Private, SemiPrivate, & Small Group

Art Lessons

Multi-Media

Portfolio Prep

Individualized Approach

After-School, Evenings

& Saturdays

Children, Teens, Adults

Enrollment is open throughout the year,

based on availability.

Spaces are limited.

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My kids take art lessons with [Jennie] and LOVE it. She's worth every penny! I recommend TraillWorks to anyone."

-Donna Cross, Parent

Now Enrolling for WINTER SESSION

(Beginning January 8th)

Learn to Create Art with Jennie Traill Schaeffer, award-winning teaching artist and owner of TraillWorks at her professional, nurturing studio in historic, downtown Newton, NJ. If you are looking for a studio to seriously nurture and develop your artistic pursuits or your children’s, consider TraillWorks. We invite you to make an appointment for a studio tour and introduction to lessons that will open your eyes and mind.

Benefits of Enrollment:

Open Studio Time

Annual Student Exhibit, March

Portfolio, Vision and Technique Development

Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Collage

SCHEDULE:

Lessons are scheduled for one-hour sessions, once a week, with the exception of our NEW extended adult class on Tuesdays from 1 - 2:30pm. Choose a time slot / appropriate age group from our schedule below. If your age group is not represented or a time slot isn't available that suits your schedule, please contact us us at lessons@traillworks.com as we may have students on a wait-list to get a group started.

Class Offerings: Days and Times

TIME	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	TIME	Sat
1-2pm	Adult Group			Adult Group	9 -10am
2-2:30pm	Adult Group
3-4pm			Private		10-11am	Teen Group
4-5pm			Ages 7-12 group		12 - 1 pm	Private
5-6pm	Private	Teen Group	Adult Group	Ages 7 - 12 group

Session Schedule

	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
Week 1	1/8	1/9	1/10	1/11	1/12
Week 2	1/15	1/16	1/17	1/18	1/19
Week 3	1/22	1/23	1/24	1/25	1/26
Week 4	1/29	1/30	1/31	2/1	2/2

Tuition Due For Monthly Payers

Week 5	2/5	2/6	2/7	2/8	2/9*
Week 6	2/12	2/13	2/14	2/15	2/23
Week 7	2/19	2/20	2/21	2/22	3/2
Week 8	2/26	2/27	2/28	3/1	3/9

Tuition Due for Monthly Payers

Week 9	3/5	3/6	3/7	3/8	3/16
Week 10	3/12	3/13	3/14	3/15	3/23*
Week 11	3/19	3/20	3/21	3/22*	4/6
Week 12	3/26	3/27	3/28	4/5	4/13
				*No Class- 3/29	*No Class-2/16
					*No Class- 3/30

TUITION: Select the package you'd like to purchase, along with registration. Before you purchase, please read more about our tuition and payment policies here.

Small Group (2-6 students) - price is per student

Weekly Rate	4 Week Prepay	8 Week Prepay	12 Week Prepay	REGISTRATION
$35	$125	$220	$310	$12

Extended Time Small Group (2-6 students) - price is per student

Weekly Rate	4 Week Prepay	8 Week Prepay	12 Week Prepay	REGISTRATION
$45	$159	$275	$395	$12

Private Lessons (single student)

Weekly Rate	4 Week Prepay	8 Week Prepay	12 Week Prepay	REGISTRATION
$70	$265	$500	$715	$12

View more student work on our Facebook page.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
– Confucius

TAKING the LEAP:

Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter said, “It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.”

Jennie is happy to talk with you about learning to express yourself through the visual arts. Call 973-383-1307 or email Jennie to set up a free consultation at her studio to see if you would like to pursue instruction.

Jennie working with two students in the studio.

Consider TraillWorks . . .

TraillWorks, offers students a professional, nurturing and non-threatening studio environment in which to develop their individual goals and creativity. Owner and teacher, Jennie Traill Schaeffer’s experience as both a formerly certified NJ art teacher, with a BFA in Painting and Art Education from Syracuse University, and as a working artist differentiates TraillWorks from other art schools. Through a multimedia approach partially grounded in discipline based arts education (formulated in the 1980s by the J. Paul Getty Trust) that emphasizes strong technique while exposing students to art history, criticism, and aesthetics, students are given the opportunity to explore and deepen their own understanding of artmaking. She trains her students first to see and then to handle their materials, allowing for the refined creation of a variety of representational, conceptual and imaginative work.

While younger children will be taught a more general curriculum incorporating a broad exposure to many different media, themes, styles, and approaches, teen and adult study will be more narrowly focused on an individual basis. Students considering art school in the future can work independently with Schaeffer on developing and refining their portfolio for admission. Adults may choose a particular discipline or style within which to work or elect to choose a broader approach to their art education. While Schaeffer’s background is grounded in drawing and painting, her exposure to printmaking, ceramics, photography,and design provide her students opportunities to work in a variety of directions.

If you are looking for a studio to seriously nurture and develop your artistic pursuits or your children’s, consider TraillWorks. We invite you to make an appointment for a studio tour and introduction to lessons that will open your eyes and mind.

"I just wanted to give you feedback from Emily’s art lesson this past week. She LOVED IT!! This is a huge breakthrough since her last art class lasted a day. . . she never had anyone tell her how to improve her work before and she said she realizes that this is only going to help her improve her art. She enjoyed working with you and even the other students. Her final words when we were leaving were “That was FUN”. So thank you and we will see you on Wednesday."

- Suzanne Haag, Parent

"My kids take art lessons with [Jennie] and LOVE it. She's worth every penny! I recommend TraillWorks to anyone."

-Donna Cross, Parent

"We continue to appreciate the exposure and teachings you provide; they have evolved beautifully with you. Indeed they have amassed a beautiful array of art that we will frame and keep as treasures."

-Dr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Shaw, Parents and Owners of Newton Health and Wellness

"I can't tell you how important I think art lessons are. You think and perceive outside the box, but you "get" the boxes in life. I really appreciate the training you give them.

-Parent, TraillWorks' Students

“Rachel has made progress in leaps and bounds since she began to study regularly under Jennie Traill Schaeffer . . . . Her confidence is high and her skill level is impressive. Art lessons with Jennie are the highlight of Rachel’s week! Jennie’s gentle, personal, professional manner makes great art education feel like spending the afternoon with a good friend. Thanks, Jennie, for more than just excellent art instruction!”

- Christine Bulko, Parent

“Jennie seems to have been able to very successfully blend her art education background with her studio knowledge, thus yielding a highly skilled teacher.”

- Art Teacher, HCRHS

"I have never seen him more positive about school than when he was working in ceramics with you."

- parent at HCRHS

"She thoroughly enjoyed the class and learning about using different media. She also enjoyed the classroom environment -- you made her feel very comfortable and she was not afraid to be herself."

- parent at HCRHS

"I have been teaching since 1971 and Jennie as one of the top ray teachers I have worked with."

- Art Teacher, HCRHS

"Jennie is a consummate professional whose desire to touch each of her students' lives in a positive way is the beacon by which she guides her career. Her willingness to work with their perspective strengths and limitations, as she guides them to a higher level of artistic expression is commendable."

- History Teacher, HCRHS