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Eleven, twelve, thirteen. The age when the world begins to ask harder questions — of you, and of everything you thought you understood. It is the age when complexity arrives, and with it, the opportunity to develop your own ways of seeing, thinking, and moving through things that don't yet have a clear answer.
Every session opens with an artist — their life, their practice, their particular way of solving the problem of how to make something meaningful. Not as a history lesson, but as a living conversation: here is how someone before you wrestled with the same questions you are wrestling with now, and here is what they made from that. Then we carry that inspiration into our own work. Young people enter those ideas as collaborators, working across charcoal, acrylic, collage, and mixed media, developing their own visual language alongside artists who are inside the same process of inquiry.
What builds over a term is more than a portfolio. It is a set of capacities that travel well beyond the studio — the ability to hold complexity without rushing toward a simple answer, to develop a habit of looking and making and looking again, to move through difficulty with curiosity rather than frustration. Young people at this age are navigating enormous social and emotional terrain. Creative practice is one of the most powerful tools they can develop for doing that with confidence and with a strong sense of who they are.
*All courses are taught in English.
*All materials provided
Ages: 11-13
Teacher: Chuva Featherstone [Michael Sherman as substitute as needed]
Time: weekday afternoons, 15:00 - 16:30
Duration: 5 weeks
Eleven, twelve, thirteen. The age when the world begins to ask harder questions — of you, and of everything you thought you understood. It is the age when complexity arrives, and with it, the opportunity to develop your own ways of seeing, thinking, and moving through things that don't yet have a clear answer.
Every session opens with an artist — their life, their practice, their particular way of solving the problem of how to make something meaningful. Not as a history lesson, but as a living conversation: here is how someone before you wrestled with the same questions you are wrestling with now, and here is what they made from that. Then we carry that inspiration into our own work. Young people enter those ideas as collaborators, working across charcoal, acrylic, collage, and mixed media, developing their own visual language alongside artists who are inside the same process of inquiry.
What builds over a term is more than a portfolio. It is a set of capacities that travel well beyond the studio — the ability to hold complexity without rushing toward a simple answer, to develop a habit of looking and making and looking again, to move through difficulty with curiosity rather than frustration. Young people at this age are navigating enormous social and emotional terrain. Creative practice is one of the most powerful tools they can develop for doing that with confidence and with a strong sense of who they are.
*All courses are taught in English.
*All materials provided
Ages: 11-13
Teacher: Chuva Featherstone [Michael Sherman as substitute as needed]
Time: weekday afternoons, 15:00 - 16:30
Duration: 5 weeks