Kids Art Classes in San Francisco, CA

Join us and our Art & Jewelry Making Essentials Team this summer for the Bay Area’s day camp that brings out your creative side. Start your day with an eye-opening hour of yoga inspired movement & friendship games to get the mind and body aligned before tapping into your creativity for a day full of art & beading bliss! PLEASE NOTE:...

Each class will begin with a demonstration of a new technique and/or expanding on a technique from a previous class. Students will explore techniques in drawing with pencils and charcoal, practicing contour lines, negative space, gradient value, line weight variation, crosshatching, one point perspective and portraits. Students will grow their observational...

Never picked up a needle or haven’t since you were young? Join us for Bite-Size Embroidery for Beginners. Easy and fun, you will leave with a completed embroidery! Learn chain stitch, satin stitch, whipped back stitch, and French knots as well as basic skills such as how to trace a design onto fabric and thread the needle. Personalize your piece...

​Provide a Chinese learning environment where students can see and hear Chinese in the classroom. Emphasis on repeatability and habits of studying, reviewing and using Chinese. Student-centered approach where we encourage the students to drive the learning. Usage of videos and presentation in lesson plans to capture students’ attention. Numerous...

​Provide a Chinese learning environment where students can see and hear Chinese in the classroom. Emphasis on repeatability and habits of studying, reviewing and using Chinese. Student-centered approach where we encourage the students to drive the learning. Usage of videos and presentation in lesson plans to capture students’ attention. Numerous...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} The class will explore the concept of past and present as a personal project or something that can be found in Richmond, both literally and metaphorically.  Over the 8-week class, students will learn about the basic fundamentals of photography through presentations,...

Learn the magic of indigo dye through Shibori techniques in this hands-on beginners workshop, you will design, dye and take home a T-Shirt You will get to create beautiful textiles using simple techniques with cotton fabric to take home and make projects of your own. All materials will be provided by the Art Center.

We will explore relief printmaking with styrofoam plates, monoprinting on plexiglass, stamp-making, linoleum block carving and more! Students will learn about printmaking processes, from sketching, planning, tearing paper, proofing, printing and editioning. Students will have a chance to print on paper and other materials. They will work up to more...

Campers will jump into the artistic process and come away with a brand new collection of gorgeous textile art pieces and the skills to make each one of them! This camp will introduce students to the basics of textile and fiber art techniques. Processes such as embroidery, wool felting, weaving, screen printing, sewing, macrame, Shibori, Batik &...

Get started with linocut printmaking and learn techniques of carving and printing. We will begin designing our linocuts with a strong and tight drawing to get the best possible print. We will look at historical block printing such as posters and tarot cards for inspiration. Materials fee of $35 due to instructor day of.

​Provide a Chinese learning environment where students can see and hear Chinese in the classroom. Emphasis on repeatability and habits of studying, reviewing and using Chinese. Student-centered approach where we encourage the students to drive the learning. Usage of videos and presentation in lesson plans to capture students’ attention. Numerous...

​Provide a Chinese learning environment where students can see and hear Chinese in the classroom. Emphasis on repeatability and habits of studying, reviewing and using Chinese. Student-centered approach where we encourage the students to drive the learning. Usage of videos and presentation in lesson plans to capture students’ attention. Numerous...

Like a board game, a roll of dice will help decide what direction our character go, bringing a little chance to Stop Motion Animation. This form of film and media art is familiar to fans of King Kong, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Gumby and Pokey, and Wallis and Gromit. Today’s new technology takes this once painstaking art form and makes it a...

Five sentences stories bring life to clay, wire, and colored paper using Stop Motion Animation.This form of film and media art is familiar to fans of King Kong, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Gumby and Pokey, and Wallis and Gromit. Today’s new technology takes this once painstaking art form and makes it a delight for enthusiasts young and old. Students...

This three hour introduction to doing Stop Motion Animations on an iPad will give you just the spark you need to do animation on your own. You will be introduced to Stop Motion Animation using clay, wire, and colored paper as a form of personal expression.  This form of film and media art will be familiar to fans of King Kong, The Nightmare Before...