Youth Programs

Discover new art, find inspiration, and ignite your imaginations with William King Museum of Art’s youth and family programs. Learn the power of art to open up windows to new worlds, new ideas, and infinite possibilities as you explore the galleries on a scavenger hunt, enjoy lively discussion over one of our family gallery guides, attend an art summer camp, and more!

Summer Camps

Summer art camps at William King Museum of Art provide an enriching and creative experience for kids and teens, offering a diverse range of topics designed to ignite artistic passion and skill development. The immersive environment encourages young artists to experiment, collaborate, and gain confidence in their artistic abilities, making it a memorable and inspiring part of their summer vacation.

Homeschool Art Classes

This series of youth art classes is designed to provide homeschooling students with affordable, quality, and fun arts education. Classes will meet once a week from September through April. All classes can be taken individually but, when taken consecutively, provide a complete curriculum of fine arts knowledge and techniques. Students who participate in any Homeschool Art classes have the option to submit work to the Homeschool Art Student Exhibition that will be on display in the children’s wing of the museum in May.

After School Art Classes

After school art classes are designed to provide students with affordable, quality, and fun arts education. These limited classes are meant to supplement students’ school art curriculum.

VanGogh Outreach
Since 1998, our award-winning VanGogh Outreach program has provided SOL-based programming to assist classroom teachers in bringing their curriculum to life. By presenting material in multiple ways, the program works as an introduction to or reinforcement of classroom content that is accessible to a variety of learning styles.
Heritage Express

History comes alive with Heritage Express, a companion to our award-winning VanGogh Outreach program. This museum experience immerses students in the history of the Great Road and the early pioneering spirit that brought settlers to the mountains of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. It includes a close examination of objects made in the region in those earliest days of settlement.

Student Groups

WKMA’s most popular and most customizable tour option, Tour Plus for students is a guided tour of all the Museum’s galleries PLUS a hands-on art activity inspired by a specific topic or exhibition. Tour Plus can be tailored to suit students of any age in public, private, or homeschool settings, pre-K through 12th grade.