Art for Children

Art for Children offers studio art sessions where children do drawing, painting, paper machè, collage, building, costume design, fabric details and outlay, dummy design, and mark making. Summer Art Camp sessions are also part of the program. The studio uses a wide variety of natural and man-made materials, including paint pigment and brushes, Sharpie pens, Microns, graphite drawing pencils, and sometimes pastels, and supplies for beginner and intermediate students are included in the class prices.

• Schedule: Weekly 60-minute studio art classes with options on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays during Fall 2026 and Spring 2027, plus Summer Art Camp sessions that run Tuesday through Friday mornings from 9:00am to noon
• Price: Classes with 4–10 children cost $140 per month for a weekly 60-minute class, tuition of $140 per month is due monthly, the drop-in rate is $25, and a non-refundable $25 deposit is required to save a spot for Summer Art Camp; payments can be made with cash, checks, Venmo, and Charter School Funds from Harvest Ridge School

The studio is described as an art studio, a creative space, and an atelier, and as a place to begin making drawings and paintings of life as each person is seeing it, where participants talk, paint, laugh, sometimes share a poem or a story, work to give dignity to their own creative process and to the ways that others make their art, learn to see details, learn to see well, and learn to take longer spaces of time to look. It is also described as an atelier, a work space within a community where human beings come to create, and it uses a wide variety of natural and man-made materials for artistic expression. April is designated as the month of Dummy Design, when each young artist creates a character with an art dummy, and private sessions are created with a specific but gentle theme for children experiencing emotional anxiety or grief. Summer Art Camp offers eight weeks of sessions, and attending Art Camp assures a reserved spot in weekly studio sessions during the school year; if a Monday holiday is missed, make-up sessions are allowed by joining Tuesday or Wednesday classes. All supplies in studio art classes are included in the prices for beginner and intermediate students, and a Purchase Order from the charter school must be created before the first art class attended when using Charter School Funds from Harvest Ridge School.

The studio leader has studied the Reggio Emilia pedagogy in Early Childhood Education options and works at the Crocker Art Museum. Art for Children was filmed in a documentary in June 2022 and was referred to as an atelier, and the studio leader has been creating this studio space for a decade. The studio follows the California schools schedule and takes every legal holiday prescribed on the calendar.

Last updated August 10, 2026.