Animal Heads Youth Workshop
2025-07-12 10:00 - 2025-07-13 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Animal Heads Clay Workshop – Ages 9-16
Join ceramic artist Michelle Solorzano for a fun and hands-on two-day workshop exploring animal forms in clay. Participants will learn how to construct a hollow sculpture using slab and coil-building techniques. Using reference images and sketches showing the front, side, and back views of your chosen animal, you’ll translate your 2D ideas into dynamic 3D forms. In addition to building, students will create their own spring molds—small, reusable decorative elements that can be used to add texture and embellishments to the surface of their sculptures.
Class fee includes materials, firings, and a light snack.
Learn more and register.

Butter Believe It! Butter making workshop and tour!
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:30 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join us for an all-ages butter shaking event where everyone will get the opportunity to learn about functional ceramics on view in Hot! & Ready to Serve and make their own butter.

Second Saturday Docent Tour
2025-07-12 15:00 - 15:30 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join us at the American Museum of Ceramic Art for a docent-led tour of a current exhibition! On the second Saturday of each month, AMOCA’s docents offer a guided look into one of our current exhibitions. Second Saturday tours are free with museum admission, which can be paid at the door when you arrive.
Docent-led tours are a great opportunity to explore the exhibition and gain insights into AMOCA’s collection and galleries. Don’t miss your chance to go behind the scenes and learn about the artworks on view at the museum!
This in-person event is free with museum admission. Plan to arrive 15 minutes early to allow ample time to park, purchase admission, and meet up with the tour group. We ask that you pre-register for Second Saturday tours at the link below to reserve your spot and help us know how many guests to expect. You can also join the tour the day of event, as space allows. Second Saturday tours last about 30 minutes.

Royal Princess Academy Dance Camp
2025-07-14 10:00 - 2025-07-18 11:30 | Alta Loma Dance Academy, 9560 Baseline Rd. Ste A, Rancho Cucamong, CA, 91701, United States
Make your dancer’s dreams and wishes come try at our Royal Princess Academy Dance Camp! We will dive into Ariel’s under the sea kingdom, dance at the ball with Cinderella, learn a tale as old as time with Belle, and catch a sleigh to the kingdom of Arendelle with Elsa! You’re invited to come along on a journey to learn how to dance like a Royal Princess! Each day we encourage you to dress along with the princess of the day! Princesses will explore tap, jazz, and ballet movement as well as enjoy crafting each session. Lastly, a Royal performance will be held at the end of camp for family and friends to enjoy!
Starts July 14 through July 18, 2025.

Mini Technique Bootcamp
2025-07-14 11:30 - 12:30 | Alta Loma Dance Academy, 9560 Baseline Rd. Ste A, Rancho Cucamong, CA, 91701, United States
Calling all dancers aged 4-7, this is not your basic dance bootcamp! This boot camp is designed to help your dancer continue to grow and refine their dance technique & performance quality.
Geared for the more serious dancer, participants should be advanced beginners/intermediate level at a minimum and possess a great desire to learn and grow! This boot camp meets for 1 hour each day for non stop training and covers EVERYTHING needed for a successful dance season ahead!
Program runs July 14 through July 18.
Get excited dancers— this is one you do NOT want to miss!!!

Virtual Artist Talk with Michelle Solorzano
2025-07-15 12:00 - 13:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Virtual Artist Talk with Michelle Solorzano
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 • 12 –1 PM (PDT) • Online
Join us for a virtual artist talk with Artist in Residence Michelle Solorzano to celebrate her residency in the AMOCA Studio. Solorzano will share about her practice, work, and future directions. There will be an opportunity for Q & A following the presentation.
Event RSVP
Go to https://www.amoca.org/events/solorzano-artist-talk-july/ to register.
Michelle Solorzano
Michelle Solorzano is a figurative ceramic sculptor whose work explores themes of immigration, identity, and culture, all woven into a narrative shaped by her personal experiences. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Ceramics from the State University of New York at Potsdam and recently completed her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics at Indiana University. Originally from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Michelle relocated to New York with her family when she was fifteen. Her artwork serves as a testament to the diverse tapestry of Dominican heritage, blending Taino, African, and Spanish influences. Solorzano has been in residence at AMOCA from August 2024–July 2025.
Learn more at Solorzano’s website.

AMOCA’s Residency Program
AMOCA’s Artist in Residence Program, established in 2012, is one of the few long-term fellowship opportunities for ceramic artists on the West Coast. This residency provides artists an opportunity to produce or develop a new body of work. The program is funded through generous support from Julianne and David Armstrong, Laguna Clay, and the Windgate Foundation. Since 2022, thanks to enhanced support from the Windgate Foundation, additional short-term residencies are available for artists based in Southern California.

Mythical Armor Workshop
2025-07-19 12:00 - 14:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join AMOCA for a hands-on armor-making workshop! Participants will have the opportunity to create their own shoulder piece or forearm mythical armor inspired by Cannupa Hanska Luger’s installation on view in Making in Between: Indigenous Americans.
For ages 12+. Youth 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Zombies Vs Descendants Dance & Cheer Camp
2025-07-21 10:00 - 11:30 | Alta Loma Dance Academy, 9560 Baseline Rd. Ste A, Rancho Cucamong, CA, 91701, United States
Get ready to bring the magic, mischief, and moves to life! This high-energy jazz and pom camp is inspired by the hit movies Zombies and Descendants, where kids will dance to their favorite songs, learn fierce routines, and channel their inner Seabrook cheerleaders and Isle of the Lost villains. With themed games, routines, and performances, it’s the perfect mix of spooky, sparkly, and super fun! No dance experience needed—just a love for music, movement, and a little bit of magic.
Starts July 21 through July 25, 2025.

Lights, Camera, DANCE Camp!
2025-07-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Alta Loma Dance Academy, 9560 Baseline Rd. Ste A, Rancho Cucamong, CA, 91701, United States
Lights, camera, DANCE! In this exciting camp, dancers aged 8+ will step into the spotlight and explore the world of dance for film. Campers will learn how to perform for the camera, master choreography designed for the screen, and discover how movement, expression, and camera angles come together to tell a story. By the end of the week, dancers will star in their very own mini music video—filmed, edited, and ready for a big-screen premiere! It’s the perfect blend of performance, creativity, and on-camera magic.
Program runs July 21 through July 25.

Technique Bootcamp Ages 6+
2025-07-28 00:00 - 2025-08-01 23:59 | Alta Loma Dance Academy, 9560 Baseline Rd. Ste A, Rancho Cucamong, CA, 91701, United States
Calling all dancers aged 6+, this is not your basic dance boot camp! This boot camp is designed to help your dancer continue to grow and refine their dance technique & performance quality. Geared for the more serious dancer, participants should be advanced beginners/intermediate level at a minimum and possess a great desire to learn and grow! This boot camp meets for 1.5 hours each day for non stop training and covers EVERYTHING needed for a successful dance season ahead! Get excited dancers— this is one you do NOT want to miss!!!

ALDA Season 11 Spirit Squad Auditions
2025-08-02 09:30 - 10:30 | Alta Loma Dance Academy, 9560 Baseline Rd. Ste A, Rancho Cucamong, CA, 91701, United States
It’s time to register your dancer for Season 11 Spirit Squad Auditions today! Dancers & cheerleaders aged 5-12, come audition for the Alta Loma Dance Academy Spirit Squad for a chance to grow & SHINE!!! Make lasting friendships, develop leadership skills, boost confidence, and learn the power of teamwork all while performing & having a blast!
The ALDA Spirit Squad is a year-long commitment with it’s season beginning in May 2025 and ending in April 2026! You’ll catch the Squad performance at Quakes Stadium, Ontario Reign, the Clippers, NASCAR, Empire Strykers, & many more community events near Rancho!!!
Auditions will take place at Alta Loma Dance Academy during the following times:

May 8th, 2025 from 4:15-5:00 pm
August 2nd, 2025 from 9:30-10:15am

Dancers are to wear all black dance or active wear, hair in a pony tail, & jazz or tennis shoes! An audition fee of $35/dancer will apply.
Registration Form

Introductory Clay Sessions
2025-08-08 17:30 - 18:30 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
The perfect way to get your hands dirty, relax, and have fun! In this one-hour introductory class, you’ll learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel.

Second Saturday Docent Tour
2025-08-09 15:00 - 15:30 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
On the second Saturday of each month, AMOCA’s docents offer a guided look into one of our current exhibitions. August’s tour will focus on Making in Between: Indigenous Americans.

CCMA Presents: A Family Summer Evening
2025-08-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S. Lemon, Ontario, CA, 91761
CCMA invites you all to our first annual Family Summer Evening event hosted during the Ontario August Art Walk. Filled with such fun activities as chalk art, music, snack bar (purchases available), and a special storytelling event hosted by the talented Elisheva Clodfelter, you don’t want to miss this fun and free event.

AMOCA: Museum Meet Cute
2025-08-22 16:00 - 18:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking discussion centered around the captivating narratives of our current exhibitions. After the tour, we invite you to indulge in a social gathering at Homage, our local brewery.

Mythical Armor Workshop
2025-08-30 12:00 - 14:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join AMOCA for a hands-on armor-making workshop! Participants will have the opportunity to create their own shoulder piece or forearm mythical armor inspired by Cannupa Hanska Luger’s installation This is Not a Snake, and The One Who Checks & The One Who Balances.

Family Workshop: Kurinuki Planters
2025-08-31 11:00 - 12:30 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join us for a 90-minute family handbuilding workshop in the AMOCA Studio where we will explore the practice of kurinuki, or “carving out.” Your ticket includes instruction, materials, glazing and firing, and museum admission on the day of the workshop. Advance registration required.

First Friday; Pay What You Can Day
2025-09-05 11:00 - 16:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Thanks to generous support from AMOCA’s Board of Directors, Museum admission for First Fridays at AMOCA is pay what you can. Each month, visit the Museum and choose your own ticket prices!

Teen Wheel Lab
2025-09-05 16:30 - 18:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Friday 9/5 4:30pm-6pm, in person, $10
Teens ages 12-16 are invited to try their hand at the wheel and learn the steps to make their own pottery. Students will have the option ($35) to return to the studio later in the month to receive a mini-glaze workshop and fire their work.

Maloof Teen Program
2025-09-06 09:00 - 11:00 | The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Craft, 5131 Carnelian Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91701, United States
Join us at the Maloof on the first Saturday of every month for fun, creative art-making sessions just for teens!
9 am to 11 am
Free! Space is limited
To learn more email: Education@malooffoundation.org

Fall Youth Clay Classes
2025-09-06 11:00 - 13:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
September 2025, dates and times vary, in person, $150 / $100 (Pomona residents/SAE)
Four-week classes in wheel throwing or hand building meet once a week for two hours in the AMOCA Studios. Youth classes are available for ages 9-16.

Virtual Artist Talk
2025-09-09 12:00 - 13:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join us for a virtual artist talk with Artist in Residence Yoon Hwang to celebrate his residency in the AMOCA Studio.

Introductory Clay Sessions
2025-09-12 17:30 - 18:30 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
The perfect way to get your hands dirty, relax, and have fun! In this one-hour introductory class, you’ll learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel.
5:30pm-6:30pm or 7:30pm-8:30pm

Second Saturday Docent Tour
2025-09-13 15:00 - 16:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Saturday 9/13 3pm Free with Admission
On the second Saturday of each month, AMOCA’s docents offer a guided look into one of our current exhibitions. July’s tour will focus on Hot! & Ready to Serve.

Hot! & Ready to Serve Exhibition Tour
2025-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join us for a tour of AMOCA’s exhibition Hot! & Ready to Serve: Celebrating Functional Ceramics with Executive Director Beth Ann Gerstein. This tour is complimentary for museum members.

Family Workshop: Weaving Stories
2025-09-27 11:00 - 13:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Join AMOCA’s education team in this family-friendly exploration of artist Cannupa Hanska Luger’s work in Making in Between: Indigenous Americans! Through this fun and interactive workshop, guests will learn about Indigenous futures and the importance of upcycling.

Fall Fest 2025
2025-09-27 18:00 - 21:30 | Inland Pacific Ballet Academy, 9061 Central Avenue, Montclair, 91763, United States
Join us in the IPB Academy’s beautiful studios for an intimate cabaret of music and dance with a festive sit-down dinner. The Inland Pacific Ballet company dancers will perform excerpts from La Bayadère and our upcoming season.

Dinner will be served at 6:00pm, followed by performances in two acts with desserts at intermission. Chic cocktail attire suggested. This is a fundraising event to support Inland Pacific Ballet programs.

Limited seating available.Chic cocktail attire suggested.

Hostile Terrain 94 Toe Tag Completion workshops
2025-09-30 14:30 - 16:30 | Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, 5885 Haven Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91737-3002, United States
PUBLIC PROGRAM: Hostile Terrain 94 workshops
August 25-December 9, 2025
Mondays and Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30pm
(EXCEPT September 22, 23, and 29, and November 11, 18, 25, and 26)
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Hostile Terrain 94 is a powerful participatory map installation and exhibition created by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research and arts-education collective. This exhibition seeks to humanize and bring visibility to the harsh realities of the U.S.–Mexico border, where migrant deaths have occurred almost daily since 1994. In collaboration with UMP, the Wignall Museum will mount an exhibition, January 12 – March 14, 2026. At the heart of the exhibition are handwritten toe tags, each representing a person who lost their life while attempting the crossing. As participants complete the tags and view the accompanying maps, photographs, and personal artifacts, they are invited to examine the human cost of border enforcement and reflect on the broader implications of current immigration policies.

About Hostile Terrain 94 Toe Tag Completion Workshops
The Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition (January 12 – March 14, 2026) will feature a participatory map of the lives lost crossing the Sonoran Desert region of the US-Mexico border. Each person is represented by a toe tag, placed on the location where their body was found. To reflect on border impacts worldwide and to honor lives lost to border policies, the Wignall Museum is offering a series of free workshops to complete the toe tags in preparation for the installation. During the workshops (Fall 2025), participants will complete toe tags that will later be installed on the wall map. Time for discussion, reflection, and a grounding activity will conclude the workshop. This workshop directly connects with loss of life and violent realities of migration along U.S. border regions. The experience and content can be very powerful and personal. Please use your discretion to decide if this is an appropriate fit for your group. There are no graphic images, but content does include references to death and violence. Participation is voluntary. No registration required, but space is limited to 30 per workshop.

Teen Wheel Lab
2025-10-03 16:30 - 18:00 | American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767
Friday, October 3, 2025 • 4:30–6:00 PM • In person • $10
Join one of AMOCA’s teaching artists for a 1.5-hour wheel throwing lab, where youth ages 12-16 are invited to try their hand at the wheel and learn the steps to make their own pottery. Advance registration required.

Maloof Teen Program
2025-10-04 09:00 - 11:00 | The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Craft, 5131 Carnelian Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 91701, United States
Teen Art Mornings at the Maloof!Come express yourself, try something new, and meet other teen artists! No experience necessary — just bring your creativity.
9:00 AM – 11:00 AMFree! Space is limited
