A Place Where The Creative Spirit Can Grow!

The art program syllabus has been designed by Sandra Mercuri to ensure a logical process of art making is developed in students of every age.  Classes aim to balance the development of creativity alongside the practical theory of art so there is a constant movement forward towards a bigger view of art and a larger life perspective.  Students do not require any experience. Every module ensures a formal explanation of the process to be covered.  Art develops both sides of the brain- as the visual image is the most sophisticated and universal of languages. 

Our Visual Arts Programs Expand:

• Process thinking skills
• Fine motor & hand/eye development
• Creative problem solving
• Visual/ auditory/ kinesthetic attention spans
• Creative positive self expression
• Decision making abilities
• Creative thinking & cognitive associations
• Technical knowledge about materials,
  tools & techniques for art making

Director: Lisa Tziatis
Phone to confirm space availability: 905-643-3513
Mailing address/ Administration Office:
   354 Mount Albion Road, Hamilton, ON, L8K 5T2
Email: scsa@mountaincable.net
Registration Is On-Going

Letter from the Founding Director- Sandra Mercuri

Philosophy & Mission:

The instruction at Stoney Creek school of Art is approached with each student’s mission of learning being our focus.  Technical information demonstrations and discussions are structured in a comprehensive and logical format to make the process of creating art easy for beginners and holistic for more advanced students.

We enjoy the challenge of guiding our students into a new world of seeing & creating.  The spirit of art making goes far beyond technique, but in order to build confidence in being able to convey one’s inner vision, the steps through technique and process are fundamental.

Our original philosophy still stands strong:  We wish to nurture and encourage the creative process of each student.  We will continue to have high quality instruction and low student to instructor ratios.  We will always promote local art forums & inform students of what is current in their arts community.

Our goal is to continue expanding our programs to suit the needs of our community.  Our hope is to effect change in the perceived myth that you must be born talented to create art – to the reality that all are capable of self expression and the ability to translate it visually when given access to tools, techniques and the evolution of practice.

Stoney Creek School of Art was established in 1993 by Sandra Mercuri. Currently the school serves over 900 registered students each year.

“Art benefits the student because it cultivates the whole child, gradually building many kinds of literacy while developing intuition, and dexterity into unique forms of expression and communication. This process requires not merely an active mind but a trained one. Arts education also helps students by initiating them into a variety of ways of perceiving and thinking.” — National Standards for Arts Education

“As brain scientists interested in the whole spectrum of human learning, we know that the trained, practiced, stimulated brain is also more efficient at new learning. If we develop the building blocks of visual perception, visual special organization, and visual discrimination by learning to draw, our brains cannot help but transfer these skills to such tasks as mathematics, which is at its base the organization of objects in space, or to reading and spelling, which require visual attention to detail as well as pattern and organization in space, as the eye sweeps across the line of print and down to the next line. ” — Geraldine Schwartz, Ph.D., Founder and President: Vancouver Learning Center.

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