Tampa Bay's Best Place for Kids Art Classes, Camps, Parties and More!
Afterschool Classes
Our afterschool art classes are the highlight of many of our student's week! Check out some of the benefits of enrolling your child in an afterschool art program!
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Social Benefits: Socialization is becoming a lost art in our tech-focused society. Our art classes provide your child with the opportunity to meet and connect with new friends that share a common interest: art! Participating in programs like ours can help encourage all children to become more socially active and skilled while creating their own masterpieces.
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Educational Benefits: The majority of children today are lucky if they receive just half an hour of art in their school per week, but even educators can tell you that creative programs like art provide children with a more well-rounded education. Engagement in art also impacts other areas of academics that are not taught, like focus, concentration, planning, follow-through, problem solving and perseverance.
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Emotional Benefits: Children who need to build their self-confidence often do so easily through art because of the sense of accomplishment that goes with it. Our philosophy and approach is to never compare, but to encourage. The freedom that children enjoy within the projects themselves provides some kids with a creative therapeutic outlet, which is a great counter-balance to the stress of school. Coming weekly to our nurturing and supportive environment also provides some students with a sense of security and routine that they need.
Mini-Art Club
Young children love to create, explore and get messy!
Mini Art Club is a drop-off art enrichment class for children in
PreK-4 and Kindergarten. Developing a better understanding of the use and care materials and the creative process with those materials is the focus of our class. This class is also a great way to give your child extra help fine motor skills associated with handwriting and other readiness skills.
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Tuition: $105 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: PreK-4 and Kindergarten
Times/Days: Please see the Gunn Highway or Westshore calendar for the studio you are interested in attending for days and times.
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Art Club: 1 and 2 and Advanced
The focus of Art Club is for our students to have their own place and time to create and make whatever is on their mind, just like a real artist's studio! We use the Teaching for Artistic Behavior approach and let our emerging artists explore materials throughout the studio and choose how to best express their own ideas using the media of their preference to make artwork that is personally meaningful. Depending on the age group, we balance this time with art lessons provided by our staff so that our students can also increase their knowledge about the principles and elements of art, art history and critique and types of creative media.
Art Club 1: 1st and 2nd grades
Tuition: $135 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: 1st and 2nd Graders
Times/Days: Please see the Gunn Highway or Westshore calendar for the studio you are interested in attending for days and times.
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Art Club 2: 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Tuition: $150 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: 3rd, 4th and 5th Graders
Times/Days: Please see the Gunn Highway or Westshore calendar for the studio you are interested in attending for days and times.
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Advanced Art Club: Tweens and Teens (Westshore Only)
Tuition: $135 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: 6th, 7th and 8th Grades
Times/Days: Wednesdays 5:15-6:45
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Homeschool Art Club
Our Homeschool Art Club is perfect for families who are looking for a weekly social experience that also introduces them to the wonderful world of art! Children learn new art techniques and explore media such as paint, paper mache, clay and even hand sewing and textile art. Kindergarten and up.
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Tuition: $125 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: Kindergarten and up
Times/Days: Gunn Highway Only Tuesdays 1:30-3:00;
Fridays 2:30-4:00
Sew and Craft
This class is designed to give children ages 8 and up an opportunity to learn hand work arts and crafts such as sewing, crochet, knitting, weaving and other creative textile media.
Each week, we give step-by-step instruction for creating a new project that can be ajusted to different skill sets. Socialization is highly encouraged and is great for creative kids who don't get to take art in school, or even older kids who find making art a nice reprieve from the demands of middle school.
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Tuition: $115 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: 8 years old and up
Times/Days: Please see the Gunn Highway or Westshore calendar for the studio you are interested in attending for days and times.
Sketch and Draw
Does your child love to draw? In our Sketch and Draw class we will introduce your child to the fundamentals of sketching and drawing and expose them to different drawing materials such as pencil, colored pencil, markers, charcoal, oil and chalk pastels and pen and ink. Our focus is on practice and progression at their own individual developmental rate and to allow for individual creativity and interpretation every week. Best for children 9 and older.
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Tuition: $110 for 4 weeks of class, August 2023 through May 2024.
Ages: 9 yrs old and up
Times/Days: Please see the Gunn Highway or Westshore calendar for the studio you are interested in attending for days and times.