Beautiful art on the walls to inspire students. Their summer camp is often full - get in early…read more There is a creative writing class too!

Hosted a birthday party here for my daughter. Ms Lin was incredibly attentive and easy to work…read morewith. The girls all had a great time. I highly recommend this studio.

Excellent staff and price for quality art lessons, drawing, painting, ceramic. Every one is busy…read morehaving a great time

I stopped by Summer Studios Arts Academy because the signs outside made it seem welcoming and…read moreencouraged people to get involved. Instead, I stood there for 10-15 minutes while people kept working and no one even acknowledged me or asked if I needed help. It honestly felt like they only want to interact with you if you're already enrolled in a class. If the studio is only open to students, just say so instead of putting out signs that make it seem open to the public. Sarcastically, I joked to myself that if I looked like a drug dealer, someone probably would have run to the door. Instead, I was just ignored. Very disappointing experience and a waste of time.

Our daughter has been taking lessons here for three years and still going strong. It's not only a…read moreplace for kids (and adults) to take musical lessons but more like an environment that nurtures creativity. Other places will turn your child into a mindless instrument playing machine. This place gives artistic minds a giant playground to explore, create and grow. They allow students to not only hone their skills on their instrument of choice but also gives them the opportunity to write their own songs, try other instruments, showcase their talents at different venues in front of different people. The teachers here are awesome and talented. The director, Mrs. Lee is great! She's approachable, reasonable, sweet, generous and caring. Bottom line, I highly recommend Torrance Arts Academy!

This incident occurred back in April, but I felt it was still critical to share my experience so…read moreother parents are aware. Especially if you plan on enrolling for the last class of the day. During a lesson scheduled from 7:00 to 7:30 PM, my daughter was sent outside unattended to look for my car because the instructor claimed I was "late." By 7:31 PM, she was already standing outside next to my vehicle. Not only does this mean she was not receiving the full instructional time we paid for, but sending a child outside into a parking lot without confirming a parent is present is a major safety hazard and a breakdown of proper release procedures. When I emailed management twice to raise these serious safety concerns and request an immediate cancellation, I never received a reply, an apology, or even an acknowledgment that my emails were received. Instead, I just got a cold, generic notification that the classes were canceled. To make matters worse, no refund was ever issued for the lost instructional time or the abrupt cancellation due to their safety oversight.

My nieces and I did the fused glass. It was a lot of fun. We plan on going back and doing many…read moremore projects.

This is the most complete and wonderful art studio I've been to. They have pottery making, pottery…read morepainting, glass and fabric art to do. The teachers are very friendly. The owner's dog is also super sweet. I painted a pottery, didn't make it from scratch but picked the unpainted one from the shelf and paint it. They have special colors that can make very pretty texture and requires no skill whatsoever. It's very relaxing and fun. They'll fire it for you in 1-2 weeks, then send a text for pick-up. It's a long drive from me but the pottery I got is really worth it!

I signed up my daughter for summer camp at School of Couture. My daughter absolutely loves it here…read more Everyday, she shared what she learned and came home with a product that she made. She enjoyed making new friends and looking up to someone that shares a vision and skills in design, safety and patience. Thank you so much for making a skill worthwhile learning. I highly recommend School of Couture. We will be coming back for more learning!

This is just what we have been looking for. My granddaughter LOVES IT! Dee is so patient, helpful,…read more and very encouraging. The kids love her.

I cannot BELIEVE I didn't leave a review for this gem of a place! So my husband actually found this…read moreplace and suggested it for our daughter's 6th birthday. I contacted the owners, Terri and Sarah, and they were so incredibly gracious! They invited me over to check out the space. I really like the layout of this art studio because it's divided into different sections/rooms. One room would be where the kids do their sketching, and then another room is where the kids would take their sketching to go paint. The third room is where you can put all the food for your party and they have an awesome patio area that's right next to the food room where parents can also hang out while the kids can sketch and paint for the instructor in the other rooms. There were 19 kids total and it was so nice not to have the parents stand behind their kiddos the entire time to watch them paint because there's no where to go!! All of the parents told me they had NO IDEA this place existed. Because it's on Artesia , which is quite a busy street that people take to get from one place to the next it's really not the kind of place that people stroll around on. Sarah and Terri will work with you on what kind of theme/ sketch to guide the kids. It was an amazing party! Everyone loved it! And my daughter said it was the best birthday ever! Yay! Success! If you're planning a birthday for your little one! BOOK THIS PLACE!!! Cheers!!

My two children attended camp at SBAD for one week during the summer. My biggest regret was not…read morebooking more weeks. My son, aged 5 (who I was worried wouldn't be able to sit still), learnt so much about different artistic methods. SBAD focus on a different topic/theme each day so the children have plenty of time to be creative and really think about what they would like to make. My daughter, aged 7 loved going each day and came home with some stunning pieces of art. She also LOVED the teachers who are not only skilled artistically, but are genuinely kind people who make all the children feel welcome and at home. This is the only camp (ever!) that my son and daughter have attended and been very grumpy that I only booked one week! Needless to say, we will be returning for the Thanksgiving camp!

We started the teen curriculum for my 11 year old over the summer. The program was well done and my…read moredaughter loved it and learned new techniques. She really looked up to her instructor/mentors and enjoyed seeing them work on their own projects. We would have loved to continue but unfortunately we had to move out of South Bay. We know they have a second studio in Santa Monica so we hope to join that one once we can move back to our home in West LA. The tuition prices were a great deal for what we gained from the classes. Thank you for the inspiration and a great program for my budding artist!

My son has been taking classes here for a year and he's made some beautiful artwork. This is…read moresomeone who has never been interested in art so I give kudos to his teacher, Ms. Lauren. He can be difficult and temperamental but she's been incredibly kind and patient with him. He loves her and her class and the fact that he keeps going back every Saturday for an 1.5 hrs away from his video games is testament to this place. Everyone I've spoken to there has been super nice and helpful, even if we'd had to reschedule a class at the last minute. I must note that my son did not love his first teacher and class, like I said, he can be difficult, but the director was incredibly patient and considerate and after listening to our feedback, switched him to a different class and teacher, which was much better suited for him and he's been loving it ever since. This is just to say, even if the first class doesn't work, you might give it another chance and try a different one. Highly recommend this place!

A true art studio that teaches skills and color theory. The kids learn at their own pace and learn…read morehow to do reference drawing. They teach using different mediums as the skills increase. I really like it compared to other places where it's a cookie cutter process that doesn't really teach art but how to just follow directions (like those paint and sip, but for kids)

Great place to learn to draw especially for kids. It's extremely clean the teacher is very nice and…read moreknowledgeable everyone seems to be having a great time lots of people there all playing and learning together highly recommend

To be honest, I want to give less than 1 star. The president Angie Kim needs from you is just money…read moremoney money. It's a shame that they use student's passion for art as the way they make money. How could they do that kind of things to student who want to be an artist, and has pure passion and belief. You will be surprised how they changed their attitude after you registered. I truly believed them, but It's all over. All I got from vision 21 is that suffering huge heartache and disappointment.

My first enrolled my daughter in Vision 21's Torrance branch on May 26, 2012. The owner Mrs. Kim…read moremade the class schedule and insisted that my daughter needed to be in the track program, which included a portfolio completion guarantee, college essay workshop , access to financial aid information, and help with college applications. The track program consisted of 350 classes, all of which Mrs. Kim demanded prepaid checks for. With college applications due on January 1, we gave our portfolios to the Vision 21's headquarters, where they were to be photographed. They informed us they would bring both the CDs and the portfolios back on the Jan. 27th or 28th. They later changed the date to the 31st, the day before applications were due. Some of the pictures were incorrectly taken, and all of them had terrible quality. They demanded us to have the photographs taken exclusively by Vision 21, and then charged us $300 for photographs I could have taken better at home. I sent my daughter to class on the 3rd, only to discover that the lights were off and the door locked. It was only when we called LA branch that we were told that since the student's portfolios had been completed, all classes at the Torrance branch were canceled permanently. Not only this action violate the portfolio completion guarantee, since the students still were working on various projects and also had other college applications due later in January and February, but my daughter still had over 70 classes left. Not only that, I found my last prepaid check cleared the previous day on January 2nd. I called Mrs. Kim to ask about the canceled classes and mentioned the cleared check. She replied rudely that she didn't know and didn't care. I told her that the students were not yet done with their portfolios, and to open up the classes that we paid for. She told us that she would reopen Saturday classes only. I called her again to ask for all the classes, Wednesday-Saturday, back. She promised to reopen all of them but when we arrived the next Wednesday for class, there was no teacher. Both I and the other parents kept calling Mrs. Kim to open all the classes back. She agreed to meet on Saturday to discuss the classes and to bring back the portfolios. When she heard we had reported this story to the newspapers, she told us that Friday's class was canceled. On Saturday, all of the parents gathered at the Torrance Branch and waited for her. However, she did not show up--she sent her husband instead. He did not even bring the student' portfolios. We told him our situation and asked him to reopen the classes. He didn't seem to understand how important this was to us, he just turned a blind eye to our problems and kept asking "why are you complaining so much?" He then told us that classes were all canceled. That night both Mrs. Kim and her husband came to our house with the portfolios. They forced us to sign a ridiculous contract that stated we had received the portfolio. They then wanted us to sign yet another contract that would open up all the classes. However, they attached a clause that stated " no complaints and no claims." By this time, we were sick of her manipulative ways and her ridiculous contracts. We also realized that this clause was a convenient way of muzzling us so we couldn't talk about all the atrocious things she had done until now, so we refused to sign it. Yelling again, she told us there were no more classes. (Pretty obvious, by this point). I didn't hear from her again until Monday, when she left a message saying she had confirmed my daughter had no more classes left, when I know for a fact my daughter had more than 70 classes left. Bottom line: It is a shame this kind of business has been running in America without restriction for over ten years. Using students' love of art and desire to learn against them, this business continues their scamming and exploiting. Think twice before sending your kids here!

I love the curriculums here! Teachers are really awesome and very knowledgable. Aside from regular…read moreart classes, they also do college prep courses. I know a guy who got a full ride into into a private art school with the help of this school. Super helpful if you're getting your portfolio ready for college entrance!

Awesome art prep school to went to ! I prepared my portfolio here and I learned so ~ much from the…read moreteachers there and got scholarships from art schools. I highly recommend this place if anyone wants to go for art major.