Arts in Action Visual Art Program

Specialties

AIAVAP’s After-​School and Saturday Fine Art Classes, Private lessons, home-​school groups, Camps and Vacation Workshops expose children to age appropriate fine art concepts, and skills and a variety of exciting materials that working artists use in their art.

AIAVAP teaches art that empowers children to communicate effectively through the foundations of drawing and painting!

In Fine Art Classes for ages 3 – 11 students develop and refine skills in drawing and painting through explorations of line, shape and color.

In Portfolio Development or PREP classes for ages 11 – 17, 8^th Graders can focus on work applicable for auditions to art high schools, and high school students can focus on college level portfolios.

Fine Art Summer Camp includes weekly trips to an art museum where we will discuss, sketch and be inspired by master paintings and sculptures! Back in the studio we create our works of art while learning the skills that working artists use in their own fine art!

History

Established in 1987.

Arts In Action Visual Art Program, Inc.™ (AIAVAP) is a non-​profit 501c3 organization that provides a unique, sequentially-​structured art education program using a visual language that all fine artists learn to communicate through. Since 1987, Program Director Angela Tripi-​Weiss, has spearheaded non-​profit art programs that empower children. Ms. Tripi-​Weiss, three-​time Blackboard Award winner, has been called «one of the best visual educators in Manhattan… a tour de force» and directed Arts in Action at P. S. 87 in Manhattan for 18 years.

Meet the Business Owner

Angela T.

Business Owner

Angela Tripi-​Weiss is an award winning artist, teacher, curriculum/​program developer and administrator. She is focused on the development of children’s voices through Visual Art. She has also developed and implemented a creative process known as «Abstract Visualization». This mental health process was recently incorporated into the treatment of rescue workers and survivors of ⁹⁄₁₁.

Ms. Tripi-​Weiss was the artist in residence and art program coordinator for P. S. 87 and the Special Music School in NYC. She created the «Healing Arts» exhibit, a body of 40 works created by the rescuers and survivors of 9/​11, shown in 2004 and 2005 at the West Park Presbyterian and Jan Hus Churches in NYC. She was the program director and art educator at Day Camp in the Park in Bear Mountain, NY. She is a per diem workshop developer and classroom art teacher at the American Museum of Natural History. She has exhibited at the West Side Artists Coalition at the Ansonia and Cork Galleries.

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