Description

Summer Camp | Kids Clay & Woodworking Camp | 7-12yrs

Monday through Friday
July 28 – Aug 1 from 1pm – 4pm

This camp is held both indoors and outdoors, so we suggest:
• Dress in layers so they can adjust to the temperature.
• Bring a refillable water bottle and a snack, if needed (no sugar or peanut products please).
• Wear closed-toe shoes — dropping tools on toes really hurts! Flip-flops are not acceptable for this camp.
• Long hair should be tied back for the woodwork portion of the camp.
• Bring a sun hat or sunscreen for any activities that might take place outdoors.

OPTIONAL | Lunch Hour Supervision: If your child is signed up for camps in the morning and afternoon and you’d like your child to stay during the lunch hour, there’s a $25 fee for the week to cover the lunchtime gap. They can bring a lunch and eat with us. Click here to read more & add the lunch break.

BEHAVIOR POLICY: Disruptive behavior will result in a parent-teacher conference. Continued disruptions are grounds for dismissal from our program. It is expected that children will listen to the instruction of our staff and teachers. It is expected that children will use appropriate language, not intentionally injure themselves or others, will properly use tools after instruction, and take good care of them.

DIRECTIONS: Located in Liberty Station’s Arts District, you can find our studio at the end of the hallway on the 1st floor of the Dorothea Laub Music & Arts Center (Bldg 176) at the corner of Roosevelt & Truxtun, next to The Lot movie theater. There is plenty of free parking. Parking Lot Q is behind our studio — enter via the driveway off Dewey. Across the street in the Vons parking lot, it is also free. If you can’t find us, call or text 619.273.3235.

CLASS SIZE: 4 min. If the minimum is not met, you will receive a full refund or credit toward another class.

REFUNDS: No refunds for tardiness or no-shows. For a refund (minus a 5% processing fee), you must cancel 14 days before the start of the class. After 14 days, we cannot offer refunds, as materials and supplies have already been purchased.

TRANSFERS: You may transfer your enrollment spot to someone else, but transfers must happen before the camp begins. Please email us to let us know who’s coming.

LATE REGISTRATION: Space-permitting, if the camp has already started and you’d like to add your child, we allow add-ins to week-long camps as long as the instructor approves and we have enough material supply. We usually prep a couple of extras! Call the office at 619.273.3235 or email us to us to inquire and make arrangements.

INTEREST LIST: If a class is full or you would like to be notified of future offerings, join our Interest List to be notified when new dates or spaces are available.

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INSTRUCTORS:

Steffi Dotson is founder and president of San Diego Craft Collective. She completed her woodworking training at San Diego State University with a degree in Applied Design. She went on to take classes in the woodworking program at Palomar College where she later taught for several years. Her passion to elevate craft and share the skill of woodworking with others is a driving force for the direction of the programming at San Diego Craft Collective.

Lydia Kardos is a San Diego visual artist working with a focus in ceramics. Her work in photography, exploring narratives through imagery, color composition and the female form as well as her work in painting and drawing have contributed to her sculptural voice. The contrasts of living in New York City, Mexico and California have deeply influenced her visual language. A conversation of home, surroundings and connection to these spaces can be seen in mark making, impasto and scumbling techniques in her glaze work as well as  surface design, texture and more importantly color. The importance and inspiration of magical realism is apparent in her description of objects and spaces as her ceramics tell stories with texture, color, abstract shapes and biomorphic forms. Lydia invites the viewer to an intimate space between two worlds of the present and fantasy through exaggerated and vivid colors and her objects as characters, undulating in form, lush with texture. Her most recent exhibitions were in Boston, MA, New York, NY, and Brooklyn, NY.