Make and Believe Artists

Fall Art Class Registration is ON here!

Learn and play in our studio!

Current Happenings!

Oh Christmas Tree! Ceramic Painting Workshop for both kids and adults.

Experience our monthly Family Art Night for kids: November 8th.

Our most popular kid's workshop of the year: Winter Village Houses.

Join an ongoing art class for kids focused on painting, drawing, photography or ceramics.

Book a birthday party for ages 4 through 104!

This is our happy place. Make it yours too! Located in the Simpsonville Arts Center in the heart of downtown, our shelves are stocked with paint, paintbrushes, scratch art, collage materials, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, canvases, clay, and so much more,

We teach so that each student's work shines with their unique brilliance, giving ample room for individualized expression. We believe this leads to a deep knowing of the self, a trust of personal ideas, and the joy of true creativity. We support this process through high-level instruction that is engaging, fun, and results in a finished product worth your pride.

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Learn and play in our studio!

Our classes/parties/workshops do not focus on copying others or simply following directions to make all projects look the same. Each student's work shines with their unique brilliance as we give ample room for individualized expression. We believe this leads to a deep knowing of the self, a trust of personal ideas, and the joy of true creativity. We support this process through high-level instruction that is engaging, fun, and results in a finished product worthy of a frame.

Where Artists Grow

We strive to give just the right amount of artistic instruction and materials and then let adults and children alike SOAR with their own creative ideas.

Multiple instructors with multiple specialties
Explore various types of painting, ceramics, mixed-media, photography
Both private & group ongoing classes
Fun workshops for all ages
Birthday Parties
Open Studio Time
Serving students 3 through adult

We give children just the right amount of artistic instruction and materials and then let them SOAR with their own creative ideas.

Art and photograp hy lessons/play in our studio
Choose from private or small-group classes
Take one Workshop at a time
Art parties and play dates
Instruction at select schools and daycares
Lessons in your home
Primarily serving students ages 3-11
Select classes for students 12+

Where Artists Grow

We strive to give just the right amount of artistic instruction and materials, and then set you free to SOAR with your own creative ideas.

Ongoing classes for kids
Workshops for kids and adults
Birthday parties
Family Art Night once a month
Resident and guest instructors with multiple specialties
Explore various media: painting, ceramics, mixed-media, photography
One-Time Experiences: corporate events, playdates, friends night out
Serving students ages 4 through adult, all levels

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

-Pablo Picasso

"Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else."

-Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

-Albert Einstein

Our Annual Art Show: A showcase of student work

Each Spring we present an Art Show to celebrate the creativity in our children's classes. Our latest 2024 art show opening was the highest attended show ever at the Simpsonville Arts Center with over 200 guests! Almost 100 students exhibited both individual pieces and participated in three group pieces: "The Nestbook," "What Makes My Heart Soar Wings," and "The Way a Bird Sings" scratch art bird flock.