Gage Academy of Art

Adult programs: Gage programs offer soemthing for everyone interested in the advancement of their personal, technical, and artistic goals. Programs for adults focus on the practical applications of painting, drawing, and sculpture, exploring both techniques and the aesthetic issues of Art making with a proven framework to accelerate growth. This includes the distinguished atelier program, which is includes 7 programs both full and part-time, in which students work throughout the academic year under the tutelage of a master artist. This prepares artists to launch a professional career or pursue a higher education arts degree. Gage also offeres 5 and 10-week classes as well as weekend and weeklong arts workshops throughout the calendar year for students wanting pursue Art as avocation or a supplement to their work in other creative industries.

Fee-for-service programs: Gage partners with corporations, schools, and higher education to provide highly trained Art instructors to teach at these insitutions Art education programs. Currently Gage offers instructors to amazon's expressions program, summit public schools, and to antioch university's undergraduate Art program. The instiutions pay a fee that covers the cost of the instructors, any supplies, and administrative overhead.

Youth programs: Gage offers young artists various avenues to engage young artists at various and pivotal phases in their art-making pursuits. Programs included classes offered throughout the calendar year in a range of visual arts media and styles including drawing, digital animation, printmaking, sculpture, silkscreen, collage, and painting. In the summer, multiple camps for youth (ages 7-12) and teens (ages 13-18) provide fun and intensive all day art-making experiences often paired with movement activities such as parkour, capoeira, yoga, and dance. Gage's signature program for teens, the teen Art studio is a free drop-in program that provides a safe and inclusive community for young people age 13-19 every friday night in three locations: Gage campus in capitol hill, at bellevue Art museum, and in partnership with seamar museum of chicano/alatino/a culture in south park catering to spanish speaking youth.