​​2026 Paradise Valley Summer School of Visual Art

July 6 to 10, 2026

5 days, 4 nights, inclusive

Young artists ages 9 - 15 will explore their surroundings in the beautiful setting of Paradise Valley. This environment provides an ideal source to explore concepts of form and colour. Students will receive in-depth instruction in collage, drawing, painting and printmaking. Working in small studio groups, teachers support individual skill development and artistic voice. This week long camp is thoughtfully balanced with outdoor recreation and studio time.​

Registration opens February 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM (noon)

2026 Artist in Residence: Geoffrey Farmer​

Artist Bio

Geoffrey Farmer is an artist who builds story worlds from cutouts, sculpture, writing, and found objects. He lives on Kauaʻi where he is beginning Community Flowers, a small place that hosts artists and grows food, alongside Charlie the donkey, Rick the goat, and Rambo the ram. His exhibitions include the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, SFMOMA, and Louvre, with recent work at the Audain Art Museum​. At Paradise Valley he will teach observation as a springboard for invention. Campers will forage ideas as much as materials, listening to the river, pocketing rumors of bark and light, and translating them into quick scores, small performances, and story objects. Field notes become games. Sketches become sound. A pile of twigs becomes a pocket museum. By week’s end the group will have made a commons of experiments that speak, move, and invite others in.

Camp Artist-in-Residence: Samuel Roy-Bois

Camp Artist-in-Residence: Charlene Vickers