Hello & Welcome to Art Beat. We are here to provide you, your children, and your family with a fun-loving artistic environment where the ability to create is realized. Our family-style studio features a relaxed atmosphere where artistic growth is valued and encouraged. Our goal is to provide a positive creative learning art experience. We have many fun and invigorating classes that allow you to investigate new mediums and explore your creativity. Whether you come with a friend, your child or alone, you will always be welcomed. Our community of artist instructors is always ready to guide you to your potential. Make yourself at home in our community. Make Art Beat the creative part of your day.

Art Beat teachers are trained, working artists that have a passion for sharing their creativity.  We have a diverse, exciting curriculum that introduces students to art history as well as contemporary art, including artists that are on view at our local museums.  Our program focuses on open-ended lesson plans that allow students to head in their own directions.  Art Beat is an inter-disciplinary studio which holds at its cornerstone the need to expose budding artists to a variety of art materials such as drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics. Through the use of observation, imagination, and expression, students are given an opportunity to learn, grow, and express themselves.

Artist Biographies

Julie Jacobs is the owner and founder of Art Beat Center for the Arts. She is first and foremost a mother of three children, ages 14, 13, and 4. She has been teaching art to children for the past twenty years. She has a passion for art and writing and earned her degree at Mills College as a creative writing student. Julie has a great love of printmaking, painting, and ceramics. She has studied art intensively at The San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Art and Design, Mills College, Rhode Island School of Design, Otis Parsons Academy of Art and Cal State Northridge. She is an avid student who is passionate about art and learning. Julie's goal is to share her joy of creating with others and to never squash the creative spirit.

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