This city is full of artists – and so many of these artists are generous enough to share their talents with our children. Kansas City has the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Crossroads District galleries, the Kansas City Art Institute and Hallmark. Take a peek at the great Art Camps in Kansas City this summer!
Get started by checking out your local parks and recreation catalog and then check these out!
(If you operate a Kansas City area day or overnight camp which is not listed here or in one of other other camp listings, please let us know! And if you’re interested in a Sponsored Listing, email us for information.)
Sponsored Listings:
Little Masters…big art Summer Camps! During 4-day camps students will be painting, cutting, forming, gluing, constructing, learning, tearing, creating, sculpting, laughing, drawing, designing, thinking and having LOTS of fun! Camps for ages 6+ as well as camps for 3-5 year olds. Check out the site for more info!
Regular Listings:
- ARTichokes (Leawood, KS) is a great locally-owned art gallery that hosts ARTmania camps in the summer for kids ages 5-12.
- Artrageous Creative Studios (Prairie Village, KS) offers art camps for all ages. The theme changes each week – the kids will learn a little art history, explore other cultures through art and, of course, CREATE! Morning and afternoon classes.
- Blue Valley Recreation (Overland Park, KS) Art Camps include making jewelry, stick fairies, collages, mobiles, journals/sketchbooks and woven pieces. Kids will paint, draw, sculpt, use model magic, and much more.
- CartoonWorks (Kansas City, MO) offers one-week camps for ages 8 through High School from June to July. Ron Wheeler’s Cartoon Camp teaches the basics of cartooning, sculpting with clay and creating a comic strip. Audrey’s Art Camp includes working with clay, etching and crafting paper.
- Community School of the Arts (Kansas City, MO) has many dance and theater options for 5-15 year olds – but look closely and you’ll find a few very interesting visual arts offerings too! Classes are held at St. Teresa’s Academy between Brookside and the Plaza.
- HodgePodge Workshop (KCMO) – an art venue, gallery and boutique offering arts and craft workshops for adults and children. HodgePodge offers workshops in Batik, candle-making, soap-making, mosaics, ceramics, pottery painting and more. HodgePodge is also a great place to host your next birthday party, baby shower, or ladies night out!
- Johnson County Park and Recreation District offers 30+ summer camp programs for ages 3-18. Included are camps themed around arts and crafts, history, pirates, art and music. Dates, locations and fees vary.
- Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO and Riverside, MO) has the MOST amazing offerings for kids ages 6-15! Painting, ceramics, drawing, computer design and more. I just wish I lived a bit closer to take advantage of these awesome programs!
- Mattie Rhodes Art Center (Kansas City, MO) has awesome art exploration classes and programs for your little ones, ages 5 to 12 this summer! Experience five different mediums – ceramics, textiles, cultural art, mixed media and painting/printmaking.
- The Culture House (Olathe, KS) has four “schools”: Theater, Dance, Music and Fine Art– each with summer camps!
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) has a mix of hands-on and art appreciation classes for ages 3-18. These programs sell out FAST!
- Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS) These are technically classes, but they look fantastic! For children ages 5-11. See website for specifics.
- Paint Glaze and Fire (Overland Park, KS) does ceramics camps (Ceramics Cafe) in south Overland Park.
- Waldo School of the Arts (KCMO) -a themed weekly fine arts camp. They include painting, sculpture, music, dance and theater into a weekly extravaganza. The camps will run from 8:00 am until 5:00 PM daily. Lunches and snacks are included as part of the registration cost.
- Wolf Creek Art Studio (south Overland Park, KS)offers half-day, week-long Art Camps for children ages 6-14. A different form of art will be explored each day.
- YMCA (20 locations in the metro) offers camps for 5-11 year olds and run June 1- August 7. Arts and Crafts-themed camp is available in addition to drama, sports and nature! Bonus: before and after-camp care is available, as is financial assistance.
We’ll add to this list as we discover new camps and classes for summer 2011! In the meantime, take a look at the ones listed here, the ones offered by your parks and rec department and even the ones put on inside your favorite chain craft store (like Michael’s or JoAnn – they’ve always got a full calendar of classes).
