Art Classes at La Maison des Artistes and Middlebury School's French Immersion Program.

La Maison des Artistes, or The Artist's Home, (Unique Fine Arts classes since 1999) was conceived by International Master Painter Bernard E. Beneito (1st Prize, oil and acrylic, 1999, Triton Museum of Santa Clara, CA; Selected artist in history of Art "Masters and Epygones" for publication, Associated Academician, 2002; Academical Knight 2004 by International Academy Greci Marino Novarra, Italy, listed in the Who's Who in International Art 2005) as a nurturing, comfortable art studio and teaching environment in which all students learn to liberate themselves from their inhibitions, constraints and fears about the art process.

La Maison des Artistes is a unique, serious, and competitive small art school in the Bay Area, teaching only oil painting for very young students to older. Click here to read letters from happy parents who have sent their children to La Maison des Artistes for painting instruction.

Classes are offered in oil painting, and are taught by Bernard E. Beneito. Practice your French while you learn Fine Arts. Morning and Evening classes are offered for adults and teens. After school and Saturday classes from 10am-2pm for kids and teens. Registration is ongoing, so you can begin at any time, and there is a yearly exhibition of student artwork. For more information about fees and class schedule at the Palo Alto school, click here.

Everyone has a gift. No skills are required. La Maison des Artistes challenges everybody to paint, helps and encourages students, using their own imagination to produce original fine artwork from Bacon to Van Gogh.
Bernard E. Beneito was an instructor and teacher for over 34 years internationally, certified by the French Department Of Education.

The French immersion program collaboration was established between Middlebury-Monterey Language Academies White River Junction, Vermont and La Maison des Artistes July 2008. Click here for a report of the 2008 Summer Camp.