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Hamilton, OH - The end of afternoon camps Friday, June 19, marked the end of Week 2 of the Fiton Center's Summer Camp Creativity 2026 program. One third of the way through the six-week young artist extravaganza, we're on pace to shatter the record number of attendees we set last summer. After a successful round of morning celebrations, the two-week Fired Up: Teen Ceramic Intensive reached its midpoint with campers working on a range of projects from fancy bowls to a Sponge Bo

Hamilton, OH - Morning sessions from Week 2 of Summer Camp Creativity 2026 drew to a close - Get it? Drew? - with a flurry activity Friday, June 19. Under the Sea Camp, the two-week Clay Camp, Inky Expectations: Photography and Printmaking Camp and the Eras of Inspirations Camp all wrapped up at the Fitton Center. Backyard Buddies Camp concluded in the Fitton at the Foundry satellite teaching studio at Liberty Center. Campers showed off their work to family and friends, snack

Liberty Township, OH - One tiny child thought the glue sticks were tubes of lip balm and began rubbing one all over her mouth. Not to worry. Glue sticks are non-toxic. Besides, her quick-acting mom took it away and wiped her clean without so much as a whimper from the toddler. Otherwise, the first Creative Arts in the Park event of the summer at the recently - and beautifully - refurbished Fort Liberty Playland went off without a hitch. More than 100 guests visited the picnic

Hamilton, Ohio – The Fitton Cinema – in partnership with Ohio Goes to the Movies and America 250-Ohio - presents a FREE screening of the 1993 film Airborne at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27. When California teen Mitchell Goosen’s parents get a grant to work in Australia, they send him to Cincinnati to stay with family for six months. He and his cousin Wiley run afoul of the high school hockey team but eventually join forces with the hockey squad to thwart rival Central High School

Hamilton, OH - The first week of Summer Camp Creativity came to a close June 12 with a comic con-style celebration at the conclusion of the teen Creating Comics Camp. Parents, grandparents, siblings, extended family and friends stopped in Friday afternoon to read an array of camper-created comic panels, strips and books, as well as check out art projects related to their comic creations. Four other camps had similar celebrations earlier in the day, including The Cutest Camp i

Hamilton, Ohio – The Fitton Center is home to one of the premiere summer-camp programs in the state, offering 33 different camps over a six-week span and serving more than 300 young artists ages 5 to 16 in June and July. It’s a big job and the education team added a summer intern to help do it. Meet Abby Vollmer. The 2025 Sycamore High School graduate recently completed her first year at Miami University in Oxford, where she’s studying art education. She works closely with Ka

Hamilton, Ohio – One of her early memories of the Fitton Center dates back to elementary school and the notorious Blue Baby. “I think I probably was influenced by my parents and grandparents,” Madison Baker said of her reaction to German artist Wolfgang Auer’s sculpture officially titled Hatched Baby, which spent about a year outside the Fitton Center starting in late 2015. “I don’t think they liked it too much, but I thought it was funny.” Now 11 years later, the recent Fair

Hamilton, Ohio – The newest intern on the Fitton Center team rocks. Literally. Meet DJ Klefeker. She enjoys seeing bands like Green Day and Weezer in concert and plans to catch My Chemical Romance on tour in Nashville in August. Before that, though, Klefeker will work closely with Marketing Manager Mark Motz to develop video and animation assets to help promote the 2026-2027 Fitton Center season, as well as explore some new social media avenues to connect with different audie

Liberty Township, OH - OK, first of all, it's an art camp, not the national spelling bee. Second of all, could it be any cuter? One girl at the Fitton Center's Anything but a Brush drawing and painting camp - running this week in the Fitton at the Foundry satellite teaching studio in Liberty Center - created a pencil-and-crayon drawing of a bag of Doritos adorned with the words "Yum Yum Yum." Only the artist spelled the popular tortilla chips D-R-E-T-O-S. Given that the child

Hamilton, OH - Summer Camp Creativity 2026 opened with five different camps at the Fitton Center plus a sixth at the satellite teaching studio - Fitton at the Foundry - in Liberty Center. Staff welcomed campers (and their adults) to the Dance Studio on Monday, June 8, got them registered and sent them off to explore artistic opportunities in a variety of media. Morning campers at the Fitton Center included students in Clay Camp, Pixel Perfect, The Cutest Camp and Unraveled: T

Hamilton, OH - Amazing what a few pipe cleaners become with some imagination. Nearly 350 people made free headband crafts at the Fitton Center tent during the sixth annual Hamilton Pride festival June 6 at Marcum Park. Guests of all ages affixed multicolored pipe cleaners, beads, pompoms and sheer fabric squares to plain black headbands to create a dazzling array of innovative headwear. Some went for depth, others for altitude. Still others didn't make headbands at all and tu

Hamilton, Ohio – The Fitton Center for Creative Arts expanded its roster of teen-focused experiences for Summer Camp Creativity 2026. One of the most unique opportunities is the Retro Rewind: DIY Zine-Making Camp led by Andy Rottner July 13 to 17. According to the course description, campers will, "rewind time to explore the analogue aesthetic of the 1990s through zines. These homemade magazines take a DIY, punk-rock approach to creativity by fusing original artwork, collage,