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Kids Like Clay offers structured ceramic classes where children use pinching, coils, and slab clay working techniques to make projects such as Pinch Pots, Coil Pots, Slab Pots, Masks, and Slab Pieces. Classes also include Tile Glazing, glazing of finished pieces, handbuilding, wheel throwing, 3-D design, art appreciation, and pottery wheel instruction. The program provides an all inclusive instruction program with clay, glazes and firing provided, and uses its own kilns to fire the ceramic art.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: Classes begin immediately after regular school ends, and the program offers one hour ceramic classes.
• Price: This “at your school program” costs the school no money.
Kids Like Clay is a structured after school program of ceramic classes geared towards youngsters between the ages of 5–12, with art making sessions divided into two sections: kindergarten–2nd grade and 3rd–5th grade. The program provides the clay, glazes and the transportation of the creations from the class location to their studio for firing and back again, and ten students make a class. Pottery wheel instruction is only available at their studio location, and the curriculum changes with each new series of classes. Kids Like Clay is a family team with their own kilns to fire ceramic art and promotes ceramic art appreciation in San Diego through an “at your school program” that costs the school no money and is currently teaching Kids Like Clay After School Classes at multiple elementary schools and Julian Charter Schools in San Diego, California.
Douglas Kenney is a ceramic artist who wants to share his knowledge of ceramic arts with future generations. He earned an Associate Degree in Crafts with an emphasis in Ceramics from San Diego Mesa College in 1983, a Bachelor Degree in Applied Design – Ceramics from San Diego State University in 1985, and an MFA Degree in Ceramics from Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craft in 1989. From 1989–95 he taught Ceramics and Art classes at San Antonio College in Texas and has years of teaching experience. His history includes an artist in residence program at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan in 1995, establishing a studio in an industrial space in Santa Barbara, California from 1996 until 1999, building a new studio space in Kailua, HI on the island of Oahu in 1999, and moving the studio in 2010 to a 1.81 acre property near Mt Helix, a suburb of San Diego, where he presently maintains a studio and residence.
Douglas Kenney’s credentials and awards include Second Place Award at the California Clay Competition 2018 at The Artery Gallery in Davis, CA; inclusion of Plate M5, Earthenware, 23.5" Diameter, 1992, in the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, as a gift of the Washington Post in 2018; First Place Award at the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce Art Competition in 2007; and the Mayor’s Choice - Best of Show at the Honolulu Martin Luther King Art Exhibition. The mission of Kids Like Clay states that children’s creativity has no limits and says, “Let’s cultivate this gift. Kids Like Clay – Unlock The Creative Mind of a Child!” and that Kids Like Clay promotes ceramic art appreciation in San Diego, with exploring originality in clay art as the main focus.
Last updated July 6, 2026.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: Classes begin immediately after regular school ends, and the program offers one hour ceramic classes.
• Price: This “at your school program” costs the school no money.
Kids Like Clay is a structured after school program of ceramic classes geared towards youngsters between the ages of 5–12, with art making sessions divided into two sections: kindergarten–2nd grade and 3rd–5th grade. The program provides the clay, glazes and the transportation of the creations from the class location to their studio for firing and back again, and ten students make a class. Pottery wheel instruction is only available at their studio location, and the curriculum changes with each new series of classes. Kids Like Clay is a family team with their own kilns to fire ceramic art and promotes ceramic art appreciation in San Diego through an “at your school program” that costs the school no money and is currently teaching Kids Like Clay After School Classes at multiple elementary schools and Julian Charter Schools in San Diego, California.
Douglas Kenney is a ceramic artist who wants to share his knowledge of ceramic arts with future generations. He earned an Associate Degree in Crafts with an emphasis in Ceramics from San Diego Mesa College in 1983, a Bachelor Degree in Applied Design – Ceramics from San Diego State University in 1985, and an MFA Degree in Ceramics from Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craft in 1989. From 1989–95 he taught Ceramics and Art classes at San Antonio College in Texas and has years of teaching experience. His history includes an artist in residence program at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan in 1995, establishing a studio in an industrial space in Santa Barbara, California from 1996 until 1999, building a new studio space in Kailua, HI on the island of Oahu in 1999, and moving the studio in 2010 to a 1.81 acre property near Mt Helix, a suburb of San Diego, where he presently maintains a studio and residence.
Douglas Kenney’s credentials and awards include Second Place Award at the California Clay Competition 2018 at The Artery Gallery in Davis, CA; inclusion of Plate M5, Earthenware, 23.5" Diameter, 1992, in the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, as a gift of the Washington Post in 2018; First Place Award at the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce Art Competition in 2007; and the Mayor’s Choice - Best of Show at the Honolulu Martin Luther King Art Exhibition. The mission of Kids Like Clay states that children’s creativity has no limits and says, “Let’s cultivate this gift. Kids Like Clay – Unlock The Creative Mind of a Child!” and that Kids Like Clay promotes ceramic art appreciation in San Diego, with exploring originality in clay art as the main focus.
Last updated July 6, 2026.
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