Corner House Studio owner and operator Jen Tank appears recently outside her new children’s art school that will have its grand opening this Sunday in Oakland’s Montclair Village."I wanted to pursue an art practice and making art specifically with children,” Tank explained as to why she left a highly successful career at major architectural and design firms to open an art education studio.
She said all of this would shut them down and that much of the self-doubt linked all the way back to childhood experiences. The countermeasure, she says is to offer open-ended challenges. One day that might be to use bleeding tissue paper and watercolors for a mixed media project. Although it has taken sacrifices for Tank to “follow my heart’s work,” she says she is convinced the opening the studio in Montclair Village is not just her passion but something closer to destiny fulfilled.