Classes
Fall Enrollment is Now Open!
Whether your young artist is just begining in their creative journey, or is diving deep into the medium they love, we have a class for them! Classes range from Atlier-esque studio style formal art classes to exploratory arts and crafts surveys.
Read more about our class descriptions, pricing, and enroll by clicking on your artist's age group below. Note that ages are listed by aproximate grade level. These grade levels are suggestions, and designed to give you an idea of difficulty level of each class.
K-3rd Class Descriptions
Little Picassos
This class explores a variety of arts and crafts, including but not limited to story-themed art, painting, and seasonal-based hand crafts. We will experience painting, drawing, weaving, paper crafts, pottery, and more! Lessons are guided by student interest.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $680
Play with Clay
This class explores a variety of hand building methods for littles interested in clay. Students will create pinch pots, creature sculptures, and try out the pottery wheel. Students will learn basic hand-building and wheel-building methods. This is a great exploratory course for tactile children taught by veteran teacher and homeschool mamma Jennifer Ford.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
All About Clay
This class is great for sibling groups! Kids from ages 5-13 are welcome to join while we learn all about what clay can do! We focus on stonewear clay, with a few lessons of polimer clay as well. Students will enjoy learning about the pottery wheel, hand building, and all the fun of glazing.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
Clay With Me
In this clay course, students will explore a range of different clay building methods. Parents or grandparents can also enroll in this class and create their own clay projects along with the student. We will spend time on the pottery wheel, build with slabs, and explore coil and pinch methods. The majority of these projects will be decorative, and some items will be functional pottery.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
Paper Crafts
This course is an exploratory arts and crafts course. Students will discover the wonderful world of papercrafting, mosaics, folding arts, making paper, printing, dying, and much more! Kids will snip. shred, and glue their way into a creative and enjoyable facet of art filled with rich textures, colors, and fun. This class is taught by homeschool mamma and art instructor, Becky Topinka.
8-week Quarter: $300
16-week Semester: $575
Artful Phonics
This class is the perfect suppliment for emerging readers. Instructor Rachelle Sieber will guide students through a creative and colorful world of phonics using artistic crafts to teach consonants, vowels, digraphs, phonemes, and much more. Tap into your student's reading potential by accessing their visual learning brain!
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
3-8 Grade Class Descriptions
Creative U
Come and enjoy an array of self-expressive art! Students will learn the fundamentals of art, including drawing and painting techniques, as well as explore multi-media and clay projects.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Clay With Me
In this clay course, students will explore a range of different clay building methods. Parents or grandparents can also enroll in this class and create their own clay projects along with the student. We will spend time on the pottery wheel, build with slabs, and explore coil and pinch methods. The majority of these projects will be decorative, and some items will be functional pottery.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
All About Clay
This class is great for sibling groups! Kids from ages 5-13 are welcome to join while we learn all about what clay can do! We focus on stonewear clay, with a few lessons of polimer clay as well. Students will enjoy learning about the pottery wheel, hand building, and all the fun of glazing.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
Jewelry Making
Students will create a wide array of jewelry, from bead stringing to polymer clay. Students will learn about various metals, fixtures, assembly techniques, and more! This is an entry level class and students do not need any skills prior to taking the class.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Hand Crafting
Try your hand at felting, cake decorating, collage, macrame, cardmaking, candlemaking, and tons more! In this course, students will explore a large variety of hand crafts. If you can imagine it, we can make it.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Clayworks
In this class, students will learn and practice a variety of clay-building methods. We will spend time hand-building using slab, coil, and pinch methods, and using the pottery wheel. Works will consist of both functional and sculptural artworks. Students will also practice a number of glazing methods.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
6-12 Grade Class Descriptions
Painting History
Let's bring history to life! Throughout the course, each class will focus on a different artist and their historic era. We will begin with some of the most profound artists in history and move towards contemporary artists, studying the isms and discovering why and how great art impacted the world. Each lesson will encompass the history of the artist and artforms we are studying, and students will also create accompanying art inspired by the era or artist we are studying. Some major historic art movements include but are not limited to Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Surrealism.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Intro to Photography
In this class, students will develop camera skills using a DSLR digital camera. Students will learn about composition, emphasis, focus, and how to manipulate basic camera settings to produce beautiful photography. Students will practice on stationary and mobil subjects. Students do not need to own a camera in order to take this class, however, they are also allowed to bring their own.
8-week Quarter: $225
16-week Semester: $450
Photography 102
This class is a continuation of Intro to Photography. Here, students will take the next step in using photography as an artform. Students will study composition for landscapes, portrature, and products, and further their knowledge of macro and micro photography. Students in Photgraphy 102 may also enroll in Photo Editing for a two-hour experience.
8-week Quarter: $225 2 hour: $375
16-week Semester: $450 2 hour: $690
Photo Editing
Students can take their photography one step further by learning photo manipulation using Photoshop. Students will learn how to manipulate backgrounds, modify focus, and complete retouching of photos resulting in professional photographs. Students in Photgraphy 102 may also enroll in Photo Editing for a two-hour experience.
8-week Quarter, 1 hour: $275 2 hour: $375
16-week Semester: $450 2 hour: $690
Jewelry Making
Students will create a wide array of jewelry, from bead stringing to polymer clay. Students will learn about various metals, fixtures, assembly techniques, and more! This is an entry level class and students do not need any skills prior to taking the class.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Clayworks
In this class, students will learn and practice a variety of clay-building methods. We will spend time hand-building using slab, coil, and pinch methods, and using the pottery wheel. Works will consist of both functional and sculptural artworks. Students will also practice a number of glazing methods.
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
Wheelworks
This class focuses entirely on the pottery wheel. Students will learn the basics and develop their skills with throwing cylindars, the basis of all quality wheel throwing. Students can expect to make between 10 and 20 pieces of hand-thrown pottery in this class, both decorative and/or functional. If you can imagine it, you can make it!
8-week Quarter: $400
16-week Semester: $700
Hand Crafting
Try your hand at felting, cake decorating, collage, macrame, cardmaking, candlemaking, and tons more! In this course, students will explore a large variety of hand crafts. If you can imagine it, we can make it.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Drawing Anatomy
If your artist is serious about developing their drawing skills, this is the class for them! Using age-appropriate materials, students will practice and learn the intricacies of proper anatomical proportions, shading, and posturing. Using the historic medical text Gray's Anatomy as inspiration, students will discover the basics of proper body drawing, and take their drawing skills to the next level. While beginners are welcome in this course, it's suggested that the beginner is highly motivated in drawing to participate.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690
Lifelike Sculpture
In this course, students will develop sculpture skills for big and small sculptures using clay, polymer clay, wood, paper mache, and other materials. Students will complete a human bust, animals, inanimate objects, and more in this dyanmic and challenging course. While the focus will largely be realism, some surrealism and abstract methods will be explored to enrich the students understanding of form, proportion, and composition.
8-week Quarter: $375
16-week Semester: $690