Now booking founding cohorts · Fall 2026

Find your
outline.

Eight studio sessions where a teenager makes something that is entirely theirs — and then stands in front of a room they invited and talks about it.

Ages 13–18 · Brevard County, Florida · $400 tuition, every material included

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School grades you.Sports rank you.Everywhere a teenager goes, somebody else decides who they are.A blank page doesn't.Make a mark nobody asked for, and it tells you something no grade, no coach, no feed ever will.We built eight sessions around that moment.

These are not art skills. They are life skills. Art is the training ground — and at the end of it, there is a finished thing on an easel with your teenager's name on the label.

Here is exactly what your teen walks out with.

8
90-minute studio sessions, weekly — or twice weekly over four weeks in summer
4
mediums tried for real: charcoal, acrylic, collage, air-dry clay
1
original finished piece, chosen and planned by your teen
1
gallery showcase, presented to the guests they invited themselves

Ten teens minimum to run, fourteen typical, sixteen maximum. Junior Studio 13–15 and Senior Studio 16–18, never combined. Two adults in the room for every minute of every session.

Session One · Charcoal

The first mark

It starts with charcoal on a big sheet of paper, standing at an easel — because an easel tells a teenager something a desk never has: this is real, and you're the one making it. Nobody says what it should look like. That's the point.

Every session ends with a written reflection. Session one asks:"What did your hand want to do that your brain tried to stop?"
Charcoal strokes on paper
Charcoal Session 01
Session Two · Acrylic

Permission to be wrong

Acrylic covers ground fast, and it forgives. Painting over a mistake is the first time many teens have ever revised anything without being told to — and some who didn't connect with drawing come alive here.

Session two asks:"What did you want to change — and did you?"
A thick swatch of cobalt acrylic paint
Acrylic Session 02
Session Three · Collage

The eye, not the hand

Collage is choosing, not drawing — tearing, arranging, deciding what belongs. Teens who felt clumsy with a pencil sometimes discover the talent was never in their hands. It's in what they notice.

Session three asks:"What did you leave out — and what does that say about what you're drawn to?"
A torn piece of red paper
Collage Session 03
Session Four · Air-dry clay

Both hands

Clay pulls the work off the page and into three dimensions. It sits right before the choice on purpose — a teen who walks in having just been surprised by themselves chooses differently.

Session four asks:"What was different about making something you could hold?"
Layers of terracotta, cream and sage clay
Clay Session 04
Session Five · The choice

The decision that isn't about art

No new medium this week. Each teen reads back four sessions of their own reflections, chooses the medium that felt most like them, and plans one original piece. It looks like an art decision. It is an identity decision: the practiced skill of knowing what you like, and being able to say why.

Charcoal
01 Charcoal
Acrylic
02 Acrylic
Collage
03 Collage
Clay
04 Clay
"Which one felt like you?"
Sessions Six & Seven · The build

Coming back to it

Two sessions to make it real. Starting something is easy — returning to it on the day it gets difficult is the skill this program actually teaches. Facilitators ask questions, keep everyone moving, and stay out of the way.

Sessions six and seven ask:"What almost made you quit — and what got you back to the easel?"
Session Eight · The showcase

The room they invited.

The finished work stands on the same easels they've used since the first mark. A printed label. An artist statement in their own words. And an audience each teen chose — because teens speak more honestly to people they invited. For many, this cohort is the first community they picked rather than inherited.

They initiated.They persisted.They finished.They presented.
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After the eighth session

What they take with them

The confidence to try without a guaranteed outcome.The discipline to return to something difficult.The self-knowledge to make intentional choices.The courage to be seen through what you make.

The final reflection card, at the close of the showcase, asks one question:

"What do you want to make next?"

When a teen walks out already planning the next thing — that is the outcome we exist for.

Find Your Outline
Enroll

One price. Everything included.

You bring a teenager. We bring the studio — the easels, the charcoal, the paint, the clay, the labels, the showcase, and two adults who have planned every one of the eight sessions.

$400
Tuition · all eight sessions
Pay in full, or two payments of $200. Founding-cohort rate of $300 for the first two cohorts. Step Up For Students (PEP / FES-UA) direct pay accepted.
2 seats
Outline Seats · every cohort
Two seats in every cohort are held, free, for teens whose families cannot pay. One page to request, no income paperwork, an answer within five days.
Every material, every session
Easels, boards and setup
Eight written reflections
The medium choice and build
The gallery showcase and label
A written summary of what your teen did
Who
Junior Studio 13–15 and Senior Studio 16–18, never combined.
When
Eight 90-minute sessions — weekly across eight weeks, or twice weekly across four weeks in summer. Founding cohorts from fall 2026; dates announced by email.
Where
Host co-ops, churches, community rooms and youth centers across Brevard County.
Paying
A Stripe link once we confirm a seat. Full refund up to 7 days before Session One; after that, credit toward a future cohort.
Minimum
Ten teens to run. Below ten we move the date, not the standard.
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The first cohorts, the first showcase, the first finished pieces — a short note every few weeks as it happens. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

Host a cohort

We bring the entire studio to you.

The program runs inside homeschool co-ops, churches, community rooms, youth centers and — as the relationship allows — military family programs across Brevard County. A multi-purpose room is all it takes.

You provide
  • A room for eight sessions — free, or tell us the room fee
  • Water and a sink
  • Help with sign-ups
We provide
  • All materials and easels
  • Two facilitators, screened before they set foot in your building
  • Setup and breakdown, every session
  • The showcase
  • A written impact report within thirty days
  • One Outline Seat for you to nominate
Booking
Cohorts are booked six to eight weeks ahead. Tell us your term and we'll work back from it.
Sessions
Eight sessions of 90 minutes — once a week across eight weeks, or twice a week across four weeks in summer.
Cohorts
Ten teens minimum, fourteen typical, sixteen maximum. Junior Studio 13–15 and Senior Studio 16–18, never combined.
Cost
Families enroll directly at $400 a teen; your organization pays nothing to host. If your teens can't pay, we bring seat sponsors — see Sponsor.
Safety
Two adults are present for every minute of every session, and no teen is ever alone with one adult. Before a cohort runs at your site, both facilitators complete a Level 2 background screening, and liability and abuse-prevention coverage is in force naming your site on the certificate.
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The one-pager is made for forwarding — to your board, your director, or whoever says yes.

Questions

The things parents actually ask

Does my teen need to be good at art?
No. Talent and prior experience are irrelevant here — the program is built on process, not product. Plenty of participants arrive convinced they can't draw. That is not a problem we're trying to fix; it's often the reason the eight sessions land as hard as they do.
What does it cost, and what's included?
$400 tuition for all eight sessions — every material, the easels, the showcase, and a written summary of what your teen did. Pay in full or in two payments of $200; the first two cohorts run at a $300 founding rate. Step Up For Students (PEP/FES-UA) direct pay is accepted. Two Outline Seats in every cohort are held for teens whose families can't pay — one page, no income paperwork.
What is an Outline Seat?
A free seat held for a teen whose family cannot pay. Two are held in every cohort. Families ask with one page — no income paperwork — and get an answer within five days. Local businesses fund them as Seat Sponsors at $400 a seat, and get their name at the showcase, on the cohort page, and in the impact summary; when no sponsor steps up, we fund them ourselves.
How long does the whole thing take?
Eight sessions of 90 minutes. Most cohorts run once a week across eight weeks; summer cohorts run twice a week across four weeks. The showcase is the eighth session.
What if we can't fill fourteen seats?
Ten is the minimum to run. Below ten, the peer group that makes the program work doesn't hold together, so we'd move your start date or roll the group into the next intake rather than run it thin.
What are your safety standards?
Two adults are present for every minute of every session — no teen is ever alone with one adult. Before any cohort runs, both facilitators complete a Level 2 background screening, and liability and abuse-prevention coverage is in force naming the host site on the certificate. We will show you both before your teen's first session.
What happens if a teen misses a session?
Up to two absences and they still complete the program. Session five is the exception — that's where each teen chooses their medium and plans their piece, so a missed session five gets a fifteen-minute catch-up with a facilitator before session six. The showcase can't be skipped; if a family truly can't make it, we arrange another moment within the week so no one finishes without presenting.
Can we run 13-year-olds and 17-year-olds together?
No. A thirteen-year-old and a seventeen-year-old are in genuinely different places, and mixing them means facilitating to neither. Junior Studio and Senior Studio run separately, always.
Do parents attend?
Only the showcase, and only by invitation — each teen chooses who to invite. That's deliberate. Teens present more honestly to people they picked than to a room of strangers.
Are you a nonprofit?
No. The Outline Project is a veteran-owned, family-run Florida company. We chose a company over a charity so we could start now, keep the standard high, and answer to the families in the room rather than to a grant cycle. Sponsorships are marketing purchases, not donations, and we say so plainly. Two seats in every cohort are held for teens who cannot pay.
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Parents
Email us your teen's age and where you are, and we'll tell you what's running near you — or gather ten families and we'll bring the studio to you.
Founders
Jonathan and Vivian Robelo — a U.S. Air Force veteran and a professional graphic designer. Married, Latino, Brevard County. Both found their footing through their own creative practice, and both are in the room every session.