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Rita Young started The Marvegos® Fine Art School in 1993, with the opening of its first studio in Saratoga. There are four Marvegos studios in the Bay area. They include Los Gatos (November 2008); Fremont (1998), San Ramon (January 2009) and San Mateo (September 2012). The Marvegos® also provides fine art programs to 16 outreach sites in the Bay area Valley and serves more than 1,200 students annually. With the release of Teaching Art to Children, The Marvegos® Way by Rita Young with Joan Hong and the hiring of studio managers, The Marvegos® is positioned to expand to other locales in northern California Art classes for kids, teens and adults are offered near San Jose, Cupertino, Campbell, Saratoga, Sunnyvale, Los Altos and Mt. View at our Los Gatos studio: 14103A Winchester Blvd. (95032) Art classes for kids, teens and adults are offered near Belmont, Hillsborough, Redwood City, Atherton, San Carlos and Menlo Park at our San Mateo Studio: 1212C W. Hillsdale Blvd (94403) Art
classes for kids, teens and adults are offered near Pleasanton,
Danville, Dublin, Walnut Creek, Livermore at our San Ramon studio:
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Market Place (94583) Art classes for kids, teens and adults are offered near Milpitas, Union City, Hayward, Ardenwood, Sunol and Pleasanton at our Fremont studio: 40085 Mission Blvd. (94539) The philosophy and teaching method of The Marvegos® approach was designed by Rita for her children and developed from a desire to nurture the creative spirit she saw in her own children, as well as the children of her friends. Developing self-confidence to help children be the best they can be is central to The Marvegos® approach. The goal of The Marvegos® approach is to grow self-directed art makers. Providing students with skills to set goals and make decisions empower students to be responsible for their own learning and manage of their own projects. Rita Young has been an art educator since 1992 and founded The Marvegos® Fine Art School shortly thereafter. Rita resides in Fremont, California with her husband Rex and two Pomeranians. Their son, Peter, graduated with a BFA in painting from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in the spring of 2007. Their daughter, Alexis, was a theatre major at UCLA and is now living in Los Angeles pursuing a career in the arts. It is said that organizations are only as good as the people in it. The Marvegos® has been fortunate to have a dedicated staff of artist/instructors. Criteria used to select our instructors include a BFA in fine art studio, a portfolio showing strength in drawing and painting, an ability to communicate with children, respect for the work and abilities of children, and an ideology that matches that of The Marvegos® way of teaching art to children. Teaching Art to Children, The Marvegos® Way by Rita Young with Joan Hong was published in 2007. This book provides parents and art educators with a roadmap to follow in assisting children to be self-confident, self-directed and independent art-makers…to be and express who they are in their generation. The book is a must read for parents with children in The Marvegos® program and shows the way through a series of delightful anecdotes, pictures of students at work and colored photographs of artwork that illustrate the results of this life-altering art program.
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