Summer Camps

The Museum offers one-day and one-week morning camps for children ages 5 to 12. Camp classes are led by The San Diego Museum of Art’s instructors and include art activities exploring a variety of media as well as visits to the Museum’s galleries of art to view summer exhibitions.

To register for summer camps at The San Diego Museum of Art, please visit the Museum or print and fill out the registration form and return it, along with payment, to the address listed.

For questions regarding registration or camp programming please email summercamps@sdmart.org.

Camp Fees:

Five-Day Camp: $150.00 (Museum members) /$200.00 (nonmembers)

Single-Day Camp: $50.00 (Museum members)/$75.00 (nonmembers)

Five-Day Camps
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

August 2-6

Camp 1: Creative Creatures (ages 5-7)

Tour the Museum’s special exhibition Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece and become inspired to create a creature through painting, drawing, and collage.

Camp 2: Mixed Media Explorations (ages 8-10)

Explore painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing and tour the Museum’s galleries to learn about some of the remarkable artists and artworks on view.

August 9-13

Camp 3: The Map as Art (ages 7-9)

Explore the possibilities of mapping the unknown, imaginary, and intangible by experimenting with scale, line, shape, and space.

Camp 4: What’s Outside?: Plein Air Painting (ages 10-12)

Experiment with techniques such as one-point perspective and color saturation while documenting places and scenery in Balboa Park.

August 16-20

Camp 5: Colorful Shapes (ages 5-7)

Create art, play art inspired games, listen to stories, and tour the galleries as you learn about color, shape, and pattern.

Camp 6: From Press to Print: Printmaking (ages 8-10)

Discover one of the most exciting ways to reproduce original art by exploring a variety of printmaking techniques.

August 23-27

Camp 7: All About Paint (ages 7-9)

Experiment with techniques used to apply paint and color by artists of the 15th century Renaissance through abstract expressionists of the 20th century.

Camp 8: Art is Play: John Baldessari and the Art of Looking (ages 10-12)

Learn different visual strategies of looking at the world and discover some the things that make everyday objects and actions art.

Single-Day Camps
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

August 30

Camp 9: Art Around the World (ages 5-7)

Participate in art making activities inspired by art on view in the Museum galleries from Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

Camp 10: Heroic Vessels: Exploring Clay (ages 8-10)

Tour the special exhibition Heroes: Mortals & Myths in Ancient Greece and create a hand-built clay vessel decorated with mythological motifs.

August 31

Camp 11: Colorful Characters: The Prints of Toulouse-Lautrec
(ages 7-9)

Learn about different methods of portraiture and create a screen print in the style of the graphic posters of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.

Camp 12: Scrolls and Calligraphy (ages 10-12)

Use materials such as bamboo and horse hair brushes, grinding stones, and rare paper to create a piece of hanging wall art.

Location

The San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado
Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
(619) 232-7931

Mailing address
PO Box 122107
San Diego, CA 92112-2107

Hours

Tuesday through Saturday
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Sunday
12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thursdays
(Memorial through Labor Days)
10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Special Hours
Open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.:
           September 6, 2010
           December 27, 2010
           February 21, 2011