School of Art

Welcome! Water Street Studios offers a community-based arts education program geared towards children, teens, adults and senior citizens - from beginners to experts. It is our philosophy that everyone from preschoolers to seniors can use art in their lives.

We offer an amazing variety of classes on a trimester schedule. All Water Street Studios classes are staffed by professional and working artists. What inspires you?


Greetings from the Director of Education:

This class booklet has to be one my favorites we have ever offered. I am very excited to be able to host so many amazing classes. We were able to expand our printmaking department with the addition of a Color Relief Printmaking class. Our jewelry classes have now been revamped with some old favorites and new classes; my personal favorite is Cold Connections where you are building upon basic foundations and creating connections without the use of the torch. Our children's programming is also evolving, and we now have a class devoted to watercolors and a drawing foundations course, among others, just for kids.

Our ceramics department has expanded the most, to my delight. We are now able to offer a wheel class for kids as well as hand-building and tile painting classes, in addition to our ever popular class - Beginning Ceramics on the Wheel for adults. This way we will further utilize the wheels we received through a grant from the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.

We here at WSS also strive to give the students the best possible creative experience; therefore we are always open to hosting a class based on your interests. Just get together a minimum of three students and we can offer any one of our classes as a private session or if you are interested in learning a skill currently not offered I will work to find an instructor to create a custom class just for you.    
See you around the Studios!

Kari Kraus
Director of Education

Click below for pdf version of the winter 2012 class schedule.

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Winter 2012 Schedule
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