Calendar
Aug 07, 2026
![[Summer Camp] Street Art](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/LLP7510-400x480.jpg)
Take over Main Street with creativity! Using paint, stencils, markers, chalk, and more, campers make bold public artworks while learning about the history and techniques of this off-the-wall art movement. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Play with Clay](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Stock-children-clay-sculpture-class-400x480.png)
Get messy and have fun sculpting! Campers learn coil, pinch, and modeling techniques, explore surface design, and discover traditional and modern sculpture styles to create their own 3D masterpieces. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Express Yourself](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Stock_Art-Class-400x480.png)
Campers explore their unique personalities through mixed media, collage, drawing, and painting. Using colour, form, and texture, they learn how to express thoughts and emotions through art. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Marvelous Masks and Puppets](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/stock-children-painting-mask-400x480.png)
Let imagination run wild! Campers create fun masks and puppets while developing tactile skills and exploring pattern design. 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.
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.