Top art options in Alameda, CA

Join a dynamic STEAM-focused camp where participants engage in innovative board games that enhance critical thinking and teamwork. Experience hands-on learning and creativity while fostering a love for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.

Summer program offering a range of activities including learning, sports, and arts for elementary and middle school students.

REACH Ashland Youth Center empowers youth through engaging no-cost programs in recreation, education, arts, and health. Participants enjoy activities like drumming, dancing, and martial arts while receiving vital support for academic and career growth.

At Saint Mary's Summer Creative Camps we lead campers through the exciting process of planning and making works of art on our beautiful Moraga campus. In elementary level sessions, campers will be led by experienced educators through project based art exploration. Our camps for middle and high school students are creative writing, drawing, acting, music and filmmaking. Each session is designed to give students hands-on skills in various art mediums and to offer them the space to create alongside peers.

Urban youth engage in creative activities like stop-motion animation and wooden pinball machines, fostering equity and inclusivity. Co-taught by staff and local teens, sessions blend artistic expression with science and engineering concepts in a collaborative environment.

An intense music camp where boys refine their music skills and have fun with friends. The camp focuses on music and vocal education for boys with unchanged voices.

Dynamic and supportive music lessons for kids, including guitar, bass, drums, vocals, and more, enhanced by live performances at real events and venues.

Hands-on art classes including mural painting, colored pencil drawing, and pastel drawing. Classes focus on various techniques and mediums.

State-of-the-art facility offering an activity pool with zero depth entry, water play structure, and lap lanes for swimming lessons and recreational swim.

The joy of ballet begins with Pre-Ballet classes at San Francisco Ballet School. We introduce young children to the fundamentals of classical ballet, focusing on proper body alignment, basic ballet technique and terminology, and musicality. As part of the SF Ballet School family, your young child will learn much more than ballet. Exposure to dance reinforces important life skills like creativity, discipline, and team participation—all in a safe, fun, and nurturing environment.

Whether you are a teen just starting to dance, a child exploring movement and play, or a young person pursuing a dance dream, we welcome you to the SADC community. SADC offers a variety of week-long summer camps for youth students of various ages and experience. With Summer focused on introduction to dance forms and intensive skill work, these camps are designed to inspire, challenge, and invigorate dancers in a warm and safe environment. Join us to strengthen your technique, explore your creative voice, or try something new. Scholarships are also available.

Experience engaging traditional camps with 10 weekly sessions, fostering creativity, teamwork, and personal growth. Participants enjoy hands-on activities, build lasting friendships, and develop essential life skills in a supportive and fun environment.

Prepare to stir up the most delicious-looking slime recipes on the Seven Seas! You and your STEAM Team have been chosen to be slime sous chefs on the S.S. Slimetopia cruise ship and it’s up to you to "feed" the slime hungry passengers morning, noon and night! You'll mix up Belgian Waffle Slime, Fast Food Hamburger Slime, Ice Cream Sundae Slime and Spectacular Sushi Slime just to name a few.

Summer camp for elementary, middle, and high school students to explore art, writing, acting, music, and filmmaking.

We train Cadets for real missions, learning how to track clues, operatives and suspicious materials via dispatches sent by SpyCamp HQ. All-day Squads of 12 kids get seriously fun training in walkie-talkies, tailing, drops, coding, forensic labs, video & photo surveillance, strategy, teamwork, martial arts, skiing & snowboarding (yes!), and crazy outdoor Games, Treasure Hunts and surprise outings.

STEMful is an inspired environment in San Francisco where children ages 1.5-10 years old “sprout curiosity” in science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM). We are dedicated to cultivating an urban community that sprouts lifelong curiosity through hands-on, engaging learning experiences in STEAM. We encourage curiosity and resourcefulness, creating a sense of purpose, innovation, and self-expression.

Campers at Sticky Art Lab will learn to hand sew, the sewing machine basics, and will come away with unique fabric creations they design throughout the week. Makers will explore the Wall of Wonder to create costumes, mix potions, and create their own mini-worlds where their imagination can become a reality.

Day camp offering activities like arts and crafts, sports, and field trips. Operates from 9am to 5pm.

Experience creativity at its finest with our Painting and Maker Camp, where students master painting fundamentals and sculpture creation. Simultaneously, the School of Music and Dance camp boosts physical skills and confidence in performing arts.

Offers Brainworks, City Explorers, World Travelers, How to Thrive in Middle School, and Theatre Camp. Activities include educational classes, field trips, and cultural exploration.