AR Workshop Youth Workshops and Summer Art Camps

AR Workshop Youth Workshops and Summer Art Camps offers hands-on craft classes where participants take part in youth workshops, summer art camps, DIY workshops, and group activities. Projects include wood workshops to make wood signs, trays, porch signs, and seasonal projects, as well as canvas workshops for items like canvas pillows, wall hangings, tote bags, and youth aprons. The program also offers candle pouring workshops to mix scents and create custom candles and fragrances, chunky knit blanket workshops with classic and specialty knit blankets, watercolor and embroidery workshops, mahjong workshops including a Mahjong 101 class and open play session, hat burning workshops, jewelry workshops, cookie decorating workshops, charcuterie workshops, and handlettering workshops, with tools and materials prepared in advance and staff walking participants through each DIY process step by step.

• Ages: 5–18 years old

AR Workshop Youth Workshops and Summer Art Camps is part of a destination for all things DIY and a space where participants can create and celebrate, with a wide variety of personalized projects and designs that result in home decor made by the participants. The program takes place in boutique DIY studios described as charming boutique studios designed to inspire creativity, with more than 125 franchises across the country and expansion to select markets in the United States, and it also offers DIY-to-Go kits. AR Workshop was introduced in 2016 by co-founders Maureen Anders and Adria Ruff, and the leadership team includes Maureen Anders (Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer), Adria Ruff (Co-Founder / Creative Director), Ryann Fairweather (VP of Operations), Libby Martel (VP of Strategy and Brand Development), Emily Ostrowski (Director of National Marketing & Brand Partnerships), Joanna Rapuzzi (Director of Franchise Development), Kellie Smith (Operations and IT Manager), Melissa Bowen (Brand Manager), Jillian Russell (Franchise General Counsel), and Jen Carver (Content Contributor).

Last updated July 31, 2026.