The Valley Art Workshop is an art education and performance venue, operated out of Collier House, in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The Workshop opened in 2009 when Valley Art Institute, a long-standing college-prep community studio, closed in Canoga Park. Director Miles Lewis began teaching the remaining students. Since then, the workshop has hosted:
Hundreds of young artists.
Dozens of workshops in drawing, painting, printmaking, paper crafts, and environmental subjects.
Collaborations on educational programming with 11:11 A Creative Collective and Reseda Rising
Student Exhibitions
A fine art printmaking studio from 2013-2016
Various jazz and classical concerts
Scholarship and charity fundraisers
Open community life drawing with Gallery Girls
Miles teaching the youth program. 2021.
Students inscribing plates during an intaglio workshop. 2014.
Youth program students participating in the Kiss The Ground mural by 11:11 A Creative Collective.
Our first student exhibition. 2011.
Director Miles Lewis master printing with resident artist, Benjamin Bjorklund. 2015.
Cyanotype Class in collaboration with the Annenberg Center for Photography. 2016.
One of our master classes with Nick Runge. 2017.
Miles’ first two students - Aaron Kohn and Hakob Minasian helping on the Kiss The Ground mural, Cafe Gratitude in Hollywood. 2021.
City recognition for our involvement in environmentally focused educational arts programming.