Adult Classes Summer Adult Classes

Summer Camps take our Artist Campers on a week-long journey into the wonderment of art play with a purpose. What does a student take away from a week of making art? Exploring different arts materials, with lots of concentrated time to finish beautiful projects, allow feelings of success to truly blossom. Loads of creative outside-the-box problem solving happens here. For ages 6+. For kids ages 4-6, click here for Creative Kids Camps.

If you want to STAY ALL DAY, let us know and we'll set you up with a supervised lunch hour between camps! Call 214-827-1222 for details. If you see a camp you like, hit 'SIGN UP' or create a 'SAVE FOR LATER' list. Either way, you can always change your mind before PayPal time.

Everyone needs to bring a small non-refrigerated snack daily.

Rock and Roll Camp

Explore why so many visual artists are successful Rock Stars as you create art, write and illustrate lyrics, and dream your band into reality. Work with a pro to get ideas and guidance. Get your RockandRoll look on!

Projects Include:
Rock Star self-portrait inspired by your favorite Rocker (Lady GaGa, David Bowie etc)
Ink and watercolor costume designs for stage
'Song painting' - visually explore your favorite lyrics
Make a GIANT ROCK POSTER for your band
Local Rocker, Paul Averitt, will join the kids as they all co-write a song to perform

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Texas Camp

We've been pondering what Texas was like before the settlers - wild and free - and we'd like to share our love of natural Texas with you. So, saddle up with multi media projects - drawing, painting, clay and more - and join us round that old time campfire of creativity.

Projects include:
Colorful clay cactus garden
Native Indian narrative painting on "animal hide"
Woven horseshoe dream catcher
Illustrated hand made poster of a Texas legend

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Fairy Camp

Why do we return again and again to this camp? Because it's magic, and our most requested camp ever. Grown ups talk about how awesome their Fairy Camp experience with us was when they were kids... we've been doing it that long.

Projects include:
Spectacular sculptural fairy house
Watercolor self-portrait as fairy in fantasy forest
Fairy paper doll with fresh picked leaf and flower clothes (photocopied into designer paper dresses)
Fairy wand talking stick

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Horse Camp

Horse Camp

Everyone agrees that horses are magical, and making art about them just seems natural. Visit a very beautiful private Lakewood barn for a day and paint ON a real live horse (pictured), sketch and take photographs, gathering inspiration to take back to the studio.

Projects Include:
Learn how to really draw horses
Make horse sculptures from fabric and wood
Collage horse landscape with wood fence
Create glazed ceramic horse head

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Horse Camp

Drawing Camp

Classic Drawing and Painting instruction is for young artists interested in building their skills upon traditional basics with FUN materials added for sustaining connection to the process. Even the youngest students can explore the challenges of figure drawing, composition, simple perspective and expressive mark making while drawing from observation. Students work with pencil, pen and ink, and charcoal while engaging their imaginations, gaining inspiration and techniques from the Masters, and learning to See as the Artist Sees.

Projects include:
vibrant colored pencil drawing of Texas succulents,
mixed-media charcoal self portrait
collage-drawing combo inspired by William Wegman with a live animal model.

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Horse Camp

Wheel Camp

This class is fantastic for kids for so many reasons. Developmentally, working in clay assists hand-eye coordination. Give a kid a lump of clay and their brain slows down to allow inspiration to come out. Our projects are designed with fun and learning in mind. Students enjoy a tea party with their wares the last day. (If by chance there is work still to be picked up after the class, check for it outside in our clay garden).

1/2 Day ($195) and Full Day ($395)

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Horse Camp

Animation Camp

Create a stop motion animated film with Legos! Make awesome characters, props and backgrounds of your own design. Create your own script and storyboard. Legos provided. Receive DVD or download info of entire class' work at end of class.

Projects include:
Stop Motion Lego Animation with your narration and music
Timelapse video of the class
Human stop-motion, a class activity
Animation Quiz Game

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Horse Camp

Clay for the Garden

Making pretty stuff from mud is nothing short of miraculous. The process is as simple as you need it to be yet the challenges are very exciting. Concentrate on the potter's wheel to get yourself centered. Hand building is a perfect meditation. You will be amazed at how quickly your skills develop and how much fun you'll have with fellow adventurers in this most tactile of art forms. Explore your creativity and develop your green thumbs with beautiful creations for the garden.

Projects include:
Bird feeder
Slab-built toad house complete with hilarious toad
Wheel-thrown pot with its own braided macrame hanger

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Horse Camp

Drawing and Painting

Are you always drawn to picking up a pencil? Hey! Don't brush off your painting skills! Draw from still life (but really COOL still life), clothed models (sometimes a dog), and work from your imagination while learning important stuff like proportion, perspective, composition and hatching/cross hatching.

Projects TBA

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