About Us

Head of School​

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Ms. Tifa completed her two master degrees in art and design in the United States. The first Master’s degree in Fashion Design. The second Master’s degree in Web Design and New Media. She has been doing art and design work in the United States for many years. 

Tifa has four years of experience in preparatory classes for college entrance exams and is a senior art exam consultant who has sent many children to Tsinghua and other prestigious art schools in China.  In 2019, she founded Mindart Studio in the U.S., with the hope to give children avant-garde and interesting art education from the perspectives and ideas of an excellent designer, and use art to enlighten children’s wisdom and give them a colorful life. Since 2019, the children that she has taught have won many awards in the U.S., and she has also helped many children to apply to their ideal art schools. She is a very responsible teacher and has received a lot of great comments in the past.

Dublin Campus Director

Gemma Wu is a professional Product Designer who believes that design thinking can change people's inherent way of life. She pursues applying design concepts to create a virtuous circular relationship between products and users. Gemma was educated in four years of professional and systematic Animation Design in China（中国传媒大学）, focusing on creative story conception and creation. She enjoys exploring the aesthetics and practicalities in applications of design and earned a Master's degree in Interaction Design in the US. Gemma achieved as an awards winner in many design competitions, such as LICC, MUSE, Indigo, etc., advocates explaining the brand stories through interface design and branding design. Along with her education life, Gemma enjoys getting along with children, and she believes in the power of the importance of design thinking to children's early art education.

Mr.Colin is an illustrator who graduated from the Academy of Art University with an MFA degree in Visual Development. He worked as a professional  illustrator for 10 years, and he is a member of the “Illustrator of the United States”. He won the award of “the writer of the future” in 2022. His work has been published in several magazines. He has been reported by the Newspaper in San Francisco and Xinhua New Agency (新华社).

2022年获“未来作家”奖，作品发表于多家杂志。

特殊人才移民

曾被《旧金山报》和新华社报道，再多处举办个人签售会。

Graduated from the US art University majoring in

MFA Animation and Visual Effects 

Guangzhou Academy of Art University(广州美术学院）, BFA，Animation and New Media

WORK EXPERIENCES

A creative fine arts background multimedia designer has experience in art education for teenagers.

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Graduated from the US art University majoring in

MFA Interaction & UX/UI Design & Visual Development . 

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China Academy of Art University(中国​美术美院）, BFA, Oil Painting

WORK EXPERIENCES

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More than 5 years of experience in art education for teenagers and adults.

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Ms.Grace , master of degree graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in the UK (英国格拉斯哥艺术学院).

Grace used to be a comics and illustrator designer for Tencent (腾讯) company in China. Grace is good at designing comics and game characters. Grace has strong drawing skills and design skills. Because Grace's undergraduate major is art education (艺术教育), she is very experienced in art education, caring and responsible, and is loved by children.

Ms. Jessie graduated from the Academy of Art University in 2D Animation & Stop Motion Animation with a MFA degree. During her college years, she has won several scholarships, and her work has also won several AAU Spring Exhibition Awards. She has strong drawing skills and sculpting skills. She has experience teaching art and she passed the Pedagogy and Psychology exam in China. She is cheerful and passionate. Her classes are very interesting and she wants students to learn and grow in a happy atmosphere.

Jimmy Mi, a UX designer interested in emerging technologies and driven by curiosity to solving social behavior and environment. He is graduated from the California College of the Arts (CCA加州艺术学院) with a BFA in Interaction Design with Computational Practices minor in 2021.

Jimmy was a tutor in San Marcos High School (圣马科斯高中), also he supported middle and high school students creating a "Super Hero" program in Attitudinal Healing Connection, a Youth Organzation in Oakland, CA. Currently, he is a Design Development focus on artifical intellgence design services, including smart merchandising design, AI logo generator, etc.

Jennifer Han is a San Francisco-based artist who is originally from Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Han grew up in a traditional Chinese family that has an ink landscape painting background. Han came to the United States in 2014 and started her art education. She got her BFA degree from California College of the Arts (San Francisco) in 2018. She also has been teaching art and focus on children’s art education for more than 4 years. Han’s artwork focuses on the idea of “tech addiction”, which includes the “Replicant” series, the “Grid” series, and the “Transparent Screen” series. She uses multi-medium including oil, acrylic, plastic, etc. Han is also very interested in performance art, she did one performance with Guan Rong, an artist from Los Angeles in 2018. Other than making paintings, she also likes to make sculptures, videos, and installations. Han held her solo exhibition “The Grid” in March 2018 and has attended group exhibitions in San Francisco, Oakland, Maryland, and Kansas City. She has also honored the “Special Merit” Award for the “All women” art exhibition in January 2018.

Castro Valley Campus Director

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Ms.Blue graduated from the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院) with a bachelor's degree and graduated from the Academy of Art University with her master degree.  Her major is children's book illustration. She engaged in children's art education for five years. In five years of art education, she has taught at least 500 students, and most of the students have participated in drawing competitions and won excellent rankings. She had online painting courses with more than 200 people participating. She has rich and excellent experience in painting education.

Ms.Sicilia graduated with a Master's degree in Graphic Design from Academy of Art University and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Wuhan University (武汉大学）. During her junior year, she also exchanged and studied at Korea Hongik University (弘益大学) for a half year, which is the best art university in Korea. Ms.Sicilia's graduation project was selected by the school for the spring show. She had a passion and interest for drawing when she was a child, and she insisted on learning drawing from children’s art to professional art. She loves spending time with students, and she has more patience to communicate with them and try to understand their thinking.

Angel graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (伯克利), Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture. From with eight years of art experience, she enjoys experimenting with various mediums including watercolor, colored pencil, and photography. Angel had the honor to receive several outstanding artist awards from the Asian Society of Arts of America and get her artworks published in a major Chinese newspaper, “Sing Tao Daily”. While in school, Angel serves as the Vice President of an organization where she creates and leads online crafts lessons for children with chronic illness. Angel is excited to spend her time doing something she loves along with fellow creative minds who share her passion! 

Ms Lora is a professional illustrator and photographer who graduated from the Tsinghua University（清华大学美术学院）with an MA degree in Motion Picture and Television. lora is a very good director and is also very professional in video editing.  She has been drawing for more than 10 years.She loves kids and always has a lot of patience with kids. 

Hao Zheng is a fantasy illustrator who graduated from the Arkansas State University  with an MFA degree in Traditional Illustration. He won several awards in the spring show in his school life. As a fantasy illustrator, Hao is adept at creating artwork with imagination and storytelling. He believes that story is what makes an artwork powerful. And the best way to create great art is the passion from the bottom of the artist’s heart.

Ms Ying graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (天津美术学院). She is an outstanding MFA graduated in US. Creative illustrator with more than 10 years of art experience. She has remarkable proficiency and a powerful intuitive approach to creativity. She has a unique and playful style that combines hand-drawn drawings with digital coloring and editing. She believes that through the process of doing art, individuals experience creative thinking, problem solving and development of students’ artistic ‘eye”.

Luke Lu graduated from the Academy of Art university with a fine art major. He used to be 3D artist and game designer in a game company. He has strong creativity and solid art foundation. He is good at oil painting, charcoal drawing, and Chinese ink painting. He loves painting and creation, and is curious about everything. He has strong creativity and a solid art foundation. Meantime, he can understand students’ psychology and interest, He can fully stimulate the imagination and artistic creation of students.

Ms Liz is a freelance illustrator who graduated from the Academy of Art University with an MA degree in Illustration. She won several awards in the spring show in her school life. She has been teaching since she was in college and is very good at communicating with people. She believes that each child is unique, and they are able to convey their inner thoughts and personalities through their drawings.