Dreyfoos School of the Arts Fall 2025 Visual Arts Audition Prep Workshop

Have a student Interested in auditioning for the Dreyfoos Visual Arts program or just interested in improving their visual arts skills? Join our fantastic Visual Arts Coach Calil NOW to get your student the skills they need to not only master their art skills, but have a successful, confident audition next year for the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Visual Arts Department.    THIS CLASS IS LIMITED TO 10 Students - DO NOT DELAY.

Students will master:

  • Drawing from life (Black and White)
  • Still life
  • Figure drawing
  • Perspective
  • Diagrammatic lines
  • Portraiture 

Intro to “reading” and discussing artworks 

Blind contour drawing

Multiple-perspective drawing

Confident Audition Techniques

Calil Russell Arguedas,  is an experienced arts instructor working with children and adults. Calil's classes center on both technical and personal development using the visual arts. His low student:teacher ratios create engaging, encouraging, and patient learning experiences. He is a graduate of Bak and Dreyfoos in Florida, and holds a BFA in studio art from the Cooper Union in New York City. 

Sundays 5 pm to 6 pm,  Sept 7 Through December 14, 2026  /via Zoom

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4 payments of $270 per month for 4 months (August, Sept., Oct., Nov., December - any skip dates are factored into pricing)

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I understand that tuition for this course is non-refundable.  If the instructor cannot attend a session, there will be a makeup class. However, if a student misses a session, there will not be a makeup provided.

I understand that Melissa Boher Jacobson, All Star Entertainment Services, Inc. and Confident Performance Coaching is a training program, and makes no guarantees or promises regarding admission to Bak MSOA, Dreyfoos or any other school or program.