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Why I love our new virtual class teacher, Susannah

We hired Susannah pre-pandemic, in January'20, as a sculpting specialist and she led our varied age groups in becoming more and more...

Channeling our inner piglets

I have a girl in my in-person summer program now who reminds me of so many other little and big students. There was this nagging...

Why I hate Paint Nite gimmicks

Just for the sake of an experiment I attended an online 'Paint Nite' concept for my five year old daughter today. About 10 kids, a camera...

Winter Semester at The Plein-air Art Academy

My first month of teaching at the Plein-Air Art Academy has been a lot of fun! For our unit on Australia, I had a blast leading students...

Can you teach me how to draw a cat

Oftentimes, one of the first questions I get from parents is: "Will you teach my child how to properly draw, give her techniques and...

What is Visual Design

The main goal of the design process is to learn how to ideate: generate ideas and translate them into visual designs. In the first class...

Creating safe space

On of most important aspects of any class setting is creating supportive environment where people feel safe to express ideas. "It takes...