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Jul 31, 2026
For budding fashionistas! Campers explore clothing and accessory design, producing a sketchbook full of creative designs. Learn about proportion, form, and pattern, while discovering how fashion reflects culture. No sewing experience required. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Mixed Media and Collage](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Varley-Art-Gallery_School-Program_April-2025-11-400x480.jpg)
Cut, tear, collect, and paste! This camp teaches techniques for working with a variety of materials to create 2D and 3D artworks. Campers express ideas through colour, texture, and form in fun, imaginative ways. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] ArtSense](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/VarleyUFest-94-400x480.jpg)
Explore your senses this summer through art! Campers create one-of-a-kind pieces that combine touch, sound, sight, and smell, working indoors and outdoors with music, movement, and hands-on projects. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Colour Your World](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Stock_Children_Painting_Canvas-400x480.png)
The perfect camp for curious kids! Explore how colours are made, represented, and used in art while sharpening observational skills. Campers will see and capture the world in new ways through a variety of hands-on materials and activities. All materials provided.
![[Evening Sessions] Life Drawing: Drop-in Studio](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/pexels-cottonbro-3778204-art-class-portrait-model-400x480.jpg)
Co-presented with the Markham Group of Artists, this weekly program offers non-instructional life drawing sessions featuring a live, clothed model in long poses. Open to artists of all skill levels, it provides a relaxed and supportive environment for exploring portraiture and figure drawing. Please bring your own materials including easels.
Register or drop in. Space is limited.
Note: No drop-in life drawing session on Friday, July 31. Doors open at 4:50 PM.
Image credit: Linda Kalianteris
Vicky Talwar uses an Indian flower garland as an important recurring cultural symbol within her paintings. Come decorate paper flowers and string them together with wooden beads to create your very own flower garland, inspired by this beautiful motif.
Join our Gallery Animateurs for free 30-minute guided tours of the 2026 Summer Exhibitions, What holds us together and Sketching the Past. This program is funded by Canada Summer Jobs and the Varley-McKay Art Foundation of Markham.