Columbus Fashion Academy

🎨 Summer 2026 — Fashion Runway Production Camp

Monday–Friday | Ages 7–12 | Full-day immersive fashion experience

What is Fashion Runway Production Camp?

This is not your average summer camp. It’s a full-on creative adventure that combines design, craftsmanship, storytelling, collaboration, and confidence. Over one week, campers dive deep into the world of fashion — from sketch to stitch to the spotlight — and build real skills and lasting memories.

At Columbus Fashion Academy, we go beyond ordinary “arts & crafts.” Our camp is rooted in our mission of sustainability, artistic freedom, community, and empowerment. We give kids a safe, nurturing space to explore their style, challenge their creativity, and learn the power of slow fashion in a world of fast trends.

✂️ What Camp Includes

• Design & Sketching: Campers begin by brainstorming ideas, sketching outfits, choosing fabrics, and sustainable materials.
• Patternmaking & Sewing: They learn basic pattern creation, cutting, hand sewing, machine sewing, and garment construction using deadstock, pre-loved and recycled textiles — in line with CFA’s sustainable values.
• Embellishment & Upcycling: Students may paint, embroider, patch, or embellish garments — turning old fabrics into unique, meaningful pieces.
• Accessories & Styling: Creativity expands beyond clothes — accessories, finishing touches, styling, and even props or fashion statements, depending on each camper’s vision.
• Team Collaboration & Creative Community: Working in small, supportive groups; sharing ideas; mentoring each other; building confidence and community. This is part of what makes CFA special — a place where everyone feels welcome, accepted, and free to express themselves.
• Runway Preparation: The spirit of the signature Fashion Runway Production program comes alive.
• SPECIAL NOTE: All campers will be invited to participate in our Summer Show later on that evening. More details will be provided during summer —a joyful celebration of creativity, courage, and self-expression. Participation is optional, and the runway participant fee is already included in your camp tuition. Guests will have the opportunity to purchase tickets to attend and cheer them on.
• Life Skills & Mindset: Through making, collaborating, and presenting, kids build problem-solving, discipline, teamwork, creative thinking, self-expression, and confidence. These are the real gifts behind the garments.

🌱 Why This Camp Matters

In a world saturated with fast fashion and throwaway trends, our Summer Camp offers a different path. We teach kids:

• To value resources: using pre-loved, deadstock, and recycled materials — showing fashion can be beautiful and sustainable.
• To be creators, not just consumers: giving them tools, skills, and mindset to imagine, build, and wear their own designs.
• To build community: collaborating, supporting each other, making friendships, and learning from mentors across generations.
• To grow confidence and self-expression: letting them explore who they are — through fabrics, colors, shape, style — and giving them a safe space to shine.

CFA has always been more than a school — it’s a movement. As our “About” page says, we’re building a fashion center rooted in artistic freedom, sustainability, community and self-discovery.

📅 Camp Details

• Dates: Summer 2026 (Special Edition at the Dublin Arts Council)
• Schedule: Full-day immersive fashion camp (hours and logistics to be shared at enrollment)
• Ages: 7–12 (if your child is a year younger or older than the suggested age and you feel they would like and fit with this age group, feel free to enroll)
• Capacity: Boutique-size — small groups for personalized attention (space limited!)
• Skill Level: All welcome — from total beginners to curious young creatives
• What to Bring: Comfortable clothes, a water bottle, a packed lunch plus am/pm snacks, an open mind, and love for people and the planet

💫 Enroll & Join the Movement

Whether your child dreams of designing, sewing, modeling, creating, or simply discovering a passion, our Summer 2026 Fashion Runway Production Camp welcomes them.

Join us at Columbus Fashion Academy — where fashion becomes more than clothes: it becomes confidence, connection, creativity, and change. Artistic Freedom is a core value we live by daily. Wear What You Love is our Motto.