Continuing Education
Saturday Morning Art Classes Overview
We challenge students to be creative while giving them the tools to realize their vision.
CCAD's Saturday Morning Art Classes program provides quality visual art and design education to Central Ohio children in grades one through 12. Click here to learn more about the benefits of early arts education.
Children are guided through a program modeled after our renowned college foundation program enabling youth to develop superior skills and gain a strong background in the visual arts.
Classes are kept small with an instructor and an assistant to ensure one-on-one instruction time for each student.CCAD faculty and area arts professionals provide instruction, with CCAD college students assisting in the classroom. Instructors are chosen for their dedication to education in the visual arts and their own particular strengths as artists.
Courses are structured with sequential lessons that are age appropriate. Children are guided through diverse artistic experiences designed to increase their skill level and exposure to a wide variety of techniques and media. Creativity and imagination are developed while expanding aesthetic and cultural sensitivity and stimulating a vital interest in the visual arts.
Saturday Morning Art Classes run for two 10-week terms during the school year. Early elementary grades explore a variety of media and techniques designed to increase the student’s awareness of art as well as foster creativity. Fifth through ninth-grade students may choose from three course offerings geared to their grade level, and intended to grow the students’ skill level and creative thinking. Upper level students may choose from a menu of 10-week courses designed to increase skills in an intensive work situation.
Continuing Education Contact: email I 614.222.3248 I fax 614.358.1024
Early Arts Education Offers Lifelong Benefits
Participation in the arts is not just a quiet way for a child to spend an afternoon. Research shows that the benefits of early arts education extend way beyond providing a creative outlet for children. Skills developed through arts education can include creative problem solving, focus, risk taking, and self-discipline.
According to research done by the Americans for the Arts organization, young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours a day three times a week for a year are:
- four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
- three times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools
- four times more likely to participate in math and science fairs
- three times more likely to win an award for school attendance
- four times more likely to win an award for writing an essay
CCAD has provided quality arts education for tens of thousands of Central Ohio children since 1880. More than 1,200 children each year participate in CCAD’s Saturday Morning Art Classes and Creative Summer Workshops. Not all of the young people who take art classes go on to become the next great painter or designer but they do take with them the long-lasting benefits of arts education.
| The Saturday Art Morning Art Classes program is supported by: | |
 | The William and Jane Schloss Family Foundation |
