Art/media-making class for 10 year old in Oakland
Hello -
my 10 year old daughter (and to some extent my 10 year old son) are really interested in taking an after-school art class in the Fall. I know she'd love something like the Liv & Chiu classes (something like character drawing, observational, graphic novels/comic creation - maybe even video-making or animation) but we live in Glenview East-ish Oakland and unfortunately those are just too far for us. I'm striking out finding classes in Oakland or at a stretch South/Central Berkeley or even Alameda that might work. We'd take all suggestions for art/painting/drawing/clay etc (Studio1 only seems to have the one class on Fridays) that could work and actually teach some skills, as opposed to just hanging around with a bit of art on the side. She LOVED Girls Garage for carpentry/making but sadly we've struck out in enrolling the last couple of times and anyhow those classes are only 4 weeks long.
Any suggestions for creative pre-teens most welcome!
Parent Replies
Check out Kala studio in Berkeley, Cass Ceramics in Albany and UC has a summer camp in Media Production for teens
The Junior Center for Art and Science runs these types of classes after school during the school year—they are temporarily off site (summer programs have been in Temescal and DTO) but I believe their main building on the lake reopens for the fall.
Biggest hits for my three building/crafts oriented kids over the years (besides Studio One):
Junior Center for the Arts after school Carpentry - longtime teacher is amazing, last year was at temporary site in downtown Oakland
Kids n Clay - near fourth street Berkeley
Hello Stitch - had good experiences with in person camps
You might check Piedmont Rec department offerings too if you haven’t.
Hope you find the right class for her!
Second Kala in Berkeley!