Ai Studios, PO Box 33, Towaco, NJ 07082
973-257-1500
Web: www.aistudios.net
Email: aistudios@optimum.net

Ai Studios After School Class Descriptions

The following table show our Summer Fun programs and class descriptions for each gradelevel.

Ai Studios Grades K-5 Class Descriptions
Class Name
Class Descriptions Example  
Art and Imagination Program
Artivities

Grades K-2. Have fun actively creating amazing art pieces that your young child can proudly display at home, which include drawing, painting, making collages, sculptures, paper mache' objects, and more! Each class we will create a new project. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
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Lets Create

Grades K-5. This class inspires students to discover their artistic talents and finely develop their skills, which will enhance their confidence and self-worth. Every day we will have fun doing different art related projects and learning new techniques for drawing, painting, making collages, clay sculptures, paper and wooden objects, and more! Each class we will create a new project. This class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Paper Mache

Grades 3-5. Learn to make fun and colorful figures out of newspaper, tape, cardboard, and white glue. The class will first learn how to make forms and shapes. We will also learn how to use supports, cardboard, and wire, and also discuss various painting techniques and finishes available for work in paper mâché.

 

Doodle & Draw

Grades K-2. This is the perfect class for the young artist who wants to have fun creating artwork to express their individualism or for something to show to their friends and family!  Learn all kinds of doodling and drawing techniques using different mediums, including crayons and colored pencils. The class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Creative Drawing

Grades K-5. This class is for students who love to pencil sketch and draw and want to improve their drawing skills and attention to detail, including proportion, shading, light and dark tones, cross-hatching, and more. These skills will help students draw creatively. Students will appreciate the opportunities to draw with others and hone these skills together. This class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Realistic Drawing
Grades 3-5. For kids that love to draw and want to learn more! Builds up from the foundations of fine arts drawing. If you are ready for more than the basics, this is a great class for you. We will work with real artist's tools like conte chalk, charcoal and graphite. You will learn about line, composition, structure, proportion, shading, cross-hatching, light and shadow, and more. Students will draw still life as well as from images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 

Sketching

Grades 3-5. This class is for students who love to sketch and want to improve their skills and attention to detail. Learn to draw from direct observation, how to draw free form what the eye sees, sketching with quick easy techniques. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Cartoon Madness

Grades K-5. Cartooning Art of all types from funny animals to people, including Pokemon, Anime, Manga, Superhero Comic Book, caricature, and other styles of cartooning. You'll learn how to draw cartoony people, places, animals, and things, developing your own creatures and characters. Create different action poses, and start to put your characters into an environment, with lots of movement and expression. Learn about aces - eyes, noses and mouths and explore styles of hair. Work with pencils, colored pencils, inks, and paints.

This class is taught by a professional artist.

 
Pokemon and Video Art
Grades K-5. Learn how to draw characters from your favorite videos games and cartoons, done in the Japanese Anime / Manga style. You can also develop your own creatures and characters. Manga drawings are bold and dynamic, with lots of movement and expression. Learn about Manga faces - eyes, noses and mouths and explore styles of hair. Create different action poses, and start to put your characters into an environment. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Disney Princess Art
Grades K-5. Learn how to draw Princess characters from your favorite Disney cartoons, done in fashion art style. Various drawing and tracing methods are shown. Make beautiful drawings with markers and gel pens. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Drawing & Painting
Grades K-5. This class is for students who love to draw and paint, using both watercolors and acrylic paints. Children are taught how to draw in proportion, shade and blend, hold a patin brush correctly, how to use the brush strokes to paint smoothly, while also learning how to blend colors. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Creative / Realistic Painting

Grades 3-5. This class is for students who love to paint and want to learn more! Builds up from the foundations of fine arts painting. If you are ready for more than the basics, this is a great class for you. We will work with watercolors and acrylic paints. You will learn about color theory, composition, structure, proportion, light and shadow, and more. express mood through painting, while also learning how to blend colors, the use of different brush strokes for effect, and learn different styles of painting. Students will paint from still life as well as from images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Mural Painting

Grades 4-5. Learn how to make fantastic paintings on a wall. This will be a team effort. We will be painting directly on the school walls, while learning how to prepare the surface, how to get the design on the wall, how to make it proportionate, and how to use the correct panting techniques and color mixing. Each students gets to sign the completed mural masterpiece, which can be cherished throughout the years.

This class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Jewelry Making
Grades K-5. Make your own jewelry line! Learn how to make your own bracelets and necklaces, using stringing methods and choosing your own kind of beads and crystals. This class is taught by an experienced craftsman.
 
Pinterest Art

Grades 4-5. Discover and enjoy making amazing art projects found on the Pinterest website. Bright, beautiful and inspiring art from all around the world. Instruction will be given on how to create projects based on your favorite items found on Pinterest.

 
Science Animals
Grades K-5. Learn how to draw for science! This drawing class is for those young artists who love to look at the world through science and record it like an artist! We will explore drawing the way Leonardo daVinci and some of his contemporaries did, by exploring art in a scientific manner. We will draw while learning about line work, shadow and light, shapes and color. Create realistic anotomically correct animal drawings such as insects, dinosaurs, exotic animals, skeletons, and more.  
Puppies & Kittens - Animal and Pet Art
Grades K-5. Learn how to draw cute puppies, kittens, ducklings, and more! This art class is for those young artists who love to draw, paint, make 3D objects, clay projects, and all kinds of crafts that feature cute cuddly animals and pets.  
Fun with Clay
Grades K-2. Imagine creating life-like cupcakes…or food you like to eat such as a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs… an ice cream sundae or pepperoni pizza.  Creating meaningful art from clay brings happiness to young artists. This class focuses on basic clay hand- building skills. Students will learn to translate shape and form into works of art.  Students will also paint some of their creations to create one of a kind masterpieces!  This class will be taught by an experienced artist.
 
Sculpting
Grades 3-5. Make your own figurines and statuettes in detail with SculptingClay (Sculpey) and sculpting tools. Learn how to make more advanced three dimensional sculptures. Learn how to use wiring to make the basic form, apply Sculpey, then use hand tools to develop textures, and then paint your sculpture to finish the final product. This class is taught by a professional artist.

 
Sewing

Grades 2-5. Knowing how to sew opens up a whole new world of creativity for both boys and girls! Kids learn to sew by hand and machine while developing their creativity. Each week students create different fun sewing projects, such as Mr. Peanut, stuffed animals, and fantasy creatures.

As many teachers and doctors attest, improvement is noted in: Fine motor coordination, Reading, Math, Comprehension, Critical thinking, and problem-solving.

This class is taught by a professional.

 
Knitting & Crocheting

Grades 2-5. Kids fall in love with yarn! Learning to knit and crochet is fun, creative and benefits children in a variety of ways. With the current popularity of these crafts and the variety of yarns and cool projects available, it's also easy to interest them in learning.

As many teachers and doctors attest, improvement is noted in: Fine motor coordination, Reading, Math, Comprehension, Critical thinking, and problem-solving.

Each week students create different fun projects. This class is taught by a professional.

 
       
Fun with Food

Grades 2-5. Have your children learn their way around the kitchen and make some tasty dishes at this cooking classes. Featuring cupcake decorating, fun sandwiches and salads, design your own pizza, funny face pancakes, and more.

NOTE: Not recommended for children with food allergies.

 
Lego World

Grades K-2. Learn how to make a world of Lego creations! You will be able to develop many different types unique fun filled activities that teach focus, concentration, and creative skills using LEGO ® building toys.

 
Kid's Create

Grades 3-5. What do you get when you merge art and writing? Want to write and draw your own amazing story? Learn how to write and illustrate your own interesting and creative story. How to layout a story page, tell a story in sequence, design characters, and more. Kids will learn how to create and publish their own books, comics, online blogs, magazines, posters, YouTube videos, and more. Learn about all different types of publishing.

 
Creative Writing

Grades 3-5. Have fun using your imagination to write creative stories. We will play games that help your creative ideas flow!

Stretch your creativity by exploring all types of writing, such as prose, poetry, scriptwriting, fan fiction, mysteries, gothic, and creative journaling.

 
Art Journaling
Grades 3-5. Enjoy creating an art journal! An art journal is a journal in which you combine art and words to express yourself. Many great writing projects that combine illustrative art (doodling, drawing, inking, collage, and more) with expressive writing about your thoughts, feelings, poems, words of inspiration, and more.  
Super Heroes
Grades K-2. Non-stop, action-packed fun learning how to make your own Super Hero! Get ready for your own super adventures! You will explore the science behind super powers and you will design your own super-logos, masks, and more to create the perfect super hero secret identity. (Children are welcome to dress in their favorite Superhero costumes!)
 
Comic Book Art
Grades 3-5. For boys and girls. Learn the ins and outs of drawing comic book characters (both super heros and graphic novel characters) realistically and correctly, using proper anatomy, characterizations, action movements, facial features, hand gestures, and more. Also learn how to compose panels of art, proportion, shading, and more. Develop valuable skills in penciling, inking, and coloring. Drawing more life-like figures, using perspective in drawing, creating drama and story lines will be part of this class. 
 
Dinosaur Fun
Grades K-5. Learn all about the exciting world of Dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. Learn how fossils are made, how dinosaurs lived, and more while making amazing Dinosaur art projects: drawings, paintings, 3D art objects, clay sculptures, and so on.
 
News Reporter
Grades 3-5. Do you ever want to know what it would be like to be a News Reporter on TV? You will have fun how to research a news story, write it up concisely and clearly, and then do a presentation as if you were on TV or the radio delivering a news cast.
 
Power Speech
Grades 3-5. Do you ever get the jitters when you have to speak in front of people? You will have fun getting over the fear of speaking in class, so that the next time you have to do a presentation, you will have more confidence to motivate and inspire your listeners. Great Public Speaking class.
 
       
Amazing Adventures (Science, Engineering, and Aerospace)
Grades K-5. Learn cool and crazy stuff about science! Have great fun doing all kinds of amazing science experiments. Each class is themed around a particular area of science, including chemistry and nature studies. Children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves, like model volcanoes lava lamps, hurricanes in a bottle, and more. Also, learn fun, weird, and crazy facts about wild animals and the amazing things they do in nature. We will also be learning science for rockets and planes aerospace engineering, structural engineering, and more.
 
Girls Science Club
Grades 2-5. Engaging hands-on chemistry projects will encourage girls to be junior scientists. Unlock the secrets of the laboratory to create customized soaps, lip balms and lotions. Explore how chemists create formulas and make your own cool products to take home. Learn about chemical properties and reactions while making fizzing potions and scented solutions!
 
Grades 3-5. Ever wonder how ships, planes, buildings, roofs, bridges, and roads are made? If your child is happiest when he or she is building or making stuff, they can learn about the ever changing world of Technology and Engineering. Learn the fundamentals of structural engineering using Legos and other methods and why to think out of the box. Learn how to solve problems while having great fun making your own creations! Make individual or group projects.
 

Grades 2-5. Architectural Art and Design class. Create your own city, with building, roads, and other structures, using construction paper. If your young architect loves to build things and create, this is the right class!  Learn how to solve problems while having great fun making your own creations! Make individual or group projects. It is an introduction to architectural art and design, including drawing floor plans, measuring space, and creating paper models.  Combines art, science, and math, and fun!

 
Sky Pilot - Aerospace Science and Engineering

Grades 3-5. Learn about what makes rockets work and how planes can fly in the air and in space. Use the Engineering Design Process to design, create, test, and refine a variety of flying machines to create and test their own airplanes and rockets! Make really cool paper airplanes and rockets of all types. Learn the science behind why rockets and plances can fly. Engineer your own designs.

Taught by a licensed Pilot.

 
Chess Club

Learn how to play beginner's Chess! Learn what each Chess piece is allowed to do, how to understand strategy, how to conceptualize, and think ahead. Includes: Rules of the game. Taking Initiative. Various types of Chess Endings. Strategy and Ideas behind chess openings. Strategic ideas.

Playing chess has proven to help students enhance their creativity, improve their power of concentration, develop and expand critical thinking skills, boost memory and retention, and achieve superior academic performance.

Additionally, chess has been shown to augment problem-solving capabilities, provide cultural enrichment, advance intellectual maturity, and enhance self-esteem.

 
Media & Computer Arts Program

Digital Arts (Video/Photo)

Grades 3-5. Learn the fundamentals of digital photography and video making. Photography arts include digital editing procedures, focal point, basic composition, and exposure. Understand the importance of the visual images in communicating ideas and information. Using your cell phone or iPad, learn the best way to take cool digital photos that will impress your friends and family. Find the balance between light, composition, and exposure to create stunning digital images. Once photos are taken, they will hit the iPad and learn basic phot editing- how to edit their photos by manipulating images, color correction, and playing with different effects.

This class is taught by an experienced artist.
NOTE: Student must bring own Smart phone or iPad or gPad that has camera and video abilities. 

 
iPad /gPad Animation Arts
Grades 3-5. While working on a strong foundation in drawing, you can have a lot of fun using the iPad or gPad to explore your art!  Create stop motion and other animation videos on your own iPad or gPad, and design characters. This class is taught by an experienced artist. NOTE: Student must bring own gPad or iPad or iPad Mini and a stylus.  
       
Graphic Design
Grades 4-5. Learning the exciting art of designing text (typography) and art (graphics) for magazine covers, posters, and publicity materials! Graphic designers give form and function to text and images for all sorts of communications, from corporate identity and magazines to web sitesand posters, translating complex information into easily understood visual messages. Typography is an artistic expression of language, based on precise positioning and appearance. Typography is important no matter what the medium, and good design can be quickly lost with poor typography. Understand how to use lettering and typeset techniques creatively and effectively. Important for graphic design.
Note: Students must bring in own laptop or gPad or iPad.
 
Computer Art
Grades K-5. Create fun and interesting computer art using various programs for designing computer art. We foster creativity and applied learning while using mathematics and literacy skills. Learn computer art techniques. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
Note: Students must bring in own laptop or gPad or iPad.
 
Performance Arts Program
Dashing Divas

Recommended for Grades 2-5. Learn the basics of fashion designing by using templates and graphics aids, such as tissue paper and candy wrappers and whatever your imagination brings. Get a jumpstart on your fashion career and learn how to use your imagination to create own clothing line. Learn the ins and outs of creating your own style and becoming a stylist. Also, learn the exciting techniques of modeling. Learn how to do the model walk, how to pose, how to gesture with your hands, how to move naturally with attitude, and more. Great way to overcome shyness and have fun.

 
Makeup, Hair & Nails

Grades 2-5. Enhance your beauty! We will be doing fun and exciting nail art, applying eye and face makeup, hair braiding techniques, and more. Children will learn different and new ways to create some fantastic nail art. They will learn: Different techniques; How to use the different style of brushes; How to mix the polish; Apply the polish correctly; Create different designs; Basic nail areas; Best ways to look after your hands/fingers/nails. Also, Learn how to create own lip glosses and nail polish.

 
Theater Arts
Grades 3-5. Lights! Camera! Action! Lights! Camera! Action! Everything to do with performing onstage, from acting to singing and more. Have great fun using the imagination to pretend and act out scenes using your own creative ideas. Taught by a professional instructor.  
Performance Arts
Lights! Camera! Action! Does your child belong on America's Got Talent or The Voice? Have great fun being part of a Musical Theater group or create a dance routine. Classes are exciting and challenging for all students! Roles will be assigned for actors, scenery painters play writes, and production members. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Karaoke 4 Kids

Grades K-5. Have a great time singing along to your favorite songs. Practice vocal skills, performing in public / in front of an audience. Helps kids get over inhibitions.

Taught by a professional instructor.

 
Dance Arts
Grades K-5. Have fun and get fit too by learning dance fundamentals from Ballet, Lyrical, Jazz, Tap, and Hip Hop. Taught by a professional instructor.  
       
Song Writing Arts
Grades 4-5. Ever wonder what it takes to be a real singer song writer or rock star? Learn the art of effective song writing, which includes how to write catchy lyrics, choruses, verses, melodies, and more. Taught by a professional instructor. Students can bring in a guitar or bass.  
Wellness Arts Program
Yoga Meditation
Let's relax! Let's clear our minds so we can focus better using traditional beginner Yoga poses. Gentle movements to increase flexibility, strength, and well-being. Students are led through stretches, yoga postures, and breathing practices. Meditation techniques taught as well. Taught by a professional instructor. Please have your child bring a Yoga Mat.  
After School Studying Program
Homework Club
Children are aided in developing their homework skills and getting all their school work assignments completed efficiently and effectively. This class can also help children put together their science, history, and other school projects as well.  
Popcorn & Movie Time

Have your children relax after a long day / week in school watching their favorite movies. Each week we will have a selection of children films to watch, including Disney films, comedies, and cartoons. Also, drinks and popcorn will be served.

 
Strategy Games 4 Kids

While playing various games, children will learn how to think constructively and more efficiently and effectively, which will enable students to solve problems in a logical way, helping them in their math, science, and other classes. Games include Checkers, Chess, Battleship, Stratego, Risk, and others.

 

 

Ai Studios Grades 6-8 Class Descriptions
Class Name
Class Descriptions
Example
 
Art and Imagination Program
Drawing
Learn all kinds of drawing techniques using different mediums, including charcoals and colored pencils. These skills will help students draw realistically. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 

Sketching

This class is for students who love to sketch and want to improve their skills and attention to detail. Learn to draw from direct observation, how to draw free form what the eye sees, sketching with quick easy techniques. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Illustration
Learn the art of illustration. How to graphically explain an idea to illustrate a story or scene, whether realistically or stylistically rendered. Learn many different pencil drawing, inking, and painting techniques to prepare for a commercial art career.
 
Painting
Learn how to paint using acrylic type of paint. Learn color management, composition, perspective, brush techniques, and more. Create landscapes, portrait, still lifes, and realistic scenes. Have fun while you develop your own style of painting. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Sculpting
Make your own figurines and statuettes in detail with Sculpty Clay and sculpting tools. Learn how to make more advanced three dimensional sculptures. Learn how to use wiring to make the basic form, apply Sculpty, then use hand tools to develop textures, and then paint your sculpture to finish the final product. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Paper Craft
NEW! Make amazing 3-D paper sculptures. Each class we will put together a beautiful and fun paper craft project. We will make realistic looking animals, pets, exotic objects, buildings, and more that will look like full color statuettes, but made out of folding and cut paper from super detailed print-outs. This class is taught by a professional artist.
   
Fashion Design
Create your own clothing line! Learn how to illustrate your fashions and accessories. Get a jumpstart on your fashion career and learn how to draw the 9-headed figure used in the fashion industry. Class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Jewelry Design
Have fun designing and making your own jewelry style, learn new techniques and methods for making jewelry that is beautiful and one of a kind. This class is taught by a experienced craftsman.
 
Interior Design
Learn how to re-design your room in a better way, like a Professional Interior Designer! Combine art and engineering skills tounderstand how to design rooms to be more useful and better looking. Make your bedroom over with its own theme, design the layout, and how everything should look.
 
Architecture
Learn how architects design buildings. Use your imagination to design and draw floor plans, trace furniture onto the plans, and build a detailed 3-D model of a house or building.
 
Why Write?
Understand the purpose of writing and how to be a better writer.
 
Creative Writing
Use your imagination to write creative stories, using different kinds of exercises that help your creative ideas flow! Explore prose, poetry, scriptwriting, and creative non-fiction, and stretch your creativity.
 
Journalism
Learn the fundamentals of writing news articles and what makes an interesting and well written article that communicates efficiently and effectively. Understand about organizing the facts in an article by order of importance or interest and not chronologically.
 
Power Speech
How to communicate efficiently and effectively for pubic speaking. Write and delivery speeches that are motivating and inspiring to the listeners.
 
Wild Science
Learn cool stuff about science! Each class is themed around a particular area of science. Children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves, like model rockets, lava lamps, hurricanes, and more.
 
Weird Chemistry
Action packed science class with classic experiments and crazy concoctions. Have great fun doing all kinds of amazing chemistry experiments. Children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions.
   
Engineering
Learn how science, technology, engineering, and math can come together in a fun and challenging way. Understand how machines are constructed and designed using a variety of hands-on projects.
 
Rockets & Planes
Learn about what makes rockets work and how planes can fly in the air and in space. Use the Engineering Design Process to design, create, test, and refine a variety of flying machines to create and test their own air-powered rockets, and assemble a parachute that actually takes flight!
 
Media & Computer Arts Program
Photography I
Learn the fundamentals of photography, including digital editing procedures, basic composition and exposure, and the use of cameras. Understand the importance of the visual images in communicating ideas and information. Using your cell phone or gPad or iPad camera, learn the best way to take cool digital photos that will impress your friends and family. Find the balance between light, composition, and exposure to create stunning digital images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
NOTE: Student must bring own Smart phone or gPad or iPad that has camera abilities.
 
Animation
Create stop motion animation videos by writing your own scripts, creating storyboards, and designing characters. Explore stop motion animation while using multiple types of media including clay, paper, toys, and found objects. This class is taught by an experienced artist. NOTE: Student must bring own gPad or iPad or iPad Mini.
 
Video Production
Become your own film director! Learn video editing techniques. Learn how to script, film, and edit your own short films; everything from the basics on producing video to how to be successful as a producer.
NOTE: Student must bring own gPad or iPad or iPad Mini.
 
Wellness Arts Program
Yoga
Relax and get into shape at the same time! Yoga makes the body strong and flexible. Gentle movements to increase flexibility, strength, and well-being. Students are led through stretches, yoga postures, and breathing practices, then guided into deep relaxation using visual imagery. Learn yoga poses to tone the whole body, strengthen muscles, improve posture, and increase your energy. Please bring your own mat. Taught by a professional instructor.
Please have your child bring a Yoga Mat.
 
Martial Arts
Have fun with ancient traditional Chinese Kung Fu movements that are good for fitness as well as self defense. Learn short and simple routines that can be performed for show. Kung Fu is different from Karate or Tae Kwon Do as it is free flowing and circular in movement, and teaches how to be evasive. Taught by a professional instructor.
 

 

Ai Studios Grades 9-12 Class Descriptions
Class Name
Class Descriptions
Example
 
Art and Imagination Program
Drawing I
Learn all kinds of pencil drawing techniques using different mediums, including charcoals and colored pencils. Understand about line, shape, form, composition, proportion, perspective, and other concepts through the use of pencil and pen and ink. The class is taught by an experienced artist.
 

Drawing II

Learn advanced pencil drawing techniques that enhance your skills and abilities to creatively design and illustrate an image, using different mediums, including charcoals and colored pencils. Learn about anatomy, structures, and textures that give your drawings a real sense of life. The class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Color Theory
Understand the effect that colors have in artwork and beyond. Learn the different aspects of color and light perception such as hue, lightness and chroma, brightness and saturation, visual perception of color mixing paints, and additive and subtractive color mixing.Helps you become a better painter and artist.
 
Painting I
Learn how to paint using acrylic type of paint.Learn color management, composition, perspective, brush techniques, and more. Create landscapes, portrait, still lifes, and realistic scenes. Have fun while you develop your own style of painting. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Graphic Design
Learning the exciting art of designing text (typography) and art (graphics) for magazine covers, posters, and publicity materials! Graphic designers give form and function to text and images for all sorts of communications, from corporate identity and magazines to web sitesand posters, translating complex information into easily understood visual messages. Typography is an artistic expression of language, based on precise positioning and appearance. Typography is important no matter what the medium, and good design can be quickly lost with poor typography. Understand how to use lettering and typeset techniques creatively and effectively. Important for graphic design.
 
Sculpting
Creating sculptures in detail with Sculpty Clay and sculpting tools. Learn how to make more advanced three dimensional sculptures. Learn how to use wiring to make the basic form, apply Sculpty, and then use hand tools to develop textures and finish the final product. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Sewing
Knowing how to sew opens up a whole new world of creativity! Learn to sew by hand and machine while developing your creativity. Each week students create different fun sewing projects. This class is taught by a professional.
 
Fashion Design
Get a jumpstart on your fashion career and learn how to draw the 9-headed figure used in the fashion industry. Learn how to illustrate your fashions and accessories. Create your own clothing line! This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Recycle Clothing
Remake, remodel! Weave, snip, stitch, and paint your old clothes into something unique and original. The favorite shirt you wore so much it now has holes can be recycled into something new.In this class we will go over stitches, measuring, creating a basic pattern, and experiment with different materials for transforming an object.
 
Interior Design
Learn how to re-design rooms in a better way, like a Professional Interior Designer! Combine art and engineering skillsto understand how to design rooms to be more useful and better looking. Make rooms over with their own theme, design the layout, and how everything should look and why.
 
Feng Shui
Learn the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui and how designers have been using it for thousands of years. Learn how to apply these ancient principles to help design spaces that are more harmonious, less cluttered, and reinforce positive energy. Understand how to use Feng Shui remedies to achieve personal and design goals.
 
Architectural Art
Understand the visual, functional, and compositional possibilities associated with architectural design within our physical, natural and social environments. Learn about the process of designing and making visual and physical changes to our environment to enhance its quality and our experience of it.
 
Renaissance Art
Practice drawing and painting like the great Renaissance artists! What made Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelogreat artists that still influence us today? Learn how Renaissance art showed joy in human beauty and life's pleasures. Understand how Renaissance art is more lifelike than in the art of the Middle Ages and how Renaissance artists studied perspective, or the differences in the way things look when they are close to something or far away and painted in a way that showed these differences to have depth.
 
Weird History
Learn about funny, strange, bizarre, and outright weird historical events. Fun class that sparks a passion for reading and history through reviewing oddities, weirdities, crudities, and rudities from the past.
 
Weird Science
Learn crazy experiments, strange facts, and more about the wonderful world of science. Explore different science experiments that will measure action, reaction, and results. Exciting experiments and hands-on activities that help develop critical thinking skills and inspire a passion for science.
 
Art of Comix
Learn how to effectively create graphic novels, which is telling a great story through words and pictures. Understand different methods and styles of storytelling involving both art and text. Learn how to write a script, creatively draw out the story telling panels, and create the lettering.
 
Art of Publicity
How to efficiently and effectively create winning public relations and publicity campaigns. Understand how to package public relations information. Learn about writing a press bio; writing a topic summary; the art of the press release; the basics of the op-ed; and organizing the short informational feature.
 
Research Writing
Use research methods to understand and communicate about a subject effectively. Learn how to implement the critical reading and thinking skills and strategies necessary to the practice of persuasive research writing. Write articles that use well documented and credible sources, are correctly footnoted, and are well structured.
 
Journalism Arts
Go deeper into the art of writing the best news stories. Learn clear writing, how to prioritize and synthesize information, perform under deadline pressure, and compose for print and the internet. Produce stories that are suitable for publication in a daily newspaper.
 
Write to Inspire
Want to write an unforgettable moving novel that is hard to put down? Understand what makes for inspiring writing, what stirs the emotions, and what captures people's attention. Explore how to write in a moving and persuasive way.
 
The Art of the Book
Learn how to design and create books for publication, from cover to cover. How to do page layouts, organize the text, how to add the graphics, create the book cover, editing tools, and how to do all the set up work necessary to publish a book. Note: Student must bring laptop or iPad for this class.
 
Public Speaking
Unlock your potential by discovering the secrets of successful speakers. Conquer fear of public speaking. Learn to manage stage fright with gradual exposure in manageable steps. Learn effective methods for public speaking.
 
Shark Tank Jr.
Look for problems to solve or appliances, toys, or games that can be improved. We will brainstorm possible solutions, research prior examples and materials and design, build and test working models. Every step of the process is to be carefully recorded in their Notebooks. The students will realize that there is usually a lot of work to get to a finished product.
 
Media & Computer Arts Program
Photo-Graphics
Learn the basic fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop. You will learn how to use Photoshop tools to edit images. Learn how to manage and edit photos. Create your own digital art by manipulating hand-drawn sketches within Photoshop. You can create comic strips, digital collages, and digital images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
NOTE: Student must bring own Smart phone or gPad or iPad that has camera abilities.
 
Photography II
Learn to recognize quality photographs, both technically and aesthetically, and how to make, manage, and edit photographs with digital cameras, media, computers, and software. Understand the planning and shooting of photographs for print and web versions of newspapers and magazines, This class is taught by an experienced artist.
NOTE: Student must bring own Smart phone or gPad or iPad that has camera abilities.
 
Studio Art Basics
Learn about the world of digital art and what programs to use for creative and effective artwork development. How to use the most important software programs for creating and developing imaginative graphic arts all digitally. Learn to combine your artistic ability with the technology and mechanics behind today's design processes.
NOTE: Student must bring own laptop or gPad or iPad or iPad Mini.
 
Motion Graphics
Ever wonder how the animated graphics are made at the beginning of a film? Explore the fundamental principles of motion graphics—a blend of typography art and computer technology that creates dynamic visuals for the screen. Learn the process of creating effective titles and sequences for broadcast graphics, film titles, and commercials. Understand how to create engaging visual imagery, to generate unique ideas, and to apply color palettes that support a concept.
NOTE: Student must bring own laptop or gPad or iPad or iPad Mini.
 
Webpage Design
Interested in learning how to build web sites or improve your web design skills? Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of web sites.Create dynamic web sitesthat not only look great but are easy to navigate. NOTE: Student must bring own laptop or gPad or iPad or iPad Mini.
 
Performance Arts Program
Ballet
Have fun and get fit too by learning Ballet dance fundamentals. Taught bya professional instructor.
 
Hip Hop
Have fun and get fit too by learning Hip-Hop dance foundamentals. Taughtby a professional instructor.
 
Tap and Jazz
Have fun and get fit too by learning Jazz and Tap dance fundamentals. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Theater Arts I
Lights! Camera! Action! Have great fun being part of a theater production team. Classes are exciting and challenging for all students! Roles will be assigned for actors, scenery painters play writes, and production members. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Theater Arts II

Lights! Camera! Action! Have great fun being part of a theater production team. Classes are exciting and challenging for all students! Roles will be assigned for actors, scenery painters play writes, and production members. Taught by a professional instructor.

 
Song Writing
Do you want to entertain people? Learn the art of creative song writing! Learn how to structure and arrange songs, create “hooks,” craft lyrics, manipulate melody, rhythm and harmony, merge words with music, and write toward differentgenre. Make exciting sounding music as you explore lyric writing and song construction while also touching on musical concepts.
 
Wellness Arts Program
Yoga
Relax and get into shape at the same time! Yoga makes the body strong and flexible. Gentle movements to increase flexibility, strength, and well-being. Students are led through stretches, yoga postures, and breathing practices, then guided into deep relaxation using visual imagery. Learn yoga poses to tone the whole body, strengthen muscles, improve posture, and increase your energy. Please bring your own Yoga Mat. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Guided Meditation
Meditation is a highly effective de-stress practice, since it gives relaxation. Once the body is calm, then the end result is the mind is calmer, more focus, more energized, and more able to function. Learn how deep breathing can help you deal with stress. Guided imagery is used to develop your imagination and ultimately feel better. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Healing Energy
Become much stronger and healthier from the inside out. Learn how to strengthen your body and enhance your well being while doing Chinese Yoga (Daoyin) postures, Neigong and Qigong (Energy Work) movements. Similar to Tai Chi, as it is free flowing and circular in movement. Build balance, strength, coordination, and body awareness from head to toe. Taught by a professional instructor.