The reasons we are doing this are clear:
Art improves reading and math proficiency.
 Art increases parent/instructor involvement and student engagement.
Art creates a positive culture and climate.
Art provides a richer overall experience in extended learning time.
Art enhances critical thinking strategies.
Art develops 21st-century skills like problem solving, collaboration, communication and life-long learning.
          STE-Art-M (Science, Technology, Engineering, ART​, Math) sessions cover the visual arts components of color, form, line, shape texture, and value.  They may be two-or three-dimensional, descriptive, implied, or abstract. Participants will be guided to apply creative problem solving processes to other core areas, such as science, social studies, math, and literacy.  Participants will be encouraged to work in cooperative, multi-aged groups to research, create, revise and competently present their explorations. 

Cost: $130 per participant for each 1 week session, payable in advance.  Plus materials fees of $30 per applicant.  

For further information or to schedule a session for your student or group of students, please contact us.
Sessions will focus upon drawing and pastel techniques, studying line, color, shape, form, value, space and texture.  This lays a firm foundation for all other visual arts processes.
Sessions will be developed around the styles and applications of various well known artists, studying some of the aspects of how these artists created  their particular vernacular to communicate their ideas.  Participants will be guided to apply studying the styles and techniques of these artists and apply some of this vernacular to their own created works. 
This is an immersive hands-on exploration into the "essential art of composing and decomposing physical things to suit a variety of purposes--from practical to whimsical.  Tinkering is both a manual and mental labor..." (Dale Dougherty, Editor & Publisher of Make Magazine) and for some a passion. To discover and rediscover their capacity to tinker and make, participants will be encouraged to meaningfully explore actual objects and interactions with real things and real people.  This program intends to stimulate the problem solving minds of participants, who wish to indulge in this process on an ongoing basis. 

Dates: TBD by interested participants
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Ages: 10-adult, limited number of participants
Cost: $25 per session or 
$90 for 4 consecutive sessions paid in advance
There may be additional materials fees, depending upon the chosen project of the participants. 
Sessions will focus upon the applications of math in creating visual works of art.  Participants will be expected to apply these mathematical concepts to their own visual creations. 
Sessions will focus upon the art of calligraphy for personal handwriting, using joined italic.  With the advent of writing upon digital devices to facilitate speed in recording information, legible handwriting is becoming more profitable.  Add to that the facts that studies have shown that learning cursive not only improves retention and comprehension, it engages the brain on a deep level as students ​learn to join letters in a continuous flow. It also enhances fine motor dexterity (drawing skills) and gives children a better idea of how words work in combination.  In other words, learning cursive increases literacy.
Reaching for innovation and authentic inner vision while examining the special characteristics of watercolor to release spontaneity and inventiveness.  Also solving perfunctory problems, including major shapes, value relationships, basic color scheme, and sense of movement.  Indulge your passions and fulfill your academic goals!