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Our inspiring fun art adventure for Toddlers offers a chance for your little one to get absorbed in the wonderful world of Art! Unlike other Toddler Classes, our one-hour engaging adventure offers budding artists the chance to explore a wide varied array of authentic artistic materials & learn professional techniques. Our adventure is both educational...

In this class, kids will learn basic sketching skills. This includes being able to correctly draw sketch marks to form a shape instead of free-drawing, knowing how light a pencil should be held, and being able to finalize a sketch and convert it to a complete drawing. They will start with drawing basic 3-dimentional shapes and adding definition to...

Teen Focus on Painting is designed students Grade 6-12 to engage in art making through creative projects that stimulate imagination and help develop important artistic techniques and observational skills in a fun and progressive environment.  Students will explore painting techniques from underpainting and glazing to palette knife painting while...

Focus on Cartooning is designed for students in grades 3rd through 5th who want an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of cartooning and illustration through fun projects that stimulate their imagination. Students create original characters, dynamic narratives, and compelling storylines. Projects include comic strips, comic books,...

Art Start is designed for pre-k students, ages 3-5, to experience art making through interactive projects in a hands-on environment that stimulates creativity and independence. Our young artists develop a higher level of critical thinking and problem solving skills through learning about elements of art making and art history. Diverse projects emphasize basic...

Teen Focus on Manga allows students to develop skills across illustration, character design and storytelling while concentrating on traditional and contemporary Japanese Manga style. Students use illustration markers, Sakura pens, Kuretaka ink nibs and watercolors to create inspiring artworks that represent their unique artistic voice inspired...

This class allows students to become well-rounded artists by shuffling drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media. Students engage in One River School’s innovative curriculum inspired by contemporary artists that stimulates their imagination and helps them develop essential technical skills in a fun classroom environment.

This class is a core digital program for kids that opens up the world of digital art making by exposing young artists to the tools, software and inspiration to make art on a virtual canvas.  Students develop their digital drawing skills by exploring layering, opacity, blending modes and other digital fundamentals using Sketchbook, Adobe Photoshop...

Students engage in art making through creative projects that stimulate imagination and help develop important artistic techniques in a fun classroom environment. Our project-based approach allows students to explore a variety of media and subject matter. Projects shuffle across drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media Classes...

This class is designed for students Grades 3-5 who want to become experienced drawers with strong technical skills. Students learn the principles of using line, tone, light, texture, composition, spacial depth and perspective through fun and engaging projects drawing portraits, animals, landscapes, still lives and imaginative imagery.

Teen Art Shuffle is is designed for students to engage in art making through creative projects that stimulate imagination and help develop important artistic techniques and observational skills in a fun and progressive environment.  Students shuffle projects across drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media monthly. ...

Teen Digital Art Shuffle is One River School’ core digital art and design class that brings fine art and technology together by providing students with the tools, software and inspiration to make art on a virtual canvas. Students shuffle projects across digital drawing, digital paintings, graphic designs and animation using the latest software...

Kids Art Shuffle is our core art program for Grades 3-5 that allows students to become well-rounded artists by shuffling projects across drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media.  Students engage in One River School’s innovative curriculum inspired by contemporary artists that stimulates their imagination and helps them...

Teen Focus on Animation takes aspiring animators on a journey across animation techniques and taking their skills in character development, figure motion, lip syncing, frame-by-frame, tweening to the next level.  *Students must demonstrate experience using Adobe Animate or have completed a minimum of one year in One River School’s core...

Get Inspiration from amazing artists like Picasso, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol or Jackson Pollack + more in this awesome exploratory class! Each week we showcase a modern artist and examine his or her techniques and styles and then learn how to employ these values and techniques into our very own full scale paintings! Tutors will demo a wide range of techniques...