The Arts foster personal and human development and enrich our communities.
Chelsea and Richard Smith, the founders, owners, and operators of the ArtSplot and the Arts Centered Education Society, have been artists and art instructors in Montana schools since 1995. Annually, the ArtSplot teaches art education in over a dozen schools and averages twenty classroom visits per week, throughout the school year, engaging up to four hundred students weekly.
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Our Mission Statement
The ArtSplot studio is both an active workshop and a gallery. It offers art instruction as well as free-lance artwork. A wide variety of programs are available ranging from flexible individualized lessons, small group focused programs and on-site painting hikes, to artist-in-residency offerings in the schools. Instruction covers a comprehensive range of artistic endeavors, including drawing, painting, printmaking, pottery, and sculpture. Creative writing, literature, and music are often incorporated. Artwork in the out-of-doors is an overwhelming theme.
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Art Enrichment Programs
With the use of a wide variety of media, self expression and creative responses will be emphasized. Our teaching style is individualized, friendly, and very supportive of the value as well as the delight in doing artwork. The climate is relaxed and conducive yet instructive and visually aware of the relationship between individuals and their connection to the natural world.
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In The Schools
The ArtSplot has decades of experience as artists in residence in the schools. Activities include drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media. Instruction, advice, and encouragement on technique, approach, subject matter, and levels of development add to the overall atmosphere of accomplishment, along with the wit and delight of doing artwork.
