Mon · Oct 5 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
2024 Diamond Award · Best Art School
A creative studio for curious kids & brave adults
Journey Through the Arts is a creative studio in an 1840s log cabin run by Christine Benson. Delivering workshops, summer camps, adult classes, birthday parties & in-school visits since 2002.
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Choose a path Upcoming workshops
Drop in for a workshop!
Choose the workshops that catch your eye - kids and teens after school, grown-ups in the mornings and evenings. Special longer workshops run 90 minutes or more. All supplies included!
Mon · Oct 5 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Relief Printmaking Part 2 (Inking & Printing)
Email to register → Tue · Oct 6 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
3D Modelling Clay Faces
Email to register → Tue · Oct 13 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Mexican Tin Embossing
Email to register → Tue · Oct 13 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Relief Printmaking Part 1 (Drawing & Carving)
Email to register → Thu · Oct 15 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Mixed Media: Combining Watercolour, Collage & Oil Pastel
Email to register →How to register: Contact Christine via email. She'll confirm your spot. Payment at the time of registration.
Contact ChristineAll programs
Pick your way in.
From weekly drop-ins to birthday parties, summer camps to in-school visits, every program is run by Christine, at the cabin or brought to you.
Mon-Thu · ages 6-16
Weekly art workshops
After-school workshops in the log-cabin studio. Pick the days that fit - felting, watercolour, clay, mandalas, beading, drawing, painting. Many parents enroll for the whole term, but you don't have to.
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Evenings · adults
Adult workshops
A friendly studio for adults - watercolour, collage, mixed media. No experience needed.
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Ages 6-13
Birthday parties
Pick a project, we set everything up, you eat cake. Take-home art for every guest.
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JK - Grade 8 · in your room
In-the-Schools
We bring all supplies and a 2-period art workshop to your classroom. Open to schools in Port Hope & Cobourg.
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July & August · ages 6-13
Summer Camp
Music, drama and visual art in one themed week, building to a live Friday performance. Come for one week or make a summer of it.
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From the cabin
Over twenty years of "can we come back next week?"
A peek at workshops and summer-camp performances from the cabin.
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24thyear running
Summer camp · ages 6-13
One themed week,
one performance,
an entire studio.
Our summer arts program delivers Music, Art & Drama at the Old Art School (Molson's Mill) in Port Hope. Kids write their own plays, design sets & costumes, compose music, and make visual art that goes home Friday. The week ends with an Open House showing the production.
About JTtA
Run by Christine
out of an 1840s
log cabin.
Founded in 2002 by Christine Benson, OCAD graduate, painter, printmaker, and published children's-book illustrator. Christine has taught hundreds of children, teens and adults out of her studio at 190 Hope St N.
Five 2024 Readers' Choice wins
Northumberland News
Come get a little paint on you.
Email Christine to register, ask about a workshop, get on the summer-camp list, or book a birthday. She'll answer directly!