Chartered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit more than 35 years ago, Point Loma Arts Academy delivers after-school and summer art and drama programming for children, teens, and adults from its campus at 3737 Centraloma Dr in Ocean Beach. Drama-track enrollment builds stagecraft fundamentals—blocking, projection, character development—through six-week workshop cycles, a theater pipeline on the peninsula that runs alongside the musical-theater choreography taught at Artists Out on Wabaska Dr. Visual-arts sessions rotate through drawing, painting, mixed media, and sculpture, scaled by age from elementary introductions to teen-level portfolio preparation. The nonprofit model keeps tuition accessible regardless of household income, fulfilling the organization’s charter to provide creative-arts access across socioeconomic lines. The academy’s sculpture and three-dimensional media curriculum introduces clay slab construction and basic ceramic technique, a foundation that students often advance at Claytime Ceramics’ dedicated wheel-throwing and kiln-firing studio on Bacon St. Full-length theatrical productions staged during the summer session represent the most resource-intensive offering, coordinating youth actors through script-to-stage direction, set construction, costuming, and live multi-night performance runs.