This summer, the Center for Creative Exploration (CCE) at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design will offer more than 60 options for youth art classes and workshops as well as weeklong art camps. A CCE summer programming open house will be held on Sunday, April 21, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. No registration is required. Families of children in grades one through 12 who are interested in visiting the college and asking more questions about CCE summer programming may attend.

This summer, children may build a foundation in the arts with classes in watercolor painting, art and books, character design, figure drawing, self-portraits, origami, and more. The collaboration between CCE and the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen will return with the Ultimate Art Camp for those in grades six through eight. This program will offer an opportunity to explore fine art and crafting skills such as glassblowing, fused glass, pysanky, woodworking, macrame, and fine art studio work. CCE also again will collaborate with Gallery Grow for a Botanical Watercolor Workshop for youths in grades five through eight.

In addition, CCE works with a wide variety of art professionals to provide programs. These will include Cardboard Puppet Creations on Tuesday, June 25, for children in grades three through five with Steve Geist, a user experience and product design leader; Collage Self Portraits: Identity and Self Expression on June 25 for children in grades six through nine with Kathy Rodriguez, a co-founder and company member of Teatro Paloma and a team member at Barrio Alegria in Reading; Dinosaur Art Explorers on Thursday, June 27, for those in grades one to four with Stephanie Mowery, an art educator at Burrowes Elementary; Beginning Figure Drawing Workshop on Monday, July 8, for youths in grades five through eight with Shelby Young, a PCA&D alumnus and middle school art teacher; and Beginning Character Design Workshop on July 11 for those in grades five through nine with Dobe Steigelman, a freelance illustrator and graduate of PCA&D.

Intergenerational opportunities will be available. These programs include Parent + Child Botanical Watercolor Workshop with Gallery Grow for children in grades five through eight and their parents, Parent + Child Cardboard Animals for those ages 5 to 9 and parents, Parent + Child Woven Collage Wall Hangings for children ages 8 to 12 with their parents, and Parent + Child Louise Nevelson Sculpture Workshop for those ages 8 to 12 and parents.

Weeklong art camps will be offered from Monday to Friday, July 15 to 19, and from Monday to Friday, July 29 to Aug. 2. Students will be separated into two age groups: those in grades one to three and those in grades four to six.

Other intensive weeklong experiences include Animal and Specimen Drawing, for those in grades five through eight; Exploring Puerto Rico Through Food and Clay, grades four to six; Introduction to Figure Drawing, grades six to nine; Summer Flowers and Plants, grades one to three; Clay Creations, grades one to three; Comic Creations, grades five to eight; Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator, grades seven to nine; Introduction to Character Design, grades six to nine; and Watercolor and Pen and Ink Exploration, grades four to six.

Registration is now open at http://www.pcad.edu/cce, and a complete week-by-week schedule can be found at https://pcad.edu/creative-exploration/young-artist-schedule/.

Scholarships are available; for more information, contact ce@pcad.edu.