Rainbow Parrot Art
Saint Charles Borromeo School, 7112 South 12th Street, Tacoma, WA 98433
About
Rainbow Parrot Art offers projects such as polymer clay sculpture, plaster bird sculptures, wax resist dragons, and dragon cupcake sculptures. Students work on themed pieces including chubby dinosaurs, cactus and tacos, kawaii radios, BFF cats, rainbow glitter donuts, panda bears, penguins, orca sunset paintings, treasure map designs, cupcake castles, sunken pirate ships, and dream-house illustrations. The program also includes art inspired by well-known artists and styles, such as Jackson Pollock–inspired splatter paintings, Theibaud desserts, cubist portraits, Maurice Sendak monsters, Amate bark paintings, Vincent Van Gogh bedrooms, and Southwest landscapes.
• Ages: 6–11 years old
• Schedule: Each art camp session runs Monday–Thursday from 9:00am–12:30pm
• Price: Cost: $305 per art camp session.
Rainbow Parrot Art is led by Lacey Reuter (Instructor/Founder) and Mera Foster (Creative Consultant/Graphic Designer). Lacey is a Tacoma native who graduated from the American University of Paris, France, and has a background in fine art, art history, teaching, and mindfulness meditation. Since 2011, Lacey has taught art classes, art workshops, and art camps to hundreds of students at St. Joseph School, Holy Rosary School, Seattle Lutheran High School, Hope Lutheran School, and Saint Charles Borromeo, and she served as the K–8 art instructor at Holy Rosary School from 2014–2017. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, she began offering her art workshops to kids and adults online through live, online classes. Mera is a 14-year-old artist who has been learning to draw more realistically using colored pencils, acrylic paint, oil paint, and sidewalk chalk over the past year.
According to the program’s mission statement, Rainbow Parrot Art uses a community-oriented, experience-based approach to art and a process of playful exploration in which students make new discoveries, increase their confidence, and tap into heightened levels of self-awareness, with a stated result of greater joy, well-being, and an enhanced ability to connect with others. The program features a diverse and changing mix of projects in its workshops and camps, and it offers kids’ after-school art classes for the 2026–2027 school year and summer art camps in Tacoma and Seattle. Rainbow Parrot also describes a community-oriented approach in which Lacey’s murals can be seen at Evergreen College and Jazzbones in Tacoma, and she volunteers at meditation centers outside of art and teaching.
Parent and student testimonials describe Rainbow Parrot Art classes and camps as allowing a 3rd grade student to express herself creatively while learning techniques and skills, and another parent notes that a 3rd grade son “loves this program” and asks to be signed up for following sessions. A 5th grade student reports making gingerbread houses, “a lot of awesome clay sculptures,” and toilet paper clothing in Art Workshop and says “Art with her rocks.” Other parents report that projects are always unique, the environment is very caring, and that a 4th grade student is encouraged to explore innovative art techniques and mediums to match his “fantastical ideas,” describing Ms. Reuter as “super deep and super cool.”
Last updated June 13, 2026.
• Ages: 6–11 years old
• Schedule: Each art camp session runs Monday–Thursday from 9:00am–12:30pm
• Price: Cost: $305 per art camp session.
Rainbow Parrot Art is led by Lacey Reuter (Instructor/Founder) and Mera Foster (Creative Consultant/Graphic Designer). Lacey is a Tacoma native who graduated from the American University of Paris, France, and has a background in fine art, art history, teaching, and mindfulness meditation. Since 2011, Lacey has taught art classes, art workshops, and art camps to hundreds of students at St. Joseph School, Holy Rosary School, Seattle Lutheran High School, Hope Lutheran School, and Saint Charles Borromeo, and she served as the K–8 art instructor at Holy Rosary School from 2014–2017. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, she began offering her art workshops to kids and adults online through live, online classes. Mera is a 14-year-old artist who has been learning to draw more realistically using colored pencils, acrylic paint, oil paint, and sidewalk chalk over the past year.
According to the program’s mission statement, Rainbow Parrot Art uses a community-oriented, experience-based approach to art and a process of playful exploration in which students make new discoveries, increase their confidence, and tap into heightened levels of self-awareness, with a stated result of greater joy, well-being, and an enhanced ability to connect with others. The program features a diverse and changing mix of projects in its workshops and camps, and it offers kids’ after-school art classes for the 2026–2027 school year and summer art camps in Tacoma and Seattle. Rainbow Parrot also describes a community-oriented approach in which Lacey’s murals can be seen at Evergreen College and Jazzbones in Tacoma, and she volunteers at meditation centers outside of art and teaching.
Parent and student testimonials describe Rainbow Parrot Art classes and camps as allowing a 3rd grade student to express herself creatively while learning techniques and skills, and another parent notes that a 3rd grade son “loves this program” and asks to be signed up for following sessions. A 5th grade student reports making gingerbread houses, “a lot of awesome clay sculptures,” and toilet paper clothing in Art Workshop and says “Art with her rocks.” Other parents report that projects are always unique, the environment is very caring, and that a 4th grade student is encouraged to explore innovative art techniques and mediums to match his “fantastical ideas,” describing Ms. Reuter as “super deep and super cool.”
Last updated June 13, 2026.
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