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    4.6 (30 reviews)
    Closed 3:30 pm - 7:00 PM

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    My daughter's in class art work.

    My daughter has been studying drawing with Calcolor for several years starting with exploration program in Cupertino campus. In the recent year, we have moved to MTV campus with Mr. Sean's portfolio prep drawing class. Mr. Sean is an outstanding art teacher! We are very thankful for his dedication and incredible skilled at tailoring lessons to each student's progress. Our daughter has thrived and shown incredible improvement since joining his class. She genuinely looks forward to every class. We couldn't be happier. Highly recommend!

    Nikhil B.

    Great teachers who teach with care and consideration. Our daughter loves each session and can't wait to go back again to the next session

    Henry L.

    This is a great place for students to learn art. Many after school art programs are either too traditional and focus only on technique, while some are mostly aimed at just entertaining children. Calcolor has an effective approach that is concept based. So the teacher might teach about perspective, aspect, and distance, then give students a project to work on and assist as needed. They have parents come in, then the teacher showcases the work. This seems a little forced but parents will appreciate the gesture, especially in terms of learning to appreciate student art aesthetic. You pay on a monthly basis with each class pro rated at $45 for a 1.5 hour session. Talk to the manager for more details.

    J G.

    We learned about CalColor by referral from our neighbors. We tried various art studios for our 5 years old (2 in Palo Alto, 2 in Cupertino and 1 in Mountain View) before we finally decided on CalColor! We, as us parents and our five years old, love the school! Ms. Kristen is very patient and Ms. Lan is really passionate about her school. I was impressed with the curriculum and love the idea that my kid gets exposed to different forms of media and the artists. My kid is enjoying the class very much and loves to do the "homework"! Imagination is encouraged and surprisingly, my kid learned to express her ideas through her paintings! Yay!

    2019 class project
    Zuowei S.

    My 6 years boy has been with Calcolor for one and a half year. He loves Calcolor. His friends love Calcolor too. Teachers here are all super nice, knowledgeable and passionate. They know how to teach kids and keep them engaged through the entire 90min class. My son won't miss any Calcolor class, this is definitely his favorite. And look at how much he improves in his art work last year. Now he is a happy creative and confident artist!

    Gloria G.

    My son (5 years old) loves this art class and Mrs Kristen. He asked me to continue the class when his summer camp finished. My son didn't like drawing at all before he attended the class. But now he draws a lot just like crazy! I really appreciate their efforts to cultivate his interests of arts.

    My 7 years old daughter and 9 years old son joined calcolor at the end of 2018 and they are loving the teachers and classes! I have three very close friends in Palo Alto and all of our kids are taking classes at CalColor:)

    I attended CalColor a while back and had a great learning experience. I learned a lot​ and CalColor helped me catch up on the techniques that were later used in my school project and etc. They also have great summer school. Teachers are very helpful and caring towards the kids. They also bring the kids to ​museum​s and offer fun activities/projects that attracts everyone. (Good presentation, good teaching skills, tbh, they really try their best to help each individual achieve more in the field of art).

    My son started to learn art here right after this art school opened its mountain view site after several years in Fremont with good reputation. We did the trail and my son loved it. The curriculum is combined with skills and appreciation of master piece. His teacher is absolutely awesome and the staff is very nice. Now we are about to start our 2nd session of class.

    My daughter(4yr)'s  giraffe in her first class.
    Shaohua S.

    My daughter loves this art school! She was in another art school before this. One day I told her there is a new art place that I wanted to take her for a trial. Magically after the trial she immediately said she wanted to switch to CalColor. Both I and my husband were quite impressed by her art work from the trial class. She was very proud too! After that she looks forward to the art class every week and we are also looking forward to the surprises that she brings back home. Miss Kristen is the teacher for my daughter's class. She is very nice and has very creative curriculum. Miss Kristen is very good at guiding young kids. My daughter hasn't drawn anything real before CalColor but she did a very cute giraffe in her first class. Customer service at CalColor is very good too. Whatever questions parents have, they take care of it immediately. School shop has art supplies for sale, which is very convenient for kids who want to do more art work at home. We look forward to more art works from CalColor!

    My 5 year old did this during first class!

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    Thank you Henry for the feedback! Great summary too!

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    My daughter has been here for almost two years and she loves it. Really cool projects and she's learned a lot.

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    Thank you Yw for the great feedback!! We are glad that we can help!

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    Thank you Zuowei for the great feedback!

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    My seven year old son loved this camp and learnt a lot from Mr. Charles in terms of technique

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    Kristen is a really patient and nice teacher who is good at teaching those young age kids.

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