Summer Program
FOR CHILDREN: WEEK-LONG EXPERIENTIALS FOR CHILDREN ARE OFFERED FOR 6 WEEKS
FOR TEENS: WEEK-LONG INTENSIVES FOR TEENS ARE OFFERED FOR 6 WEEKS
FOR ADULTS (+ADVANCED TEENS): THURSDAY EVENING WORKSHOPS ARE OFFERED FOR 6 WEEKS
ALL SUMMER PROGRAM OFFERINGS MAY BE REGISTERED FOR INDIVIDUALLY OR IN MULTIPLES W/DISCOUNT
THE TUITION FOR THE SUMMER PROGRAM IS PAID BY INVOICE AND DUE IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIPT
TUITION FOR THE SUMMER PROGRAM IS NON-REFUNDABLE AND MAY NOT BE PRORATED
MISSED SUMMER PROGRAM CLASSES ARE NOT CREDITED—AND THERE ARE NO MAKE-UP CLASSES OFFERED IN SUMMER
SUMMER 2026 CAMPS
FOR CHILDREN & TEENS
DATES, DESCRIPTIONS & TUITION:
WEEK-LONG WORKSHOPS LED BY SHANNON RAE FINCKE + ADJUNCT FACULTY
$550/week (all materials provided)*
*EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $50 OFF IF YOU REGISTER DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH
MULTI-WEEK DISCOUNTS:
$1000 for 2 weeks (save $100) $1500 for 3 weeks (save $150) $2,000 for 4 weeks (save $200)
CHILDREN EXPERIENTIALS FOR ELEMENTARY+MIDDLE SCHOOLERS ARE HELD M-F FROM 9AM-12PM
TEEN INTENSIVES FOR MIDDLE+HIGH SCHOOLERS ARE HELD M-F FROM 12-3PM
WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS+ADVANCED HIGH SCHOOLERS ARE HELD THURSDAYS FROM 6-9PM
Teen Intensives Materials & Techniques
The week-long summer workshops for teens offer in-depth experiences to develop new skills and methods for creativity, self-expression and art-making. Focusing on distinct immersive art encounters, students are exposed to a range of media and work in small groups to explore and expand critical thinking, personal awareness, and abilities over the summer through discovering exciting new ways of making, taking on new challenges, and developing their work. This specialized camp program provides serious art instruction over the break and offers middle and high schoolers access to reframe and respond to the world around them through engaging studio processes and practices, amongst a supportive, collaborative peer group. Each week provides developing young artists a deep-dive into learning about and using specific materials and techniques with a dedicated focus. No two weeks are alike!
WEEK 1—JUNE 15-19: SCULPTURE—PAPER & PLASTER
WEEK 2—JUNE 22-26: MURAL + PORTRAITS
WEEK 3—JULY 20-24: PRINTMAKING—MONOTYPES & COLLAGRAPHS
WEEK 4—JULY 27-31: PRINTMAKING—LINOCUTS
WEEK 5—AUGUST 3-7: COLLAGE & ASSEMBLAGE
WEEK 6—AUGUST 10-14: SCULPTURE—CLAY & WIRE
Children Experientials Media & Process
The week-long summer workshops for children offer myriad explorations to develop new ways of processing, seeing, and responding to the world. Focusing on personal expression in abstract, expressive and narrative art-making and working from observation and imagination, students use a range of media and subject matter to improve perceptual, technical and creative abilities—including traditional and alternative approaches. This unique camp program provides serious art instruction over the summer break and offers elementary students ways to make connections and respond to their own lives and surroundings in new and meaningful ways—and motivation to look within and around themselves with more acute awareness. Experiences in media and process varies from week to week and include drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, mixed-media and printmaking. No two weeks are alike!
WEEK 1—JUNE 15-19: EXPLORING 3-D
WEEK 2—JUNE 22-26: EXPLORING 2-D
WEEK 3—JULY 20-24: EXPLORING 3-D
WEEK 4—JULY 27-31: EXPLORING 2-D
WEEK 5—AUGUST 3-7: EXPLORING 3-D
WEEK 6—AUGUST 10-14: EXPLORING 2-D
If you have the opportunity for your kids to study at Institute for Visual Arts, don’t hesitate—do it! My two children have been studying with Shannon for many years and her impact on them has been nothing short of extraordinary. Shannon has not only taught them the techniques needed to be skilled artists, but she has built up their confidence and love of art, and has helped each child find their unique artistic voice.
—Suzanne Obdrzalek, Parent Since 2019