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Dolly Meymand, Founder and Director (view Dolly Meymand's Art) Keyan Meymand, Assistant Director About Art for Kids School |
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Art for Kids School is an established after-school multi-media fine art program with a 25-year history which is designed to provide an opportunity for children to explore their creativity in a variety of materials and develop their self-esteem in regard to their ability to create. It is an ongoing, sequential, program where skills are developed, much like ballet or piano lessons.
Mission Statement Instructors Curriculum
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Art for Kids School can assist your child to explore the full extent of their creativity
A proud young artist displays her work
Dolly Meymand at work with students
Work in Progress
Bronze Sculptures and the hands that created them at Snoqualmie Elementary
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The goal of the Art for Kids School is to provide a nurturing environment for a fine art education for children.
This is based on the school's philosophy that all children have an innate ability to be creative. The creation of art is a process whereby there are no mistakes. All seeming mistakes can be changed into a desirable result.
Children are supported to succeed in expanding their creativity and developing self-esteem. Degreed artists who are passionate about art and children are hired to provide this environment. Art for Kids School was established 25 years ago and is currently teaching children in ten different school districts in Washington State.
We have seen children with special needs, along with others, blossom in these classes. Their confidence ripples back into their regular classroom experience, and in the way they relate with other children and adults. It truly changes them, and the way they view their world, in a very positive way.
The general curriculum is listed below.
Dolly Meymand, the school's Founder and Director. holds an MFA in Creative Arts, and is a professional artist (See Dolly Meymand's Art). She personally teaches a large number of the classes provided in the Olympia area, and directly supervises and trains all other AFKS instructors in the curriculum.
Keyan Meymand is the assistant director and manages schools in the Puyallup, Tacoma University Place, and Eastside Seattle areas.
All other instructors are degreed (MFA or BFA) and working artists, and are personally supervised and trained in the AFKS curriculum by Dolly Meymand.
AFKS Instructors for 2007-2008: Dolly Meymand -- Olympia (Read Bio) Travis Conn -- (Read Bio) Kristen McCurdy -- Olympia (Read Bio) Jesse Peil -- Seattle Eastside (Read Bio) Janie Cunningham -- (Read Bio) Lauren Stevens -- (Read Bio) Annah Linder -- (Read Bio) Mandy Fiechtner -- (Read Bio)
The school's curriculum is designed by Dolly Meymand, the school's Founder and Director.
The curriculum is process-oriented, and projects are never duplicated. The emphasis is on developing drawing skills, color theory, techniques of painting, and the principles of sculpting, all in various media. Contour and gesture drawing is taught, as well as landscape, wildlife, and some figurative art.
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© copyright 2005 Dolly Meymand [all rights reserved] This page last updated: 03/25/2008 |
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