2025 SUMMER CAMPS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaREGISTRATION OPENS 10 AM THURSDAY, JANUARY 23
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Looking for assistance? We have funding available thanks to the Optimist Club of Centre Wellington-Fergus available on a first-come-first-served basis for families facing financial barriers. Contact us today to request a spot!
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PAINTING BASICS FOR KIDS! 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArtist Eileen MacArthur is back in the ECFTA classroom to lead a fast and fun, art-packed introduction to the basics of painting for young artists ages 8 +.
Eileen will offer guidance in observational painting techniques, transfer-methods, colour theory, value, brush handling and composition, and how to break a painting down into more manageable parts!
MIGHTY MATISSE! JANUARY PA DAY FOR KIDS
From bright solid shapes to colourful painted still life florals, we will ponder the beautiful and complicated inner world of French icon Henri MATISSE. Young makers will explore composition, pattern and colour, and learn about how artists tell stories with pictures!
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THE DRAWING ROOM! |Â 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIESÂ | LIVE ANIMALS with Donna Hull
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArt-up your Saturdays in a playful afternoon of drawing with artist Donna Hull! Learn the 101’s of drawing from an art educator with more than 30 years of experience teaching in the classroom and beyond! This 4-week series will focus on a visit from LIVE ANIMALS, the wonders of nature, drawing organic shapes and artist's choice of a naturalistic animal portrait, Owl or Horse! FEB 15, 22, MARCH 1, 8
MARCH BREAK ART CAMP IMAGINING IS BELIEVING!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaIMAGINING IS BELIEVING March Break Camp!
A week where creativity knows no bounds. A place to dream, to believe, and to inspire. Where imaginations can run wild, where possibilities are endless, and art comes alive! For ages 5-12.
PARIS MATCH! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaI love Paris in the Springtime! CEZANNE, MATISSE, & CHAGALL will pay a visit to our studio classroom this PA Day, as we create our own art-salon, complete with Edith Piaf as our background crooner! Aspiring artists will learn about the great French Impressionists and consider how art movements develop, by many minds coming together to create a community!
THE ART OF ANIME+MANGA!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAnime and Manga fans. This class is for you! Artist Eileen MacArthur will introduce young artists age 8 + to the basics of drawing and skill building, while learning about Anime!
EASTER ART+CRAFT!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaThis Easter-themed workshop will get young artists 6 + hopping in a fun-filled half-day exploring art, crafts, stories and art history from Easter traditions around the world!
COLLAGRAPHS FOR KIDS! PRINTMAKING WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaCalling all budding artists! Interested in trying something new? Learn the basics of printmaking through the art of collagraphs!
Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne will show you tips and tricks on how to compose an image of your choosing, translate your image to a collagraph matrix (raised surface), and ink up your plate for some hot-off-the-presses printing!
POKEMON WORLDS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaPokemon kids! Join artist Eileen MacArthur for a half-day Sunday workshop celebrating the world of Pokemon! We will be making a Pokemon habitat using a variety of different materials and methods, including drawing, painting and sculpting!
PAINTING OUTSIDE! FAMILY PLEIN AIR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin in our local celebration of plein air painting this May in this 2-hour quick-paint class with artist Eileen MacArthur! Family Plein Air is a fun indoor-outdoor, family-friendly paint for all ages who want to experience art-making together!
LET’S VAN GO! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaYoung makers! Take a stroll through the vibrant world of Vincent Van Gogh and explore his use of colour and line to create motion, emotion, and intensity! Let's explore the sunny side of painting and using LOTS of vibrant yellow, yellow, yellow and practice Impressionist methods of art-making, as we work together to recreate Van Gogh’s luminous sunflowers on canvas!
FLOW+GLOW! ART & MOVEMENT CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada3-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-6
If your budding artist loves art, with a little get-up-and-go mixed in, this ART + MOVEMENT camp is for you!
We’ll invent our own junior yoga moves and get those ants in your pants dancing and singing, along with playful creativity and friend-making!
ART THEN+NOW! MINI MASTERS CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Let’s time-jump into the art time machine and look at Art THEN + NOW! This camp is full-on art making, trying out new materials, and exploring the connections between art today and art of the past!
ART TECHS! THE SCIENCE OF ART CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5 DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
If you love to experiment, innovate, and collaborate then this camp is for you! This STE(A)M-injected camp brings super-sonic art making to young artists who love bright colours, bright ideas and are curious about how science and tech can POWER their ART explorations!
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ART! THE ART OF NATURE CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-6
Let’s answer the call of the wild in this nature-inspired camp, designed to bring out the WILD artist in you! We’ll use our creative nature to wander, wonder and engage with the wild world all around us in a week of fresh-air creativity, nature explorations and outdoor play!
ALEXANDER CALDER! KINETIC CIRCUS CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Ready for a week of avant-garde awesomeness? This kinetic camp will introduce young artists to American Modernist, Alexander Calder’s 1931 Cirque! A moveable feast of characters, contortionists, fire eaters, hi-wire performers and circus animals. We will spend the week creating our own kinetic circus fun!
POP UP BOOKS! STORYBOOK ART CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-6
Junior artists! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up 3-D Diorama Story Box. We will start each morning with a story and then get to work exploring visual story-making and transform our own favourite stories from home into sculptural ART!
POP UP BOOKS! YOUR FAVE KIDS-LIT CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Young Makers! Turn your fave book into a power pop-up Diorama Story Box. Let’s explore visual story making and transform each of our favourite storybooks from home into sculptural Kid-Lit ART!
EARLY BIRDS+NIGHT OWLS! RISE+SOAR CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-6
Birds of a feather flock together in this week of high-flying fun! Join us for creative making inspired by our feathery friends! Whether you’re an early bird or a night owl we’ll spread our art wings and soar together and make memories that take flight!
DARK SHADOWS! THE IMAGINARIUM OF EDWARD GOREY CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada4-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Love to draw and shadowy storytelling?! Join us for some old-timey illustration inspired by American Gothic writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. Let’s explore the world of fancy-fine-line drawing, graphic story-telling and dark humour in this week of drawing and doodling.