Arts organizations in Montgomery County’s Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District are offering arts programming for children this summer, with spaces still available for last-minute planners. Parents looking for opportunities for their children, pre-kindergarten to 16 years old, still have creative and expressive arts activity options.
The various camps offer a wide range of creative activities to inspire imagination, including artistic projects, filmmaking, studio theatre, ballet, robotics and visual art and music.
“Keeping children active and engaged during the summer is crucial,” said County Executive Marc Elrich. “The Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District programs enrich children’s lives by providing a fun learning environment while supporting our local arts community.”
Arts organizations with trained and trusted teaching artists offer licensed summer camps, creative programming, classes or summer job training.
- Arts on the Block. The Youth Arts Movement (YAM) summer program is tailored for middle school-aged young creatives. The eight-week program features a variety of engaging art activities to inspire and ignite the imagination. Led by experienced instructors, each week focuses on a different art form, providing hands-on learning and plenty of opportunities for students to discover a new medium to unleash their creativity.
- Create Arts Center. Summer art camps offer one-week visual arts programs for students ages 5-13 and counselor-in-training sessions for teens up to age 16. At the end of the week, each child will have a portfolio filled with original artwork. Project types include pottery, sculpture, drawing, painting, cartooning, collage and mixed media.
- Docs in Progress. Teen summer filmmaking workshops in week-long sessions. The program will guide students through the filmmaking process, from script writing and concept development to post-production.,
- Lumina Studio Theatre. Summerstock camps for children ages 6 through teenagers on topics including theater magic, folk tales and music, with one-week programs to more intensive productions.
- Maryland Youth Ballet. Summer ballet classes for ages 2-10. The classes span from movement-based classes to learning level-appropriate choreography from a featured ballet. Classes are not full day, thereby providing flexibility for parents.
- Montgomery College Silver Spring/Takoma Park. Youth summer programs with online and in-person offerings ranging from robotics to music to theater and visual arts.
- Round House Theatre Education Center. Summer camp with various theater, games and creative summer programs for kindergarten students through grade 12. Camp caters to interests from animals to Greek myths and princesses to theater and musicals.
- School of Rock. Music camps for ages 8 and over are suitable for musicians of any skill level who want to play guitar, bass, drums, keyboard or vocals and enjoy rehearsing and performing.
