Tennessee's visual-arts camp scene is anchored by university programs (UT Knoxville's School of Art, Watkins College of Art, MTSU's Department of Art and Design), community arts centers (Nashville's Centennial Art Center, Knoxville's Arts and Culture Alliance, Memphis's Brooks Museum), and a strong network of independent studio camps run by working artists in nearly every county.
Programming spans introductory craft weeks for elementary kids ($150 to $300 per week), discipline-focused studio camps for middle-schoolers in ceramics, printmaking, or painting ($250 to $500 per week), and college-prep portfolio intensives for high-schoolers serious about applying to art programs ($600 to $2,500 for two- to four-week residential sessions).
For families exploring whether their kid has the bug, the community-center introductory weeks are the right starting place. For sustained development, the discipline-focused studio camps run by working artists give kids serious tool time. For high-schoolers building application portfolios, the residential intensives at university art schools are where serious teachers and serious peers gather.