Community Clayworks Kids Courses and Camps

Community Clayworks Kids Courses and Camps offers children’s classes and camps that introduce clay skills and techniques through open ended projects. Kids work on activities such as wheel-thrown bowls and wheel-thrown cups, play clay games, and use underglaze transfers on wet, leather-hard, and bisque-fired clay. Camps run as a series of themed camps offered through the summer, and all materials are included for children’s classes and camps.

• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Typical camps run in 3-hour sessions, and some workshops are 1.5 hours
• Price: $75 for the Decal Transfer Workshop

A typical 3-hour camp includes time for skill building, experimenting with ideas, creating original work, clay games, and a snack break, and finished camp pieces will likely be ready for pick up the following week. Community Clayworks is an inclusive ceramics studio where people of all ages come to play, learn, and create. The mission of Community Clayworks is to foster a love of ceramic arts and support a clay community in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Community Clayworks was founded in 2020 by Veronica Medina. In 2022, the Los Angeles Regional Small Business Development Coalition and Economic Development Collaborative highlighted Community Clayworks as a success story, and the studio has been mentioned in media including the LA Times, SYV Star, Shoutout LA, Discover the Santa Ynez Valley, and the podcasts “Anatomy of Motherhood” and “Meet me in Buellton.”

Founder Veronica Medina has been working with clay since 1995, holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Art Education from New York University, has been a member artist and teacher at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY, has taught at various community centers and camps throughout the NYC area, taught 6–12 grade ceramics for 9 years at Trevor Day School in Manhattan, and has taught at Dunn School and Solvang Middle School in the Santa Ynez Valley of California. Instructor Alana Trubitz is a lifelong potter who minored in Art with a Pottery focus at American University with classes at the Corcoran School of Art, apprenticed teaching at Hinkley Pottery in Washington, DC, and taught beginner wheel for over a decade at BitterRoot in Los Angeles. Other named staff include Kathleen White, Joy Hylton, Kayla Aguirre, Staci Curry, Sonia Rios-Ventura, Ellie Hirsch, and Grace Lewis.

Last updated July 1, 2026.