Classes with KACC
Upcoming KACC Classes
Our classes blend the best of many kinds of media, traditions, perspectives, and practice. From 5-years-old to 95-years-young, learning and expanding appreciation of the arts is our core - and we love putting together classes that drive community engagement in art.
Applications for Classes
Summer Art Camp at KACC
Jul 14th - Aug 8th, 2025 | Kerr Arts & Cultural CenterThe mission of KACC's summer art camp for youth is to foster creative thinking and encourage artistic abilities in young people.
Each child involved in our art classes will learn about different art mediums from professional art instructors. Classes will offer hands-on creative projects in everything from wood working and fiber arts to painting and collage.
Classes are held 9 am to noon, Monday through Friday. Class sizes are small in order to provide a quality, hands-on experience to participants. Tuition is $100 a week and a discount is offered to families with more than one child. Additional children can attend for only $75.
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Session 1 - July 14-18
Class 1 - Ages 5-6
Class 2 - Ages 7-8
Class 3 - Ages 9-11
Session 2 - July 21-25
Class 1 - Ages 5-6
Class 2 - Ages 7-8
Class 3 - Ages 9-11
Session 3 - July 28 - August 1
Class 1 - Ages 5-6
Class 2 - Ages 7-8
Class 3 - Ages 9-11
Session 4- August 4-8
Class 1 - Ages 5-6
Class 2 - Ages 7-8
Class 3 - Ages 9-11
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Write Your Best Story!
Aug 22nd - Aug 23rd, 2025 | Kerr Arts & Cultural CenterInstructor: Johnnie Bernhard
August 22 & 23
10:30am - 3 pm
$180
Learn the essential skills to writing and publishing in a series of interactive craft classes designed for fiction writers. Each class will feature a fun assignment to jump start your creativity, while honing your writing skills.
The workshop is led by former teacher and journalist, Johnnie Bernhard, who is passionate about reading and writing. Her work(s) have appeared in Houston Style Magazine, The Mississippi Press, the international Word Among Us, The Texas Review, and the Cowbird-NPR production on small town America. She is the author of four books: A Good Girl (2017), How We Came to Be (2018), Sisters of the Undertow (2020), and Hannah and Ariela (2022). Each novel has won both state-wide and national honors.
Johnnie was chosen as a selected speaker in the 2020 TEDx Fearless Women Series. She also supports young writers through the Letters About Literature program with the Texas Center for the Book and the Write for Mississippi program. In 2021, she was named a teaching artist with Gemini Ink Writing Arts Center of San Antonio and the national TAP Summer Institute 2021. Johnnie enjoys teaching workshops for writing communities across the country.
For more information about Johnnie, visit her website at:
The Write Your Best Story workshop will be broken up into four sessions - a morning and afternoon session each day, with an hour break for lunch. The sessions are as follows:
Publish Your Story: learn the differences between traditional, self, and hybrid publishing. Vet a literary agent and a publishing company. Write a query letter and synopsis based on industry standards.
The Writing Process: Prewriting, Writing, and Revision. Learn how to jump start your creativity through the writing process. Writers will focus on prewriting activities using a graphic organizer, structuring a plot, and finalizing word count in the revision process.
Fiction and the Editing Process: learn the differences between developmental editing and copy editing. Writers will focus on eliminating unnecessary words and tightening the narrative pace of their writing.
Creating Fictional Characters Who Come Alive: the protagonist and antagonist who make readers turn the pages. Writers will focus on “fleshing out” characters in this step-by-step approach to character development.
Johnnie will have her books available for sale and signing after the workshop.