Meet Marieke

Marieke Boorman co-created an art enrichment studio in Los Angeles called Canyon Kids Love Art or “CKLA”. CKLA provides high quality art instruction with small class sizes in a safe setting. The goal of CKLA is to provide a creative and fun after school enrichment program for children. With Canyon Kids Love Art (CKLA), kids explore various techniques in painting, collage and sculpture, using imagination, while also learning about artists, art history, and materials and methods.

Marieke has a background in Fine Art, with a BFA from the University of Toronto. She has been working with children doing art for over a decade, beginning as a volunteer at the Free Arts for Children’s Court program at the Los Angeles Children’s Courthouse (where cases involving children are held, The Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park). Marieke has also spent the past several years teaching art classes at Lookout Mountain Preschool and has spent countless hours as a volunteer at Wonderland Elementary in the art room.

In addition to working with children and art, Marieke’s experience working in the art world includes an internship at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, volunteerism at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and work in several smaller galleries. Marieke has exhibited her own art work as well.

S T A F F

Jaqui Zerouni, Co-Founder

Chloe Palmer, High School Art Teacher, CKLA Summer Camp Instructor

Lauren Hamilton, Elementary School Teacher, CKLA Summer Camp Instructor