art Why should you choose KOCAS over other places for art classes?

• We are a top leading art school in Melbourne, located in Ivanhoe for 29 years.
• We nurture creative spirits and have produced high achievers in art studies for many schools in Melbourne. For years, we have had many of our VCE/IB students won their schools’ Acquisition Awards! Additionally, most of our VCE students receive university placements of their choice of preference in the first round of offer.
• We mentor art students at university level.
• Our KOCAS art club lets students continue with their art practices after leaving high school or tertiary studies.
• KOCAS is about Art Education NOT art play!
• Our classes are small and aim for quality teaching and learning.
• Our studio is architect designed and purposely built to create a safe and calm environment (both indoor and outdoor spaces) for creativity and learning.

We have a strong curriculum for your child to grow with from Grade 1 to Year 12 and beyond.

• Our students have fun while learning about the Arts through hands on activities.
• We are not product driven.  No commercial art kits are used and no cookie cutter plans or programmes are used!
• Our activities and projects start with the fundamentals and progress to very advanced levels.
• We pass on knowledge in visual art in depth and our activities are all skill and technique based.  We respect and reserve traditional skills and techniques.
• Art forms and Media that we use for our projects are very diverse.  We DON’T use commercially produced kits
• We help middle school students at high school levels prepare for VCE studies with best study approach and assist building up foundation skills and techniques.
• We produce high achieving students at their own schools no matter what year levels they are at.
• When required, we can plan and hold specific classes, for example: for home schooling during school hours or weekend workshops appropriate to our VCE students needs.
• We take students on either term based or private one on one sessions, to help individuals achieve specific goals, such as gaining entry to competitive art colleges and universities.
• Kitty O’Kane, founder of KOCAS is a practicing artist of multi-discipline who exhibits regularly. Her experience as an artist helps to ensure students learn about the Arts with a holistic approach.