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Week 7! Last but not least, our beloved felting camp will wrap up our summer season ❤️

Lead by artist Fauna Fauna, Taxonomically Speaking , our campers are going to create their own very diorama of extinct animals and their habitat with felt and other mixed media. With her expert knowledge in biology, Fauna will share the story of mastodon and their history in Minnesota and teach campers how to craft their own miniature mammoths 🦣 We love a week where science meets arts ✨

Stay tuned to see what our campers will make this week 💫

The parade is almost here! 🚗✨

After a week of dreaming, building, painting, and engineering, our Art Car campers are ready to take their creations out into the world.

Join us this Saturday, July 25, at the Bde Umáŋ / Lake Harriet Rose Garden for the ArtCar Parade! Our tiny art cars will join the bigger parade in a celebration of creativity, community, and joyful making.

🕓 Lineup: 4–5 PM
🚙 Parade: 5–6 PM
📍 Bde Umáŋ / Lake Harriet Rose Gardens
4124 Roseway Road, Minneapolis

See you at the parade! 🎨💛

A week full of building, sculpting, and big ideas. ✨

From building imaginative Art Cars to exploring the world of ceramics through clay and sculpture, our camps are about so much more than making crafts. Every project encourages our artists to think critically, solve problems, experiment with materials, and bring their own ideas to life.

If you’d like to see what our Art Car team has been working so hard on, stop by at mnartcarandartbike this Saturday! We’d love for you to see their creativity rolling through the streets and celebrate everything they’ve accomplished together.

Watching each camper’s unique vision come to life has been the best part of the week. We can’t wait to share it with you! 🧡

Form, movement, and colors ✨ Week 5 at Artlet26 summer camp is going to be another lively one!

In our Drawn in Clay camp lead by artists Brady Brady McLearen and Anna anna weimholt, campers will be introduced to wheel throwing, hand building and learn how to draw decorative elements with liquid clay, creating vibrant and stark lines of illustration on the surface of their ceramic works 🎨🖌️🫟

At the same time, our much anticipated Art Car Parade camp is finally here! Our very talented sculpture artist Fauna Fauna, Taxonomically Speaking will be leading the campers to transform her car into a bison sculpture as well as making their own mini version of art car. The bison car will join the Art Car + Art Bike parade at Lake Bde Uman (Lake Harriet) Rose Garden on 7/25, Saturday, 4pm 🦬 🚗 🏞️

Participating campers and parents, look in your inbox for details about this camp⛺️ We will be sharing student works at the end of the week, stay tuned!

Week 4 at Artlet26 brings back familiar art mediums, elevated through new techniques and fresh ways of thinking!

At Illustrated Mosaic & Marble Pots camp, students work with ceramic artist Laura Laura, learning how to layer, wedge, and throw two colors of clay to create beautiful marbled patterns in their pottery. They will then join Anna anna weimholt to explore illustration through clay and mosaic, designing and creating their own illustrative-style ceramic trays 🏺🌿

In Primeval Creation camp, students dive into the incredible history of ancient creatures and animals with Fauna Fauna, Taxonomically Speaking. Guided by her, they’ll design and make silicone molds to cast their own unique creatures. Later in the week, campers will build habitats for their creations and bring them to life through stop-motion animation.🦕🍄

We can’t wait to see what our campers create this week! 💫✨

Week Three has been filled with imagination, storytelling, and sculptures coming to life. ✨

This week, our campers explored photography by learning to see the world through a different lens, capturing thoughtful compositions and experimenting with creative perspectives. In the sculpture studio, they transformed simple materials into three-dimensional works full of personality, problem-solving, and play.

Meanwhile, our young authors and illustrators have been dreaming up their very own books—writing stories, designing characters, illustrating every page, and carefully bringing their ideas together from cover to cover.

Every week reminds us that creativity looks different for every child, and it’s such a joy watching them discover new ways to express themselves while building confidence in the process.

Here’s a little glimpse into Week Three at Artlet. We can’t wait to see what next week will bring. 📚📷🗿✨

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Week 3 of summer camp at Artlet26 🌟

This week, campers will be creating incredible worlds and stories in two different art forms! In Bound Stories, campers will learn the writing art of world building, storytelling and character development with New York Time bestseller Andrea Andrea Robertson, and they will work with artist Vivian 滷味 wei vivian lu to bring the words to life with illustrations and bookbinding, leaving with a unique artist book at the end of the week 📕 ✍🏽

In Stories in Form, campers will build their own sculptural diarama with sculptor Dubby Dubby Ludcke, creating their own backdrop, props and characters with mixed media, and then photographer Sheldon Honeybear Collective will show the campers how to capture these scenes with camera and Photoshop, painting a full story in each photograph 📸 🖥️

Stay tune to see what kind of story our campers will create 💫💫

Week Two is in the books, and our studio has been full of clay, patterns, and photographic magic. ✨

Our campers spent the week shaping ceramic creations by hand, discovering how patterns can transform everyday designs into works of art, and stepping into the photo lab to experiment with light, composition, and the magic behind the camera.

Every project tells a different story, and it’s been so fun watching each kid explore new ideas, solve creative challenges, and build confidence along the way.

Here’s a little glimpse into Week Two at Artlet. We can’t wait to see what next week inspires. 🎨📷🤎

Week 2 of summer camp at Artlet26 🌸✨

This week, creativity takes shape in two different ways. In Clay & Pattern Studio, campers are learning handbuilding, wheel throwing, mosaic design, and exploring patterns from ceramic traditions around the world with artists Anna anna weimholt and Dora Pottery by Dora 🍀

Meanwhile, in Photo Lab, Sheldon Honeybear Collective and Vivian 滷味 wei vivian lu are guiding campers through light painting, composition, and visual storytelling as they discover how to create images with light and shadow through the lens and photoshop📸💡

From clay to cameras, our campers are diving into a week full of experimentation, creativity, and artistic discovery.

We can’t wait to share what they create ✨