Things to do in San Diego

A painter at an easel outdoors on a grassy bank.
Booking now

Arts and Crafts

Nature Landscape & Wildlife Painting

One canvas, outdoors, worked session by session until there is a landscape on it with an animal in the middle.

$190 per monthTwice a week · 1 hr 30 min a session
Hands centring wet clay on a moving pottery wheel.
Booking now

Arts and Crafts

Wheel-Thrown Pottery & Ceramic Glazing

Centring, pulling, trimming and glazing — clay to finished stoneware at your own wheel.

$190 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Clay pots warming beside an open fire on a stone hearth.
Booking now

Living Cultures · Ultra-local

Ancestral Clay Pottery & Hearth Firing

Dig the clay, coil the pot, burnish it with a river stone, and fire it in a pit you built.

$130 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Hand planes and chisels hanging on a workshop wall.
Booking now

Arts and Crafts

Traditional Woodworking & Joinery

From rough hardwood to a jointed stool you could stand on for the next forty years.

$225 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr 30 min a session
A field easel and watercolour box open on a coastal bluff.
Booking now

Arts and Crafts

Coastal Plein-Air Watercolor Painting

Mornings on the bluffs, learning to paint ocean light before it changes on you.

$225 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr 30 min a session
Hands sanding the rail of a surfboard.
Booking now

Arts and Crafts

Surfboard Ding Repair & Fiberglass Craft

Bring the board you have been meaning to fix. Leave with it watertight, and never pay for a repair again.

$190 per monthOnce a week · 3 hr a session
Jars of dried herbs and tinctures on an apothecary table.
Booking now

Farms, Food & Fun

Native Herb Blending & Wild Apothecary

Learn the medicinal plants that already grow here, then turn them into tea, tincture and salve.

$170 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session
Bars of handmade soap tied with string beside lavender.
Booking now

Arts and Crafts

Natural Home & Botanical Soapcraft

Sundays making the things you currently buy in plastic, out of oils and lye and not much else.

$90 per monthOnce a week · 2 hr 30 min a session