Motion Media Arts Center Youth Programs
Baker House, 916 Springdale, Austin, TX 78751
About
Motion Media Arts Center Youth Programs offers youth summer camps as part of its film and media arts programming. These youth camps are included alongside other activities such as weekend workshops and evening classes through Austin School of Film.
• Schedule: Youth summer camps
Motion Media Arts Center is a nonprofit with a mission to remove financial and structural barriers that keep talented voices out of film, photo, and media arts. It has operated as Texas's first media arts center since 2002 and has offered free youth summer camps annually since 1999, serving more than 600 youth in free camps each year. The organization describes itself as a community film school with accessible studios, artist residencies, and youth programs, and it offers membership-based access to professional studios through the Cinemaker Studio Access Program with a flat monthly fee model.
The leadership team includes Anne Goetzmann Kelley, who stepped in as Director of Education in 2003, and Faiza Kracheni, who became Executive Director in 2024. Motion Media Arts Center has been recognized as the first Texas nonprofit Apple Certified Training Center and the first DaVinci Resolve Training Center open to the public in Austin. Its community involvement includes providing film and media arts education, professional studio access, artist residencies, and youth programs to underrepresented communities, with programming that also includes PLAY AT HOME virtual workshops with materials kits delivered, the Film & Friends Showcase screening series, the Artists in Motion residency, the Artist Access workforce development program, The Roster digital directory, the CINEMAKER CONNECT exhibition program, and the Two Artists × Six Months studio access concept.
Last updated July 16, 2026.
• Schedule: Youth summer camps
Motion Media Arts Center is a nonprofit with a mission to remove financial and structural barriers that keep talented voices out of film, photo, and media arts. It has operated as Texas's first media arts center since 2002 and has offered free youth summer camps annually since 1999, serving more than 600 youth in free camps each year. The organization describes itself as a community film school with accessible studios, artist residencies, and youth programs, and it offers membership-based access to professional studios through the Cinemaker Studio Access Program with a flat monthly fee model.
The leadership team includes Anne Goetzmann Kelley, who stepped in as Director of Education in 2003, and Faiza Kracheni, who became Executive Director in 2024. Motion Media Arts Center has been recognized as the first Texas nonprofit Apple Certified Training Center and the first DaVinci Resolve Training Center open to the public in Austin. Its community involvement includes providing film and media arts education, professional studio access, artist residencies, and youth programs to underrepresented communities, with programming that also includes PLAY AT HOME virtual workshops with materials kits delivered, the Film & Friends Showcase screening series, the Artists in Motion residency, the Artist Access workforce development program, The Roster digital directory, the CINEMAKER CONNECT exhibition program, and the Two Artists × Six Months studio access concept.
Last updated July 16, 2026.
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