Art Camps at The Arts Center of the Capital Region

Art Camps at The Arts Center of the Capital Region offers week-long art camps for children and teens. The camps take place in a setting that includes studios, galleries, performance spaces, and a black box theatre, with every class taught by working artists.

• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Week-long art camps

The Arts Center of the Capital Region was founded in 1962, and its mission is to enable people to create and to engage in the arts. It offers more than 500 classes each year and provides credit from Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) for coursework at the Arts Center. It serves 40,000 people each year from the eleven counties surrounding Troy and provides programs for children and adults with disabilities and scholarships for all programs. It is a partner of the New York State Council on the Arts and distributes $90,000 a year in decentralization grants for artists who work in the community, including regranting funds from New York State to artists and arts projects. It produces public art, including the Troy Art Block public art festival, for which 28 murals from local artists were commissioned, and operates four contemporary art galleries and a 100 seat black box theatre. In 1989 The Arts Center of the Capital Region received the Governors’ Arts Awards for outreach into populations with special needs.

Last updated May 27, 2026.