Visual Artist with extensive experience in various 2-D mediums, and over 23 years of teaching experience, MFA and Post-graduate Art Ed degree, fully certified and ready to help you achieve greatness.

Ella is a phenomenal teacher. She really helped me develop my skills and fortify my creative passion. She helped me channel my thoughts into executing my desired work with a level of precision and detail that I had not been able to achieve before. Although it's been many years since Elka was my teacher a lot of my foundation in my current work is based on the skills that she helped me build

Ms Graciano was my art teacher all years in HighSchool. I already had a childhood background in the arts, but the way Ms Graciano shaped my skills as a youth only echos today. she will encourage you to push yourself and refine your skills. Her lessons and exercises helped mature my art and under her I made some of the best paintings in my young career. highly recommend Ms Graciano

Elka is a fantastic art teacher who has been working as an art teacher for decades. She not only goes above and beyond when it comes to actually teaching technique, but she really understands what it is to be an artist. She’s such a talented artist herself, and her passion for making art that has something to say really translates with her teaching. She really helped me understand not only how to make good art, but how to make art that expressed the things that I cared about and gave me a voice. I think it’s so important for a person teaching you art to be an artist themselves because it really helps to have somebody that understands your journey and what art really means to people that make it. Elka helped me ace my AP exams and helped me get into a fantastic fine arts program. She has a fantastic ability to teach art to anyone from little kids to adult adults.