Adventure in Creativity offers hands-on art, design, and STEAM programs for students in grades K–8, delivered through schools, nonprofits, and community organizations across New York City. Programs include Art & Design, Wearable Design, and 3D Printing & Design — with students' learning ranging from traditional hands-on art, design, and craft methods to digital prototyping, 3D modeling, and printing.
Our Art & Design program, geared toward younger students, promotes creativity, imagination, and focus — giving students a way to express themselves and build self-confidence. Our digital 3D and Wearable Design programs build technical skills and digital literacy. Across all programs, students move through a real design process: imagining what they want to make, incorporating their own style and ideas, and designing with a problem-solving purpose, while working with materials and techniques that carry rich cultural and historical traditions.
Adventure in Creativity provides a supportive, inspiring learning environment where students engage in meaningful creative exploration, gaining hands-on experience across a range of materials and making processes.
All programs are instructed by qualified artists and educators.
Sakurako Shimizu is a New York City–based art educator, designer, and professional artist with over 20 years of experience. She is the founder of Adventure in Creativity, a hands-on art, design, and STEAM program that helps students turn their ideas and imagination into creative projects.
After beginning to teach after-school art classes during the pandemic, Sakurako discovered a strong commitment to arts education. Drawing on her background as a professional artist and designer, she creates fun, positive, and process-based learning environments where students are supported from idea development through finished work.
Sakurako has taught in schools and community organizations throughout New York City.
All programs are instructed by qualified artists and educators.

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