💛 Simple, school-style pricing

Pricing & terms

Clear tuition — like a real school, no haggling. You enroll one term at a time, never a whole year, and choose how you pay.

Per-lesson rates

One-on-one lessons, 60 minutes

Pick the setting that fits your family. Every teacher is vetted and background-checked.

Studio or Online

At the teacher's space or over video

$65 / lesson
  • 60-minute private lesson
  • One-on-one with a vetted teacher
  • Builds toward the Annual
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Add a sibling or friend to the same session for +$30 (about $47 per child) · Ages 4–6 can do 45-minute lessons from $50

Ways to enroll

Choose how you pay

Same lessons, same teacher — just different commitment levels. Prices below show the studio/online rate; at-home scales the same way.

Best value

Full term

$720 / term

12 lessons over the term, paid upfront — about $60 a lesson, saving ~8%. The committed path to the Annual.

Most flexible

Monthly

$260 / month

4 lessons a month, auto-pay, cancel anytime. Low commitment — great for trying your first term.

No commitment

Single lessons

$65 / lesson

Book one at a time to test the water before you settle into a term.

The school year

Two terms — enroll one at a time

You're never locked into a full year. Sign up for a single term; re-enroll for the next if you love it.

Term 1

Fall

September – mid-December · 12 lessons, scheduled with your teacher. Build skills and find your child's direction.

Term 2 · ends at the Annual

Spring

January – May · 12 lessons, scheduled with your teacher. Create the finished piece for the Palette & Smock Art Annual.

You and your teacher set the lesson times — no rigid timetable, and breaks are simply rescheduled. Optional summer sessions & camps run between terms.

$50/yr
Registration & Exhibition fee

One yearly fee that puts your child in a real gallery.

Charged once a year at enrollment, it covers the venue, framing, and hanging for the Palette & Smock Art Annual — so every student gets a wall at the show.

A real example

What a term actually costs

A Standard-tier student enrolling for one Fall term:

Fall term · 12 lessons$720
Registration & Exhibition fee$50

One term, all in$770

≈ $64 per lesson · prefer to spread it out? The same term runs $260/month.

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Pricing is set — teachers are next

We're matching our founding faculty with Hudson Valley families now. Join the waitlist and you'll get first pick of teachers and terms the moment we open near you.

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Introductory pricing for our founding families — subject to change as we grow.