Arts on Main offers summer art camps and classes starting in mid-June and provides needs-based scholarships for those requiring financial help to cover the cost.
"We have full scholarships available for students who cannot afford a camp," said Amy Donohoe, director of visual arts and community programs at the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council, which oversees Arts on Main classes and art camps. "It includes all the supplies as well as snacks."
All that's required is a reliable ride to and from camp, she said. Arts on Main is located at 218 Main St. across from the Perot Theatre downtown.
"If they have the transportation, I can get them the scholarship," Donohoe said. Interested parents should contact her at the Regional Arts Center. Siblings in the same family can get scholarships, too.
Donohoe said TRAHC has a sponsor who wants to provide additional scholarships in the future and so TRAHC wants to see the current scholarships used.
Children's art camps start June 19 and run through July 28 in several different sessions of the Picasso-rama (Jr. and Sr.), Camp Create, Sculpt-a-rama (Jr. and Sr.) and Artwall Camp (Jr. and Sr.). Each has different age ranges and different art topics covered.
Picasso-rama, for example, is a general art camp with painting, drawing, clay, sculpture, collage, printmaking and more, said Donohoe. Sculpt-a-rama includes different sculptural approaches like using recyclables, puppets, relief, kinetic and more-"just a whole variety of different things," she said.
And Artwall Camp? "What they're doing is they're going to be painting large-scale panels," Donohoe said. Those panels will get a public display on the ArtWall next door to the RAC.
A free Drop-In Art Workshop for kids is held Saturday, July 22, along with Planter Party Workshops for adults on June 29 and July 1. Mosaics and Metal-smithing classes are held June 6 through July 18.
This year's art camp and workshop teachers include Jenny Stevens, Heather Carr, Megan Griffin, Christina Cook, Kay Shirley, Taylor Timmons and Chris Thomas.
(Call Amy Donohoe at 903-792-8681 to register. More info, including a full roster of class descriptions and times, at TRAHC.org. Donohoe can also be reached at [email protected].)