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Our Studio

Sassy Tuna Studio is located at 736 Water St. with an adjacent parking lot for our students.

We offer classes in: Art, Coding, Video Game Creation, Video and Game Creation, Animation, Digital Drawing, As well as Workshops, Paint Nights and Art Retreats. 

Classes range from 45 minutes up to 2.5 hour workshops. Your head teachers are degree-holding professionals with decades of experience. Our students' learning experience is at our core, with the process of learning like navigating a gondola: don’t expect it to be easy! We target high-order thinking skills in our programming, while students and attendees work with full-time professional artists in an active studio space. 

We have student art and digital gallery exhibitions every Winter (December) and Summer (June).

When your child registers for SassyTuna’s art or digital classes they’ll learn an original, customizable curriculum from professional artists, designers, media creators and animators. They’ll bring home a portfolio jammed with art, drawing resources, and skills that will last a lifetime.

SassyTuna has been offering childrens’ digital and traditional art classes for more than 20 years and most of our students stay with the program for five years or more, building lifelong friendships along the way.

We do in-house projects, artwork, video games, small deco and furniture, maker-space projects, you name it.

Things we LOVE to make and do in the studio :

  • Pretty paintings
  • Smelly Stickers
  • Fake Food
  • Fast art-tests
  • Correct use of good/expensive materials
  • Anime / cute-stuff
  • “ ‘E’ for everyone content ”
  • Animations
  • Videos
  • Video Games
  • Coding Programs
  • Role-playing games
  • Graphic novels and comics
  • Digital art with professional tools OR free/ or close-to-free
  • Charcoal
  • Graphite
  • Kneaded and electric erasers
  • Oil and chalk pastels
  • Watercolour paint
  • Acrylic paint
  • Water + Alcohol-based markers (at age-appropriate level)
  • Coloured Pencils
  • All-natural materials
  • Glass + Fabric paint
  • Clay (we aim for made in-house - with paper, non-toxic bases, and no need to fire in a kiln. But those projects might feel like coleslaw on your fingers, so say the students :)  )

Things we avoid in the studio :

  • Oil paint/things that you’d get in trouble with, if they fell in a teacup/on a child’s hand.
  • Glass handling/cutting
  • Toxic materials (ie, spray paint indoors)
  • Anything hotter than a blow-dryer or low-temp glue-gun

Much of this is because Julie and the team are practicing artists, too;

Management of safety needs to be quick and easy for ALL in the working space.

Art Class drawing outside Sassy Tuna St. John's, Newfoundland
Sassy Tuna interior St. John's, Newfoundland
Sassy Tuna Art class St. John's, Newfoundland