Local art programs in San Diego, CA

Slime Kitchen – San Diego (Mission Valley) & Corte Madera Workshops and Parties offers an interactive slime kitchen where kids follow a 10-step process to build their own customized slime. The program includes walk-in slime-making sessions, themed...

The Artist Lab San Diego offers fine art techniques that include drawing, painting, miniature design, story-based art projects, and foundational drawing and painting techniques. Students work with perspective, proportion, and color blending, build...

San Diego Art Camp offers full-day summer sessions where campers take part in photography, ceramics, drawing, painting, and dance. Indoor art classes in ceramics, drawing, and painting are held in an art room, while outdoor activities such as...

Art for Heart offers creative drawing and painting techniques, engaging hands-on art projects, and advanced drawing, painting, and mixed media work. Students use acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, sketching, and mixed media, and can also take part in...

Art FORM offers art workshops that include activities such as painting with watercolor, fiber arts, free quilting, wood assemblage, and cooking without recipes. The program also includes a bird walk at Grant Park as part of its activities. •...

Bravo School of Art offers hands-on art classes where students take part in crafts, mosaics, painting, drawing, embroidery, weaving, calligraphy, mixed media, book arts, collage, decorative art, and fabric dyeing. The program includes after-school...

Studio ArtHaus offers art, crafts, cooking, and pottery activities led by a team of artists and teachers. The program features a variety of creative projects that include both visual art and hands-on making. Families can also try a free class, a...

The Artist Outpost Youth Art & Pottery Classes and Camps offers kids’ art classes, weekly art classes, weekly pottery classes, and art and pottery camps that include hands-on projects. Children can take part in activities such as Clay Handbuilding:...

San Diego Craft Collective Youth Classes and Camps offers hands-on activities such as ceramics, woodworking, sewing, fiber arts, glass arts, mixed media, and free kids craft events. Children can take part in specific sessions like Ceramics | Tiny...

Teralta Art Youth & Community Art Programs offers Summer Music Camp, Wheel Time one-time pottery experience classes, low-cost ceramics classes, Open Clay free sessions, and therapeutic art-making. In Wheel Time, participants receive instruction and...

Little Fish Comic Book Studio Camps focus on developing characters and comics through penciling, inking, writing, and coloring comic pages. Campers spend time creating comic stories, making comic pages and stories, and exploring character creation...

Art Magic Studio Open Group Workshops and Private Events offers hands-on art sessions that include Fluid Art Paint Pouring, Alcohol Ink Art, and a Fluid Art Paint Pour workshop. Participants can choose from epoxy resin projects such as Introductory...

Monart School of Art offers studio classes that use the Monart Drawing Method to teach children how to draw realistically. The program includes on-going weekly classes at the Liberty Station studio, after-school classes at public and private...

Art Smarts After School Art Lessons offers after school art lessons that focus on drawing techniques and painting techniques. Children use several different drawing and painting techniques, mediums, and subject matters during the lessons. The...

My Good Brain is an arts-based nonprofit that offers activities such as Scrap Lab, a drop-in upcycling and recycling art class, Sunday Art Club, and Mini World Builders: Kids Art Workshop. The program also includes Little Sound Minds, an inclusive,...

US Arts Education Center Summer Art Camps include art classes, academics, hands-on crafts, socializing, physical exercise, games, and clay making. In-studio art camps focus on learning fundamental drawing and painting skills in a friendly and...

Summer Camps offers project-based children’s art camps that include hands-on artmaking, exploration, and imaginative play. Campers take part in activities such as toy making, making toys that move, sewing a plushie, making a board game, and making a...

Little Artists Studios offers drawing and painting instruction as a learned skill, similar to music or dance. The program focuses on giving students tips and tools to complete pieces of art and build their skills through practice and patience....

Summer Art Camp includes hands-on art projects where campers paint, draw, and craft flowers, plants, garden creatures, and colorful critters. The program includes activities such as mixing colors, building sculptures, crafting inventive...

ArtReach Youth Art Programs offers hands-on art projects where kids paint, sculpt, print, collage, and experiment with new techniques. Each week offers a unique focus, and campers explore projects inspired by contemporary artists, playful themes,...