Arts Classes for Kids and Adults in PLG

If you are interested in art classes for your child - or in taking art classes with your child, local resident Nurit Newman has started The Manor Arts. They intend to offer classes in comic book art, drawing, video art and artmaking (which I assume is some sort of mixed media) as well as a parent-child class in artmaking.

We don't know the Ms. Newman personally, but she sounds somewhat overqualified to teach art to kids:

Nurit Newman, the director of the program, is a professional artist who has shown her work extensively in New York City galleries and at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum as well as nationally and internationally. She has taught children with MOMA, Lincoln Center and the Jewish Museum's education programs. She has also taught art at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Rutgers University, School of Visual Art and the New School. (She also has three kids ages 9, 5, and infant.)

The classes are kept small (no more than 7 children) and range from $135 per session for the parent/child class to $170 for the studio classes. The classes are given somewhere in Lefferts Manor, but for the specifics, you'll have to contact Ms. Newman at the info provided on her website.

Comments

[tnm]

"$135 per session"???? i don't know if that's a typo. but that seems outrageous no matter her overqualification seeing as how the Brooklyn Museum offers a program for children that is $215 (for non-members) for the 2 to 3 months of weekly lessons.

[jessica]

tnm - if you look at the website, it is 7 weeks of 1 hour sessions. The $135 is for the full 7-week course, which is a bit more reasonable.