2026
SUMMER 
CAMP

Art doesn’t just belong in galleries—it lives in our streets, on our buildings, and throughout our communities. This week, we’ll explore the world of public art and meet contemporary creators whose work energizes cities around the globe. Students will sculpt bold, clay creations inspired by the colorful and playful forms of Camille Walala, and design a relief-print diptych influenced by Chanoir cartoon like figures.

Our textile project will draw from Julieta XLF fusion of organic shapes and character-driven imagery, while a mixed-media painting will take cues from Simoni Fontana's vivid visual style. We’ll also craft a collage piece influenced by the expressive street art of RED DITO. Throughout the week, we’ll discuss how these artists use their work to engage with their environment, spark conversation, and reflect the cultures around them. During Graffiti & Street Art Week, inspiration is always right around the corner!
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Kids are natural inventors—and this week is built to celebrate that spirit! ART & ENGINEERING Week invites students to dream big, experiment boldly, and bring their imaginative ideas to life while working both independently and as a collaborative team. Throughout the week, we’ll draft blueprints and transform them into structures, create simple hydraulic lifts from everyday materials, design and screen-print custom shirts, launch paper rockets, and even build small robots.

Our grand finale? A full-class Rube Goldberg machine that stretches across the entire studio—powered by creativity, teamwork, and a chain reaction of surprising mechanisms.

Along the way, students will explore mechanics, physics, design thinking, and problem-solving, discovering that the process of inventing is just as meaningful as the finished product. They’ll strengthen existing skills, learn new ones, and head home with an exciting collection of aesthetic and functional creations.
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During our Ceramics & Pottery Wheel camp week students explore the various ways in which artists use clay to make functional and sculptural items. We will learn all basic techniques involved with throwing on the pottery wheels, beginning with wedging and centering the clay. Through repeated practice, they'll learn to shape the clay as the wheel spins, gaining a feel for the proper thickness and form. The students will also get the chance to handbuild with clay not only to add to their thrown pieces (handles lids etc.) but to also make pottery by building with slabs, coils and pinching. Students will learn different glazing methods (brushing, dipping, under layering and more) to give their pottery a finished look. Throughout the week we will gather inspiration from other ceramicists, adding different textures created with a variety of tools and manipulating the functional forms into different shapes to develop their signature style of pottery. Each student will go home with a comprehensive and impressive body of work they will be proud of!

 NOTE: Since all pottery needs time to air dry and fire some pieces will not be ready to go home until the following week - we will email parents when the projects are ready to be picked up.

**AGES 5-10**

Our advanced after school ceramics class takes classic hand-building, 3D design, and sculptural techniques to the next level. Building on basics we already know - like pinching, coiling, and slab construction - we will create more intricate works of art. We will study how various professional ceramicists manipulate clay forms to develop their signature styles, and learn about different types of clay in the process, including stoneware, porcelain, red clay, and more. We will introduce carving and molding different types of clay into symmetrical forms. Considering the use of organic, modern, realistic, industrial, and abstract works, as well as applique and texture, students will produce several realistic, functional and abstract projects, such as cups, bowls and figures, which will be fired in our kiln. We'll also explore a variety of glazes and glazing techniques such as painting, dipping, and staining.

NOTE: Since all pottery needs time to air dry and fire some pieces will not be ready to go home until the following week - we will email parents when the projects are ready to be picked up.

**AGES 9 - 13**

The ripples of pop art's influence have been felt all over the world, but there's no one place that has embraced the movement quite so distinctly as Japan, where manga and anime's influence have merged into the fine art world. Our all-new Kawaii Pop camp explores those connections with characters immediately familiar to kids - like Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, and Naruto - as well as looking back at the history of pop art in Japan.

We'll learn about the avant-garde artists like Harue Kogo and Tadanori Yokoo, who, early on, adopted the hallmarks of pop art - bright colors, bold lines, and cultural reference points - while the dotted pumpkins of Yayoi Kusama made the iconic artist and overnight sensation (and drew praise from Andy Warhol).

We'll see how Takashi Murakami achieved huge commercial success with his "Superflat" style by combining traditional Japanese woodblock carving and cartoony patterns. And we'll look at how cute, child-like characters still appear in Japanese contemporary art, from Yoshimoto Nara and Tomoko Nagao to the modern MicroPop movement. Students will love creating unique projects in this captivating style, while also discovering how art can build bridges between cultures.
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Fashion surrounds us every day—yet behind every piece of clothing lies a world of creativity, craftsmanship, and design. During Fashion Design Week, students will experience that world firsthand as they explore the full journey from concept to runway-ready garment. We’ll begin by studying today’s fashion trends, examining style, movement, and color. Students will create inspiration boards through illustration and magazine collage, laying the foundation for their own designs.

From there, we’ll dive into sewing essentials—hand stitching, hemming, seams, and machine sewing—giving each student their own sewing station to practice and master the basics. Next, campers will become textile designers, transforming raw materials through safe dyeing methods, painting, printing (block or screen), and batik to create unique fabrics. Using those custom textiles, they’ll select a garment pattern—dress, skirt, shirt, or bag—and thoughtfully measure, cut, and construct a wearable piece they’ll be proud to take home.

To complete the experience, students will conceptualize their own fashion brand, designing logos, making garment tags, and sewing labels into their final creations—just like real apparel designers. Fashion Design Week empowers young makers to dream big, stitch boldly, and walk away wearing their art.
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Calling all comic creators, world-builders, and future graphic novelists—Comic Book Week is here! Comics have shaped culture since their rise from newspaper strips to books in the 1930s and have launched countless legendary artists. This week, we’ll dive into the history of the medium while developing original characters, stories, and entire universes of our own. Students will explore every step of the comic-making process—from penciling, inking, and coloring to lettering and, finally, bookbinding. By week’s end, each artist will create a one-of-a-kind, hardbound "artist’s edition" comic to take home—going from pulp to POW!

But our adventure doesn’t end on the page. We’ll construct and decorate 3D letters, stitch fabric action-figures of our characters, adorned with amulets of power, and even learn to draw caricature of our fellow campers.

Get ready for a fully immersive week where imagination leaps off the page—and every camper becomes the hero of their own story.

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*AGES 5-10*

Journey with us from the streets of Brooklyn straight back to 14th-century Mesoamerica! Ancient Aztec Week at CBK places your child at the center of an immersive, celebratory, and—of course—deeply creative cultural experience. Together, campers will begin by designing and decorating a traditional Aztec-style pyramid out of clay.

From there, we’ll explore Aztec art through a wide range of mediums, including: Metalwork for jewelry—think pendants, charms, and necklaces. Clay ceramics inspired by Aztec tools and technologies. Papier-mâché and mosaic mask-making. Found-object and paper-crafted Aztec-style attire.

It’s part time-travel, part art history, and fully hands-on fun as we honor and celebrate the vibrant legacy of Aztec culture with your child.
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Lights, camera… ART! It’s movie week at CBK, and your child is calling the shots from the director’s chair. Together, we’ll spend the week producing our very own stop-motion animated film—bringing imagination to life one frame at a time. Campers will kick off by brainstorming, storyboarding, and building production notebooks to develop characters and plotlines.

From there, they’ll paint and construct sets, sculpt clay figures to animate, record voiceovers, and even create their own foley sound effects using everyday objects. Once filming wraps, students will step into the role of marketing masterminds—designing and screen-printing movie posters and promotional materials to debut their cinematic masterpiece.

We’re ready for our close-up—and the red carpet awaits!

Calling all secret agents! An art heist has struck Created By Kids, and only our most clever detectives can crack the case. This thrilling week turns our studio into a full-fledged crime lab—complete with undercover missions, clue boards, and covert operations. Campers will craft secret identities, assemble spy kits packed with stealth-worthy gadgets, and design playful disguises to keep their cover.

Throughout the week, they’ll uncover clues and solve mysteries in true Sherlock-style—sharpening their powers of observation and deduction as they create invisible-ink messages, build decoders, and make fingerprint-based artwork.It’s a week of top-secret creativity—where every artist becomes a sleuth, every clue sparks imagination, and the case won’t be solved without YOU!
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*AGES 5-10*

Step back in time to Ancient Greece—an era celebrated for its breathtaking mosaics, legendary sculpture, and groundbreaking achievements in architecture, literature, and technology. Throughout this week, students will discover the stories and innovations that shaped Greece's enduring legacy while diving hands-on into creative projects inspired by the ancient world. Campers will sculpt clay reliefs inspired by the techniques of Greek artisans, cast plaster symbols honoring gods, heroes, and mythical powers, and experiment with early papermaking as they create their own papyrus sheets—perfect for illustrating imagined Greek creatures in vivid oil pastels. They’ll craft wearable laurel wreaths and design a multi-layered, screen-printed diptych reflecting the iconic black-and-red figure art seen on ancient pottery.Greek Week promises a journey of creativity worthy of legend—myth-making, art-making, and memories of Olympian proportions!

*AGES 5-10*

This week, students will get their gears turning as we explore how inventors and innovators have shaped the world—both in art and in everyday life. Our guiding inspiration will be the ultimate Renaissance thinker, Leonardo da Vinci, whose artistic talent fueled visionary machines and ideas that transformed humanity. Campers will sketch their own “blueprints,” brainstorm imaginative concepts, and build artful machines that truly function—or construct scale models of inventions too grand to fit inside our studio! Using a mix of materials and creative techniques, they'll experiment, tinker, and bring their ideas to life.Along the way, we’ll journey through history, learning about great minds from Galileo and Thomas Edison to Ben Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs—discovering how each one altered the course of human progress. Inspired by these trailblazers, students will create artworks that celebrate innovation and imagine the inventions of tomorrow.

*AGES 5-10*

Get ready for a burst of color and creativity! Since the 1960s, Pop Art has taken the everyday world—cartoons, logos, ads, and ordinary objects—and turned it into museum-worthy masterpieces. Today, a new generation of contemporary artists is reinventing Pop Art for the 21st century, expanding on the bold ideas of legends like Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Haring.

During Pop Art Week, campers will dive into this exciting movement by exploring brand-new works from artists across the globe. Inspired by their playful techniques, bold palettes, and surprising materials, kids will create their own eye-popping projects across a wide range of mediums—ceramics, painting, printmaking, textiles, and more!

Along the way, students will learn how to look at everyday images—billboards, cereal boxes, emojis, memes—through a true artist's lens. It’s a week of color, culture, and creativity your child won’t forget!

*AGES 5-10*