Unlock Your Creativity with Exciting 2025 After School-Homeschool Art Classes!

After School-Homeschool Art Classes & Field Trips

Creativity and the Arts 

The Pearl School of Art is devoted to nurturing creativity and dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the arts. In the studio, students will have the opportunity to work through a series of activities and projects that meet specific art objectives. We have the ability to offer a more in depth teaching due to small class sizes and the interest in art by our students. Students will be able to enjoy the Pearl School of Art, whether you are a beginning student or a serious amateur, we invite you to enroll.  

When children get a chance to express their creativity and dive into art, they develop confidence, increase their empathy, and discover how to look at the world from different perspectives. All those skills help prepare students to take on the world with passion and creativity.

Unraveling the Plot: Storytelling through Art
Ages 6-10

There are many ways to tell a story—through words, through theater and dance, or through visual art. In this class, students will discover ways in which artists throughout time have conveyed stories by depicting them in their sculptures, drawings, and paintings. Students will examine and discuss the works of Faith Ringgold, Clementine Hunter, Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood, Frederick Remington, and others. After gaining inspiration from a narrative artist, students will “tell” their own stories using a variety of mediums such as air-dry clay, watercolors, tempera paint, charcoal, and oil pastels. Join us for this extraordinary art experience!

Intro to Digital Design: Create with iPads and Procreate
 Ages 8-13

Step into the exciting world of digital illustration with our Intro to Digital Design class, perfect for aspiring artists of all skill levels! Using iPads and Procreate, you’ll explore the essentials of digital art while developing your own creative style. This course blends traditional fundamentals with modern tools to teach you the building blocks of visual storytelling, including character design, anatomy and proportions, color theory, line work, shading techniques, and more. This class also opens up broader design concepts to help you build a strong foundation in digital art. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to sharpen your skills, this class is your gateway into the digital design world. 

Fashion Accessory Handbag Design 
Ages 8-12

This 7-week course will explore the fundamentals of fashion design, from developing an eye for style and turning ideas into fashion sketches, to learning the basics of working with patterns and fabric. Students will learn to safely cut and hand sew a special design project — with a focus on accessory design, including creating their own unique handbag!

Fantasy Character Design
Ages 6-10

Learn how to design and illustrate your own storybook, fantasy and/or comic book creatures! This class will focus on building the elements and the narrative of your creature, while teaching you how to use traditional media to effectively illustrate it. This creative class will allow students to develop a drawing style while using mediums like copic markers, pen and ink, graphite and more.

Ceramics
Ages 7-11

Designed for both, first-time and experienced students, this class offers instructions in different hand-building techniques, surface design, and sculpting as well as various ways of decorating pieces with under-glaze paints. During the course, students will learn how to safely work with clay and explore how to create functional and decorative pieces like cups, bowls, figurines and animals.