Summer 2026
Is Open!

Summer Program

CAMP Registration is Open Now

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THIS IS THE 2026
SUMMER SCHEDULE:

Please view the descriptions on our portal for each camp. We will update them here soon.

Art Camps

MORNINGS

36 Camps Available
Camps are 5 days: Mon-Fri

Art Buffet

AFTERNOONS

Choose Any Afternoon(s)
Every Weekday – June & July

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This is a different kind of camp.

Firstlight summer camps are very small, with 2 instructors per class and 8 to 12 students. This is a real art class, with one-on-one training. We have fun lessons that are also super instructive. Kids take home projects they not only made themselves, but that they creatively designed as well. Creative kids want to create!

Summer Art Camps

Ages 6 to 16

We took the focus of a small art class and combined it with the fun of summer camp

It has become so popular, we sell out every year.

All of our week-long camps are 9:00 AM until Noon, Monday – Friday

With only 8 – 11 students and two instructors in the room, you know everyone will be getting a ton of individual encouragement and help!

Camp art activities are for three hours each day. At Noon, students must be picked up using our drive through line in the rear of the building (for safety).

Age groups ensure that kids are making friends and enjoy the projects.

Camps are for ages 6 to 16 in 3 groups as follows: 6-8 year olds | 9-12 year olds | 11-16 year olds.

To stay longer, you can add daily afternoon sessions – the Summer Art Buffet.

Students may choose to add the afternoon session. They’ll need to bring a lunch, and then stay until 3:45 PM. Just sign up for the Summer Art Buffet for any day, or the whole week (you must register separately from the morning camp!) Sign up for the summer buffet for the same week as morning camp, or you can come any days you want fom June 2 to Aug 1.

Coming & Going: Morning drop off is not available before 8:45 am

THIS IS THE 2026
SUMMER SCHEDULE:

Please visit the PORTAL for all the camp descriptions.

We’ll be updating them here soon. A couple are below since they haven’t changed. Thank you.

Add the afteroons!

Full Day Packages

Add the afternoon Art Buffet to your CAMP for all Day Art Fun!

Come for art from 9 am to 3:45 pm all week. Combine your morning CAMP with the afternoon Summer ART Buffet to have a full day of art all week long. Register early to ensure a spot.

Sign up for the same 5 days as your morning camp to make a full week that lasts from 9 am to 3:45 pm every weekday. Just bring your sack lunch every day.

Buffet Waitlist Warning: Please do not combine available Art Buffet days in combination with not available. You cannot be both registered & waitlisted. To be on a waitlist for extra days, please text us using the button at the top of the page and we’ll take care of it.

Buffet Waitlist Warning: Please do not combine available Art Buffet days in combination with not available. You cannot be both registered & waitlisted. To be on a waitlist for extra days, please text us at

615-678-6745

and we’ll take care of it.

Instructions

The Summer Art Buffet is our only day-to-day class. You can select any number of days in any order to make a customized art class.

It is set up as one Camp that goes ALL SUMMER though. You can only change your days after initial sign up by contacting us (the software will not allow you to make your own changes), so select what you think will work best. If you need to change things later, you can text us at the number below.

If you sign up for more than one week of morning camps, try to sign up for all of the same afternoons that you want, at the same time. Thanks!

Any Art Buffet days can be modified up to 48 hours in advance. Please ask us to add or move days. Text 615-678-6745

You can also text to see if new spots have opened up!

Summer Art Buffet

Personalized daily art class - every weekday June 6 to July 29

1:30 to 3:45 Monday through Friday

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We Made A Better Art Class!

The Art Buffet is our wonderful daily class, where every student gets to choose their own projects and is instructed individually. It’s like a private, personalized lesson, in a room with other students. The teacher visits each artist frequently, to help them understand every step and technique they need. It really is a bit like a restaurant. You can bring your friends and have a great time together. The goal is for every participant to learn, to enjoy creating, and to take home artwork you’ve created yourself.

From total beginners to advanced artists, anyone can express themselves with all the encouragement, guidance, and coaching they’ll get from one of our excellent teachers.

When you sign up, choose any days you like, in any order you want. When you arrive, you get to choose your own project from our menu (below). Supplies are included!

 

Every Weekday Afternoon 1:30-3:45
June 2 – August 1
SUPPLIES INCLUDED – or bring your own

TRAINING | DEMOS | INSTRUCTION SHEETS | INSIGHTS | TECHNIQUES

Buffet Waitlist Warning: Please do not combine available Art Buffet days in combination with not available. You cannot be both registered & waitlisted. To be on a waitlist for extra days, please text us using the button below and we’ll take care of it.

Warning: Please do not combine available Art Buffet days in combination with not available. You cannot be both registered & waitlisted. To be on a waitlist for extra days, please call us at 615-678-6745 and we’ll take care of it. Or text using the button at the bottom of your phone browser.

$48 per session

Three Kinds of Art Buffet:

KidsART
Buffet

Ages 6 – 8

The KidsART Buffet is more stuctured, and moves from one project and media to another every 20 – 30 minutes or so.

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Art
Buffet

Ages 9 to 19

The main room is a mix of artists. Students work on their own or in groups with their friends. It’s different every day!

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Cartoon
Buffet

Ages 9 to 19

Sign up for Art Buffet and do cartoon projects. We have a special room for students who want to focus on cartoon projects.

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Instructions

The Summer Art Buffet is a day-by-day class. You can select any number of days in any order.

It is set up as one Camp that goes ALL SUMMER though. You cannot sign up for it more than once, but you can add as many days as you like when you first sign up, or if you need to change things later, you can text us at the number below.

Please note – after your initial registration, you need to text us to change or add Art Buffet days.

Text us using the button below

You can also text to see if new spots have opened up!

Please note – after your initial registration, you need to text us to change or add Art Buffet days.

Text 615-678-6745

You can also text to see if new spots have opened up!

MAIN ART BUFFET

PROJECT MENU

All basic supplies are included for one project per day in painting, printing, or sculpture, and unlimited drawing, cartoons, dry color, or ink.

Any projects that aren’t finished can be continued the next time you come.

One Per Day:

Painting

Acrylic or Watercolor

Still Life
Animals
Landscape
Portrait
Abstracts
Expressionism
Surrealism
Impressionism

OR

Printing

Designs
Realism

OR

Sculpture

Air-Dry Clay

Unlimited:

DRAWING

Pencil or charcoal

Realism
Sketching
Animals
Landscape
Portrait
Surrealism

Cartoons

Comic Book Page(s)
Character Design
Illustration

Unlimited:

DRY COLOR

Oil Pastels or Colored Pencil

Still Life
Flowers
Animals
Landscape
Copy An Old Master
Abstract

Ink

Still Life
Animals
Zentangle
Architecture
Imagination

Student work

 

Artwork Slideshow

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