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15 Years of Arts Education for Kids


Art Association’s ARTScool! Now in its 15th year, ARTScool provides individual arts instruction to children ages 5 to 14 with a splash of academics. This program offers a highly specialized curriculum taught by qualified instructors — mostly state-cer- tified public school teachers — that includes proj- ect-based learning incorporating math, science, language, history, technology, art and design to painting, drawing, constructing buildings, creating comic books, designing jewelry, producing digital


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artwork, hand building with clay, printmaking, assembling 3D sculp- tures and more. According to Lety Accarrio, whose daughter regularly atends


BY LAUREL MENY


ARTScool and other children’s programming offered by the Naples Art Association, “Our daughter Charlote — a serious artist since she was two years old — has greatly benefited from NAA programs in- cluding ARTScool, which allows her to spend the entire day indulging her creativity. According to Charlote, ARTScool is nonnegotiable. She simply has to atend! This summer she chose the courses she wanted to atend, including Under the Sea, Animals! Animals!, ClaysCOOL and Imagination Station, from the course schedule. We feel so lucky that Charlote is able to develop as an artist in an environment where the staff and art teachers are caring and thoughtful of her needs.”


ARTScool 2016 will include seven different sessions in a variety of subjects weekly


from June 13 through August 5, with two class times daily: 9 am to noon, and 1 to 4 pm, with early morning drop-off available at 8 am for an additional charge. ARTScool’s weekly sessions are $125 per child. Register by visiting the Naples Art Association or by visiting the website at www.


naplesart.org/abkids/artschool-kids/ and give your child the opportunity to make new friends, expand their skill set, learn new techniques and create art — all while having fun!


36 JULY - OCTOBER


egistration is currently open for the summer’s most anticipated arts program for kids: the Naples


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