Essex Art Center Inc

Programs: The essex art center's ("center") focus is to empower people through art by enabling them to explore their own creative resources, allowing them to recognize their self-worth. Art enhances ones' learning capacity by providing opportunities to use critical thinking and decision-making in a creative process - skills that are readily transferred to other academic subjects and life skills. Since the beginning, the center has responded to requests from other community organizations and neighborhoods to provide the art component for their programs. Due to its spreading reputation, the center is involved in many fascinating collaborations including providing the art component to school programs and offering art field trips for social service programs. These bring new energy to the center and depth to the partner organizations. The objective of the art programming is to offer a safe atmosphere in which students can experiment without judgment or boundaries. The center provides a diverse range of art classes for all ages at a minimum cost with a reputation for high quality instruction. Local artists design and teach the art classes in a wonderful variety of mediums, from ceramics, photography,drawing and painting to silk-screening, bookmaking, sculpture and metal casting. The center offers four sessions of classes per year: winter,spring,summer and fall. The center is recognized as an important resource for lawrence.

the essex art center's ("center") focus is to empower people through art by enabling them to explore their own creative resources, allowing them to recognize their self-worth. Art enhances ones' learning capacity by providing opportunities to use critical thinking and decision-making in a creative process - skills that are readily transferred to other academic subjects and life skills. Since the beginning, the center has responded to requests from other community organizations and neighborhoods to provide the art component for their programs. Due to its spreading reputation, the center is involved in many fascinating collaborations including providing the art component to school programs and offering art field trips for social service programs. These bring new energy to the center and depth to the partner organizations. The objective of the art programming is to offer a safe atmosphere in which students can experiment without judgment or boundaries. The center provides a diverse range of art classes for all ages at a minimum cost with a reputation for high quality instruction. Local artists design and teach the art classes in a wonderful variety of mediums, from ceramics, photography,drawing and painting to silk-screening, bookmaking, sculpture and metal casting. The center offers four sessions of classes per year: winter,spring,summer and fall. The center is recognized as an important resource for lawrence.