Four AMAZING Weeks of
​Summer Programs to choose from!

Summer art programs at the BAY are designed for students in grades 1 through 12.  Each week focuses on an artistic theme and materials appropriate to that particular age group.  All programs provide a structured environment with two experienced artist-teachers who will creatively challenge the students.  This summer all weekly themes include work in various mediums to take advantage of the long studio sessions that summer programs provide.   More detailed information is found below.
All Classes are held from 9:00 am until 12:30 pm, Monday through Friday each week.
The tuition fee for the week is $225, with a materials fee of $25 per student.

Grades K thru 3

July 10-14

​Tidal Treasures: 
Explore the Shore through Art
Come investigate the Connecticut coastline this summer at the BAY! This camp focuses on the creatures we find on and near the beach and the tiny habitats they live in. Students will create art inspired by the colors, patterns and textures of these homes and their inhabitants. Join us in coloring, printing and painting all things shells!

Grades 3 thru 5

​July 17-21

Ancient Art:
Mysteries and Mythologies
You’re invited to journey back in time this summer!
Come and encounter the art and stories of ancient cultures from cave walls, to pyramids, to the Parthenon! Working from a variety of media, young artists will design towering temples, inscribe giant scrolls and fabricate mysterious masks. Don’t miss out on this trip
​through the history of art!

Grades 6 thru 8

July 24-28

An Artist’s Voyage:
The Art of Travel and Motion
Pack your bags and prepare to travel to the infinite destinations of the imagination! Adventure into new materials and advanced art practices of illustration, painting, and sculpture in the creation of a new location. Learn to design distinctive graphic visuals and build sculptural mock-ups of your universe as well as capture the motion of vehicles that make travel to this locale possible. No holding back, sign up now and
​watch your horizons expand!

Grades 8 thru 12

​July 31-august 4

The Naturalist:
Methods of Earthbound Art
Give cause to your own metamorphosis. Become a focused observer of the natural world in a course designed to hone the artistic senses. Draw from an
array of nature’s own supplies and gain an introduction to pen and ink illustration, foil repoussé and gel plate mono printing. Inspired by the visual and tactile world around us, students will be the inventors of new
​aquatic and land-based flora and fauna.