Ai Studios | About

Administrators

Antoinette Coppola Feinman

Antoinette is the founder of Ai Studios. She attended William Paterson University for both Fine Arts and Education. She has over 15 years experience developing after school and summer enrichment programs. She creates lesson plans, analyzes class material needs, and researches projects in the arts. Her motto is Imagine...Dream...Create... and is aspires to make enrichment a postive experience that influences children to become better students and better prepared for the future.

She also has over 18 years working in corporate management. Antoinette has over 20 years experience in Interior Design, with clients throughout the metropolitan area. She works with Bloomingdale's to develop fashion shows, special events, art shows, and trunk shows. More..

Michelle Bradbury

Michelle has long time experience with pre-school enrichment programs. Michelle has worked for over 6 years as a Montessori teacher, developing curriculum and classroom materials. She is a certified pre-school teacher. She designs learning plans, child development plans, and prepares a classroom environment with materials and activities that meet her students' unique interests, academic level, and developmental needs. As a Montessoriteacher, her worked as a role model, demonstrator, record keeper, and meticulous observer of each child's behavior and growth. Like her students, she is an active and curious learner. More..

Salvatore Canzonieri

Salvatore has a Master's degree in Psychology and a BA degree in Behavioral Science. He is our Office Administrator and also develops lesson plans and projects in the arts and sciences. He analyzes enrichment projects so that they can best provide the students with projects that require innovative and creative thinking.

He has worked for over 35 years in the telecommunication field as a technical writer, adult learning educator, consultant, and process analyst. He has curated art gallery shows worldwide featuring his own art and those of internationalartists. He is magazine writer, researcher, and author with over eight books published to date in the fields of art, philosophy, health, martial arts history, and other subjects. He has recorded over 100 records worldwide in well known rock groups, with works archived in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is an accomplished Chinese Martial Artist and Qigong instructor. Sal also develops workshops in healing, self help, and other topics. More..

Other Teachers

We have a staff of experienced professional and university students and adult work experienced instructors. More..

Ai Studios: PO Box 33, Towaco NJ 07082; Telephone: 973-257-1500; E-mail: aistudios@optimum.net

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A Few Words About Us

Our Mission

Our mission is to enrich a child’s self-expression by providing a creative and safe environment that is always inspirational, fostering the acquisition of new skills in a creative and challenging manner and developing independent thinking. We provide excellent personalized teaching and guidance in the form of enrichment programs for children of all ages, which develops a child’s character by challenging them to: always strive to do better, discover and develop their innate talents and abilities, and enhance their cognitive, motor, and coordination skills. We believe that the arts are an important expression of one’s individuality and that in a supportive and nurturing environment a child’s potential is bound to flourish.

Enrichment classes have proven to help students enhance their creativity, improve their power of concentration, develop and expand critical thinking skills, boost memory and retention, and achieve superior academic performance. Additionally, they have been shown to augment problem-solving capabilities, provide cultural enrichment, advance intellectual maturity, and enhance self-esteem.

We also provide specialized tutoring in all scholastic subjects, including SAT and ACT. Also we create individualized special studies programs for gifted or advanced students. Please contact us directly for more information and rates: aistudios@optimum.net

Background

Ai Studios was founded to address the needs of parents and the community at large. Parents saw that many important child development classes in the arts and other areas were being eliminated due to strict budgetary constraints. Many parents voiced their desire to continue to develop their children’s education beyond the basic curriculum in order to more fully prepare them for the future. Ai Studios builds children’s physical and educational life-skills, which are necessary to prepare and empower them for future leadership in their communities and to achieve success in their personal lives.

The founder of Ai Studios, Antoinette Coppola, understood this need and created a series of diverse enrichment programs using a mobile educational approach that brings these programs directly to the schools themselves, providing a safe and structured environment for the students, without logistical stress to the parents. Antoinette has a strong background with rich experience in not only artistry, but also in corporate business management. She fuses together both her art and her business experience to create functional programs that partner with corporations, such as Bloomingdale’s. Through these programs the students will have hands on experience in relevant activities.

Our Instructors

Our programs are designed and facilitated by certified instructors, teaching artists and industry professionals experienced in arts education and community-based after school programs.

What We Offer

Ai Studios After School and Summer Enrichment Programs

Examples of the range of programs we offer are:

1. Art and Imagination Programs, which include classes in:

2. Media and Computer Arts Programs, which include classes in:

3. Performance Art Programs, which include classes in:

4. Wellness Programs, which include classes in:

5. Girl Scout / Boy Program Programs which include classes in: