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Sep 9
2 min

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 conf...

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Diana Stelin

Jul 15
1 min

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 perfecti...

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Diana Stelin

Mar 18
1 min

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...

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Winter Semester at The Plein-air Art Academy

Diana Stelin

Mar 11
1 min

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 ...

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Diana Stelin

Mar 3
2 min

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 spec...

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Yulia Dumov

Feb 27
2 min

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 w...

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Yulia Dumov

Feb 16
1 min

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 c...

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