Art Coach
Art coaching offered with us for middle-school and highschool is about getting your art to the next level or preparing for highschool or college. Our students find our coaching incredibly helpful for portfolio building, dramatically improving the quality of artwork, and developing a path and strategy for your art. All students will have to submit a portfolio of existing work before consideration.
Art Coaching for youth and teens (and adults):
- Build confidence!
- Build and improve a high school or college art portfolio.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses and learn to improve both areas.
- Develop focus, enhance personal style, understand and incorporate critiques.
- Build and/or develop a work ethic. Care and pride in what we create begins at a young age.
- Dramatically improve skills and gain a deeper appreciation for the arts.
For parents, as well as adults, who sign up, it also means getting written reviews and critiques of your (or your child’s) work. These act as planning documents to track progress. Art Coaching and Art Classes are not the same thing. Additional time is taken for critiques, reviews and interactions with parents (for kids and young adults).
Pricing for Art Coach at Bay Area Art School
Individual Art Coaching:
$100 per hour for individual sessions.
Art Coaching purchase agreement:
Purchasing art coaching acts a a pre-payment and can be used for up to 4 months from purchase date. There are no refunds on Art Coaching after 72 hours. Additionally, there are no refunds with cancellations less than 24 hours before the agreed scheduled meeting time. Once you purchase from this page, we suggest you also visit our contact us page and send us your name and who will be receiving coaching. Then, we will contact you shortly afterwards to set up your first appointment and a schedule a meeting.
What’s the difference between this and Private Art Classes?
Art Coaching is a more intense teaching session than Private Art Classes, and is ideal for students or professionals looking to build a portfolio or art strategy with more structured lesson plans with detailed written feedback. While we meet for 1 hour, more time is taken reflecting and helping strategize the best plan forward.
Key points
- Create and develop visual arts portfolio. Depending on the focus or purpose this will differ for each student.
- Technical assessment: critiques for strengths and weaknesses and how to improve.
- Develop an artist statement whether for an admissions, or for simply understanding more about your style, process or why you love art. This can act as a guide as the student works towards their goal.
- Learn to photograph artwork.
- Art coaching will help you create stunning portfolios for Ruth Asawa School of the Arts or Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Confidence is the number 1 value
The first session will be about setting goals and expectations. Depending on skill, style, age and goals we emphasize building a portfolio immediately. We help to decipher the portfolio requirements (if applicable) and how to stand out whether for or high school or college applicants.