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: At camp’s end, campers prepare for a mini runway show (Friday at 3:30pm) — learning how to walk, present their designs, express their own style and story, and celebrate their work with peers and loved ones. The spirit of the signature Fashion Runway Production program comes alive. SPECIAL NOTE: All campers are invited to return and walk the big runway during our Fall Show. More details will be provided at a later date.
• 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.