Spark your child’s creativity and fuel their love of art this summer with ArtBreak Camps at the Art Gallery of Alberta! Your 6 to 17-year-old can spend a full week this July or August enjoying art activities, imaginative exercises, and a variety of exciting creative projects and excursions.
Art – it’s something kids naturally love! The freedom to experiment, the excitement of exploration, and the pride in a finished product. Each AGA ArtBreak Camp empowers aspiring artists to take the lead in the creative process and discover the world around them through their own artistic lens. Focused on student interactions and personal experiences, these camps seek to build a connection between art, ideas, and community.
ArtBreak Camps at the Art Gallery of Alberta include a range of fun and inspiring themes from nature, history, and design, to science and comics. Each week of artful adventures will offer viewing of the current exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Alberta, experimentation in the studio, and exploration of the art, neighbourhoods, and green spaces around the gallery. You never know where you might find inspiration, so many of the camps also include excursions and artmaking at local attractions!
ArtBreak Camps for Kids Ages 6-12
July 7-11 | Sketching Club
Explore and capture the beauty of North America’s largest urban green space! Young artists will be encouraged to sketch en plein air, drawing inspiration from the people, architecture and nature found in the river valley spaces and neighbourhoods surrounding the art gallery. Back at the AGA, sketches will be transformed into finished artworks using artistic materials like paint, clay and print.
July 14-18 | Art Zoo (Excursion)
Explore the animal world with this fun camp that takes place at the Art Gallery and the Edmonton Valley Zoo! Campers will get to draw, paint, and sculpt their favourites from the animal kingdom, then get up close with real-life versions while enjoying artmaking and games at the Zoo.
July 21-25 | Print and Play
Investigate the medium of printmaking at this playful camp inspired by the featured AGA exhibition Life in Print: William Kentridge and Picasso. Campers will learn more about the lives and times of these iconic artists, then create their own unique masterpieces through drawing and painting experiments, and the introduction of printmaking techniques like monotype, relief and collagraph.
July 28-August 1 | Art Lab (Excursion)
This investigative camp will explore the science of art and the art of science! It will feature a bit of everything under the STEAM umbrella, with colour experiments, bio-art explorations, robotic drawing, and more. The experience will be enhanced by a visit to the TELUS World of Science – Edmonton where campers will get to go behind the scenes to learn how art and science connect.
August 11-15 | Artist Innovators
Discover how art and design inspire one another with this combination art studio, maker space, and tinker lab! This camp week will be dedicated to problem solving and design thinking, with artists and designers to help campers dream up BIG IDEAS and build models and prototypes to test in the real world.
August 18-22 | Comics Camp
Learn all about the art of comics – from the basics of figure drawing and composition through to character and story development! This week of cartooning fun with have campers working with 2-D and 3-D materials to create their own collection of comic-inspired art.
ArtBreak Camps for Teens Ages 13-17
July 14-18 | Printed Image
Get ready to experiment with printmaking and mixed-media techniques! Exploration of the AGA featured exhibitions will challenge young artists to re-imagine and stretch their ideas of printmaking. They will learn about relief printing, silk screen, image transfers, creative photo-manipulation, found-object assemblage, and fibre-art, plus experiment with unique display formats to create a portfolio of unique images to take home.
August 11-15 | Illustration
Work alongside some very talented artists and illustrators to create your own works of graphic fiction! Campers will let loose as they experiment with illustration and drawing techniques, mixed media collage, and silkscreen to create their own unique posters, zines, and graphic novel concepts.
Registration is now open for all camps on the AGA website! Space is limited, so don’t miss out. Camp fees include all artistic materials and excursion admissions, with reduced pricing for those who have an Art Gallery of Alberta Membership.
ArtBreak Camps:
Date: Weeklong Camps July 7 – August 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM daily
Venue: Art Gallery of Alberta
Address: 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton
Website: www.youraga.ca
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