Philosophy

Young Rembrandts began in 1988, as a response to a need for supplemental art lessons for young elementary students. These students were faced with a bounty of extracurricular athletic offerings but no art instruction. As the founder of Young Rembrandts began to teach these students, a new methodology was developed to address the lack of information she had experienced, herself, as an art student.

Young Rembrandts focuses on teaching children to draw, using a structured step-by-step method. This process of directed drawing gives young students instruction on how to draw increasingly complex images at a crucial time in their development. Through the process of weekly instruction students are exposed to a wide variety of subject matter, artistic concepts, art history and mastery of their materials.

The development of foundational skills for pre-school and elementary students is critical. There is a misunderstanding that creativity happens without instruction in a void of information. Young Rembrandts gives students the tools, confidence and ability to continue participating in the arts. Young Rembrandts believes true creativity comes forth when mastery of core skills is combined with original thought and application.

Young Rembrandts has a passion to dramatically increase the abilities and therefore the number of children that participate in the arts. Our students receive a foundational art literacy that invites them to continue an appreciation of the arts throughout their lifetime.