"Stay at Home" Order Handed Down Earlier this evening Governor Newsom issued a statewide "Stay at Home" order in a bold effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. This order took effect this evening and means that ALL non-essential business are to remain closed for 30 days. Here is what has been deemed as "essential [...]
Online Students Exceed 250 I couldn't be more proud of what we are doing as a group. Amid all of the chaos, we are injecting something so creative into the lives of the public. As of 2:00 am on 3/19/2020 we have 250 people enrolled and attending our online lessons - all of them creating [...]
Paper Products Like you I have been in a number of grocery stores over the last few days and have been amazed at the lack of canned goods, water and paper products. While we have no resources for food or water resources in our studios - there is paper. If you are in desperate need [...]
Shelter in Place - What Does it Mean? In the last few days over 7,000,000 Northern Californians have been ordered to "Shelter in Place". Likewise at 9:00 p.m. on 3/18/20 Palm Springs issued the same Shelter in Place order. In the event that such an order is made for Los Angeles and/or Orange County here [...]
The Decision is Made Over the weekend I closely monitored the news and other resources regarding the spread of COVID-19. I was faced with a decision as to how to proceed into the new week with regards to our classes. While the number of confirmed cases in Los Angeles and Orange County remained very low, [...]
Financial Assistance It is likely that you have questions and concerns regarding your finances due COVID-19 suspension of classes. You do have the right to file and obtain Unemployment Insurance benefits effective immediately. Know that this is a fund that you pay into every pay period and are there for you to utilize in the [...]
Registrars Continue to Call As of today the Registrars have continued to contact all of our students and parents to inform them of our temporary suspension of classes, offering each free access to our online courses. Each student is also being informed that they may share the news of these free courses to any and [...]
All Studios Go Dark Over the course of the last 2 days both Kyler and I have travelled to every studio to post our public message on the front door and to turn off all electrical devices so as to reduce all costs to a minimum. We have also retrieved all petty cash bags and [...]
Website Message to Our Public The following message was posted to our website www.fineartclasses.com on Monday, 16 March at 2:45 p.m. informing our public that we are temporarily suspending classes and offering them FREE access to all 4 of our online art courses for children and adults. [...]
Student Attendance Drops by 50% Due to an array of government and media announcements last Thursday we experienced a vast number of students who either froze their tuition, prorated their classes, departed, cancelled or no-showed for classes. In total we delivered 796 hours less than last week - a 25% drop overall, but a 50% [...]
