Jul 7 - Jul 11, 2025 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Teens explore design & woodworking with a focus on chairs!
Monday through Friday
July 7 – 11 from 1pm – 4pm
Ages 13+ years welcome!
This week of Summer Camp is all about designing chairs for every body!
Steffanie Dotson and Don Ostertag welcome teens for a week of chair design, building, and design exploration. Why are most chairs the same size? We’ll talk about how chairs can be made for every BODY and how comfort and designs affect our bodies. We’ll be sketching designs with pencil to paper and then we’ll move into model making and prototypes of chairs. Along the way, we’ll talk about the basics of how a chair is built, the various forces, and how failures can happen when not built properly. We’ll do mock-ups with plywood to refine our designs.
Depending on how many design iterations each chairmaker goes through, by the end of the week, they’ll have some fun designs, models, lots of knowledge, and hopefully built chairs to show for it.
Machine and tool safety is a big part of this camp. It is intended for teens with a keen interest in woodworking, design, or making chairs. Cell phones will be put away during this camp. Teens must be at least 13 years old to participate, since we’ll be using big machines in addition to hand tools. Sorry, no adults allowed.
This camp is for teens, ages 13+ years.
OPTIONAL | Lunch Hour Supervision
If there is a camp ending as ours begins and you need your teen transferred from another camp, let us know!
If your teen is signed up for morning and afternoon camps here at The Maac at Liberty Station (the building San Diego Craft Collective is located in–Dorothy Laub Music & Arts Center), we’re here to provide that space for your teen. Apt4Music will be supervising kids and teens for outdoor play and lunchtime from 12-1pm. The purchase of the Camp Lunch Hour is for supervision only during this hour. It’s a flat $25 fee for the entire camp, Monday through Friday. They can bring a lunch and eat with us, or head out to grab a lunch (with written permission from a guardian) and head back to the studio to eat in a safe, welcoming space. Click here to read more & add the lunch break.
• Military, first responders and sibling discounts: Email us for more information.
• Scholarships available: Click here for an application.
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Hosted by: San Diego Craft Collective
2590 Truxtun Rd., Studio 106, San Diego, CA