Announcing Studio One Art Center's After School Arts Academy

After School Arts Academy At a Glance!	Parent Information: Kids attending our After School Arts Academy start the afternoon by shaking off the school day with play time in the courtyard. Afterward, they enjoy a lite snack and finish their homework with assistance from tutors. Each day your child will get to participate in one in-depth fine arts class. Pick-up is between 6:00pm and 6:30pm every day! Check below for descriptions of classes and teacher bios!
Monday	Students arrive after school from all over Oakland for a quick break to shake off the school day. After snack and homework time, students head off to Culinary Arts class to bang around pots and pans with Chef Traci Hurlow! Traci Hurlow will whisk kids through a safe and healthy, hands-on cooking class! After twenty years of working in restaurants such as, Bay Wolf, Zuni and Pizzaiolo, she started her own company, Culinary Jungle Gym. Since 2009, she has shifted gears to teaching children the art of cooking!
Tuesday	After snack and homework time, students head off to Clay Sculpture and get their hands dirty with master artist Hue Yang! Hue Yang was born in Taiwan in 1978 and has lived in America for most of her adult life. Since she was young she has a love for color and form. While a student at San Francisco State University, Yang began a focus on ceramic sculpture. Since that time Yang has developed skills as a potter as well. Yang will lead kids through functional pottery that allows people to make objects that contain humor, and interesting compositions.
Wednesday	After snack and homework time, students mix it up in Mixed Media with Daria Deutschbein, followed by a play break. After break, students act it out in Drama with Lissa Sherman! Lisa Sherman is a graduate of the MFA Acting Program at California Institute of the Arts. Sherman directed and conceived Pirates and Ninjas for the Cal Arts New Works Festival with remounts at Theatre of NOTE in North Hollywood and A.N.T. Fest at ARS NOVA in Manhattan. She has worked as a teaching artist with Marin Theatre Company, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Stage Door Conservatory and Society of Young Inklings, as well was promotional work with TheaterMama for Cirque Du Soleil’s new production OVO.
Thursday	After snack and homework time, students groove to funk, jazz, modern and salsa with artist teacher Corissa Johnson. Corissa Johnson graduated with honors from California State University, East Bay Hayward, where she obtained a degree in Theater Arts and Dance. Corissa has danced, performed, and choreographed for 10 years and has extensive training in Hip Hop, Modern, Jazz and Salsa. She teaches all over the bay area, including Hayward at CSUEB, Danville for Lori Buffalow’s Next Step Dance Studio and Studio One Art Center.
Friday	Fridays at Studio One are all about line and color with Alisa Cartner’s Painting and Drawing Class. Alisa Cartner graduated from California College of the Arts with BA in illustration, painting and drawing. She has worked for Studio One Art Center since 2007, as well as downtown for the Charter school Oasis Highschool. Cartner will lead students through a study of observational art, and expressive abstractions.