Proudly Offering a High-Quality Educational Arts Program to Children in Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Morrisville and Surrounding Areas.
Our Studio
KidzArt Studio is a creative space for children in grades K-12 to learn and explore art through classes, camps, and workshops. Our program is taught by experienced artists with a background in art education. Our projects are designed to be fun, engaging, and tailored to age group and skill level.
Our Teaching Methods
At KidzArt Studio, we embrace and center our program around both process and project-based teaching methods.
What is Process Art?
Process art is a child-led experience where children have complete freedom of artistic expression. Process art focuses entirely on the process of art-making, never about the end product, or putting expectations on the child to create art a specific way, or deliver a specific end result. Because there are no guidelines, process art becomes an open-ended, creative and enjoyable experience for children to freely explore their artistic interests - resulting in artwork that is unique and entirely the child’s own.
Benefits of process art include:
- Self-confidence and self-expression
- Creative thinking skills
- Problem solving
- Artistic skills
What is Project-Based Art?
Project (or product) based art focuses on a final outcome. The final outcome is similar among all students in the class, with varying changes based on each child’s individual artistic styles and vision. Project based art classes are step-by-step, and involve teaching one or more techniques that children can easily learn and apply to their artwork. As a group, children create the same project but are encouraged to apply techniques in ways they choose. Children are encouraged to be creative and apply their unique style through individual color choices, details, and modifications.
Benefits of project-based art include:
- Easy way for children to learn and apply specific techniques (ex: drawing, painting)
- Self confidence
- Creative thinking skills
- Problem Solving
- Artistic skills
Our playgroups and early elementary classes (preschool-1st) generally consists of a more process-based art experience. Our classes for 2nd grade-8th grade students generally are product focuses, however, we do incorporate process art experiences to help each student better explore their creativity without parameters.
Benefits of Art Classes.
Research has shown that art helps build a foundation for academic excellence. Whether your child is interested in math, science, engineering, or any other subject areas - being able to “think outside the box” helps children excel in their area of interests by looking at problems and solutions through a different lens.
