For Summer 2019, the San Francisco Children’s Art Center (SFCAC) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture has nine Afternoon Weekly Workshops (ages six years through 10 years old) to inspire creating, collaborating, and sharing through visual arts. SFCAC also offers summer weekly classes for younger children.

Each week (Monday-Friday, 1:00 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m.) offers wide-ranging explorations of different ideas and materials to inspire art-making. “Painting & Drawing” (June 3-7, 2019), “Architectural Sculpture” (June 24-28, 2019), “Observational Drawing” (July 1-3, 2019), “Photo Explorers” (July 8-12, 2019), “Young Artists Workshop” (July 15-19, 2019), “Art & Science” (July 22-26, 2019) “Art In The Garden” (July 29-August 2, 2019), “Land, Sea & City” (August 5-9, 2019), and “Sculpture” (August 19-23, 2019) workshops (five four-hour classes per week, $240-$320) offer deep investigations of the challenges and choices found in two- and three-dimensional forms.

The weekly classes for younger kids (22 months to 5 years) meet on weekday and Saturday mornings and provide age-appropriate art instruction and activities through “Art Studio I” (ages three years to five years old, Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., 1.5-hour classes, $324, $35 drop-in), “Art Studio II” (ages three and a half years old to five years old, Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., two-hour classes, $384, $45 drop-in), “Little Art Makers” (ages 27 months to 36 months old; Wednesday and Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., one-hour classes, $252, $30 drop-in), and “Side By Side” (ages 22 months to 36 months old; Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.; one-hour classes, $252. $30 drop-in, for children and adult caregivers).

Also available are two half- or full-day mini-camps held with Blue Bear School of Music and Young Performers Theatre (YPT) for children ages six to 10 years old. Scheduled for Monday through Friday, June 10-14, 2019 ($495); or August 12-16, 2019 ($240 for five three-hour morning “Performance Workshops,” 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and $320 for five four-hour afternoon “Puppet Theater Workshops,” 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., or $80 per one drop-in afternoon workshop). A special themed summer camp, “Printmaking, Stamps & Stencils,” happens June 18-22, 2019, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and costs $495.

The August Mini-Camp offers morning “Performance Workshops” at YPT from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., a supervised lunch break from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (students bring their own lunches), and an art studio session at SFCAC from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (“Puppet Theater” August 12-16, 2019). The mini-camps cost $240 for mornings only and $320 for afternoons only.

Prices vary per class and drop-ins for individual class sessions are welcome (one-hour classes $30, 1.5-hour classes $35, two-hour classes $45, three-hour workshop $60, and four-hour workshop $80). Drop-ins are only available for SFCAC’s afternoon portion of the mini-camps as children must enroll for the complete five-day YPT mini-camp.