Sign Up for Art Program of the WCAAD Walnut Branch!

The Walnut Branch of the prestigious West California Academy of Art and Design (WASC Accredited) is now enrolling. Sign up for the highly acclaimed art program!

​Art courses available at the Walnut branch:
 
Children’s Beginning Art（age 3-6）
Children’s Creative Art（age 7-10）
Transitional Art（age 11-13）
Advanced Art/Sketching /Painting（age 14+）

​Class time: Saturday 10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-3:30pm（Saturday 8:30am-10:30am and 3:30pm-5:30pm open upon enrollment）
 
The Walnut Branch address: Learning Tree Walnut Education Center，20781 Amar Rd，Unit 7，Walnut, CA 91789.

Established in 1996, West California Academy of Art and Design（WCAAD） strives to offer only the highest level of art education for the community. Since July 6th, 2017, West California Academy of Art and Design has officially become the Supplementary Education Center/Program Fully Accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

​Based in San Gabriel, California, West California Academy of Art and Design is widely recognized as one of the most professional children’s and youth art education institutions across the Southern California. The Academy also provides enrichment online art program that is as rigorous and nurturing as in-person classes. 

The academy's students produce exceptional art for their age and it has achieved a reputation as “the children’s art school with most art contest winners,” as well as students achieving 100% admittance to their perspective colleges.​

​Learn to create. Creativity is the key to shape our children’s future, and the WCAAD art training program is leading in preparing them to seek and transform, both as artists and creative individuals. 

​WCAAD’s art curriculum emphasizes specialized and well-rounded courses that build core skills, while pushing children to create distinctive, exceptional and meaningful work. The instructors employ an inspirational method of teaching by arranging the curriculum according to the phases of children’s psychological development and is infused with current National Art Standards. A carefully calibrated mix of rigorous courses are designed to help individuals of all skills levels get the most of their art education; not only improving their abilities, creativity, but also their intellectual performance in other subjects. Whether students simply have an interest in art, or would like to learn more about art careers, our unique art curriculum provides a breadth of knowledge necessary for facing a shifting future and setting them up for a continuous growth. 

​Set Sail for A Creative Life!
 
For more information, please contact Tel：(909) 612-7668 （Walnut），（626） 292-1783 (San Gabriel Headquarters)，(626) 558-7777 (cell); WeChat：myartedu; Web: www.MyArtEducation.com

​Attached：Bios of the Walnut Branch Instructors
 
Jade Liu
 
Jade Liu is a fine artist and UX/UI designer, good at oil painting, photography, acrylic painting, block printing, ink drawing, watercolor. She graduated from Sichuan Technology&Business College – Environmental Art Design with a three-years college degree in 2009, Santa Monica College —Studio Art with an AA Degree in 2021, and University of California, Irvine as an Art Honors Student with a BA degree in Arts in 2023.
 
Jade participated in Phantom Limb 2023 Honors exhibition, Aurora 2023 Health Humanities exhibition, and Made in California 2024 Brea Gallery. Her artwork “The Screaming of Mother Nature”won the Visual Arts Prize at the
2021-2023 Arts Competition Brea Gallery.
 
She has worked for Appnile as a game artist, Nuistars as a UX/UI designer, and ZINTA interior project Co., Ltd as an interior designer. She has been teaching children art since 2023.  In addition, she is proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, AutoCAD, Office, Procreate. 
 
 
Jill Zhang
 
Jill Zhang received a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in 2023. She participated in 2021 EXR Summer Exhibition at Gaobeidian Beijing and 2022-2023 Art Center Student Gallery Show.  She was commissioned to design a poster using Photoshop and conduct cultural background research for the creation of a 2022 Christmas greeting card, and to design a series of fruit-based plum character expressions and colors.  She produced illustration and banners in Procreate and Photoshop for WeChat articles, and Illustrated orthodontic post cards in Procreate with the investigation of SmileHaus Orthodontics.
 
Jill is proficient in Adobe Photoshop CC, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobate, Procreate,Word, Excel, Powerpoint. She is also good at Children’s Illustration Book, Acrylicc, Guache, oil, Watercolor, Colorpencil, Graphite, Charcoal, Papercut, Sculpture, Branding, Book Cover Design, Ceramics.
 
 
Angel Jia
 
Angel Jia is an environment concept artist and background/character designer. She holds a B.F in Illustration (Animation/Game track)
from Art Center College of Design. She has worked for Studio Yotta as the background artist for Smiling Friend Season 2, Radio Farm Pictures- Godspeed as a freelance background artist, Brazen Animation as the visual development artist for Chip Chilla.
 
Angel has been working as a portfolio instructor for U.S. Arts in Diamond Bar since 2019, teaching high school students design skills in a portfolio for college entry level, and mentoring the students to research in various aspects toward nature and human intelligence.
 
Angel is proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Maya, Blender, 3D Max, and fluent in Mandarin and English as well as familiar with Spanish.
 
Kaye
 
Kaye graduated from Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Russia Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts Oil painting Department with a Master 's degree in 2020.  During her studies at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, she received the guidance from Konstantin Grachev and Ivan Uralov, with major direction of oil painting, human anatomy, drawing, world art history, Russian art history, architecture, perspective, techniques, etc.
 
In 2016 she participated in the "Belt and Road" art exhibition held by the Russian Chinese Artists Association and won an award. In 2017 she joined the studio of Savkuyev. She has worked with Tangchao Shijia Company in China, responsible for IP design and packaging design, and Guangzhou Zhelan Pavilion Zens Art as the Director of Brand Marketing Department. In addition, she participated multiple art exhibitions including: "IDENTITY CYCLE" Florence Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, "TWHAWHIF- The world hath aged, whilst humanity is fledgling" Art Exhibition, Sino-Russian Art Alliance Exhibition, "Travelers’ Plan - Young Artists Group Exhibition" at Xusheng Art Museum in Shenzhen, “Art Week Italia di Santa Maria del Fiore” Art Exhibition Gong Gallery, Los Angeles, etc.
 
She has started art teaching since 2023, responsible for tutoring students in learning painting techniques and creativity, and assisting students in completing assignments and art portfolios.