OUR PHILOSOPHY
We believe art should be joyful, exploratory, and accessible to every young artist.
Studio Owners & Lead Teachers
Elena Kruchkova &
Boris Kuznetsov
Elena and Boris are a husband-and-wife team who share a lifelong passion for art and teaching. They studied at the Mukhina Art Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City.
They teach children and teens across the New York and New Jersey area, working with schools, art centers, and community programs—including Upper West Art School, Carmel Academy, Art Studio 5005, Do-Re-Mi School of Music and Arts, All Bright Center, Kids Unlimited, and the YMCA. Their teaching focuses on helping students explore different media and techniques, think independently, and grow confident in their creative abilities.
teacher
Dasha Kuznetsov
Dasha is a third generation artist, raised in New York. Dasha has been teaching art classes at ART STUDIO 5005 since 2013. She is also a freelance artist and performer. Growing up in a family of artists gave
Dasha the opportunity to try herself in many different fields of art, her primary medias are acrylics, henna, pencil, pen, body painting, silk painting and oil painting.
Dasha has been working at Art Studio 5005 summer art camp, teaching art classes; with the MET FOR KIDS museum tours for many years, and has experience in all sort of events and programs provided by the studio. She manages her own group lessons @ Livingston, Jersey City and Wayne, NJ locations.
ASSOCIATE teacher
Sasha Kuznetsov
New York-based visual artist and art teacher with a degree in Fine Arts (The Cooper Union). English and Russian are both native tongues. Offering lessons all over NYC.