Summer 2026 Camps
Seven Directions has 10 Sessions of Summer Camps for kids ages 5-18 both at our studio and off site
at various scenic locations! We have full day camps and half day camps. Full day camps include lunch
time and nearly all camps include Animal Time with our resident animals!
*SPECIAL DEAL FOR ENROLLMENT IN MULTIPLE CAMPS: 10% off 2nd camp, 20% off 3rd camp, 25% off 4th
camp, 30% off 5th camp.
Financial Assistance: Seven Directions is committed to being a safe and welcoming space for all kids to learn and to express themselves creatively. To uphold this standard of inclusivity, we offer financial assistance and scholarships to families who are experiencing financial hardship, or who need assistance with tuition. If you need financial assistance, please reach out to us at sevendirectionsinfo@gmail.com
Summer camp tuition is non-refundable. If you cannot attend camp as planned, we offer a credit towards future camps or classes.
Seven Directions offers gift certificates for any of our listed classes and camps. Call (831) 529 - 8485 or email us at sevendirectionsinfo@gmail.com to purchase a gift certificate.
Session 1: 6/2-6/6 | Session
2: 6/9-6/13 |
Session 3: 6/16-6/20 | Session
4: 6/23-6/27 |
Session 5: 6/30-7/3
Session 6: 7/7-7/11
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Session 7: 7/14-7/18 | Session
8: 7/21-7/25 |
Session 9: 7/28-8/1 |
Session 10: 8/4-8/8
Session 1: 6/1-6/5
Prehistoric Animal Art
Explore some of the most bizarre and fascinating creatures lost to time in this brand new prehistoric spin off of our most popular camp, Animal Art! More than 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. Unearth stories about the prehistoric creatures that once roamed Earth and swam in ancient oceans, and create art in a variety of mediums (paint, charcoal, oil pastel & more) based on scientists’ best guesses as to what those creatures looked like. This camp is not only a fun way to prevent summer learning loss, but also gives students a crash course in the fundamentals of visual art techniques. Each day starts with a creative drawing challenge, includes an animal themed craft and ends with Animal Time, where we hold and interact with one of our 30+ live exotic animals!
- Instructors: Pepper Vasquez & Kyle Vasquez
- Recommended for Ages: 5-9
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 1: 6/1-6/5
Outdoor Art: Wilder Ranch Camp
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Meet us at Wilder Ranch for a week of art & games outside! We will complete an acrylic painting of the beautiful views around us and do drawing challenges every day! Hangout in the sunshine with other campers, play games and learn about Santa Cruz wildlife and nature! A fantastic way for kids to get outdoors while learning in a fun and creative way!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 8-12
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $425
- *Meets at Wilder Ranch State Park
Session 2: 6/8-6/12
Fairy Art Camp
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Join us for a week of fun, imagination & art for kids who love fairies! Campers will get to create their own fairy world through a variety of crafts, games, creative writing and art projects while making friends and playing make believe. Each day we’ll do a different fairy themed major project that campers get to take home with them and the week will end with a fairy themed costume tea party complete with fairy snacks. Each day starts with a creative drawing challenge and ends with a meet and greet with one of our 30+ live exotic animals!
- Instructor: Kyle Vasquez
- Recommended for Ages: 5-9
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440 + $30 materials fee
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 2: 6/8-6/12
Teen Dungeons and Dragons Camp
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Go on adventures, fight monsters, discover treasure, and explore a mystical world in our Dungeons and Dragons groups! Students will learn to play D&D, one of the most well-known tabletop role playing games, under the guidance of a professional Game Master. Whether you are an experienced TTRPG player, or only know what you’ve seen on Stranger Things, everyone is welcome! Role playing games offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and develop empathy within a safe environment and are a fantastic way to build friendships and self-confidence. Students learn teamwork, creative writing, and improvisation, as well as building math skills, creativity and memory all while having fun going on an epic adventure.
- Instructor: TBD
- Recommended Ages: 12-17
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $425
- *Meets in our main studio, back room
Session 3: 6/15-6/19
Anime Academy Camp
Explore the exciting realm of Anime Art in this class for Beginning to Intermediate anime artists! Using Copic Ciao alcohol based markers and Micron Fineliners, campers will learn how to shade and blend colors to create vibrant anime characters and learn about dynamic poses, dramatic eyes and highlighted hair! Level up your anime art skills and socialize with other campers who love the same shows, comics and characters. Each camp day will begin with an imaginative drawing challenge and end with a meet and greet with one of our 30+ live exotic animals!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 7-11
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 3: 6/15-6/19
Sketching Our Surroundings: Drawing from Life
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Join us for a relaxed and fun approach to learning to draw from life. Instructors will support students in building technical art skills to allow them to translate what they see onto paper in fun and creative ways. Throughout the week we will explore outdoor locations near the studio to explore a variety of visual themes such as architecture, plants, natural forms and more. Students will be provided with their own sketchbooks and will end the week with a diverse collection of sketches and the skills needed to continue to fill the rest of the pages on their own. Each day starts with a creative drawing challenge and ends with Animal Time, where we hold and interact with one of our 30+ live exotic animals!
- Instructor: Misia Buetens
- Recommended for Ages: 11-16
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, back room
Session 4: 6/22-6/26
Digital Character Creation Camp
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Join us for an innovative digital art camp experience! Learn to design characters using Procreate for iPad, an intuitive and easy-to-use drawing program. In this camp, students will learn to create memorable characters using techniques from cartoonists and character designers. Learn the basics of the program Procreate first, then implement them with daily drawing challenges that inspire students to go beyond pen and paper. Together we will create our own characters and a background to place them in, informed by shape language and color theory! *iPads will either be provided to use during camp for a materials fee, or you may bring your own.
- Instructor: Moss Giommi
- Recommended for Ages: 11-17
- Times: 10:00-2:00
- Tuition: $375 + $50 materials fee if rental iPad is needed
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 4: 6/22-6/26
Storytellers Kid’s Theater Camp
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Explore the art of children's theater in this fun and playful week-long camp! Students will engage in performance in a playful and low pressure format where the focus is on imagination and exploration as well as learning acting warm-ups and theater games to help spark the creative spirit and inspire confidence on the stage. Campers will work with our theater professionals to create a series of scenes and/or a short play with dialogue, singing, and dancing throughout the week, culminating in an end of the week performance for friends and family. If your child has ever wanted to try theater, or if conventional youth theater feels too high pressure, this is the perfect way for them to dive into theater arts in a developmentally appropriate, fun and easy way!
- Instructor: Liam Kuhn
- Recommended for Ages: 5-10
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets downstairs in Renegade Theater Studio
Session 5: 6/30-7/3
Outdoor Art Camp- Natural Bridges
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Meet us at Natural Bridges for a week of art & games outside! We will complete an acrylic painting of the beautiful views around us and do drawing challenges every day! Hangout in the sunshine with other campers, play games and learn about Santa Cruz wildlife and nature! A fantastic way for kids to get outdoors while learning in a fun and creative way!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 8-12
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $425
- *Meets at Natural Bridges State Park
Session 5: 6/29-7/3
Rainbow Art Camp for LGBTQ+ Teens
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Join us for a week of art and fun with other LGBTQ+ identified teens! This camp is for teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or otherwise to meet a community of other teens just like them! We will be painting, making Tshirts, buttons and friendship bracelets together in a safe and welcoming space led by art instructor and former Seven Directions Owner Moss Giommi. Moss will lead discussions and art challenges and we will also be walking to Mission Park to play games outside, as well as doing daily Animal Time meet and greets with our resident exotic animals!
- Instructor: Moss Giommi
- Recommended for Ages: 13-18
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 5: 6/29-7/3
Nature Adventure Camp
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Camouflage in the forest like a squirrel, use echolocation like a bat, and walk like a fox during Nature Adventure Camp! We will weave learning, playing, art, stories and hiking into each day with different themes including animal adaptations, using our senses, plant identification, nature scavenger hunts and more! Henry Cowell State Park will be our classroom and playground for the week. Come with an eagerness to learn, explore, play and make new friends!
- Instructor: Genoa
- Recommended for Ages: 5-8
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $425
- *Meets at Henry Cowell State Park
Session 6: 7/6-7/10
Animal Art Camp
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Learn exciting facts about some of Earth’s most incredible creatures and make art of them! Our professional artist instructor will choose amazing animals from all over the world to share with the students and support them in creating art in a variety of mediums including pencil, pens, charcoal, watercolor & acrylic paint. This camp is not only a fun way to prevent summer learning loss, but also gives students a crash course in the fundamentals of visual art techniques. Each camp starts with a creative drawing challenge, includes an animal themed craft and ends with Animal Time, where we hold and interact with one of our 30+ live exotic animals!
- Instructor/Director: Kyle Vasquez
- Recommended for Ages: 5-9
- Times: 10:30-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 6: 7/6-7/10
Kids Dungeons & Dragons Camp
Go on adventures, fight monsters, discover treasure, and explore a mystical world in our Dungeons and Dragons groups! Students will learn to play D&D, one of the most well-known tabletop role playing games, under the guidance of a professional Game Master. Whether you are an experienced TTRPG player, or only know what you’ve seen on Stranger Things, everyone is welcome! Role playing games offer unique opportunities to explore ideas and develop empathy within a safe environment and are a fantastic way to build friendships and self confidence. Students learn teamwork, creative writing, and improvisation, as well as building math skills, creativity and memory all while having fun going on an epic adventure!
- Instructor: TBD
- Recommended for Ages 9-12
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $425
- *Meets in our main studio, back room
Session 7: 7/13-7/17
Science Explorers Camp
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A fun and playful way to prevent summer learning loss, Science Explorers is full of art, games, interactive science & engineering! Each day of camp will dive into a new interactive experiment: Grow your own crystals, explode volcanoes, dissect owl pellets and much more! We will start each day with creative problem solving engineering challenges and end each day with a meet and greet with one of the 30+ live exotic animals that live in our studio!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 7-11
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 8: 7/20-7/24
Journaling Through Collage Camp
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Join us for a brand new camp for tweens & teens looking for new forms of creative expression! Fantastic for artists of all levels, journaling is a great way to document your life, develop art skills, and process thoughts, feelings and experiences. Each day students will learn a different technique to keeping a daily sketchbook. We will explore observational drawing and collage with found and collected materials. Students will also use their sketchbook to create a stand alone piece at the end of the week. Students can include writing if this is an interest of theirs as well as paints and colored pencils. The possibilities are endless and students can customize their experience to their interests and needs! Students will walk away with an understanding of a variety of methods of journaling to give them the skills needed to continue on their own!
- Instructor/Director: Misia Buetens
- Recommended for Ages: 11-17
- Times: 10:30-3:00
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 8: 7/20-7/24
Forest Fantasy Art Camp
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Let the magic of the redwood forest inspire your creativity in this exciting new camp that combines art, imagination and nature appreciation! Explore the many ecosystems of the Henry Cowell State Park while learning about a variety of fantasy creatures and making art based on them: Build fairy houses, invent your own cryptids and more! Each day starts with a fantasy drawing warm up challenge, includes art, games and creative journaling through the lenses of mythology and lore, and ends with play time at the river!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 8-12
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $425
- *Meets at Henry Cowell State Park
Session 9: 7/27-7/31
Kids Pokemon Art Camp
Pokemon Art Camp is a fun-filled week of Pokemon art activities! Each camper will create a Pokeball Terrarium with their own Pokemon friend inside! Campers will be given Pokemon drawing challenges that inspire them to create their own unique Pokemon-themed artwork. By the end of the week the campers will have created their own Pokemon Gym, decided what type of trainer they will become and “captured'' different Pokemon in their Pokedex! At the end of each camp, students will get to meet a live animal from our studio!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 5-8
- Times: 10:00-3:00
- Tuition: $220
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 9: 7/27-7/31
Tween Pokemon Art Camp
Pokemon Art Camp is a fun-filled week of Pokemon art activities! Each camper will create a Pokeball Terrarium with their own Pokemon friend inside! Campers will be given Pokemon drawing challenges that inspire them to create their own unique Pokemon-themed artwork. By the end of the week the campers will have created their own Pokemon Gym, decided what type of trainer they will become and “captured'' different Pokemon in their Pokedex! At the end of each camp, students will get to meet a live animal from our studio!
- Instructor: Haylee Trowbridge
- Recommended for Ages: 8-11
- Times: 1:00-3:30 *PM Only
- Tuition: $220
- *Meets in our main studio, front room
Session 9: 7/28-8/1
Stage Makeup for Theater Camp
Learn all the basics of stage makeup that every theater kid should have in their tool kit in this fun and interactive stage makeup summer camp! Each day we will explore a different type of makeup application with a brief teacher lecture on important information about this look followed by an interactive step by step tutorial. By the end of each class, students will have a finished stage makeup look that they can photograph and share! Students will also learn to create professional face charts for each look and will be able to begin building a collection of face charts that they can access in the future to make recreating these looks easier. We will also cover stage makeup theory, how to care for your skin to prevent breakouts or other problems when wearing makeup and discuss adaptations and alternatives using different products and tools. Impress friends, drama teachers, and directors with your stage makeup know how and add completion of this class to your theater resume! Monday- Class 1: Makeup 101: skin prep, basic application and makeup theory Tuesday- Class 2: Female glamour stage makeup Wednesday- Class 3: Male stage makeup and female to male transformation (including making facial hair with makeup) Thursday- Class 4: Injury stage makeup: Black eyes, cuts, bruises, etc. Friday- Class 5: Old age makeup **After registration students will receive a list of required supplies (makeup and tools) and have the option to either bring their own supplies or pay a $50 materials fee to have a kit provided for them.
- Instructor: Kyle Vasquez
- Recommended for Ages: 12-17
- Times: 11:00-2:30
- Tuition: $300 *$50 materials fee to have makeup kit supplied or bring your own from list provided by instructor upon registration
- *Meets in our main studio, back room
Session 10: 8/3-8/10
End of Summer Eco Art Camp
Join us for an eco-friendly week of fun and learning for the end of summer in this new camp! Create arts and crafts using recycled materials, explore science experiments about sustainability and play games to understand concepts like climate change. Each day of camp will start with a creative drawing challenge, include time for free play, and will end with a meet and greet with a live animal from our studio!
- Instructor: Kyle Vasquez
- Recommended Ages 5-10
- Times: 10:00-3:30
- Tuition: $440
- *Meets in our main studio, front room