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Teen Studio After School (Winter)

Strengthen your art skills, and explore your creativity!

This class is a place for your art practice to grow in any direction you’d like. We will explore many different possibilities and get inspired by diverse artists, materials, and styles!

During this winter session, teens will continue to explore different modes of expression and creative processes while improving technical, representational, and conceptual skills in a supportive studio environment. Participants will gather weekly in skill-based art-making and hands-on projects led by professional artists. Youth will practice different drawing, painting, mixed media, and print media tools and techniques while working from observation, reference, and imagination. Through weekly focused assignments, participants will be supported in pursuing their own personal art goals and interests in specific media, or artistic aspects they want to learn and develop. Kala instructors work closely with participants to create an inclusive space for creativity, inquiry, self-expression, reflection, and collaboration. All levels are welcome.

While at Kala, they will have the opportunity to connect with Kala’s Residency Program artists and visit Kala’s Print Studio, Digital Media Lab, and gallery exhibitions on view.

Grades: 6th- 12th
WINTER TERM: January 15- March 12, 2025 (9 sessions) ; 4:30 – 6pm (1.5 hours)

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SPRING TERM: March 19- May 21, 2025 (9 sessions)
No class on April 2nd

10% multi-session / sibling discount. Monthly payment plan options and tuition assistance are available.

  • Tuition: $432
  • Location: Kala Gallery and Classroom
  • Instructor: Yael Levy
  • 9 Classes
  • Wednesday, January 15, 2025 — March 12, 2025
  • 4:30 PM — 6:00pm
  • Materials fee included with tuition

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About the Instructor:

Yael LevyYael Levyis a mixed media artist, storyteller, printmaker, and art teacher based in Berkeley, CA. She draws, paints, collages, and writes. She often self-publishes her work, and sometimes prints and binds it by hand. She loves playing with forms and formats and mixing digital and tactile techniques. Most of Yael’s work is based on her own experience as a brown, bi-racial, bilingual, and bisexual woman. She also enjoys telling others’ stories, making up imaginary creatures, and just painting images of beautiful nature. She believes the creative process to be its own reward and the act of making an incredible tool for healing and growing. Born and raised in Israel, Yael first moved to New York City in 2002 to attend the Art Students League of New York, later completing a BFA of Illustration from Parsons The New School for Design(2011). After four years doing design and illustrations for The Unemployed Philosophers Guild, she moved to California to pursue an MFA in Comics at CCA (2017). In recent years she’s been a Teaching Artist with Kala Art Institute, Richmond Art Center, and JCC of the East Bay and ran workshops for various Zine Fests. Her work has been published by The Nib (2018), Birdy Magazine(2019), Forward Comix(2017 & 2020), The Baylies(2021) and SAW(2021). www.leahyaellevy.com