The Cambridge Center for Adult Education

 

About the Studio School

Located in the heart of Harvard Square The Cambridge Center Studio School was founded in 1994 in response to student demand for a serious nonacademic alternative for adults to traditional art schools. Based on his experience at the New York Studio School, Founder and Director Phil Press organized a coordinated, comprehensive series of classes offering a structured perceptual approach to drawing and painting. The program offers a firm foundation in the visual language concepts and skills for the beginner and an opportunity for creative development for those with experience. Students enrolled in the program have gone on to art schools and have begun careers in gallery shows. Because it meets their needs for serious daytime instruction, some students have worked productively in the Studio Art Program for several years.

On the occasion of the Studio School's Tenth Anniversary

Jed Perl Art Critic for The New Republic wrote a significant essay about our efforts.
Click here to read it.

Here is some of what our students are saying:

"The Cambridge Center Studio School is a unique and excellent program. I have taken art classes in Cambridge and Boston for the last five years and believe that it may be the only one in the area that offers intensive, high caliber instruction geared specifically for adults."

"I have taken classes at the museum school and Mass.College of Art and the classes in the Cambridge Center Studio School are the best I've ever been in."

"Magic! Better than I could have anticipated."

"Combined painting and drawing twice a week gave me the fantastic opportunity for a serious intensive learning situation unavailable to non matriculated art students in the area. Painting and drawing complimented each other enhancing the experience."

"Challenging; Great teachers - very interested in the individuals - taught to our individual needs."

"A rigorous but powerful introduction to the field. Extremely well thought out and expertly taught."

"Mr. Press's approach is unique and very effective. Once one see's what he's getting at, one doesn't forget. He doesn't dictate or touch our work and makes us realize that it is just the canvas, paint, and us."

 

 

 

 


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