SUMMER ART CAMPS {hands-on + mixed media + magical + playful process art} 2025 ~ (Enrollment is Open!)

SUMMER {hands on + mixed media + magical + playful process} ART CAMPS 2025

Early Bird Enrollment is OPEN!


Hello there!

* Please take the time to carefully read over ALL workshop information before enrolling!

Links at bottom of this page!


JOIN US: Jump into a joyous summer of making & creating, igniting imaginations, and fantastic "fun-under-the-sun" through our {hands on + mixed-media + magical + playful processes} that will captivate-n-create-n-celebrate a summer of magical memories of making in our sweet studio at 449 Main Street in downtown Carbondale | CO in the heART of the Carbondale Creative District! Yes, we absolutely L-O-V-E how our families keep coming back! Oh YES, year after year, for more & more maker's magic on Main Street in the majestic-n-mavelous mountains! This sweet summer HANDMAKERY celebrates "12 amazing-n-artful years" of creating-n-crafting with children in our studio. Ms. Ami has over 25+ years creating art with children throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, specifically in Carbondale!

SNEAK A PEEK INTO OUR STUDIO: @handmakery Instagram *Best way to creatively connect & to stay current!

WORKSHOPS: Listed individually, below! Enrollment links at very bottom of this page, in blue.

DAYS: Monday - Thursday

TIMES: 9 AM - 3 PM

AGES: Specific & firm to each workshop. At this time we're not able to make age exceptions, thank you for understanding.

TUITION: {EARLY BIRD PRICING ~ read carefully} $395+ *NOTE: A couple workshops have an additional supply fee that will be invoiced online separately, noted within each workshop description AND on the specific enrollment link!

ENROLLMENT LINKS: (very bottom of page in blue) ~ Families need to create a HANDMAKERY ACCOUNT before enrolling. Don't miss out on early bird tuition & a wide-open array of offerings by jumping in early! Summer Art Camps tend to quickly fill and sell out well in advance. Thank you for your understanding.

PAYMENT: You'll be guided to make payment for tuition in full via PayPal (preferred payment). If you do not have PayPal, you should be able to use PayPal's Guest Checkout to pay with a card of your choice. If YOU request the studio to send you a personalized PayPal Invoice, via email, you may be provided with additional payment options, but this may require more time to process & to secure enrollment...more patience on your part. If you prefer Check or Cash please email hello@handmakery.com to make arrangements. Please note, PayPal One Touch allows you to skip logging in with your email and password. When you access your account from your device, PayPal automatically logs you in and helps make the checkout process fast, easy, and super smooth.

DAILY: Camps are a magical mix of in studio making & creating AND playful outdoor moments (morning/afternoon outdoor snack breaks + a lunchtime picnic at the park, with creative-n-fun team building games AND outdoor play at the local park, which includes under the shady trees & on the park play structures.

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1. DARLING DREAMHOUSE DESIGN 101: A Two-Story Trending Tiny Home ~ Truly from a Tree

Week: June 9, 10, 11, 12, 2025 {WAITING LIST ~ Email hello@handmakery.com to join}

Ages: 6 & up

*Dollhouse + Supply Fee: ($60) not included in listed camp tuition.

*Please note: An additional Dollhouse Fee will be invoiced to participants before the start of the workshop.

This much-loved art workshop is back for another splendid-n-savory summer. Oh yes, this much-loved workshop tends to sell out in a matter of minutes! Truly a tiny home on trend! This delightful + designer + DIY fav workshop is going to be once again artfully AMAZING! Join us for a wondrous week making everything you can imagine for your very own designer home, inside & out! Each creative camper will be given a modern + two-story + wooden house, a perfect open-canvas for imaginations to ignite and run wild! Artists will spend time planning, designing, laying out, painting, constructing, exploring interiors + exteriors, sculpting, decorating, sparkling, and detailing everything from designer walls & wallpapers, rugs, furniture, works of art, functional pieces, favorite foods, and even making little forever (people + animal) friends to bring this beautiful + playful-n-personalized piece to life! We'll explore the interior and exterior using paint, glue, clay, wood, fabric, specialty materials, upcycled goods, glitter, and more! An artistic camp festive + fantastic for both girls and boys! We'll bring it all together with a mini-exhibit + recognition ceremony displaying an interactive creative + colorful + collaborative community + child-centered creation! We love our mini-exhibits as they create confidence and community for artists to shine and showcase their successes in the studio!

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2. OH SO CUTE-N-CURIOUS CREATURE'S CURIO: Contemporary Contoured-n-Cardboard Cabinet with Compact-n-Colorfully Constructed Clay-n-Crafty Collectibles

Week: June 16, 17, 18, 19, 2025 {WAITING LIST ~ Email hello@handmakery.com to join}

Ages: 7 & up

Become a bit of a furniture designer as we creatively handcraft a mixed-media contemporary curio cabinet on contour to display delightfully darling compact-n-colorfully constructed clay-n-crafty collectibles. Children love teeny tiny collections they can dream up and personalize! This workshop will focus on hand building, creative cardboard & papier-mâché construction, making a simple structure, delightfully designing; all to create a sweet little heart melting display that's interactive to capture childhood maker memories! Artists will work with a wide array of mixed-media materials throughout this wondrous week. Oh yes, collections bring conversation, creative thinking, and creative connection centered on childhood! We'll bring it all together with a mini-exhibit + recognition ceremony displaying an interactive creative + colorful + collaborative community + child-centered creation! We love our mini-exhibits as they create confidence and community for artists to shine and showcase their successes in the studio!

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3. SHIMMERY SURF-N-SAND-ART SUNSET SHACK: Soulful Summer + Small Savory Snacks + Shells + Seashore

Week: June 23, 24, 25, 26, 2025 {4 SPACES AVAILABLE AS OF 3/3}

Ages: 7 & up

Construct and create a decorative-n-designer shimmery surf-n-sand-art sunset shack {mini 3D sculpture} for a soulful summer with small handmade snacks, shells, ski/surfboards, sunnies, and more... along the summery seashore below the sizzling sunshine! Artists will design, build, and construct their very own mini surf shack with tiny & interactive delightful-n-dreamy details. This workshop has a similar flow to our Tiki Hut Travels, oh yes, a festive favorite highlighted last year! Artists will explore cardboard, papier-mâché, paint, glitter-n-glue, paper, clay, wood parts, fabric, mixed-media, tempting teeny tiny treasures, food art, sand art, sunsets, and more! We'll bring it all together with a mini-exhibit + recognition ceremony displaying an interactive creative + colorful + collaborative community + child-centered creation! We love our mini-exhibits as they create confidence and community for artists to shine and showcase their successes in the studio!

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4. HEDGEHOGS {HANDMADE-N-HAPPY & HOME + SWEET + HOME} HIDEAWAY HAVEN

Week: June 30 + July 1, 2, 3, 2025 {WAITING LIST ~ Email hello@handmakery.com to join}

Ages: 6 & up

*Wooden Chest + Supply Fee: ($40) not included in listed camp tuition.

*Please note: An additional Wooden Chest + Supply Fee will be invoiced to participants before the start of the workshop.

Create a {handmade-n-happy + home-sweet-home} aka hideaway haven for hedgehogs on the home-front! Artists will work with a fabulous wooden base with lots of "secret compartments" to design & construct their one-of-a-kind hedgehog home and everything these little creatures need to live life to the fullest, including a playful penthouse forest on the top floor. Artists will use their imaginations to dream up savory secret spaces, supplies, and settings for their little playful-n-pokey creatures! In the studio makers will explore wood parts, paint, glue, up cycled goods, fabric, a wooden base, mixed-media, delightful sketching/drawing, detailing, imagination, dreaming up...and possibly craft a few additional artful creatures to compliment. We'll bring it all together with a mini-exhibit + recognition ceremony displaying an interactive creative + colorful + collaborative community + child-centered creation! We love our mini-exhibits as they create confidence and community for artists to shine and showcase their successes in the studio!

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5. SUN-BASKING SUMMERTIME SLOTHS: In a Soft-n-Snuggly Sling, Sporting Stylish Sandals + Sun hats + Sunnies + Sips + Seabreeze Scarves {Sweet-n-Sculptural Style} in the Soulful Sunshine

Week: July 14, 15, 16, 17, 2025 {WAITING LIST ~ Email hello@handmakery.com to join}

Ages: 6 & up

A forever favorite of our studio artists & their families! Skip over to creatively constructing a stylized HANDMAKERY signature ~ Sunbasking Summertime Sloth! Artists will construct the full body of a sweet-n-swaying sloth using creative-n-crafty hands-on 3D construction. Artists will then move into papier-mâché and personalized paint. Delightful details will bring these colorful creatures to love & life! These playful pets will then be personalized with plenty of details from stylish sandals + sun-hats + sunnies + soft slings + sips + scarves, so they can sun sunbask into sway & sunset all throughout the sizzling-n-sunny summer! Artists will explore planning, designing, creative construction, papier-mâché, painting, detailing, mixed media, fabric, wood, as maker's mobile masterpiece, and more! We'll bring it all together with a mini-exhibit + recognition ceremony displaying an interactive creative + colorful + collaborative community + child-centered creation! We love our mini-exhibits as they create confidence and community for artists to shine and showcase their successes in the studio!

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6. FOREVER FAMOUS-N-FESTIVE FUTURISTIC FASHIONISTA

Week: July 21, 22, 23, 24, 2025 {WAITING LIST ~ Email hello@handmakery.com to join}

Ages: 7 & up

Another fantastic favorite returns! Dive into being a designer at heart. Explore fashion at its finest. Explore design through sketching, illustrating, playful patterns, artful accessories, complimenting color schemes, and more! Design and decorate some of your fav fashions onto miniature wooden mannequins for the radiant runway. Artists will explore color combinations, patterns on point, textures to tempt, lavish layers, 2D and 3D, and marvelous mixed-media for mini mannequins. Artists will take their visions to the next level of branding, showcase, start up-n-sales, delightful display, and more! Please note, this is not a sewing class and we won't be making life-sized clothing. We'll bring it all together with a mini-exhibit + recognition ceremony displaying an interactive creative + colorful + collaborative community + child-centered creation! We love our mini-exhibits as they create confidence and community for artists to shine and showcase their successes in the studio!

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WORKSHOPS:

• Instructed by Ami Maes, Founder + Creative Director of HANDMAKERY with 25+ years of visual arts education experience within the Roaring Fork Valley + a Bachelors of Science in Visual Arts Education K-12. HANDMAKERY: A Children's Art Studio was artfully established in 2013! Ami was born & raised in Carbondale. She landed her first art education position in Carbondale (right after college in 1999) and has been loving instructing art in her happy hometown ever since!
• Please send all questions, thoughts, ideas, and/or inquires to hello@handmakery.com.
• All workshops are a creative mix of in-studio magical making & creating, filled with hands on + mixed-media + engaging art experiences.
• Workshops take a morning and afternoon outdoor snack break AND an hour-long picnic at the park with outdoor creative team building games-n-park play, weather permitting!
• Stay oh so calm & cool with our studio's in-house air conditioning for delightful temps on those warm summertime days. This detail is definitely a happy highlight in the hot summer!
• Workshops have limited class size. Early bird enrollment is always highly encouraged & appreciated.

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ARTIST SHOULD BRING A BACKPACK to include:

• a healthy + hearty + nut-free + cold picnic packed lunch
  
• two healthy snacks for AM and PM breaks
  
• a labeled/pre-filled/full water bottle
  
• dress for creative mess + outdoor play, we'll provide art aprons
• a light jacket + sunhat + walking shoes + pre-apply and bring sunscreen to self-reapply
• beach towel or lightweight blanket for outdoor seating on the grass

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MINI ART SHOW & RECOGNITION CEREMONY: Our mini art show + recognition + much-loved collector's charm ceremony is set for the end of the last day of each workshop. This mini art show/ceremony/celebration will happen either outdoors at the local park, weather permitting OR within the art studio (we'll keep you updated). Please add this important happy highlight to your summer calendar! We'll celebrate each artist and their artful accomplishments. Hoot hoot for all our amazing artists!

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IMPORTANT NOTES:

• CREATE AN ACCOUNT ~ Be ready to enroll by simply creating an account for future enrollment!
• @handmakery INSTAGRAM is the best way to stay connected ~ up-to-date ~ current ~ creatively connected!
• LOCAL MAILING LIST: If you live in the Roaring Fork Valley, please email hello@handmakery.com to join our local email list.
• PAYMENT: You'll be guided to make payment for tuition in full via PayPal (preferred payment). If you do not have PayPal, you should be able to use PayPal's Guest Checkout to pay with a card of your choice. If YOU request the studio to send you a personalized PayPal Invoice, via email, you may be provided with additional payment options, but this may require more time to process & to secure enrollment...more patience on your part. If you prefer Check or Cash please email hello@handmakery.com to make arrangements. Please note, PayPal One Touch allows you to skip logging in with your email and password. When you access your account from your device, PayPal automatically logs you in and helps make the checkout process fast, easy, and super smooth.
• PERSONALIZED ENROLLMENT LINK: Workshops need to be purchased individually, but we're more than happy to create a one-click personalize link with all workshops of interest (as a bundle) for simple, streamlined, one-click enrollment. Please email hello@handmakery.com providing us with the specific workshop(s) + date(s) + child name(s) and we'll simply put together your personalized package for a simple & streamline one-click for your family. Personalized enrollment links may take more patience on your end.
• WORKSHOP CONFIRMATION: Please know you're NOT ENROLLED unless you receive BOTH email confirmation via our studio AND email confirmation via PayPal. Log into your HANDMAKERY Account >>> Account Dashboard >>> Upcoming Schedule to confirm your upcoming schedule/enrollment. *Important ~ It's the client's responsibility to verify enrollment with confirmation from BOTH the studio AND PayPal.
  
• AGE REQUIREMENTS: Please be sure your child meets the age requirement before enrolling, thank you for understanding.
• CREDIT: You may apply account credit at checkout, if your credit is the same or more than your purchase. If you need to make a partial payment, please contact the studio via email and we can handle this on our end.
• LIMITED ENROLLMENT: Early online registration is highly encouraged as workshops tend to fill quickly, well in advance. Space is limited.
• POLICIES: Please review our CANCELATION POLICY (noted on each workshop's enrollment page) carefully before enrolling. Once payment is made, we offer STUDIO CREDIT ONLY following disclosed/noted timeframe specifics. We DO NOT offer makeups for missed classes but you can always reach out to see if we can artfully accommodate your artist in another class on the same week.
• CONTINUE TO CHECK BACK IN & STAY CONNECTED: Additional art workshops, pop up events, specialty camps, & creative happenings will be added throughout the year!

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SCHOOL YEAR ART WORKSHOPS ~ Launch Mid-Summer! Email hello@handmakery.com to join our RFV Local List!

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THANK YOU so much for supporting our studio and a childhood of making & creating on Main Street in the heart of the Carbondale Creative District!

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Cancellation policy

We can only issue STUDIO CREDIT (good for one year) within a specific timeframe (following the details noted below), once you're enrolled in a class/workshop/camp/and/or event. To be issued a STUDIO CREDIT, the studio must be provided with a written email requesting a STUDIO CREDIT for the specific class/workshop/camp/and/or event that your child is NOT able to attend. Written documentation needs to be received thirty (30) days before the start date of a school year class/workshop/and/or event AND forty-five (45) days before a camp. After (45) days in advance to a camp, we can offer credit – less a $50 processing fee – IF we are able to fill the spot, otherwise, camps are non-refundable/non credited. Requests can be sent to hello@handmakery.com. We do not issue refunds, only STUDIO CREDITS, so it’s important to plan ahead. Please know, we’ll always do our best to be fair, understanding, and to kindly work with you as every situation is uniquely different. We are not able to refund or offer private makeup classes for missed classes. In the rare event, a class/workshop/camp/and/or event is canceled, due to lack of interest, we will either issue a refund or apply tuition to another workshop of your choice, depending on availability. Due to an unforeseen/incredibly rare circumstance, ex. illness, an instructor may need to reschedule a specific class/workshop/camp/and/or event. We greatly appreciate if you send an email ahead of time, if your child will not be attending a class. Please note, policies are subject to change without notice.