Art Classes for Children, Teens & Adults

We offer individualized instruction in small group sessions. This is a great opportunity to work with a serious artist, Sasha Budayev, who is also a gifted and sensitive teacher. His students are solicited and accepted at notable fine art schools and colleges. Kristin also teaches and assists Sasha.

Sasha Budayev

Sasha was born in 1988 in Minsk, Belarus, and studied painting in Minsk State Art College, Saint-Petersburg Academy of Art, School of Engaged Art Chto Delat and School of a Young Artist ProArte.

He has participated in group and personal shows in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Brighton (UK), Minsk, Berlin, Paris, Tallinn and Philadelphia and NYC. He taught in Minsk State Art College before moving to Philadelphia.

From 2018 through 2021 he taught at the Princeton Academy of Art, NJ. He currently teaches academic drawing and painting in Bridgeview School of Fine Art, New York, pre-college classes at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia. He is has an MFA from Temple University.

Kristin Lee

Kristin has a degree in Studio Art and English from Connecticut College and an MFA in writing from Bennington College. She also received a Masters equivalent certificate in Waldorf education. She studies at Nurturer's Studio in India and also at Bridgeview School of Fine Arts in NYC. She has taught all ages and was a senior creative at an advertising agency and published poet. Her work was part of an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.