2005 - 2006

Art Education Lecture Series. SFCAC was awarded a grant from Schulte Grants for the Arts and Crafts, a program of the Fort Mason Foundation, to present a series of workshops about the role of art-making in child development. The series of workshops was held between Fall 2005 and Fall 2006.

Designing a Child-Friendly Art Space
October, 6, 2005 by Karen Hampton
Illuminating Children's Creative Processes
November 19, 2005 by Gail Tarantino
Finding a Creative Home
January 14, 2006 by Naomi Rifkin
Enriching Children's Lives through Making Music
February 16, 2006 by Cindy Cohen Levy
Children as Visual Thinkers
April 22, 2006 by Gail Tarantino
From Blueprints to Bridges
June 25, 2006 by Shirl Buss
Fantastic Trash: Recycle, Reuse, Recreate
July 22, 2006 by Linda Janklow
Necklace Books, CD Books, and Pop-Up Books -- Oh My!
August 5, 2006 by c.j. grossman
Pictures + Words = The Writing Collage
September 24, 2006 by Lauren Hall

1998-2004

Transitional Home Art Class Programs
Working with organizations such as Raphael House, Clara House and Holy Family Day Home, the San Francisco Children’s Art Center offered classes to children in transition. Classes were offered for children ages 3 to 11. These programs gave children the opportunity to express themselves through individual and group art-making and provides a supportive environment for exploration to develop perceptual skills, creative problem-solving and critical thinking.

Various Dates

Community Partnerships and Programs
SFCAC has partnered with the following organizations:
Richmond Village Beacon
Assisted by offering art classes at a community-based after-school program
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Helped Plan collaborative family workshops

1998 - Present

Scholarship Program
History: Late in 1998, a generous SFCAC family established a Scholarship program for on-site classes. Their goal was to help make participation in the program at Fort Mason a possiblity for the vast numbers of local families who aren't a part of SFCAC's Outreach programs, and for whom regular tuition may be a bit of a stretch. In the first year, close to ten new families were able to attend classes at the Art Center on partial scholarships thanks to this donor family's generosity. Their thoughtful gesture also inspired the Art Center to permanently establish and solicit funding for an ongoing scholarship fund for on-site classes.

Recently, the Eugene & Rose Kleiner Family Foundation helped expand this scholarship program four-fold. Renamed the Raphael Bouganim Memorial Scholarship, in honor of a beloved artist, musician and father with ties to the Children's Art Center, the fund will provide partial to full tuition assistance for a minimum of 5% the Art Center's total enrollees in the coming year.

Click HERE to download a Scholarship Application form [PDF, 50k] Scholarship applications are accepted 3 times per year at the onset of each class session.

For more information about the Children's Art Center's Community Programs, please call (415) 771-0292 or send us an email.