Summer Youth Art Camps at Mendocino Art Center

Mendocino Art Center Workshops include activities such as Create your own Jewelry, a Plein Air Festival, daily wet paint sales, a Quick Draw event, and a Community Drum Activation and Meal. Workshops are taught by both local and visiting artists and span a wide variety of mediums and skill levels. The program also offers year-long residencies, short-term artist-in-retreat programs, and a winter Greenhouse Residency.

• Schedule: Workshops and events offered at various times throughout the year
• Price: Members receive a 10% discount on all workshops

Nearly 70 years ago, Bill and Lucia Zacha, together with neighbors and fellow artists, transformed the remains of a once-grand estate into the Mendocino Art Center. The campus includes small apartments for visiting artists, a gallery, a shop, gardens, and a ceramics studio with electric, gas, and wood-fire kilns. The shop and gallery feature art from local and visiting artists and sell supplies for workshops. The Mendocino Art Center’s leadership includes Executive Director Dav Bell. The Mendocino Art Center states that it envisions the organization as a refuge for artists and a regenerative force for the wider community, including welcoming those historically excluded from creative spaces, upholding social and ecological justice in its work, sharing skills for climate resilience and community care, and caring for its campus so it can serve artists for the next 70 years. The Mendocino Art Center resides on the unceded territory of the coastal Pomo people, offers free lifetime membership to Indigenous folks, and may provide resources such as workshop fee waivers or use of the land its campus occupies. The Mendocino Art Center is described as a home for creative experimentation, a hub for community care, and a spark for renewal.

Last updated April 4, 2026.