Camp Art Academy

From the Sponsor

Camp Art Academy presented by Art Academy of Cincinnati College of Art & Design is an esteemed six-week, summertime educational experience for rising first through sixth graders. Each week has a unique theme and students can attend one week, all six, or any number in between. At the end of each week, students celebrate their artwork with a gallery opening for friends and family!

Camp Art Academy will encourage your child’s self-discovery, teamwork, and expression through an award-winning arts education. We believe in the power of hands-on, studio-based & social-emotional learning, which students will practice while being guided by instructors and collaborating with fellow artists. While your young artist is in training, they will learn both classical and experimental techniques across many disciplines including drawing, painting, textile, sculpture, printmaking, illustration, and creative writing. Not only will students have fun applying imagination and creativity each day, but they will also employ skills in science, technology, engineering, art, and math to craft their projects. Students will learn about and take inspiration from artists across the world in addition to notable AAC alumni as they create individual and collaborative art projects.

By the end of Camp Art Academy, young artists will have helped build a creative community, practiced many new techniques and methods with their instructors, learned invaluable life skills, and shared their sense of self and imagination through storytelling.

Is your young creative ready to be an artist-in-training? Art provokes thought, encourages expression, and brings people together. Camp Art Academy provides the skills your child needs to be the best artist, thinker, collaborator, and storyteller they can be. Come imagine and build with Camp Art Academy this summer as we study and practice the elements of artmaking and storytelling!

2026 Dates

WEEK 1 | Characters: Drawing from Life and Imagination…….June 1-5

WEEK 2 | Atmosphere: Space, Mood, and Environment………..June 8-12

WEEK 3 | Image: Text, Textile, and Photography…………………..June 15-18 (Off on Juneteenth)

2-WEEK BREAK

WEEK 4 | Style: Expression and Identity………………………………July 6-10

WEEK 5 | Representation: Image and Form…………………………July 13-17

WEEK 6 | Story: Print and Narrative Arts……………………………..July 21-25