OUR BELIEF
Cultivating Creative Mastery
We believe every child is born with a unique creative spark. Our teaching approach bridges the gap between classical foundation—the discipline of line and color—and experimental play, empowering students to translate their inner worlds into powerful artistic statements.
In the Art Room we create a supportive, progress-based art education environment where students learn the language of visual arts. We start with the basic elements of art: line, shape, color etc. Just like you start with the alphabet when you learn to read, once they have mastered the basic elements, students will be able to use those elements to express more complex ideas.
Rather than focusing on identical finished products, we emphasize skill-building, creative exploration, and individual expression. We give students the tools to develop their own ideas, communicate visually, and grow into confident, thoughtful creators.
How We Teach
- Process Over Product: The journey of making is primary.
- Safe Play: A safe harbor for bold experimentation.
- Critical Vision: Learning to coordinate the eye, hand and mind.
Meet your instructors
Miss Lyssa
Scott
With a degree in Art education and decades of experience, Lyssa is the lead instructor. She is a passionate art teacher who has taught children all over the world. She is also a live wedding painter and speaks Spanish.
With a degree in Communications and a minor in art, Scott plays a strong supportive role in the Art Room. He is a skilled painter and illustrator and our resident handyman
History:
how we got here
The Bauhaus was a German art and design school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Its core idea was that art, craft, and design should be unified, and that creativity should be taught through foundational principles rather than imitation of finished styles. Students began by learning the basic visual language—color, form, line, material, and composition—before specializing. The Bauhaus emphasized process, experimentation, problem-solving, and functional expression, and it fundamentally shaped modern art, design, and architecture before being closed in 1933.
Lyssa's teaching philosophy has been shaped by the foundational principles of the Bauhaus. Throughout her career, she has carried that approach around the world, teaching in a bilingual high school and providing art therapy at an HIV clinic in San José, Costa Rica, teaching classes in a village in Nicaragua, teaching art at an orphanage in Bolivia, and leading a classroom in Copan, Honduras. In the United States, she has taught high school art in Spokane WA, led classes in an art studio in Bethesda MD, worked in an elementary school in Fort Collins CO, and taught at Career Path High School in Kaysville and at Layton High School in Layton here in Utah. Across cultures, ages, and settings, her goal has remained the same: to give students the visual tools and confidence to express their own ideas with clarity and purpose.