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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, collaborative murals, oversized sculptures, and collage. Each camp week concludes with an opportunity for students to showcase their creations in SAM’s Community Gallery.
• Ages: 7–13 years old
• Schedule: Weekly camps Monday–Friday, 9 am–3 pm, with sessions running June 1–July 31, 2026, and after care Monday–Friday, 3–5 pm
• Price: Camp tuition $385 per week (Members save 10%); after care $50 per week
Summer Camp at SAM is guided by professional teaching artists. Weekly sessions in 2026 include Pattern Palooza, Graphic Novels, Characters and Creatures, Art in Motion, The Wonder Workshop, Manga Madness, Larger than Life, and Color Quest, each focusing on specific media and themes such as pattern, comics and short graphic novels, original characters and fantasy creatures, kinetic sculpture and animation, daily artistic challenges, Japanese-style comics, large-scale artworks, and color through painting, collage, printmaking, and mixed media. Summer Camp scholarship applications are available online and via form, and members receive a 10% discount on camp tuition cost. Sarasota Art Museum also offers youth and family classes in ceramics, digital art, and music for students ages 5–17.
Sarasota Art Museum is governed by the Ringling College Board of Trustees with support from the Museum Advisory Committee. The Museum Advisory Committee includes Elaine Crouse (Chair), Larry Thompson (President, Ringling College of Art and Design, ex officio), Virginia Shearer (Executive Director, ex officio), 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 came together to further their goal of enhancing Sarasota’s cultural landscape with a contemporary art museum. 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 designed to cultivate discerning visual thinkers and ethical citizens. The museum is a Blue Star Museum and is part of the Blue Star Museum program, offering free admission for families of Veterans and Active-Duty Military Personnel from Armed Forces Day, May 16, 2026, through Labor Day, September 7, 2026. The facility includes exhibition gallery spaces, an auditorium, an outdoor sculpture garden, a bistro, a retail store, and extensive grounds for performance, happenings, sculpture, site-specific and site-responsive installations, movement classes, and gatherings.
Last updated June 2, 2026.
• Ages: 7–13 years old
• Schedule: Weekly camps Monday–Friday, 9 am–3 pm, with sessions running June 1–July 31, 2026, and after care Monday–Friday, 3–5 pm
• Price: Camp tuition $385 per week (Members save 10%); after care $50 per week
Summer Camp at SAM is guided by professional teaching artists. Weekly sessions in 2026 include Pattern Palooza, Graphic Novels, Characters and Creatures, Art in Motion, The Wonder Workshop, Manga Madness, Larger than Life, and Color Quest, each focusing on specific media and themes such as pattern, comics and short graphic novels, original characters and fantasy creatures, kinetic sculpture and animation, daily artistic challenges, Japanese-style comics, large-scale artworks, and color through painting, collage, printmaking, and mixed media. Summer Camp scholarship applications are available online and via form, and members receive a 10% discount on camp tuition cost. Sarasota Art Museum also offers youth and family classes in ceramics, digital art, and music for students ages 5–17.
Sarasota Art Museum is governed by the Ringling College Board of Trustees with support from the Museum Advisory Committee. The Museum Advisory Committee includes Elaine Crouse (Chair), Larry Thompson (President, Ringling College of Art and Design, ex officio), Virginia Shearer (Executive Director, ex officio), 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 came together to further their goal of enhancing Sarasota’s cultural landscape with a contemporary art museum. 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 designed to cultivate discerning visual thinkers and ethical citizens. The museum is a Blue Star Museum and is part of the Blue Star Museum program, offering free admission for families of Veterans and Active-Duty Military Personnel from Armed Forces Day, May 16, 2026, through Labor Day, September 7, 2026. The facility includes exhibition gallery spaces, an auditorium, an outdoor sculpture garden, a bistro, a retail store, and extensive grounds for performance, happenings, sculpture, site-specific and site-responsive installations, movement classes, and gatherings.
Last updated June 2, 2026.
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