and abstract art! Students will slather sheets of plexiglass with beautiful colours and create designs in the wet paint, press paper to it...and ta da! A mono print!
Lets start with being inspired by what inspires Gallery Artist Jane Geard; the plants and trees around us. Students will go on a texture safari to find sources of line and texture in nature and sketch the shape and connections of branch to tree trunk, discovering the various species resident around Fairy Lake.