Connect.Create.
Art coaching opportunities that push your perception, technique, and vision.
Art Education meets Wellness
Welcome to spaces designed for ideas that move people. With a focus on connecting and creating, Jennie is here to make a life long impact. With now over two decades of teaching experience, both privately and in public schools, art educator and artist, Jennie Traill Schaeffer, will help you learn to see, handle materials, then create a variety of representational, conceptual, and imaginative work. She specializes in growing both technique and a vision for all levels, as well as portfolio development. Whether a beginner, an experienced amateur or someone looking to develop a portfolio, Jennie offers art coaching opportunities that push your perception, technique and vision.
Additionally, working with Jennie provides her growing understanding of wellness developed through art making, in both physical and mental health. She is recovering from a stroke, and managing meningiomas.
Sample Demo from Adult Beginners & Beyond Watercolor Class, Summit, NJ
Audience & Locations:
Curriculum & Approach:
Though not limited to drawing, emphasis is placed on drawing as a foundation for all artistic endeavors, with consideration of each student's personal vision and goals. While children will be taught a more general curriculum with 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.
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. Art history, aesthetics, and criticism are threaded into training.
Audience: TWEENS, TEENS, & ADULTS.
Locations:
Studio on the 3rd Floor, North Durham, NC
Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
Virtual
Media Explored
pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink, marker, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic, oil, collage, printmaking, clay, and mixed media