Does your child want to go to LaGuardia High School? 🏫
Does your 11th grader want to go to RISD, Parsons, SCAD or... ? 🎨
Does your child want to learn to draw? ✍🏾
Do you want to learn to draw? ✍🏼
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“Fran has a wonderful way of engaging her students in artistry, and cultivating their creativity; meeting them where they are, and bringing them further along the journey with guided lessons.”
- parent of a student who graduated LaGuardia HS and went on to Carnegie Mellon
Art Instruction • Audition & Portfolio Preparation
Middle Schoolers - prepare to apply to LaGuardia, Frank Sinatra, Art & Design + other NY High Schools
High Schoolers - prepare a portfolio for college art programs, and/or art schools worldwide
Former students attend/ed RISD, Parsons, Parsons Paris, SCAD, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University, SAIC, Alfred University, Sam Fox School of Art at Wash U, plus...
LaGuardia, Art & Design and Frank Sinatra High Schools in NYC to name a few
Flexible times, on afternoons & weekends
~ weekday hours for homeschoolers ~
Art Lessons
Private instruction, small group learning and corporate workshops are available for all ages, preschool to adult. I teach online and in person (indoors and outdoors). My specialty is portfolio development for high school and college admissions.
Online zoom lessons available year round anywhere.
In-person lessons are avialable on the Upper West Side.
Contact me for rates and more information.
Call 212-864-7465 for more details
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Art inspires!
Student Artwork
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Janelle - Red Shoes in watercolor
Still Life with a Peach by Camille
Peppers in pastel by Natalie
Surreal Handscape in colored pencil by Ori
Beryl's Charcoal Corner
Sophie - NYC Street Scene
Ruth's Charlie - colored pencil
Abstract City Scene by Janelle
Zoe's Self Portrait
Lighthouse in watercolor by Isaac
Landscape in oil pastel by Juliana
Ruths "Dude"
Heart of Darkness abstract
Muse Still Life - blue pencil by Sydney
Ringo collage
Fox watercolor
Venice Scene watercolor by Audrey
Peacock in colored pencil by Hannah
Sadie Still Life collage
Still Life with TeaPot by Mia
Janelle - Cake after Wayne Thiebauld
Hannah - Sneaker in colored pencil
Lydia - Anthony the Dog
Still Life in colored pencil by Caroline
Odelya - Hands
Still Life in watercolor
"Fran, you are the art whisperer! Thanks for your caring and enthusiasm. You gave our daughter skills, but also your special warmth and understanding!”
- parent of a student at Parsons School of Design
Abour Fran
I love teaching art, sharing the magic of a visual vocabulary with my students. Teaching drawing and painting is about learning art skills (which I specialize in), but it is also about learning to see, to open the mind to different experiences and the heart to deep felt feelings. It is about translating all that onto paper and canvas and sometimes 3-D media. Being a practicing artist as well as an arts educator allows me to understand my students and to help them develop their own voices. I am not interested in simply teaching them to do work just like mine, but rather to explore their own styles and inspirations. I have been offering art inspiration through arts education since the 1980s.
Art Lessons
Private instruction, small group learning and corporate workshops are available for all ages, preschool to adult. I teach online and in person (as of now just outdoors). A favorite specialty is portfolio development for high school and college admissions.
About Teaching Art
The job of art teachers is to accept students for who they are and what they create. Art students process their feelings, tell stories, make sense of political and social turmoil, and express their inner worlds through their artwork. When a student shares their work, they are also sharing a part of their identity, which takes a risk! Art gives context to big feelings, and art teachers can offer resources for ideas. We validate and accept students just as they are.
“Her drawing made her proud. She understands she can do it, can be good as anyone! The sessions with you and what you accomplish with her have given her more confidence and happiness than any therapist or pill could offer.
The power of a great teacher is so important!”
- parent of a middle school student in New York City