Keep your tween or teen engaged!
Kids need self-expression and creativity!
Give your child the gift to connect to something bigger than themselves.
In this creative art environment, they'll build confidence, explore emotions through art, and discover new techniques to bring their ideas to life
Kids are dealing with a lot of pressure. It's been proven that creative practices like drawing, painting and collage can help them become more resilient, confident, and self aware.
The Creativity Lab is an online art program that teaches art skills, but it's not about being 'artsy' or creating perfect pieces. It's completely different than any art experience they've ever experienced! We emphasize the process of creativity and art expression.
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Deb has a special message for the tween or teen in your life:
Did you know? The top tech companies are putting creativity and creative thinker as the top priority for new hires out of college.
Tweens and teens need ART in their self-care toolbox!
Say, "YES" to their creativity!
Help your teen let go of the fear of making a mistake and the need to be perfect.
We all have innate creative potential. We have nurtured an environment for your teen to embrace their creative self and live a life of fearless creativity!
They will learn how to:
• not judge their creations,
• not worry about drawing something “perfectly.”
• Say yes to messiness and mistakes.
They will embrace a state of wonder and realize that creativity is born from a place of being open and unafraid. That the creative process brings calm and connection into our lives.
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What Is In the Creativity Lab?
Our member ART HUB includes over 100 video and printable art lessons organized by topic! It's like "Netflix" of art! Kids pick and choose what interests them in the moment. All the lessons are available from day one so they can learn at their own pace and on their own schedule!
This is An Online Art Hub for Creativity!
The Creativity Lab teaches a PROCESS oriented approach where everyone is creative & everyone can tap into their OWN imagination. This is An Online Art Hub for Creativity lead by Deb Putnoi, a professional multi-media artist who loves teaching students how to flourish by embracing creativity.
Your teen will learn creative ways to:
De-Stress: Mindfulness Techniques
Art making is a powerful way to deal with anxiety and worry. Achieve calm through simple acts of creation. Engaging in the creative process is a powerful way to develop mindfulness and achieve calm. The Creativity Lab builds sensory awareness and connection.
Visual Thinking: Figuring Things Out
Mapping out ideas, designing spaces, coming up with the solution to a problem, visual thinking is an essential skill in this modern age. The Creativity Lab challenges tween and teen artists with visual thinking experiments.
Flexible Thinking: Open Mindset
Using a process oriented approach and delving into the creative PROCESS learn how to draw, print, collage and paint while also learning about building curiosity and an open mindset. Guided by a professional artist, Deb shows how to develop flexible and open thinking.
Hear what students and teachers say about working with Deb:
"My 10 year old struggles with anxiety, confidence, and perfectionism. Even though he'd been through all the therapies, he wasn't really making progress. After just a couple weeks in The Creativity Lab I've seen him be open, curious, and more autonomous than I ever have. During one activity he entertained himself for 30-45 minutes! I have seriously never seen him focused on anything until we found Deb. "
—Elizabeth
Mother of 10 year old boy
QUESTIONS?
Email Deb at: [email protected]
Teens need a SPACE to be FREE from other people's judgement and expectations. The Creativity Lab promises to be there for them!
Your teen will get to explore art and creativity in a judgement-free zone!
The Creativity Lab is a place to feel FREE to be yourself! Access an ever growing "library" of creativity experiments and activities. Access videos at any time, at your own pace, in your own way. You can revisit the activities over and over and all of the resources are available all the time. New experiments are continually added to the membership area.
Art Experiments
Deb will share innovative art activities in four different areas: drawing, painting, collage and printmaking using a mixed media approach. Deb uses a process oriented approach and helps students find their OWN visual voice.
Private Facebook Group (optional)
Community Show & Share in a private Facebook group where members are encouraged to share artwork, ideas and artistic processes. Ask Deb questions any time about art, art media or how to create something!
Art Inspired Adventures & Challenges
Scavenger hunts or creativity challenges push teens to think "outside of the lines." Develop a creative brain in new ways. Learn about artists and how they develop their own style. SEE the outside world in a more nuanced way.
Have you seen the headlines?
The Creativity Lab is another tool in our kids self care toolbox.
Art and the creative process can help teens and tweens deal with and metabolize their stress and anxiety.
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"I cannot say enough about art classes that I and my kids have all taken with Deb Putnoi. Her approach is unique and inspiring. I try to base a lot of how I teach on what I have learned from Deb. This is an INCREDIBLE opportunity for EVERY kid!!! "
Allyson N.
Art Teacher
"This is something exciting and different!"
This is not another copy the teacher art experience. This is a one of a kind "creativity lab" where professional artist, Deb Putnoi encourages each student to follow their own creative path through a series of art experiments. Each teen will discover their own creative voice. Watch your teen develop the power of creativity and a “growth mindset”! Your teen will discover a range of art media and delve in the creative process. It's unlike anything they've ever experienced before...it's night and day from traditional school art classes.
The Creativity Lab will:
• Relieve stress & achieve calm through simple acts of creation
• Boost self-esteem, drive, focus, and impulse control
• Discipline both mind & senses to become more deeply attuned to the world
• Improve brain connectivity & plasticity – see through and past problems, into the realm of creative solutions
• Train the whole brain to take on the most complex processes of the human mind
"The kids aren't forced to stick with one media but explore the creative process using a wide range of media. They LOVE it"
Susan M.
Mom of two students
Select your plan:
Most kids art classes cost $280 or more for just 6 lessons. This offer is a real deal!
$25
PER MONTH
✔ Over 100 Mixed Media Art Videos with new uploads regularly
✔ Daily Drawing Email Prompts
✔ Private Facebook Group to share art
✔ Ask Deb any art related questions anytime via email
✔ Creativity Habit Trackers
✔ Downloadable Sketchbook Pages
✔ Curated Pinterest boards for inspiration and education
$250
Get a FULL YEAR for the cost of 10 months
✔ Save $42!
✔ Over 100 Mixed Media Art Videos with new uploads regularly
✔ Daily Drawing Email Prompts
✔ Private Facebook Group to share art
✔ Ask Deb any art related questions anytime via email
✔ Creativity Habit Trackers
✔ Downloadable Sketchbook Pages
✔ Curated Pinterest boards for inspiration and education
"Deb is a master at making everyone feel comfortable with art and the creative process. While she has a talent for working with people of all ages, I can share from personal experience that she is an expert at drawing out the buried talents of tween and teenage boys (a notoriously tough crowd...). My boys' love of art, color and creativity is directly related to Deb's involvement in their lives, and stories from her studio are often referenced. Deb is a treasure!"
Donna R.
Mom of two tween sons
Artist & Educator
Deb Putnoi
Deb Putnoi is the Founder of The Drawing Lab and author of, The Drawing Mind. She is an artist and educator and has worked with teenagers, young women, activists, scientists, entire schools including all of the staff and students, organizations and more. Putnoi's approach allows you to access your creative self in novel ways!
Putnoi exhibits her ARTWORK internationally and has a Masters in Education from The Harvard Graduate School of Education. She worked at Project Zero with Howard Gardner, a leading expert on creativity, arts in education and critical issues of education. She was involved in cutting edge research on creativity, arts in communities and museum settings.
Deb Putnoi is the author of:
"The Drawing Mind"
"If I wanted to draw, I’d like to have Deborah Putnoi by my side. Now, thanks to her evocative and crystal clear book, all readers can have this opportunity.”
—Howard Gardner, Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of "Frames of Mind."
"Today was fun. I got to find other ways to express myself and sometimes it came out great and other times different. Drawing is discovery. I found pieces of myself I never knew before. I liked doing this because I got to express myself and it didn’t matter how the picture came out, it was a cool picture no matter what. "
-5th grade boy
FREEDOM of EXPRESSION
Kids discover how to express themselves freely through a range of media. We have all seen the news lately and now more than ever teens need to find ways to deal with frustration, anxiety and not knowing.
Frequently Asked Questions
As a a member of the Creativity Lab, your teen gets access to all of the videos and downloads in the online HUB. Videos and other materials are added regularly. You also get access to the private Facebook group where you can share what you have created and ask Deb any questions about art or creativity.
Deb will outline any materials you need in the Creativity Lab. She tries to use materials that are easily available.
You can email Deb at: [email protected]
She loves answering questions about The Creativity Lab, art, the creative process or anything art related! You can even suggest art lessons or ideas to add to the Lab!
YES!!
You can cancel anytime by emailing Deb or cancelling on your own through the site.
New material is added to the Creativity Lab HUB all the time. If there is something special you want to have added just email Deb and she will do her best to add it in to the Lab!
