Artapalooza Art Camp
First Presbyterian Church of La Grange, 150 South Ashland Avenue, La Grange, IL 60525
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Artapalooza Art Camp offers projects such as Mixed Media Cityscape, Penguin Needle Felting, Charcoal Drawing, and other chances to paint, draw, and sculpt. The camp also includes a Parent & Child Art Night! as one of its specific activities. Students are asked to bring only their open minds.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: 2 day session with morning 9 am–noon and afternoon 1–4 pm options
• Price: Cost $95
G & Z’s Artapalooza is a fine arts camp run by two local teaching artists, Lisa Garrett and Carissa Zill. It offers one day to one week classes throughout the year and is described as a fine arts camp for rising 3rd grade students through high school. The camp’s stated intention is to provide a rich, unique art experience where students are challenged to develop a higher level understanding of art, based on the belief that each individual is capable of greatness when expressing themselves through art, and that exercising their imaginations through the arts helps students make new connections, transcend previous limitations, and think “outside of the box.”
Lisa Garrett graduated from Boston College and studied Illustration at the Art Institute of Boston, received her Masters in Teaching at Dominican University in 2012, and teaches photography, film, and art at Argo High School. She is a resident of LaGrange and coaches a Special Olympics team in multiple sports. Her students have earned over $375,000 in college scholarships for artistic merit, Best in Show Awards at the South Suburban Conference and Moraine Valley Art Shows, and national recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she is a frequent presenter at the annual Illinois Art Education Association State Conference. Carissa graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a BFA in Studio Arts with concentrations in painting and printmaking and earned her Masters of Arts in Teaching from Dominican University in River Forest in 2010. Recently, Carissa was recognized as a Symetra HERO in the Classroom and received a $2000 grant for her classroom.
Last updated January 15, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: 2 day session with morning 9 am–noon and afternoon 1–4 pm options
• Price: Cost $95
G & Z’s Artapalooza is a fine arts camp run by two local teaching artists, Lisa Garrett and Carissa Zill. It offers one day to one week classes throughout the year and is described as a fine arts camp for rising 3rd grade students through high school. The camp’s stated intention is to provide a rich, unique art experience where students are challenged to develop a higher level understanding of art, based on the belief that each individual is capable of greatness when expressing themselves through art, and that exercising their imaginations through the arts helps students make new connections, transcend previous limitations, and think “outside of the box.”
Lisa Garrett graduated from Boston College and studied Illustration at the Art Institute of Boston, received her Masters in Teaching at Dominican University in 2012, and teaches photography, film, and art at Argo High School. She is a resident of LaGrange and coaches a Special Olympics team in multiple sports. Her students have earned over $375,000 in college scholarships for artistic merit, Best in Show Awards at the South Suburban Conference and Moraine Valley Art Shows, and national recognition in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she is a frequent presenter at the annual Illinois Art Education Association State Conference. Carissa graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a BFA in Studio Arts with concentrations in painting and printmaking and earned her Masters of Arts in Teaching from Dominican University in River Forest in 2010. Recently, Carissa was recognized as a Symetra HERO in the Classroom and received a $2000 grant for her classroom.
Last updated January 15, 2026.
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