Fine Arts for Children and Teens - FACT Santa Fe

FACT's ARTbarn Community Studio offers visual-arts classes for young people ages 5 to 18. Opportunities are available for teen and young-adult students to exhibit work at the ARTbarn.

After-school and summer classes open to the public

View our current calendar of events and programs

FACT is pleased to announce that we are expanding our programs by adding a second community studio on the Southside!!!

Our new studio is located in the Tierra Contenta neighborhood at the corner of Jaguar Dr. and Country Club Rd. (across from the Southside Public Library).

Our new Zona Community Studio will also offer visual-arts classes for young people ages 5 to 18.

After-school and summer classes at Zona are open to the public

View our current calendar of events and programs

FACT is excited to be collaborating with Earth Care and Cooking with Kids to provide comprehensive, full-day programming for Southside youth at the Zona del Sol Youth and Family Center this summer!!!

Join us for Summer Camp at Zona del Sol!

When: June 4th-July 20th (no camp week of July 4th)

• 8:30am-3:30pm daily
• REGISTER BY THE WEEK!

Where: Zona del Sol Youth and Family Center,

• on the Southside across from the Southside
• Public Library

What: Fine Art activities with FACT; cooking with

• Cooking with kids; and environmental, outdoor,
• and community garden projects with Earth Care.

Registration forms available below. Earth Care will be accepting all registration forms and payments. Please take all of your completed registration forms and payments to Earth Care at their Zona del Sol offices. Call Christina or Desi at Earth Care at (505) 983-6896 to register your child!

For more information about Earth Care, visit their website at www.earthcarenm.org/

For more information about Cooking with kids, visit their website at cookingwithkids.net/

FACT provides art classes for young people ages 5 to 16 as part of the Chavez Center's Summer Youth Camp.

FACT provides art classes to homeless youth in collaboration with the Santa Fe Public School's Adelante program for homeless families, Juntos los Jueves, on Thursday evenings at Sweeney Elementary School throughout the school year and at the BF Young Building during the summer.

FACT brings weekly visual-arts classes to young adults ages 13 to 21 at the Santa Fe County Youth Development Program (Detention Center). Our partner, Outside In, is a local nonprofit offering music and dance education to incarcerated youth.

Also in conjunction with Outside In, FACT provides weekly art classes for teens at the Boys and Girls Club on Alto St. from 5:30-6:30pm on Monday evenings.

FACT offers mural-making opportunities throughout the year that connect young people to their community. With support from an organization or business, FACT organizes classes and creates a site-specific mural as a public art piece. FACT mural sites include A Salon, The Lensic Theater and a 950-foot-long community mural that surrounds the Jacob Martinez neighborhood on Santa Fe's Southside.

Weekly in-school classes
Our semester-based arts-learning program serves kindergarten through sixth-grade children at elementary schools in Santa Fe, Española, and other regional school districts. Guided by New Mexico State Standards and Benchmarks, our hands-on lessons meet developmental needs of specific age groups and reinforce each school's academic goals.

Professional development for public-school teachers
and arts educators
Related to ARTreach, our professional-development workshops help integrate visual-arts learning into the classroom. FACT instructors train teachers during scheduled in-service work days and through ARTreach classroom experiences.

Weekly after-school classes
Our after-school program serves kindergarten through sixth-grade children. Semester-based classes run for one to three hours during the academic year at selected Santa Fe public elementary schools and community centers.

Weekly/daily summer programs
Our summer programs offer daily and weekly morning or afternoon artmaking classes at public elementary schools.

FACT currently offers afternoon workshops for Teens on the second Saturday of every month from 1-5pm. See our calendar for information on workshop themes and instructors.

FACT also provides weekly art classes for Teens at the Boys and Girls Club on Alto St. every Monday evening from 5:30-6:30.

FACT's ACT Team

About the ACT Team
FACT's ACT Team (Attention Creative Teens) is the teen advisory board of FACT, created by a group of middle and high school aged FACT students in order to call attention to the programs FACT has to offer teens in Santa Fe. The ACT Team exists with the goal of impacting more young lives through art by making FACT's programs known to more students and allowing students to determine what their art classes, exhibitions and events look like.  The group works together to determine teen programming, plan exhibitions and events for teens, and work on special projects that recently included creating the decor for the NM Centennial Ball. 

Mission Statement
"The ACT team's mission is to help people to become aware of and involved in FACT so that they may become empowered through the arts, and to design projects and workshops that will engage children and youth in the arts in our community."

Help us get our ACT together!!!
Interested in joining the ACT Team?  We meet every Tuesday from 6-7pm at the ARTbarn Community Studio.  Join us!  Call Elizabeth at 992-2787 or email program@factsantafe.org for more information.