2025 summer art workshops
Registration Opens May 21, 2025
Get Your Art On at our galleries and studios…
The LAA is pleased to offer free classes and workshops for children funded by the Stamford Arts and Culture Commission’s grant program. These lessons and classes will provide instruction by our member artists. Workshops and classes for children offer formal instruction around a variety of specific topics. Below are our workshop descriptions and links to apply! Please click the appropriate link and fill out the application form for that workshop. You will then be contacted with an email confirming your child’s place in the workshop. All classes take place at our Galleries and Studios at 575 Pacific Street.
Multi-Medium Explorations
for Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th Graders
June 16-20
Topic themed classes will be offered in two classes each day - morning and afternoon. We will introduce a variety of activities in these 90 minute classes, using different types of media and learning a variety of techniques in art making, including; Printing, Drawing, Collage, Pressed Flowers, Sculpture, and more.
Morning Class: 10:30 AM to 12 NOON
Afternoon Class: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Please sign up for only one session per day. There is a limit of two classes per week per child. Parents can request to be placed on a waitlist for additional classes.
Monday, June 16, 2025
· Morning Session 1A – Printing with Dorothy McClure
· Afternoon Session 1B – Printing with Dorothy McClure
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
· Morning Session 2A – Drawing Animals with Dorothy McClure
· Afternoon Session 2B – Drawing Animals with Dorothy McClure
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
· Morning Session 3A – Watercolors with Rosa Colon
· Afternoon Session 3B – Watercolors with Rosa Colon
Thursday, June 19, 2025
· Morning Session 4A – Pressed Flowers with Rosa Colon
· Afternoon Session 4B – Pressed Flowers with Rosa Colon
Friday, June 20, 2025
· Morning Session 5A – Collage with Maura Smotrich
· Afternoon Session 5B – Robot Recyclables with Maura Smotrich
Building Our Environment
For Rising 6th, 7th and 8th Graders
June 23 - 27, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Students must commit to the entire week
We will spend the week exploring the ideas of “home,” “city,” and “infrastructure.” Through visual means – drawing, mapping, and building - the group will think about the many elements that come together to make up our environment. Our tools will be our surroundings and imagination, using cardboard and drawing as our medium. By the end of the week, you will look at and understand the world in which we live in a new way. This will be a journey of discovery and artful expression.
Community & Education
Outreach
The LAA is committed to providing art education to the community at large. Our educational programming, partially funded by the City of Stamford, The Connecticut Office of the Arts and The National Foundation of the Arts, enables us to offer in house classes and workshops as well as “push in” workshops and events at local community and senior centers.
Workshops
Each summer, the LAA hosts over 150 children as part of our Summer Art Saturday Workshops. Children engage with our artists in dynamic and creative classroom settings focused on a variety of artistic mediums.
