Milton Art Center Kids Classes and Summer Art Camps
Milton Art Center, 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA 2186
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Milton Art Center Kids Classes and Summer Art Camps offers children’s classes, Kids Summer ART Camps, and workshops that focus on making art. Children in these programs take part in activities such as painting, building fairy doors and fairy dolls, making play doh, and creating projects from recyclables. The program also hosts birthday parties and art exhibits showcasing local emerging and established artists, along with music and comedy events that are part of the broader Milton Art Center offerings.
• Schedule: Kids Summer ART Camps and children’s classes are offered, along with other art classes and workshops throughout the year.
• Price: Not specified in the provided information.
Children’s classes are taught by attentive and caring professional artists and educators who focus on skill building and creative expression. The Milton Art Center uses a Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) approach in children’s classes, in which the child is the decision maker in choosing self-directed creative projects. The organization’s mission statement is “to educate, encourage and empower all to recognize the value art brings to our lives.”
The Milton Art Center organization started in January 2012, after the lease to its building was awarded in 2011 to FAVA (Friends and Advocates of the Visual Arts), which had been given permission in 2003 to run an after school art enrichment program in the public schools. The board includes Joan Clifford, Bridget Conroy, Kevin Dambruch, Scott Love, Maureen Peterson, Christine Schoettle, and Dennis O'Brien. The building is on the State Register of Historic Places and has been featured in the book “Milton Architecture” and referenced in “A Brief History of Milton, Massachusetts.”
The Milton Art Center describes itself as a nonprofit community center offering art education and events for all ages, including art exhibits, music events, comedy events, artist’s demos and lectures, exhibit receptions, trivia nights, author and poetry readings, parties, fundraisers, and music performances by local, regional and national songwriters and performers such as the Kennedy’s, Jim Lauderdale, GA-20, Jennifer Kimball, Jill Sobule, and Sarah Hickman. It has installed two murals in the backyard, “Butterfly” by Sue Hoy and “Colors of the World” by Mairead Dambruch, and has plans for a Children’s Color Garden, a work of public art on the front lawn, and permanent shade structures in the backyard for outdoor programs.
Parent and caregiver feedback about the kids’ classes and camps includes comments that teachers and aides were friendly, attentive, fun, patient, energetic, knowledgeable, and kind, and that the program was very well run. Several testimonials describe children who were eager to attend each day, enjoyed activities like painting, making play doh, learning about new artists, building fairy doors and dolls, and creating a fairy world, and who looked forward to more classes and camps. One testimonial notes that a child who tends to be shy and nervous in new settings felt at ease after one day at camp and mentions high school–aged helpers who were enthusiastic and kind. Another testimonial describes a child being challenged to produce items from recyclables and enjoying using imagination to make something unique.
Last updated January 27, 2026.
• Schedule: Kids Summer ART Camps and children’s classes are offered, along with other art classes and workshops throughout the year.
• Price: Not specified in the provided information.
Children’s classes are taught by attentive and caring professional artists and educators who focus on skill building and creative expression. The Milton Art Center uses a Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) approach in children’s classes, in which the child is the decision maker in choosing self-directed creative projects. The organization’s mission statement is “to educate, encourage and empower all to recognize the value art brings to our lives.”
The Milton Art Center organization started in January 2012, after the lease to its building was awarded in 2011 to FAVA (Friends and Advocates of the Visual Arts), which had been given permission in 2003 to run an after school art enrichment program in the public schools. The board includes Joan Clifford, Bridget Conroy, Kevin Dambruch, Scott Love, Maureen Peterson, Christine Schoettle, and Dennis O'Brien. The building is on the State Register of Historic Places and has been featured in the book “Milton Architecture” and referenced in “A Brief History of Milton, Massachusetts.”
The Milton Art Center describes itself as a nonprofit community center offering art education and events for all ages, including art exhibits, music events, comedy events, artist’s demos and lectures, exhibit receptions, trivia nights, author and poetry readings, parties, fundraisers, and music performances by local, regional and national songwriters and performers such as the Kennedy’s, Jim Lauderdale, GA-20, Jennifer Kimball, Jill Sobule, and Sarah Hickman. It has installed two murals in the backyard, “Butterfly” by Sue Hoy and “Colors of the World” by Mairead Dambruch, and has plans for a Children’s Color Garden, a work of public art on the front lawn, and permanent shade structures in the backyard for outdoor programs.
Parent and caregiver feedback about the kids’ classes and camps includes comments that teachers and aides were friendly, attentive, fun, patient, energetic, knowledgeable, and kind, and that the program was very well run. Several testimonials describe children who were eager to attend each day, enjoyed activities like painting, making play doh, learning about new artists, building fairy doors and dolls, and creating a fairy world, and who looked forward to more classes and camps. One testimonial notes that a child who tends to be shy and nervous in new settings felt at ease after one day at camp and mentions high school–aged helpers who were enthusiastic and kind. Another testimonial describes a child being challenged to produce items from recyclables and enjoying using imagination to make something unique.
Last updated January 27, 2026.
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