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CoSA Teen Summer Arts Camp
CoSA Teen Summer Camp

CoSA Teen Summer Camp

 
 
 
The CoSA Teen Summer Art Camp is an artistically inspiring and fun experience for teens ages 13-17, or students entering 7th-12th grades for the 2025-26 school year. Join us for two weeks of Summer fun, making friends, and making art!
 
WHEN: July 7-18, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM weekdays
WHERE: CoSA’s Facilities at Coronado High School
HOW MUCH: $350
BONUS: Camp will culminate in an open exhibition of creative works for families to enjoy in the last hour of the last day.
 
Camp will be divided into two 90-minute sessions. Students will get 90-minutes of instruction and creation in Ceramics and 90-minutes of instruction and creation in Visual Art.
 
Heads up: This year, we only have spots for 15 students, as we are welcoming another 15 international students to join us. If our Camp fills up, and you are interested to register your student, please email Gina Sorensen to be added to the waitlist:
 
Ready to go? REGISTER HERE 
 
For information about scholarships, please Email Erin Everett at admin@cosafoundation.org
or Call 619-522-6202
 
Want to know more? Read on for information about the Ceramics and Visual Art classes and bios for our teachers.
 
CERAMICS CLASS
 
 
Ceramics Description:
During the CoSA Teen Summer Art Camp, students will learn a variety of techniques of working with clay, including pinching, coiling, and throwing on the potter's wheel. Students will create functional forms such as cups, bowls, and mugs, as well as sculptural forms of their choosing. Towards the end of the workshop, surface embellishments such as painting with underglaze, carving, and glazing will be covered, allowing students to produce personalized work that truly stands out. Great for all levels of experience!
Ceramics Teacher Bio:
Katie Francis is a ceramic artist and educator based in San Diego, California.  She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics at Clemson University and her MFA with an emphasis in ceramics at San Diego State University.  Her current work explores the act of remembrance and the fragility of memory through ceramic objects.  She has participated in exhibitions and craft shows across the nation, and she currently teaches ceramic classes in San Diego.  Her work has recently been featured in Ink & Clay 45 at the Kellogg University Gallery in Pomona, California, and the 2022 SoCal MFA exhibition at the East & Peggy Phelps Galleries in Claremont, California.
 
 
 
VISUAL ART CLASS
 
 
 
Visual Art Description:
Students in the CoSA Visual Art Summer Teen Camp includes daily 90-minute sessions for ages 13 -17. Students will be guided through painting and drawing workshops that will expand their artistic skills and technique. We look forward to diving into the creative process with artistic dedication!
Visual Art Teacher Bio:
Deron Cohen, a San Diego native, has shown his paintings extensively in galleries and venues throughout San Diego County. Most recently, in May 2025, Deron's paintings were selected to show at the SDUSD VAPA Staff Art exhibition at Art Produce Gallery. Deron's artwork was also selected to be a part of the “San Diego Excellence” group show at The Studio Door Gallery in December 2024. You can see his work online at www.deroncohen.com.
Deron helped found Paint Night Group, a group of artists originating in San Diego that have been collaborating together for the past 20+ years. They have shown as a group all over San Diego and in 2006 had a show at Gallery 4 in Amsterdam. Paint Night Group showed at the 2009 Beyond the Borders International Contemporary Art Fair in San Diego and collaborated on a mural at San Diego Art Fair 2014.
Along with his painting career, Deron has created magazine illustrations, done graphic design work, and taught others how to express themselves creatively through art. He has been creating curricula for children’s art programs and teaching them, most recently through VAPA San Diego, Arts Edcuation Connection San Diego and the Artist Lab San Diego. Deron has also been teaching adults how to paint for the past 20 years with different companies and studios in San Diego as well as through his own workshops and private classes both in person and from around the world via webcam.Through his own art and teaching others, Deron has come to understand that making art is a healing act. We can heal ourselves and others through creative self-expression. His most recent artwork touches on themes of inspiration and the healing act of creation.Deron received a Bachelor in Fine Art from UCLA in 1994.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I paint stories that I make up as I go along. Love, War, Peace, Spirit, Nature, Birth, Life, Death, the Mind and the Universe dance with each other in a vivid explosion of color. Imagination runs wild and is made real in these images. Imagination is an infinite vessel filled with all our knowledge and everything else that will ever be. The images I create are designed to find a crack in your consciousness, to seep into your mind and spark your imagination.