If you’re looking to share a creative experience with your kids, the Columbia Association Art Center is your go-to location throughout the year. The planned community of Columbia has worked hard to extend a wide range of opportunities to its residents and visitors, and the Columbia Art Center is one of the best. Not only do they offer rotating exhibitions of local and national artists in their galleries, but the Center also provides up-and-coming artists with a marketplace to sell their wares in the excellent gift shop. In addition to giving visitors things to look at and buy, the primary mission of the Center is to provide experiential arts learning for people of all ages with year-round classes taught by a diverse faculty of artists. From the basics of drawing, line, and perspective, to more advanced classes in everything from video art to glassblowing, you can learn it here. A yearly summer arts camp for kids also comes highly recommended.

Columbia Art Center
6100 Foreland Garth
Columbia, MD 21045
(410) 730-0075
www.columbiaartcenter.org