Welcome to Social Studio!

Social Studio is an all ages creative space for all kinds of art. We offer art classes, afterschool programs, workshops, art parties, sketchbook club, open studio, portfolio development, and space for meetings and events. Social Studio is a place where community creates, creating community.

Learning and growing is a social project. At Social Studio everyone is both a teacher and a learner. Our educational model, the Creative Process Framework, includes the essential elements of play, skill development, challenge, purpose, reflection, & social interaction. The 6 phases: Explore, Engage, Express, Expand, Exchange & Empower, facilitate and support idea development, creative problem solving, communication, and personal expression. When you know where you are, you know what to do.

At Social Studio we make more than art. We create confidence, inspire self and social awareness, and establish habits that lead to positive action. Social Studio believes commitment to one’s creative process cultivates empathy and connection – the ultimate goals of education and the basis of all innovation and positive social change. At Social Studio, we teach people to see people (and themselves) through art.

Social Studio was founded in September 2019 by Genie Arnot, owner and director. Genie has her Masters from Bank Street College of Education, New York and studied visual arts at Bowdoin College, Maine. Before opening Social Studio, she taught at Bryn Mawr School, Ross Global Academy Charter, and The School at Columbia. Genie is passionate about education and believes that in an ideal world, the ideas we have as children become the work we do and the ways we serve as adults. To make the ideal the real, it is important to have a place for everyone to be creative – a place to explore, engage, express, expand, exchange, and empower!