Let’s make art! Join us for a week of art adventures, friendship, and fun during Summer break. Explore ceramics, paper mache, painting, drawing, and mixed media, led by our amazing team of Teaching Artists. Camp Counselors will guide campers in fun camp activities and outdoor play. All materials are provided, just bring a water bottle, snack, sunscreen and your creativity! Click here for FAQs.
Let’s make art! Join us for a week of art adventures, friendship, and fun during Summer break. Explore ceramics, paper mache, painting, drawing, and mixed media, led by our amazing team of Teaching Artists. Camp Counselors will guide campers in fun camp activities and outdoor play. All materials are provided, just bring a water bottle, snack, sunscreen and your creativity! Click here for FAQs.
Unleash your creativity and transform plain ceramics into stunning works of art with our glazing workshops! Whether you’re looking to create a gift or a unique piece for your home, this is the perfect opportunity to let your imagination shine. Simply choose your ceramic piece, pick from a vibrant array of glaze colors, and start decorating! Davis Arts Center staff will handle the firing process, ensuring your masterpiece is ready to take home.
Ever wanted to try your hand wheel throwing – while enjoying a glass of wine? Wheel & Wine is a single evening workshop designed for fun, creativity, and exploring clay! Perfect for both beginners and those with prior wheel throwing experience. Enjoy a relaxed and social evening learning the basics of wheel throwing.
Bring your partner, bestie, boo, platonic pal—or anyone who completes your dynamic duo—to this Paint Date! Follow the instructor’s step-by-step tutorial, but with a twist: you’ll swap canvases every 10 minutes to create two collaborative paintings together.
In this throwing skills workshop, we approach throwing as a collection of practicable, adaptable skills rather than a single fixed technique. The goal of the workshop is to help you move past challenges in your throwing practice while introducing new skills that increase both speed and accuracy at the wheel.
Come learn to make mugs you can’t find anywhere else, and turn those pots that came out a little wobbly into works of art!
Make murals in this larger-than-life class! Art Explorers will work together to create collaborative class murals using materials such as rolls of canvas and techniques such as grid painting and paint-by-number.
Enjoy collage, printmaking, book binding, and more in this 5-week Mixed Media workshop! Participants will learn a new mixed media technique each week, which they will incorporate into a final body of artwork by the end of the workshop. All skill levels are welcome.
Get your hands dirty in this fun and creative weekly clay class! Over the course of 5-weeks, young artists will explore various clay techniques to bring their unique clay creations to life. Young artists will have the opportunity to learn about the entire clay process, from shaping the clay, to glazing and kiln firing. As they learn about the clay process, they will be amazed at how their final pieces turn out! This class can be taken multiple times as no two classes are alike. (Materials included)
Ever wanted to try your hand at sculpting with clay? This beginner-friendly handbuilding class is the perfect place to start! Over the course of 5-weeks, students will have the opportunity to learn about the entire ceramic process – from shaping the clay using handbuilding techniques, to glazing and kiln firing. This class is ideal for beginners, but can be taken multiple times as each session offers new projects and inspiration.
In this introduction to watercolor class, students will learn basic watercolor skills while also building an artistic eye, love for color, and fun techniques. Kids will engage in a number of fun watercolor activities that range from creating a fantastical monster, abstraction, and a still life featuring flowers and vases!
