Now booking founding cohorts · Fall 2026
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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.
Now booking founding cohorts · Fall 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The final reflection card, at the close of the showcase, asks one question:
When a teen walks out already planning the next thing — that is the outcome we exist for.
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.
The first cohorts, the first showcase, the first finished pieces — a short note every few weeks as it happens. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
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.
The one-pager is made for forwarding — to your board, your director, or whoever says yes.
Families pay tuition. Two seats in every cohort are held for teens whose families can't — and local businesses fund them. Your name goes on the wall of a room full of families in your own county, next to work they will photograph.
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