Calendar
Aug 21, 2026
![[Summer Camp] Photography for Pre-Teens](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stock-child-learning-take-photos-kid-600nw-2495152009-400x400.webp)
Capture the world through your lens! Campers learn camera basics, visual composition, lighting, and movement while expressing their ideas and personality through photography. Most materials provided; campers must bring a digital camera.
![[Summer Camp] Painting and Printing](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stock-printmaking-400x480.png)
Painting is more than brush to paper! Campers explore techniques and styles from still life to abstract, and experiment with printmaking, including linocut, stenciling, and relief printing. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Mini Painters](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Varley-Family-Day-127-XL-e1739552401853-400x480.jpg)
Little painters explore, experiment, and express themselves through stories, songs, games, and hands-on activities. Creativity and fun are always the focus! All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Create and Perform](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stock-pexels-cottonbro-studio-5789956-400x480.jpg)
Imagination takes center stage! Kinder campers explore storytelling, songs, creative play, and make props and instruments, culminating in a performance for peers and family. 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.
During the Markham Jazz Festival, the Varley Art Gallery will be open for visitors to enjoy self-guided tours. Step inside to explore our current exhibitions at your own pace in a welcoming, air-conditioned space, and take a moment to experience art alongside the vibrant energy of the festival.
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.