Youth Summer Camp registration is open, and we broke down our top picks so you and your family can plan the best summer ever! Camps are filling up fast, with Youth Glass Flameworking Immersion Program and Youth Woodturning already sold out. Some youth classes, like Youth Frame Alteration: Art Bike and Youth Gravity Cars, only run during the summer! And, did you know that The Crucible’s Foundry is the only place in the country that youth as young as twelve-years-old can pour molten metals on their own? Youth Adventures in Sandcasting is their chance!
“Many things inspire me to make art, but the most prominent is the zone I get into when I am making art. The zone is where nothing else truly matters besides creating the vision I see in my mind.” -C’Zarriah, 16, 2018 Camper and Fuego Youth Leader in Glass Flameworking
Not sure what class to pick? Here are our top class picks to ensure your registration is a success! Shopping for the family? Make sure to sign up for a Pyro membership so you can take 10% off for your whole family!
Rare Offerings!
The following classes only run in the summer, so now is your chance to learn how to weld your own art bike and turn your own wooden bowl!
Create a variety of creatures and habitats! Learn how to cut, shape, and embellish glass using a variety of tools, molds, and machines.
Customize your bicycle in this exciting workshop while MIG welding and plasma cutting!
Design and build your very own custom skateboard from seven layers of hard maple veneer!
All Day Immersions
Dive deep into these beginning and continuing level youth workshops! Students take an immersive step into weeklong study, becoming young artisans along the way. Youth Immersions only run during summer camps, and are starting to sell out!
Learn to safely work with molten glass, gather glass from the furnace, apply colors, and shape and sculpt molten glass.
Learn to fuse, cut, bend, and shape metal in this intensive introduction to stick welding and oxy-acetylene torch cutting.
Build circuits by identifying components, assembling a circuit board, and soldering parts together to construct your own mini-sumobot!
Using copper, silver, and other nonferrous metals, you will learn jewelry and metal art skills to create trendy metalwork of your own design!
For The Little Ones: Ages 8-11
Our youth class offerings start at age eight, so your whole family can get creative this summer!
Shape and sculpt polymer clay into a brightly colored small sculpture and wearable art!
Learn the ancient and popular art form of Mexican paper-mâché to create fantastic and colorful sculptures from paper and recycled materials!
Learn kinetic techniques to design, engineer, and construct your own fantastical contraption!
Explore clay as a sculptural material to create critters of your own imagination! *Session 3 sold out!
Sign Up Before They Sell Out!
The following camps completely sold out in 2018! Sign up before these camps fill up! Become a Pyro member to get 10% off class tuition for your whole family.
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