Leaping Dog & Sleeping Cat Art Studios
Never a Dull Moment at Art Camp!
Leaping Dog Art Studios and its new second location, Sleeping Cat Art Studios, is a community-centered art studio providing art classes, art camps, private art lessons, and art parties for both kids and adults in drawing, painting, pottery, and more in downtown Bordentown City.
Unlike a traditional art school with grades and critiques, Leaping Dog & Sleeping Cat offers a more relaxed educational atmosphere, free of judgment, and strives to meet students where they are at in their creative journey and help them to grow as an artist. Their kids Summer Camp program in particular has become a popular choice for local parents since they first opened back in 2014 and are known to fill up fast. What makes their camps special?
For one thing, they always keep camp numbers small (under 15) to make sure that each camper gets individualized attention by caring and talented instructors. Secondly, camp at Leaping Dog, and now Sleeping Cat is never dull! With a full load of artful themes offered throughout the entire ten weeks of summer, instructors and campers alike are always excited to see what new things they get to do and create each day and each week.
For example, one day we may be learning to draw faces and another day, we’re making magic wands or potions and creating fantastical creatures out of clay or with paper mache.
While all ceramics or clay-centered camps will be offered at the Leaping Dog location (including “Foodie Clay Camp” and “Pottery Wheel” camps), camps at Sleeping Cat will focus on two-dimensional and performance art related themes including “We Love Music & Theater Art” Camp, Fashion Design Camp, Cartooning and Digital Art Camp and the eco-friendly, play-based “Cardboard Creations” camp, which are new themes this year.
Summer Camps at Leaping Dog and Sleeping Cat complement each other as “two studios, one creative home,” says director Jennifer Szeto. “Both spaces feel as part of the same studio. Our beloved instructors work at both locations and we are excited to welcome some new, enthusiastic instructors on staff this coming summer for 2026. Our studio is a safe space, a positive space and each summer we cannot wait to meet new campers and welcome back returning campers as one does family.
The fact is, many of our campers have been coming and often they come for multiple weeks each summer. We have become like a second home, a creative home for these students, a place where they feel safe in, can meet new friends, try new things, learn new skills, gain confidence and feel inspired.”
Online Registration is now open.
For more info and to find the latest schedule of classes and events, including “Arty Pizza Nights”, “Bookish Art Club” meetings, “Coffee and Crafternoons” and monthly musical performances like Open Mic Nights and Jazz Jams, follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/leapingdogartstudios or visit their website at www.leapingdogartstudios.com.
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