Valley Art Workshop Youth Program
Valley Art Workshop (Collier House), 5210 Collier Pl, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
About
Valley Art Workshop Youth Program offers drawing, painting, design, art history, printmaking, paper crafts, and work with environmental subjects. Students can also take part in landscape painting, figure drawing, life drawing, an intaglio workshop, and a cyanotype class.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Weekly pre-teen, teen, and college-prep classes with Sunday and Friday time options in four-week sessions
• Price: $160/4 weeks for Pre-Teen classes; $160/4 weeks for Teen classes; $160/4 weeks for College-Prep classes
The Valley Art Workshop Youth Program is led by Director Miles Lewis and opened in 2009. The program describes its approach as holistic, with kids developing drawing and painting skills while sharpening critical and creative faculties, expanding cultural literacy, learning the nature of design, and finding their place as communicators and thinkers. The program has received city recognition for involvement in environmentally focused educational arts programming and collaborates on educational programming with 11:11 A Creative Collective and Reseda Rising, with students assisting in public art projects such as the Kiss The Ground mural by 11:11 A Creative Collective. Unique features include free trials for all weekly instructed classes, age listings used as guidelines with flexibility for students to try whichever time is most convenient, a class structure that operates like a college program with high expectations and a collegial atmosphere, and open community life drawing with Gallery Girls. Required materials for pre-teen, teen, and college-prep classes are a sketchbook, pencil, and pen.
Former students describe experiences such as learning perspective and cross-hatching used later in illustration and architecture work, being among other young artists, receiving support and mentorship, being introduced to mediums like printmaking that led to studying graphic design, building portfolios used for art school applications, and gaining tools to become working artists. Testimonials also mention learning to see beauty and gesture in many things, preparation for working with other creatives, and feeling supported during creative discomfort.
Last updated March 27, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Weekly pre-teen, teen, and college-prep classes with Sunday and Friday time options in four-week sessions
• Price: $160/4 weeks for Pre-Teen classes; $160/4 weeks for Teen classes; $160/4 weeks for College-Prep classes
The Valley Art Workshop Youth Program is led by Director Miles Lewis and opened in 2009. The program describes its approach as holistic, with kids developing drawing and painting skills while sharpening critical and creative faculties, expanding cultural literacy, learning the nature of design, and finding their place as communicators and thinkers. The program has received city recognition for involvement in environmentally focused educational arts programming and collaborates on educational programming with 11:11 A Creative Collective and Reseda Rising, with students assisting in public art projects such as the Kiss The Ground mural by 11:11 A Creative Collective. Unique features include free trials for all weekly instructed classes, age listings used as guidelines with flexibility for students to try whichever time is most convenient, a class structure that operates like a college program with high expectations and a collegial atmosphere, and open community life drawing with Gallery Girls. Required materials for pre-teen, teen, and college-prep classes are a sketchbook, pencil, and pen.
Former students describe experiences such as learning perspective and cross-hatching used later in illustration and architecture work, being among other young artists, receiving support and mentorship, being introduced to mediums like printmaking that led to studying graphic design, building portfolios used for art school applications, and gaining tools to become working artists. Testimonials also mention learning to see beauty and gesture in many things, preparation for working with other creatives, and feeling supported during creative discomfort.
Last updated March 27, 2026.
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