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Creative Studios
Explore Visual Arts with Creative Studios
Creative Studios is an exciting and immersive two-week program for young artists entering grades 7–9 who want to deepen their understanding of the visual arts. Through daily studio classes, participants develop essential techniques, skills, and habits that support creative growth. Designed for students of all abilities, the program offers a variety of classes spanning disciplines and interests, fostering exploration and discovery for budding artists.
Creative Studios will return in 2027.
Details for Summer 2027, including program dates, course offerings, tuition, and registration information, will be announced when available.
Looking for another opportunity to make art at MassArt?
Past Course Offerings
Courses vary each summer and may include drawing, illustration, comics, fashion design, mixed media, creature design, and stop motion animation. View past course offerings below.
Class Descriptions
Classes run for two weeks, Monday through Friday, 9am–12pm
Creature Design
Throughout history, monsters were invented to give form to the unknown. Creatures of contemporary television, cinema, and literature can trace their roots back to the folkloric traditions inspired by the unexplained phenomena of our world. This class will help you to ideate, draw, and paint your own creatures. Guided by encouraging critique, you will work from thumbnails to finished pieces.
Drawing Fundamentals
Learn different tools to develop drawing skills and techniques and expand your visual vocabulary! This class covers the basics of linear and aerial perspective, as well as a number of traditional and less conventional approaches to composition and drawing.
Mixed Media
Through drawing, building, collage, and more, learn to observe and explore the world around you. This class is designed to inspire students to adopt new styles of making and understand more about themselves as artists. Students will be exposed to work by contemporary artists, and classes will consist of live lessons and demos, independent work time, group discussions, one-on-one check-ins, and more.
Fashion Design
Learn how to reinvent your wardrobe! In this class, students explore hand sewing techniques and basic pattern making to deconstruct, alter, and combine garments into one-of-a-kind fashion pieces. Supplies needed include: hand sewing needles, thimble, thread, sharp scissors for fabric, seam ripper, and garments to take apart and reinvent.
Comic Book Art
This studio class focuses on the art of sequential comics. Learn how to translate sketches into clear, dynamic and entertaining comics. Focus on story structure and style, and find your own voice in the ever-changing world of comic art.
Classes run for two weeks, Monday through Friday, 1–4pm
Comic Book Art
This studio class focuses on the art of sequential comics. Learn how to translate sketches into clear, dynamic and entertaining comics. Focus on story structure and style, and find your own voice in the ever-changing world of comic art.
Drawing Fundamentals
Learn different tools to develop drawing skills and techniques and expand your visual vocabulary! This class covers the basics of linear and aerial perspective, as well as a number of traditional and less conventional approaches to composition and drawing.
Mixed Media
Through drawing, building, collage, and more, learn to observe and explore the world around you. This class is designed to inspire students to adopt new styles of making and understand more about themselves as artists. Students will be exposed to work by contemporary artists, and classes will consist of live lessons and demos, independent work time, group discussions, one-on-one check-ins, and more.
Stop Motion Animation
This studio introduces basic principles of stop motion animation through an exploration of different media and storytelling techniques. Using contemporary artists and animators as inspiration, students work with various stop motion styles such as cut-paper, claymation, pixilation, experimental, and object motion. Class time will be spent working in groups and on individual projects.
Illustration
Engage in visual storytelling through a variety of painting and drawing mediums. Learn what illustrators do and practice illustration techniques while communicating ideas through images.
Registration Policy
Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served and space available basis. Submission of a registration form does not guarantee enrollment in a class. If you submit a registration form and your preferred classes are full, you will be placed on the waiting list and notified as soon as possible if a space becomes available.
Scholarships
Scholarships are based on financial need and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please indicate on your registration form if you would like to request a scholarship. To be considered, you will be asked to provide family financial information on the registration form (required).
Cancellation Policy
MassArt reserves the right to cancel classes in the event of an insufficient number of registrations. Students will receive a full refund in the event that a class is canceled for this reason. Classes with low enrollment will be canceled at least two weeks before the start of the program.
Dropping & Refund Policy
To cancel a registration, students must notify MassArt Youth Programs in writing at k12@massart.edu by the published refund deadline (TBD for Summer 2027). Cancellations received after the deadline are not eligible for a refund.
Failure to pay the class fee does not automatically withdraw a student from the program. Students who do not attend class and have not submitted a written cancellation by the deadline will still be responsible for the class fee.
All withdrawals must be submitted in writing to k12@massart.edu by the applicable deadline.
