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Art, Western Civilization & Studio Practice
Santa Fe, New Mexico · teaches in Mountain time, shown to you in Eastern
Claire paints landscapes and teaches children to actually draw. Her American Landscape studio runs on graphite, watercolor, and an unfashionable insistence that students learn to see a value structure before they pick a color.
“These are art classes, not lectures in disguise. Students make things every single meeting. The history is real, and so is the paint on the table.”
American Art
Graphite, watercolor, and the Hudson River School
A real studio class. Students draw and paint the American landscape every single meeting, with Cole, Church and Bierstadt as teachers rather than slides.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
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$10/wk
$60 in total
$24 for add’l siblings
Art
Look first, then draw · Ages 6–9
A leaf, a shell, a feather, a bird. Mrs. Finch teaches young children to actually look at a thing before they draw it, the one habit that makes every later drawing better.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
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$7/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Literature
Three mornings a week · Ages 6–8
Half an hour of reading aloud together, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the same time each morning. At this age frequency does more than length.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
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$18/wk
$108 in total
$43.20 for add’l siblings
American Art
Historical painting & presidential portraiture
Three long Saturday sessions on how a nation paints itself (Trumbull, Stuart, Peale) and then students draw a portrait of their own.
Mrs. Claire FinchNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$24 in total
$9.60 for add’l siblings
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