Check out our new integrated calendar, including all class sessions and programs, to help you plan your time at VisArts!
Youth Classes
Each summer at VisArts, more than one thousand young artists explore new ideas and media and create amazing new work in classes like stained glass, metalsmithing, film making, photography, stone carving, creative writing, letterpress and printmaking, ceramics, experimental and traditional drawing and painting, and fashion design. We offer full scholarships and need-based, sliding-scale tuition to allow children throughout Richmond to participate in more than 200 creative classes offered during the summer.
Summer ArtVenture 2012 will run June 11 – August 31, 2012.
Members may register for classes beginning March 7. The full schedule for summer will be published in Style Weekly on March 14 with open registration beginning on Sunday, March 25, at our Family Open House – ART RODEO!
2012 Winter-Spring Artventure Classes – CLICK HERE to see our remaining classes for the spring term!
Artventure is a visual arts program that encourages individual expression and provides children and teens unique opportunities to work directly with professional artists and experience professional equipment and materials. Artists teach weekend and after-school classes throughout the school year, and special classes are designed to accommodate the schedule of home-school students.
All Artventure classes are taught at the Visual Arts Center, 1812 West Main Street, in Richmond’s Fan District near Virginia Commonwealth University. Tuition for Artventure classes includes materials, unless otherwise noted in the class description.
Youth Programs
Art After School
VIsArts has a long, positive partnership with Richmond City Public Schools and is excited to be involved in a new middle-school enrichment initiative with Communities in Schools beginning this fall. Our Art After School classes reach more than 570 youth each year in hands-on studio classes in all types of visual and literary arts. Through our custom art-after-school curricula that strengthen and support lessons in science, math, history and English, students work with artists to discover that art makes new connections and enriches their understanding of these subjects. VisArts partners with our neighborhood middle schools — Binford Model Middle School and Albert Hill Middle School — as well as our community organization neighbors — Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond and the William Byrd Community House. Artist instructors from VisArts will also bring their talents to support Higher Achievement, another new middle school initiative that provides opportunities for mentoring and enrichment classes to 120 students at Henderson and Boushall Middle Schools.
Space of Her Own (SOHO)
This fall, VisArts launches our fourth year of SOHO girls and mentors! SOHO is a collaborative partnership between VisArts, Friends Association for Children and ART 180 that brings together 12 pre-teen girls from the Gilpin Court neighborhood and 12 volunteer women from our community who serve as mentors throughout the school-year program (September 2011 – May 2012). Each week, after sharing a healthy dinner, artists lead activities and workshops that allow young women to create a “space of her own” from the inside out. Through art-making and a supportive community, SOHO raises hope and self-awareness by exploring individual strengths that open up new possibilities and choices of how to participate and be productive in life. Using the artwork that the teams create throughout the year, SOHO culminates in a bedroom makeover for each girl in the program. SOHO utilizes a leadership and life-skills curricula designed by BOUNCE and follows the National Mentoring Partnerhship’s model program guidelines.
Questions?
Sally Kemp, Director of Community Outreach, sallykemp@visarts.org (804) 353-0094 ex 223
