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C300AM26 Making Waves Art / June 8 - 12 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
June 8 - 12, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

From seashells to surfers this camp offers summer subjects for water lovers. Using mixed media you will have prompts for projects using water based paints, oil pastels, and more to explore your favorite things about summer adventures at the water's edge. From lakeside to poolside, you will see how artists like David Hockney portray aquatic fun.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 6/8/2026 and ending 6/12/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C300PM26 Fantastic Art / June 8-12 -1PM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
June 8 - 12, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Free up your imagination to draw and paint your own fantasy world. You will draw magical creatures and characters in active poses that showcase their talents and personal traits. Class will include drawing prompts to jumpstart your character development and fantasy worldbuilding. Experiment with shading, value, perspective, and lighting techniques to improve your fantasy drawings. This class will use a variety of art media like colored pencils, pens, markers, and/or water-based paints. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 6/8/2026 and ending 6/12/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C301AM26 Mixed Media Treasures / June 15 - 19 -9AM
Ages 10 - 12
Skill Level: ALL
June 15 - 19, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Create positivity through painting, collage, construction and assembly. This camp will help your imagination flow while you learn visual art skills. Projects like vision boards, hand painted canvas bags, and treasure boxes will help you to create inspirational art for yourself. We will take a look at works made by visionary artists that continue to uplift spirits throughout the world. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 6/15/2026 and ending 6/19/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C301PM26 Sew What? / June 15 - 19 -1PM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
June 15 - 19, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

You can make your clothes stand out by adding embroidery and appliques that you design yourself. Bring in a shirt or other item and learn about expressive sewing. Class will provide fabrics, colorful threads and fusible material. You will learn how to customize your clothing to make the everyday extraordinary. Projects will inspire you. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 6/15/2026 and ending 6/19/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C302AM26 Drawing Essentials / June 22 - 26 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
June 22 - 26, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Explore drawing with sketching prompts. Each class will feature exercises and projects that help you to learn how to see and draw by understanding shading, dimension, expression, composition, contrast and other formal concepts. You will try different drawing mediums like graphite, charcoal, oil pastels and markers. Each day will have a different focus and different subject matter, from still lifes to portraits.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 6/22/2026 and ending 6/26/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C302PM26 Ceramic Garden Art / June 22 - 26 -1PM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
June 22 - 26, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Making handmade art for your garden, patio, or porch adds a lot to your summer fun. You will use handbuilding techniques like pinching and coiling, along with molds to create projects like fairy or birdhouses, small garden totems, or bells. Adding surface interest with colorful underglazes, or textural elements will add interesting details to your creative garden artworks. Because of the bisque and glaze firing process, estimated pickup is three weeks after the class. Enrollment is limited to 12 .
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 6/22/2026 and ending 6/26/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 291.00 ea.

C303AM26 Creative Collage / July 6 - 10 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
July 6 - 10, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Join us as we explore the imaginative paper arts technique of collage (French word "to paste"). Using an assortment of decorative papers, magazines, newspapers, and more, you will tear out and glue papers together in fun ways. You will explore découpage (French word for the art of cutting out and pasting cutouts on different surfaces). Projects include collage posters, paper accessories, and decoupage boxes, trays, and/or journals. Learn additional embellishment techniques for finishing touches! Campers are welcome to bring paper and items from home to use at camp. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/6/2026 and ending 7/10/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C303PM26 Ceramic Hand & Wheel (10 days/ 2 weeks) July 6-17 (Sold Out)
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
July 6 - 17, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (10 days/2 weeks)

In this 10-day clay camp, campers will create a variety of functional and decorative ceramic ware using both handbuilding and wheel-throwing techniques. Gain experience on the potter's wheel as you learn how to throw and trim mugs and bowls. You will glaze some work for food-safe use and apply paints to your decorative pieces. Projects will be ready for pickup in three weeks. Enrollment limited to 12.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/6/2026 and ending 7/17/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 582.00 ea.

C304AM26 Posh Printmaking / July 13 - 17 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
July 13 - 17, 9 a.m. - Noon

You will learn how to take your drawings and turn them into templates for printmaking. Working with printmaking tools you will experiment with color, layering and repetition using your original ideas. With a variety of projects you will learn about how to make prints on both fabrics and paper creating unique artworks. Enrollment limited to 14.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/13/2026 and ending 7/17/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C305AM26 Watercolor Scenes / July 20 - 24 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
July 20 - 24, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Experience the magic of watercolor painting as we delve into watercolor fundamentals. Mix colors on a palette or directly on your paper, witnessing how pigments swirl and blend together for exciting results. Learn brush handling techniques to create a variety of shapes and lines. Explore both wet-into-wet and wet-into-dry painting techniques. Try out some fun techniques to create texture in your paintings. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/20/2026 and ending 7/24/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C305PM26 Plein Air Painting / July 20 - 24 -1 PM
Ages 10 to 15
Skill Level: ALL
July 20 - 24, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Painting in the great outdoors is both joyful and challenging. This class will work outside in our beautiful backyard as much as weather permits. You will learn to watch the light as it is everchanging the colors before you. Some time will be spent in the studio composing color schemes, and compositions. You will work with drawing boards and easels, oil pastels and acrylic paints, as you learn to paint en plein air, just like many great artists. Enrollment limited to 16. (Groups C & D)
Enrollment limited to 16
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/20/2026 and ending 7/24/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C306AM26 Inpired Illustration / July 27 - 31 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
July 27 - 31, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

If you admire hand-lettered signs in storefronts, the playful graphics and text on band posters and a well-designed book cover, then this camp is for you. You will work on illustration projects of your choosing. Explore a variety of drawing techniques as you create studies in pen and ink, graphite, markers, and more. You will get hands-on experience working with watercolor and gouache in illustration. There will be artist demos, drawing prompts, and studio time for developing your illustrations. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/27/2026 and ending 7/31/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C306PM26 Bookmaking Arts / July 27 - 31 -1PM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
July 27 - 31, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Combine your creative skills with your writing or drawing skills in this fun camp. Starting with junk journals we will explore many kinds of handmade books. From accordion books to soft and hard covered books you will experiment and explore the different materials and styles of making unique one of a kind books. There are endless ways to tell a story or turn a page, come see what you can construct as you tell your own tales.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 7/27/2026 and ending 7/31/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C307AM26 Sewing Basics / August 3 - 7 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
August 3 -7, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Sewing opens up new artistic possibilities with thread, felt, and fabric. Learn the basics of hand sewing - threading the needle, knotting - and then you’re off and running learning basic embroidery stitches. Your stitches will decorate and give structure to art projects. Project ideas include hand-sewn pouches, felt creatures, bookmarks, and other small fiber arts items. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 8/3/2026 and ending 8/7/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 280.00 ea.

C307PM26 Cardboard Adventures / August 3 - 7 -1PM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
August 3 - 7, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

This sculpture class will show you some of the amazing things artists are doing with cardboard. Our adventures will be take ordinary recycled cardboard and turn it into 3 dimensional sculptures. Projects will show you how to use tools to score, cut, bend, layer, glue and tape different kinds of cardboard to make fantastic things from your imagination! Bring your ideas to class and enjoy this flexible, durable and neutral material that is free all around you. You may take both cardboard camps for different projects. Enrollment limited to 16. (Groups C & D)
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 8/3/2026 and ending 8/7/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C308AM26 Drawing to Painting / August 10 - 14 -9AM
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
August 10 - 14, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Many works of art begin as a pencil sketch on paper. Let’s start with basic drawing techniques to help you capture the likeness and feeling of your subject. Practice creating strong compositions in pencil before turning your drawings into paintings. Learn painting fundamentals such as selecting a palette, color mixing, layering paints, and brush handling. This camp uses water-based paints like watercolor and acrylic paints on paper and/or canvas. Enrollment limited to 16.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 8/10/2026 and ending 8/14/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C308PM26 The Art of Weaving / August 10 - 14 -1PM
Ages 10 to 15
Skill Level: ALL
August 10 - 14, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Experiment with color, texture, and pattern in small-scale weavings. Using a simple frame loom, learn how to warp a loom and prepare a weft yarn for weaving. Sample different yarns, from smooth cotton to fuzzy wool to novelty acrylic blends in a rainbow of colors. Practice weaving techniques that celebrate design! Expand your horizons by weaving with non-traditional materials found in nature. Enrollment limited to 12. Open to C & D
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday starting 8/10/2026 and ending 8/14/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 270.00 ea.

C309AM26 Pen & Ink Expo / August 17 - 20 -9AM / 4day camp
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
August 17 - 20, 9:00 a.m. - Noon

This is a fun, crash course on prompt-based illustration. Use both pen & ink and class-picked prompts generated by you to bring new life to your ideas and find what works best for you! Hone your artistic eye, learn ink-based techniques, and explore new ways to use inspiration in this drawing studio class. Enrollment limited to 16. This is a 4 day camp.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday starting 8/17/2026 and ending 8/20/2026 at 9:00AM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 216.00 ea.

C309PM26 Small Gems Painting / Aug 17 - 20 -1PM 4 Day Camp
Ages 10 to 12
Skill Level: ALL
August 17-20, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (4 day camp) This acrylic painting camp will focus on smaller paper and canvas projects. You will create intimate paintings using ideas of your own that you create from sketches made in class. Looking at works by other artists may inspire you or you may make your own set ups of still lifes, portraits or images. Looking deeper and painting smaller may intensify the details of your small gems. Enrollment limited to 16. This is a 4 day camp.
Classes scheduled every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday starting 8/17/2026 and ending 8/20/2026 at 1:00PM
 
Attendees: 1 $ 216.00 ea.

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2240 North Shore Drive
Wayzata, MN 55391

 

952-473-7361 x. 160

Hours
Monday          9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tuesday         9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Wednesday    9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday        9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday             9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday         9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
(mid-June through August, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Sunday            closed

The building is closed for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve through New Year's Day*, Memorial Day and the last week in August through Labor Day.* There is no open studio when the building is closed. 

 

* Phone lines will be open Monday-Friday, excluding holidays, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. to take class registrations.  

  

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
   
The Minnetonka Center for the Arts is accessible to students with disabilities. If you require special assistance, please notify the Art  Center Registrar at 952.473.7361, ext. 160, and/or the Minnesota  Relay Service (for the hearing impaired) at 800.627.3529 at least two weeks in advance. We will be happy to accommodate your needs.


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