CREATIVE START

Help young children develop their creative vision and artistic skills through visual arts programs led by professional artists.

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Background

With more than 45 years of arts education experience, we’ve seen how early exposure to process-focused, inquiry-driven art exploration stimulates children’s innate creativity and allows them to make connections as they engage with the world around them.

Through collaborative partnerships with schools and community-based organizations, such as daycare centers and Head Start, Creative Start can be implemented in a series of in-class sessions over the course of the school year.


 

Details

Program Overview

  • Customized programs for children, ages 2–7 years

  • Choose from units of open-ended exploration that include painting, collage, wood sculpture, clay, puppetry, and printmaking

  • 35–40-minute sessions (depending on the children’s ages) taught by a local professional Studio Institute artist instructor

  • 20 in-classroom sessions are held over the course of the school year

  • Limit of 20 students per classroom

  • Includes professional learning workshops for educators and family engagement workshops for the school community

Questions?

Contact Jamie Mayer: jmayer@studioinstitute.org


The children are always so excited about art class. They know that if it's Wednesday, it’s art day. They look forward to seeing Juan Pablo, their Studio Institute teacher.

La Casa teacher in the 2021 Creative Start program in Newark