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KidsArt Overview

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Summer is always fun and lively at Herrig Center for the Arts! Our Sprouting Artists, ages 4-6, have an opportunity to express their creativity with drawing, painting and collage. In Marvelous Mondays, children ages 6-10 will create using clay in afternoon classes. In Talented Tuesdays, children ages 6-10 will draw, paint, create mixed media collages, and printmaking in afternoon classes. Ages 6-10 can attend one-week KidsArt Camps from 9-3, Monday-Friday and explore drawing, painting, clay and a whole lot more. Emerging Artists, ages 11-15, are challenged in weekly morning camps where they can learn drawing, painting, clay, silversmithing, stained glass, more!

Scholarships are available.

Sprouting ArtistsSprouting Artists  Ages 4-6
Wednesdays 1:00-3:00
S1: Jun 7, 14, 21, 28
S2: Jul 12, 19, 26, Aug 2

$97 ACM Members    $132 Future Members

Marvelous MondaysMarvelous Mondays Ages 6-10
Mondays 1:00-3:00
Play with Clay!
S1: Jun 5, 12, 19, 26
S2: Jul 10, 17, 24, 31

$97 ACM Members $132 Future Members

Talented TuesdaysTalented Tuesdays Ages 6-10
Tuesdays 1:00-3:00
Creativity at Work
S1: Jun 6, 13, 20, 27
S2: Jul 11, 18, 25, Aug 1

$97 Members $132 Future Members

KidsArtKidsArt Ages 6-10
Monday-Friday, 9:00-3:00
First session begins May 30-Jun 2
Ten one week sessions

$195 Members $230 Future Members

Emerging ArtistsEmerging Artists, Ages 11-15
Week long half-day camps – 9:00-12:00
Ten one week sessions. First session runs  May 30-Jun 2
Monday-Friday, 9:00-12:00

$145 Members $180 Future Members
Session 9 $170 Members $205 Future Members

 

941-746-2862

Complete and submit our online information form
The information forms captures needed information such as allergies. It DOES NOT register your child in a camp. To register, go to the appropriate class page, select Member/Non-Member, and Session. Click Add To Cart button.

2023 Scholarship Application
Scholarships cannot be processed without the most recent Federal Income Tax forms showing Total Household Income. Please block out Social Security Numbers.

Please add your child’s name to the “Student Name / Notes” on the checkout page.

KidsArt Sponsors

Blick Art Materials    Creative Arts Association LWR

Lakeridge Falls Art League

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Spring/Summer 2026 Classes & Workshops

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Kris Peterson

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Kris Peterson began her career as an Engineering manager at General Motors, but in 1994, tired of the corporate life, she did the improbable and embarked upon a fresh start in Venice, Italy. While there she commenced working as the director for a chain of European galleries and also began experimenting with various ideas and techniques in watercolor.

“I loved the free flow style of watercolor, but needed more precision” said Peterson. “I then discovered that using a variety of different mediums gave me the ability to be unrestrained yet detailed.”

Classes with Kris Peterson

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Capital Donors

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We are grateful to the following foundations, businesses and individuals that have contributed to our Campaign thus far.

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Project Scope

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Herrig Center for the Arts Rendering with

Aerial view of the architect’s rendering of the building and garden.

Herrig Center for the Arts, founded in 1937, is the premier visual arts center in Manatee County, with significant reach into Sarasota County as well as Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Our visitors come from across the country, Canada and Europe. As our community has grown and changed, so has the ArtCenter, adding classes, exhibits and other programming to meet the diverse needs of the fast growing community. We have a free arts and healing program for adults with dementia and offer scholarships for children in need to our KidsArt summer camps and afterschool programs (30 to 50 a year). Our hours have been expanded to meet diverse student and instructor schedules. Our building is 67 years old and cannot handle our current capacity needs – either for space or systems.

Over the years, we have upgraded the facility but we are at the point where that is no longer possible. A new Center will allow us to meet current and future community needs by adding and expanding classrooms, galleries, the artisan market, storage and office space and providing upgraded systems: plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and audio/visual/Internet, as well as adding a community park and sculpture garden along 9th St W and 3rd Ave – newly named Avenue of the Arts.

The building will go from 10,000 SF to 28,000 SF. The park will add invaluable green space to our downtown area, leading to Riverwalk, a community park on the Manatee River, and making the area more walkable. The sculpture garden will bring art outside our walls and will be open to all. It will be a place where people can sit quietly or gather with friends and other artists. We will be able to add small scale music and performance art as well as healing elements, such as meditation and yoga to the garden.

We are embracing the concept of flinging open the doors and making art truly accessible to everyone. No barriers.

The new Center will be built on the land immediately adjacent to us on the east. Once the new Center is complete, we will raze the current building and create the community park and sculpture garden, creating a beautiful entrance into our community.

Having started life in a series of rented rooms for discussions, classes and exhibits, reaching a limited audience, the new ArtCenter will be a gathering place for artists, the community, and visitors, accessible to all. Classes in new media as well as the traditional arts, exhibits for established artists as well as students, emerging artists and experimental artists. Real storage space for display pedestals, clay and other materials. Systems that work and allow interactivity in the classrooms for audio visual presentations and Internet connectivity. And an outdoor area that respects the environment, and materials that are as earth- and people-friendly as we can make them.

The new Center will be the centerpiece in the new cultural corridor in Bradenton, providing accessibility to all, and a beautiful entrance into our community. It will be located on the newly named Avenue of the Arts (formerly 3rd Ave), or as we like to say, the intersection of arts and culture in our community, with our neighbors, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature and the Manatee Performing Arts Center by our sides. Downtown Bradenton will be a destination for the arts.

Transforming Lives and Building Community

Board of Directors and Capital Campaign Team

Capital Campaign Brochure

Project Scope

Capital Donors

Naming Opportunities

Pledge Form

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Board of Directors and Capital Campaign Team

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Board of Directors
Officers
Robert Moran, President

Community Volunteer, Ret Educator
Christine Meyer, Vice President
Retirement Plan Specialist, Transamerica
Bruce Body, Treasurer
1st VP, Raymond James, Community Volunteer
Carol Krah, Secretary
Community Volunteer, Artist
Member-at-large
Roberto Andreos Community Volunteer, Lawyer
Members
Carol Bintz. Ret COO of Toledo Museum of Art
James Brandys Ret Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
Ted Camp Community Volunteer, Artist
Linda Enberg Ret Hospital Administrator, Community Volunteer
Andrew Gerth Merrill Lynch Financial Advisor
Mary Hoagland Community Volunteer, Artist
Donna Morrison Artist, Instructor
Jan Pullen, Ret Head of School at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School
Daryl Shepherd VP Clerin Consulting Group, Artist
Kathy Simon-McDonald Ret Teacher, Community Volunteer, Artist
Jacquelyn Taylor Ret Business Owner, Community Volunteer, Artist

Steering Committee
Linda Enberg, Chair
Community Volunteer, Ret Hospital Administrator
Mark Barnebey Principle, Blalock Walters
Bruce Body 1st VP Raymond James
James Brandys Ret Managing Director Merrill Lynch
Byron Shinn Managing Partner, CRI
John Vita SVP, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
Cliff Walters Principle, Blalock Walters

Executive Director
Carla Nierman

Development Coordinator

Architects
Wannemacher Jensen

Builder
NDC Construction

Transforming Lives and Building Community

Capital Campaign Brochure

Project Scope

Capital Donors

Naming Opportunities

Pledge Form

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Jewelry Open Studio

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The jewelry studio is available for use by members of Herrig Center for the Arts and FSG who have successfully completed a beginning jewelry class at Herrig Center for the Arts. The open studio fee is $20 per half day (3 hours) for ArtCenter Members and $10 per half day (3 hours) for FSG members. Jewelry open studio is scheduled monthly with a studio monitor. Open studio requires pre-registration and payment – Space will not be held without payment.

Times are subject to change. Studio space is limited – Please register at least 24 hours prior to your desired Open Studio time by calling 941-746-2862 or stopping by the front desk at the ArtCenter.

Fees:

ACM members:
Half day – $20.00 per person for 3 hours
Full day – $40.00 per person for 6 hours

Dates:
5 person minimum registered one day prior to the scheduled date for there to be open studio.

Call 941-746-2862 to register

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Pottery Open Studio

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Students are advised to call ahead to make sure there is open studio available.

The Pottery Studio is available for use during regular business hours by Herrig Center for the Arts members who have completed one ceramics class at Herrig Center for the Arts in the past year. Open studio is available only when classes are not in session. There is a fee for use of Open Studio if you are not in a ceramics class. Each session is up to 3 hours. A full day is up to 6 hours. If you are currently enrolled in a ceramics class you have a one week grace period after your last class date. You must sign in and out at the front desk at all times. If you do not sign in/out, it will be considered an all day open studio. You must provide your own materials. Clay may be purchased for $35 per 25 lbs. Price includes glazes and firing.

Please call before coming to ensure schedule has not changed. Fees are effective July 28, 2025.

          • Single Open Studio: $15 for one, 3-hour session
          • 6-pack Open Studio: $72 for six, 3-hour sessions
          • 12-pack Open Studio: $132 for twelve, 3-hour sessions

NOTE: All Open Studio tickets must be used within one calendar year from the date of purchase.

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