CASA LU Art Space provides an extensive multidisciplinary program for children aged 5 to 10 years old.
We offer highly creative and unique after-school classes and other services to a broad cross-section of parents in the Brooklyn community seeking excellent quality care for their children. We offer a wide array of art-focused, play-based, and hands-on programs, including cooking and language immersion classes, in a safe environment with a family atmosphere and provide busy parents with solutions for the care of their children, especially during the pandemic when schools are closed.
We are a company formed to provide a place where children of all ages and abilities are encouraged to develop their full creative potential through the visual and culinary arts. We incorporate language immersion content in our curriculum, with a focus on Spanish instruction.
Our services are offered to families with young children of all genders in the local community but not limited to; we appeal to parents interested in the arts and those seeking high-quality educational programs for their children.
In addition to our After School programs, day and week long camps, and weekend workshops, we offer art or cooking customized birthday parties.
A home-based structure provides a touch of “home taste,” a healthy environment where children can grow, express their creative voice, find themselves, and discover what they like.
Our Teaching Methods
Casa Lu Art Space gives the opportunity to children to learn various skills from screen printing, machine sewing, cooking, art fundamentals, a second language, and engaging in new ways of creation and art.
Luciana incorporates teaching in art and cooking through the exploration of it providing emotional support through positive discipline.
A variety of one-of-a-kind classes for kids K to 5th grade, in a home-based charming art studio & kitchen located in South Slope, Brooklyn.
Our Spanish Immersion Classes
Luciana’s approach to teaching Spanish fosters natural learning, to create a similar environment to the one in which children acquire their first language.
Through meaningful communication and daily exposure, I make the flow of the class fun, dynamic with engaging activities, enjoyable hands-on and play-based opportunities that incorporates the use of new vocabulary, and exposure to the practice of the language through conversation, games, playtime, cooking, and creative activities.
I work towards creating comprehensible input. I use visual references to facilitate understanding and language development; photographs, posters, slides, drawings, gestures, etc.
I take advantage of a small group setting to provide a one-on-one experience and support linguistic aspects, incorporating the use of paraphrase in Spanish when children speak in english to repeat what they say in Spanish and the use of self-talk (describing my own actions) and parallel talk (describing other's actions) in Spanish to map actions and to put into words what children are referring to, inquiring about, or doing.
About Luciana
Luciana Gambarino is the founder of Casa Lu Art Space. This small home-based company reflects both her creative ambitions as well as her life’s passion for incorporating art, textile arts, and cooking into all aspects of children’s learning, and a self-taught journey between various art, craft, and cooking techniques, and yoga along the way.
After graduating from Visual Arts at UBA University of Argentina, Luciana joined an architecture firm. She works as an intern for stage designing projects, quickly after she starts a free workshop of classes for kids on-site. A few years later, Lu and her brother opened a unique restaurant located in the heart of Palermo, BA.
They both built this family atmosphere Tapas Bar, where people came from all places to enjoy her creative menu along with cooking and baking classes for kids that she offered during weekends. She truly fell in love with the idea of connecting both her art & cooking passions and sharing her knowledge with children.
She has been involved in various non-profit organizations, creating programs teaching children from underserved communities in Argentina and Uruguay.
After relocating to Brooklyn, NY, she started a small company of screen-printed kid’s apparel. Still, quickly after, she decided to open her studio to teach art classes for kids. It was an incredible experience. She felt very comfortable managing the course and dynamic and helping them as a guide to create, perform and produce their ideas.
Later on, she was given the excellent opportunity to create, shape, and develop a fantastic Spanish bilingual after-school program at a well-known private school in Brooklyn, where she truly fell in love with being part of a team in a large classroom setting. Both students and parents alike raved about Lu’s after-school creative and cooking program, after those fantastic years, she decided to start her educational program for the community in Brooklyn, “I fell in love with the idea of opening my art & cooking space for children, and bilingual Spanish programs, with an ever-evolving method that I created and over the years.”
With these experiences in mind and lots of support from parents and the community, Casa Lu was born, offering services to children. Of her unique, fun, and innovative classes, Luciana says: “I feel lucky to integrate both imagination and creativity into children’s lives. I am fortunate to be doing what I am passionate about, and I am grateful to have this opportunity to provide children with the space, tools, high-quality materials, and guidance for them to express their creative voices, and am excited to continue to expand my business in many directions.”
