Crayola® Imagine Arts Academy™ to Launch Two New Art Programs

Crayola® Imagine Arts Academy™– an art enrichment franchise - is shaking things up with two new innovative programs, coming this August. Animal Emojis is an art birthday party where children make animal shaped emojis out of clay.

The party focuses on self-expression, all while celebrating a child’s special day. Artblazers is a revolutionary after school and camp program that showcases artists who changed the world such as Frida Kahlo, Yoko Ono, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol. Children will learn about these famous artists, by making a work of art inspired by each of them, and realize that they too can change the world through art.

The demand for a creative outlet has skyrocketed during the pandemic due to parents’ desires to get their children in extracurricular activities, summer camps, and after-school programs. Crayola® Imagine Arts Academy™ is unique because it is not just arts and crafts programs.

Classes teach children skills of creativity, and imagination, as well as an awareness for the world around them. Children in the various programs will not only learn art techniques, but be exposed to topics including cultural awareness, animal conservation, design careers and now, artists who changed the world.

“There are many states where art is being cut; schools don’t have the resources to spend on the arts and they are losing out on something powerful,” said President and Co-Founder, Shafik Mina. “Crayola® Imagine Arts Academy’s goal is to get children back into a routine of using their imaginations to learn empathy and understand imperative creative processes.”

Founded in 2016 and franchising since September of 2019, Crayola® Imagine Arts Academy™ has been changing the way children view and understand art.