A Takoma Park art studio for children and adults is opening a second location in Hyattsville.
Located at 4214 Gallatin St., in the former CAMPspace location across the street from the Masonic Lodge, The Loft offers art classes for preschoolers through tweens and adults.
The classes typically meet weekly for six weeks and range from drawing to printing to sculpture and knitting. Courses for pre-schoolers meet during the day, while those for tweens tend to meet in the early evening.
The Loft also offers summer day camps, with each child limited to two weeks.
There are also BYOB nighttime classes for adults to get help with their own projects and experiment with new materials as well as onetime events on more complicated subjects such as gel plate printing or tapestry weaving.
The Loft began as Little Loft, a neighborhood art space in Capitol Hill aimed at young children, then moved to Takoma Park in 2015. After shutting down during the pandemic, it reopened as The Loft Collective in 2021 with expanded offerings for older students.
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I grew up in Hyattsville 1950s through mid-1970s. This space is also the former location of Harvey Dairy back in the 1930s. My father was the plant manager and made his career with the dairy until they closed their Brentwood plant in 1976. My older siblings and myself attended the old Gallatin Primary School across the street, next to the Masonic Lodge. So sad that sweet school burned years ago but such a nice use of the space with park and playground. I have a photo of my father standing in front of this building taken in the early 1930s. If you’d like I can share.