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Summer Camp at SAM offers weekly art camps where campers take part in drawing, painting, ceramics, mixed media, digital arts, simple textile design, printmaking, character design, storyboarding, illustration, dialogue for comics and graphic novels, sculpture, kinetic sculpture, animation, mobiles, flip books, optical illusions, collage, and more. Sessions include focused themes such as creating expressive characters, dynamic action scenes, captivating stories, large-scale artworks, giant collaborative murals, oversized sculptures, nature-inspired paintings, rubbings, and building a floating sculpture, as well as painting with unusual tools and making collaborative art pieces. Camps conclude with a chance for students to showcase their creations in SAM’s Community Gallery.
• Ages: 7–13 years old
• Schedule: Weekly camps run June 1–July 31, 2026, Monday–Friday, 9 am–3 pm, with one-week sessions and optional after care Monday–Friday, 3–5 pm
• Price: Camp tuition is $385 per week (with members saving 10%), and after care costs $50 per week
Summer Camp at SAM is guided by professional teaching artists. The program includes themed sessions such as Global Art Explorers, Graphic Novels, Characters and Creatures, Art in Motion, The Wonder Workshop, Adventures in Nature, Manga Madness, Larger than Life, and Color Quest, each with specific focuses like pattern, simple textile design, Japanese comics, kinetic sculpture, animation, mobiles, flip books, optical illusions, and color mixing, contrast, and harmony. Summer Camp scholarship applications are available online and via form, and all refund requests must be submitted in writing and incur a $35 handling fee per student.
Sarasota Art Museum is governed by the Ringling College Board of Trustees with support from the Museum Advisory Committee, which includes Chair Elaine Crouse, Larry Thompson and Virginia Shearer as ex officio members, and members Ravindranath Akhoury, Veronica Brady, Warren Colbert, Linda Dickinson, Dean Eisner, Robert A. Essner, Joe Fig, William M. Kahane, Michael Klein, Tom Koski, Flora Major, Frank Martucci, Mary Ann Meyer, Rosemary Oberndorf, Ellen Sandor, Joel Schemmel, Lois Stulberg, John Suhler, and Pauline Wamsler. In 2003, a group of 13 Sarasotans began work toward establishing this contemporary art museum, which later partnered with Ringling College of Art and Design to transform the historic Sarasota High School into an art museum and visual arts educational center. The private, not-for-profit, fully accredited Ringling College of Art and Design offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in eleven disciplines and the Bachelor of Arts in two. The museum offers 15,000 square feet of dedicated exhibition gallery space, a Bistro, Shop, auditorium, sculpture courtyard, and extensive grounds and facilities that host site-specific and site-responsive art experiences, performance, happenings, sculpture, installations, movement classes, and gatherings. Sarasota Art Museum states that it is a catalyst for appreciation and understanding of the art of our time and describes itself as a platform for education, exposure, and experimentation with exhibitions and programs that aim to cultivate discerning visual thinkers and ethical citizens.
Last updated February 18, 2026.
• Ages: 7–13 years old
• Schedule: Weekly camps run June 1–July 31, 2026, Monday–Friday, 9 am–3 pm, with one-week sessions and optional after care Monday–Friday, 3–5 pm
• Price: Camp tuition is $385 per week (with members saving 10%), and after care costs $50 per week
Summer Camp at SAM is guided by professional teaching artists. The program includes themed sessions such as Global Art Explorers, Graphic Novels, Characters and Creatures, Art in Motion, The Wonder Workshop, Adventures in Nature, Manga Madness, Larger than Life, and Color Quest, each with specific focuses like pattern, simple textile design, Japanese comics, kinetic sculpture, animation, mobiles, flip books, optical illusions, and color mixing, contrast, and harmony. Summer Camp scholarship applications are available online and via form, and all refund requests must be submitted in writing and incur a $35 handling fee per student.
Sarasota Art Museum is governed by the Ringling College Board of Trustees with support from the Museum Advisory Committee, which includes Chair Elaine Crouse, Larry Thompson and Virginia Shearer as ex officio members, and members Ravindranath Akhoury, Veronica Brady, Warren Colbert, Linda Dickinson, Dean Eisner, Robert A. Essner, Joe Fig, William M. Kahane, Michael Klein, Tom Koski, Flora Major, Frank Martucci, Mary Ann Meyer, Rosemary Oberndorf, Ellen Sandor, Joel Schemmel, Lois Stulberg, John Suhler, and Pauline Wamsler. In 2003, a group of 13 Sarasotans began work toward establishing this contemporary art museum, which later partnered with Ringling College of Art and Design to transform the historic Sarasota High School into an art museum and visual arts educational center. The private, not-for-profit, fully accredited Ringling College of Art and Design offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in eleven disciplines and the Bachelor of Arts in two. The museum offers 15,000 square feet of dedicated exhibition gallery space, a Bistro, Shop, auditorium, sculpture courtyard, and extensive grounds and facilities that host site-specific and site-responsive art experiences, performance, happenings, sculpture, installations, movement classes, and gatherings. Sarasota Art Museum states that it is a catalyst for appreciation and understanding of the art of our time and describes itself as a platform for education, exposure, and experimentation with exhibitions and programs that aim to cultivate discerning visual thinkers and ethical citizens.
Last updated February 18, 2026.
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