Learn the fundamentals or level up your wheel throwing skills in this supportive, hands-on class. Beginners will focus on centering, pulling walls, and creating basic forms. Intermediate students can refine techniques, explore new forms, and build consistency.
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Discover the art of nerikomi, a Japanese ceramic technique that layers and slices colored clay to create intricate patterns. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to design, shape, and assemble their own unique clay ornaments using vibrant, patterned slabs. Perfect for beginners and experienced makers alike, this class combines creativity and craftsmanship, resulting in one-of-a-kind decorative pieces to take home.
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
In this 6-week class, you’ll learn to create functional ceramic pieces by hand—no wheel required—while diving into the expressive world of modern majolica-style decoration. We’ll focus on building forms like mugs, plates, platters, and tiles using slab and coil techniques. After bisque firing, you’ll decorate your pieces using a white glaze base and layer on color with underglazes and other paintable colored glazes. Explore techniques like brushwork, layering, line work, and pattern to bring your surfaces to life.
Join ICA + Friends for a Fall of Freedom Activation: Food Drive + Art Making ICA Central on Friday, November 21st from 10am-2pm Please join ICA San Diego in participating in a community food drive aimed at impacting our friends and neighbors who have been recently affected by the loss of SNAP benefits & furloughed...
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Annual Ceramics Sale and Exhibition on View December 5 and December 6 from 5-9 PM Join us for the ICA’s annual Ceramics Sale inside our gallery surrounded by the NextGen 2025 exhibition. From delicate vases to intricately designed mugs and plates, our collection showcases a variety of styles and techniques. Whether you're drawn to earthy...
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Annual Ceramics Sale and Exhibition on View December 5 and December 6 from 5-9 PM Join us for the ICA’s annual Ceramics Sale inside our gallery surrounded by the NextGen 2025 exhibition. From delicate vases to intricately designed mugs and plates, our collection showcases a variety of styles and techniques. Whether you're drawn to earthy...
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Join us in Encinitas for even more ways to interact with contemporary art! Weekly Wellness Saturdays at ICA North expands on our 2025-2026 exhibition season theme, On Healing. The exhibitions are part of a year-long exploration of the ways artists address the various socio-cultural wounds revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, the associated programs and events seek to explore how art can serve as a vital tool for mental, physical, emotional, and community wellbeing.
Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.
Children ages 8-12 will have the opportunity to explore how to shape clay as a creative medium.
Learn the fundamentals or level up your wheel throwing skills in this supportive, hands-on class. Beginners will focus on centering, pulling walls, and creating basic forms. Intermediate students can refine techniques, explore new forms, and build consistency.
With a main focus on functional pottery, beginner students will learn how to use the equipment in the studio and how to use the wheel while more advanced students will further use the wheel as a tool to create work made partially or entirely from thrown forms.
Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.
Sharpen your observational skills and deepen your understanding of the human form in this dynamic figure drawing class.
In this six week class students ages 13-17 will begin by learning the basics, focusing on 3 essential steps of the throwing process: centering, opening, and pulling. Students will be led in working with ceramics, hand-building and wheel throwing, learning slab construction, pinch pots, surface texture, clay impression and more.
Ceramic Sculpture: The Human Form (Jan 26-Mar 9, 5:30-8:30pm) Class Schedule Mondays, 5:30-8:30pm Six-Week Session Jan 26, Feb 2, 9, 23, Mar 2, 9 Instructor Suzanne Lussier (click for website) Description Explore the beauty, complexity, and personality of the human form through clay. In this sculpture-focused class, you’ll learn how to build expressive figures, gestures,...
In this 6-week class, you’ll learn to create functional ceramic pieces by hand—no wheel required—while diving into the expressive world of modern majolica-style decoration. We’ll focus on building forms like mugs, plates, platters, and tiles using slab and coil techniques. After bisque firing, you’ll decorate your pieces using a white glaze base and layer on color with underglazes and other paintable colored glazes. Explore techniques like brushwork, layering, line work, and pattern to bring your surfaces to life.
Discover the art of observation in Still Life Drawing, a hands-on art class that sharpens your eye and elevates your creative skills. Through focused exercises with everyday objects, you’ll learn techniques in proportion, perspective, shading, and composition that bring depth and realism to your work.
Learn how to confidently use your camera in both manual and automatic modes while discovering the fundamentals of lighting and framing that bring images to life. Whether you’re looking to capture everyday moments or begin a journey into professional photography, this class equips you with the knowledge and confidence to capture stunning moments.
Perfect for all skill levels! Bring your camera or other image making device.
Learn how to confidently use your camera in both manual and automatic modes while discovering the fundamentals of lighting and framing that bring images to life. Whether you’re looking to capture everyday moments or begin a journey into professional photography, this class equips you with the knowledge and confidence to capture stunning moments.
Perfect for all skill levels! Bring your camera or other image making device.
Dive into the vibrant world of Foundations of Painting, where you’ll build essential skills and unlock your creative potential through color, composition, and expressive brushwork.
Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.
Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.
Please join us at ICA San Diego / Central on Saturday, September 20 for the opening of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya. This free art event in San Diego is part of ICA's commitment to reduce barriers to contemporary art in our community.
Discover the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi, a philosophy that celebrates flaws and imperfections by mending broken pottery with gold. In this hands-on class, you’ll learn to repair ceramics using traditional techniques and materials, transforming cracks into stunning veins of beauty.
Join us at ICA San Diego / North on Monday, March 16th for the unveiling of Graft (2023), a newly installed sculpture by Edra Soto, generously donated to the museum by the artist, supported by the Sahm Family Foundation, and now permanently part of our public Sculpture Trail.
Experience a full day of art, community, and inspiration with ICA San Diego! Led by Executive Director Andrew Utt, join us on Saturday, March 21 for an exclusive day trip to Tijuana. The day will feature a studio visit with artists Daniel Ruanova and Mely Barragan, a visit to 206 Arte Contemporaneo to view their latest exhibition En búsqueda de un fresco featuring the work of Paula García, a visit to Estudio Lustre, and more!
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
Art of Elan returns to ICA North with a musical program that takes inspiration from the great outdoors, highlighting the ICA Sculpture Trail and its newest addition by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes: a sculpture titled "Hannah Arendt." This colorful concert explores finding beauty in unexpected places and includes a variety of music for strings, harp,...
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
Who You’ll Experience Rosin Box ProjectLive performance during the VIP Hour Jeffrey Strauss (Pamplemousse)Multi-course dinner by the renowned chef Kiku RoomAfter party experience with a local DJ Kevin Courser Greg Ito & Marina ZurkowVideo Installations by Greg Ito and Marina Zurkow in collaboration with Jim Schmitz during the VIP Hour ICA San Diego CommunityArtists, collectors,...
Join our Engagement Guides as they take a small group through our Central campus exhibition space and discover more about our current exhibition, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: In the Garden of Earthly Delights: I Bend to Paradise. Our Engagement Guides are trained to encourage individual interpretation of our contemporary art exhibitions. New to art? Just...
UNFOLD Projects, in partnership with ICA San Diego, is pleased to present Exhibition 01: We Must Imagine it, the first iteration of an exhibition series exploring regenerative materials and processes in art and design. The exhibition features artists from the Guild for its first Edition at UNFOLD Encinitas, highlighting individual practices shaped by collective experimentation,...
Please join us from 4 - 7pm on Saturday, June 13 for the opening reception of Cat Gunn: if only by the light of a new moon at ICA San Diego / Central. This free art event in San Diego is part of ICA's commitment to reduce barriers to contemporary art in our community. 4:00...
Experience a full day of art, community, and inspiration with ICA San Diego! Led by Executive Director Andrew Utt, join us on Saturday, November 8 for an exclusive day trip to Los Angeles. The day will feature a private tour of a local collector’s home, lunch, a visit to creative club Soho Warehouse and tours of standout galleries including Redcat, Nicodim, and Vielmetter.
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