Jun
9
to Jun 13

CAMP: Process Art Adventures Camp- Cardboard Fantasy

Young artists will explore an abundant and limitless material, CARDBOARD, to imagine and build vehicles, fabulous food, creatures, and a ginormous group project over the course of the week. Artists will learn how to use new tools and techniques to realize their creative vision.

For grades Pre-K through 1st

Daily June 9-13th from 8:30 to 3:30

Registration required! https://summeratblake.campbrainregistration.com/

Cost- $425

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CAMP: Process Arts Adventure-Exploring Clay
Jun
16
to Jun 20

CAMP: Process Arts Adventure-Exploring Clay

Young Artists will explore different varieties of clay to create sculptures and forms inspired by our favorite picture books. We will use air dry clay, earthen clay, and homemade dough along with a plethora of tools and found objects. Young people will bring home an assortment of their creations that will range from creatures, clay food, 3D self-portraits, and miniature furniture pieces!

For grades Pre-K through 1st

Daily from June 16- June 20 (no class on June 19th) from 8:30 t0 3:30

Registration required! https://summeratblake.campbrainregistration.com/

Cost- $340

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Jun
16
to Jul 18

MINI CAMP: Garbage Friends

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10358/summer-2025-youth/garbage-friends

Let’s turn “garbage” into art! Join us as we turn everyday materials into brand-new puppets and companions of your creation. Critters, people, or mythical creatures– the only limit is your imagination! Afterward, we’ll use storytelling and creative drama to build a backstory for all our new friends.

For grades K-5
Daily June 16-18 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Jun
23
to Jun 26

MINI CAMP: Cardboard Invention Convention

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10359/summer-2025-youth/cardboard-invention-convention

It starts with a question- what’s a problem you want to solve? Students delve into finding solutions to issues they see in the world. Students then get to work dreaming up and creating solutions out of cardboard. Afterwards, they have the opportunity to hold a Convention and share their creations!

For grades K-5
Daily June 23-26th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Jul
7
to Jul 10

MINI CAMP: World Building- Enchanted Forest

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10360/summer-2025-youth/world-building-enchanted-forest

For grades K-5

Daily July 7 to July 10 from 1:00pm -4:00pm

Come create an enchanted forest! Using upcycled and found materials, create a magical world of your own creation with others. Together, we'll dream up stories and, characters that live in our collective world!

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Jul
14
to Jul 17

MINI CAMP: Imagining Community

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10361/summer-2025-youth/imagining-community

Young artists will imagine cities of the future by examining their own communities and what we all need to be happy, healthy, and connected creating with a wide variety of art mediums including paper collage, 3D cardboard, and sculpted clay! Each day they will explore new materials with individual and collective making prompts.

For grades K-5
Daily July 14-17th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Jul
21
to Jul 24

MINI CAMP: Garbage Friends

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10362/summer-2025-youth/garbage-friends%E2%80%941

Let’s turn “garbage” into art! Join us as we turn everyday materials into brand-new puppets and companions of your creation. Critters, people, or mythical creatures– the only limit is your imagination! Afterward, we’ll use storytelling and creative drama to build a backstory for all our new friends.

For grades K-5
Daily July 21-24th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Jul
28
to Jul 31

MINI CAMP: Storytime Adventures

Registration required! https://stillwater.ce.eleyo.com/course/7041/spring-summer-2025/storytime-adventures

Using books as inspiration, students are invited to explore stories through play, creative drama, and process art. Each day, colorful picture books provide a theme. Teaching artists invite students to explore characters and settings by moving their bodies through creative drama scenarios. Investigations will include sensory adventures with mixed media art materials including pastels, watercolor, collage, fabric, paint, and more.

For grades K-2
Daily July 28-31 from 9:00am - 12:00pm

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Jul
28
to Jul 31

MINI CAMP: Clay Exploration

Registration required! https://stillwater.ce.eleyo.com/course/7032/spring-summer-2025/clay-exploration

Let’s explore clay together in this open-ended art camp! This series is about creativity, process, and using our imagination. We’ll explore using both earthen and air dry clay, and some of the different types of tools you can use when creating with clay.

For grades 3-5
Daily July 28-31 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm

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Aug
4
to Aug 8

MINI CAMP: Process Art Adventures- Magical Worlds

Young artists will explore picture books to inspire the creation of their own magical world. Together, we will create characters, props, and an immersive installation of their colorful and original art work made from a variety of materials.

For grades Pre-K through 1st

Daily August 4-12th from 8:30 to 12:30

Registration required! https://summeratblake.campbrainregistration.com/

Cost- $250

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Aug
4
to Aug 7

MINI CAMP: Cardboard Invention Convention

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10363/summer-2025-youth/cardboard-invention-convention%E2%80%941

It starts with a question- what’s a problem you want to solve? Students delve into finding solutions to issues they see in the world. Students then get to work dreaming up and creating solutions out of cardboard. Afterwards, they have the opportunity to hold a Convention and share their creations!

For grades K-5
Daily August 4-7th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Aug
11
to Aug 14

MINI CAMP: Cardboard Invention Convention

  • Aŋpétu Téča Education Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Registration required! https://isd623.ce.eleyo.com/course/10670/summer-2025%E2%80%942/cardboard-invention-convention-with-now-make-art

It starts with a question- what’s a problem you want to solve? Students delve into finding solutions to issues they see in the world. Students then get to work dreaming up and creating solutions out of cardboard. Afterwards, they have the opportunity to hold a Convention and share their creations!

For grades 1-5
Daily August 11-14 from 9:00am to 12:00pm

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Aug
11
to Aug 14

MINI CAMP: Garbage Friends

  • Aŋpétu Téča Education Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Registration required! https://isd623.ce.eleyo.com/course/10671/summer-2025%E2%80%942/garbage-friends-with-now-make-art

Let’s turn “garbage” into art! Join us as we turn everyday materials into brand new puppets and companions of your creation. Critters, people, or mythical creatures– the only limit is your imagination! Afterwards, we’ll use storytelling and creative drama to build a backstory for all our new friends.

For grades 1-5
Daily August 11-14 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Aug
11
to Aug 14

MINI CAMP: World Building- Enchanted Forest

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10364/summer-2025-youth/world-building-enchanted-forest%E2%80%941

Come create an enchanted forest! Using upcycled and found materials, create a magical world of your own creation with others. Together, we'll dream up stories and, characters that live in our collective world!es

For grades K-5
Daily August 11-14th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

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May
9

MINI CAMP: Cardboard Invention Convention

Registration required! https://edenprairie.ce.eleyo.com/course/10011/winter-spring-2025-youth/cardboard-invention-convention

It starts with a question- what’s a problem you want to solve? Students delve into finding solutions to issues they see in the world. Students then get to work dreaming up and creating solutions out of cardboard. Afterwards, they have the opportunity to hold a Convention and share their creations!

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Apr
22

Garbage Friends

Let’s turn “garbage” into art! Join us as we turn everyday materials into brand new puppets and companions of your creation. Critters, people, or mythical creatures– the only limit is your imagination! Participants can use storytelling and creative drama to bring their new friend to life.

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Apr
19

Family Clay Fun

Join us for some messy, muddy clay exploration for the whole family! We’ll have both earthen and air dry clay, tools, and more. The best part? You don’t have to clean up! It’s a great opportunity for kids of all ages and caregivers to have some creative time together.

Registration required! https://stillwater.ce.eleyo.com/course/6799/winter-2025/family-clay-fun

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Apr
18

MINI CAMP: Garbage Friends

Registration required! https://stpaul.ce.eleyo.com/course/16703/spring-2025-youth/mini-camp-garbage-friends-art

Let’s turn “garbage” into art! Join us as we turn everyday materials into brand new puppets and companions of your creation. Critters, people, or mythical creatures– the only limit is your imagination! Participants can use storytelling and creative drama to bring their new friend to life.

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Apr
13

CLAY CITY @ Mia

Join us for Minneapolis Institute of Art’s FREE Family Day with CLAY CITY.

Sensational Sculptures
Your imagination is endless at Family Day. Anything you can imagine, you can make in Clay City with Now. Make. Art. Young people and their caregivers get their hands dirty in CLAY CITY! Mold, poke, and build whatever you want to add to an evolving city each participant adds to. Use bits of wood and stone, and playful props to help your ideas come to life.

Search the galleries for artwork created with unusual materials. How wild and wacky can you get? Create sculptural, wearable art with Ivonne Yáñez. Join Children’s Theater Company and explore the world of frozen statues, using actor tools of body, voice, and imagination. Enjoy performances from Twin Cities Ballet that’ll feature dancers creating fantastic shapes.

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Cardboard Invention Convention
Nov
16

Cardboard Invention Convention

Participants engage in a design-thinking framework creating cardboard solutions to big & small problems. A performative and engaging "Convention" then occurs where inventors discuss problems & solutions solved with their invention.

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Cardboard Invention Convention
Nov
1

Cardboard Invention Convention

Participants engage in a design-thinking framework creating cardboard solutions to big & small problems. A performative and engaging "Convention" then occurs where inventors discuss problems & solutions solved with their invention.

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All Season Forts
Oct
19

All Season Forts

  • Saint Paul Public Library- Saint Anthony Park (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Using natural dens and animal dwellings as inspiration, participants let their imagination take the wheel as they build creative forts. Building materials vary depending on space and time of year.

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Process Art Adventures (Copy)
Oct
18

Process Art Adventures (Copy)

Join Now. Make. Art. to play, explore shapes, and manipulate paper in different ways inspired by the incredible book, Perfect Square by Michael Hall. We'll rip, cut, punch holes and reassemble colorful paper to create some amazing collages to take home. Tools we will explore in this class will be textured scissors, hole punches, glue with brushes, glue sticks, and ink pens. Shape exploration continues with a free-play, loose parts silly faces station.

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Color X
Oct
17

Color X

Participants create custom colors by getting a little messy and blending multiple chalk colors on paper. Each unique color creation gets a name and is added to a hanging color collection mural.

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Process Art Adventures
Oct
7

Process Art Adventures

Join Now. Make. Art. for a creative art & play packed session celebrating gratefulness & community!  Beginning with the story, Thank you, Omu!  (Oge Mora) we’ll discuss how each member of our community has something unique to give as we use creative drama, storytelling, and open-ended playwork together to cook up a delicious (play) stew! Following the interactive storytime, there will be stations including paper collage cards, spice painting, and a creative kitchen play using real cooking tools!

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CLAY CITY
Aug
29

CLAY CITY

Young people and their caregivers get their hands dirty in CLAY CITY! Mold, poke, and build whatever you want to add to an evolving city each participant adds to. Use bits of wood and stone, and playful props to help your ideas come to life.

FREE and open to all ages. Free snacks provided!


Presented in partnership with Public Art Saint Paul.

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Color X
Aug
16

Color X

Participants create custom colors by getting a little messy and blending multiple chalk colors on paper. Each unique color creation gets a name and is added to a hanging color collection mural.

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CLAY CITY
Aug
3

CLAY CITY

Young people and their caregivers get their hands dirty in CLAY CITY! Mold, poke, and build whatever you want to add to an evolving city each participant adds to. Use bits of wood and stone, and playful props to help your ideas come to life.

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