Youth Summer Art Programs
CEPA Gallery Learning Center, 617 Main St #201, Suite 201, Buffalo, NY 14203
About
Youth Summer Art Programs includes week-long, half-day summer classes focused on photography and zine-making. Students take part in photography, darkroom photography, digital photography, experimental photography, creating zines (short, homemade magazines), photograms, Polaroid transfers, cyanotype, and collage. Cameras are available for use, or students may use their own.
• Ages: 8–17 years old
• Schedule: Week-long, half-day summer classes
• Price: All Things Photography – Summer 2026: $225.00; Zines for Teens – Summer 2026: $225.00; A $50 cancellation fee will apply; cancellations made less than 3 days before start of class will not receive a refund.
All Things Photography – Summer 2026 runs July 6–10 from 9:00am–12:30pm, and Zines for Teens – Summer 2026 runs July 13–17 from 9:00am–12:30pm. Classes are kept small at only 8 students. All materials are included for the Zines for Teens class, and students in that class are welcome to bring their own cameras or borrow CEPA cameras. Each student in Zines for Teens leaves class with a handful of photo prints, negatives, and a completed zine.
CEPA Gallery is a contemporary photography and visual arts center with impact in both local and national communities. CEPA Gallery was founded during the Alternative Space Movement in May 1974, and Big Orbit Project Space was incorporated in 1991 and merged with CEPA in 2013. The Education Director is Nate Ely. One featured CEPA Summer Art Program student, Hope Grunert, states, “CEPA is the reason I am the photographer I am. I have learned things that I will keep with me for the rest of my life and I have met people who have shaped the way I take a photo.” CEPA suggests checking out Squeaky Wheel, now located in the Tri-Main building, for their half day youth programs and virtual summer classes, and notes that Andrea Wenglowskyj was generously funded by Art Services Inc. for her recent exhibition at CEPA, Anxiety of Amnesia. Cafe Royal Books, whose publication is sold through CEPA, has been presented with the Royal Photographic Society Award for Photographic Publishing and was a finalist for the international Lucie Award for Editing.
Last updated May 28, 2026.
• Ages: 8–17 years old
• Schedule: Week-long, half-day summer classes
• Price: All Things Photography – Summer 2026: $225.00; Zines for Teens – Summer 2026: $225.00; A $50 cancellation fee will apply; cancellations made less than 3 days before start of class will not receive a refund.
All Things Photography – Summer 2026 runs July 6–10 from 9:00am–12:30pm, and Zines for Teens – Summer 2026 runs July 13–17 from 9:00am–12:30pm. Classes are kept small at only 8 students. All materials are included for the Zines for Teens class, and students in that class are welcome to bring their own cameras or borrow CEPA cameras. Each student in Zines for Teens leaves class with a handful of photo prints, negatives, and a completed zine.
CEPA Gallery is a contemporary photography and visual arts center with impact in both local and national communities. CEPA Gallery was founded during the Alternative Space Movement in May 1974, and Big Orbit Project Space was incorporated in 1991 and merged with CEPA in 2013. The Education Director is Nate Ely. One featured CEPA Summer Art Program student, Hope Grunert, states, “CEPA is the reason I am the photographer I am. I have learned things that I will keep with me for the rest of my life and I have met people who have shaped the way I take a photo.” CEPA suggests checking out Squeaky Wheel, now located in the Tri-Main building, for their half day youth programs and virtual summer classes, and notes that Andrea Wenglowskyj was generously funded by Art Services Inc. for her recent exhibition at CEPA, Anxiety of Amnesia. Cafe Royal Books, whose publication is sold through CEPA, has been presented with the Royal Photographic Society Award for Photographic Publishing and was a finalist for the international Lucie Award for Editing.
Last updated May 28, 2026.
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