About Our School

Pui Ying Art School has been successfully instructing children and youths to reach great achievement in artistic painting and drawing etc. since 2000. Pui Ying Art School is well known and respected throughout the Chicago Chinese community.

Pui Ying Art School is the first registered Chinese & American Painting School in Chicago. Over the years, since its establishment, thousands of students who enrolled at Pui Ying Art School, have made significant and great achievements in drawing and artistic painting.

In 2006, Pui Ying Art School received the “Excellent Organizer” award at the National Youth Art Competition Award Ceremony in San Francisco among numerous awards and special recognition by city officials.

Each and every time Pui Ying Art School students have participated in the numerous regional and nationwide art contests, the Pui Ying Art School students have been honored with great prizes and awards. Ma Ying Li, the founder, says enthusiastically, "We are very proud of the accomplishments on the part of our students!"

Pui Ying Art School's vision and mission implements SmartArt to deeply enrich the lives of our students and their families and community through creative connections to the visual arts. The school also has professional and experienced music teachers. Pui Ying Art School's quarter system helps students advance quickly with their artistic goals in the SmartArt classes and allows for quarterly art celebrations and graduations. 

Our Founder

The founder of Pui Ying Art School, Ma Ying Li, is an outstanding artist and a professional art teacher with more than 27 years of teaching experience.

In 2013, Miss Ma Ying Li received the “Outstanding Chinese” award at the Global Chinese Celebrity Summit in Newark, CA. The summit also featured the issuance of 20 stamps featuring Ma Ying Li's own photographs, produced by the U.S. Postal Service for worldwide use.

She has been a guest teacher at several Chicago Public Schools and has been honored by the Chicago Children’s Museum to be their Chinese traditional painting teacher and to participate in the celebration of Asian American Heritage Month with her students Art Exhibition at Chicago's Children's Museum for many years along with her students. She also continues to learn new skills and techniques with which to challenge her students.

Miss Li designs her unique and proprietary teaching methods for kids, youth and adults and administers her classes emphasizing learning with a combination of fun, creativity, and professional training. Miss Li’s devotion to community art education has been rewarded by the outstanding achievements of her students and appreciation from their parents.

Our Classes

Pui Ying Art School provides year-round art training classes. The classes are specially designed according to different levels of artistic training, age groups and specific requirements for students. The skills and aesthetic values that students learn feature indoor and outdoor techniques and theories in both western and traditional Chinese styles.

Classes offered include:  

Drawing, Painting, Music - Piano, Summer Program, Chinese Language.

Our Learning Path

The ultimate goal for all students is to have them master incremental skills and then creatively integrate them – from lines to colors, to still-life drawing, inks and charcoal, to Chinese painting and oil painting, from paper to canvas, to ceramics, leaves art and wood art – into a minimum of ten comprehensive masterpieces at the coveted SmartMaster TM level capable of being placed in an art museum or gallery. Even though there is a clear path for students to progress to this level, each student is allowed to make progress at his or her own pace and build on their natural and learned talent.This allows students to accelerate their individuality in artistic expression and creativity.

The keys to student success here are a distinct combination of professional training, the maximizing of each student’s artistic individual potential and the highly motivating and unique progression of encouragement of imagination and originality. 

培英美術學校是北美洲華人社區教學質量、教學環境、教學設施最理想的一所美術學校

学校简介：

培英美术学校自2000年创办以来，培养了大批优秀的绘画艺术人才，享誉整个大芝加哥地区及华人社区. 2006年该校荣获全美“最佳美术学校组织奖”。学生参加全美及地区绘画比赛，参赛的学生每次都获大奖。名列前茅，历年来取得辉煌成绩。 教学采用多元化,中、西结合, 室内、外写生,根据不同年龄, 不同绘画程度和不同的求学要求,针对性的教授传统绘画技法, 并利用最新绘画教材系统地进行绘画理论方面的学习。专业绘画技巧与充分发挥学生天分及培养独立创作。

创办人李玛瑛, 是一位杰出的艺术家和超过27年教学经验的专业美术教师,现任培英美术学校校长.2013年华商名人峰会（Newark, CA),李玛瑛以杰出的艺术教育成就,荣获“杰出华裔成就奖”.峰会并特发由李玛瑛本人相片编印邮票20枚, 由美国邮政监制, 全球通行的邮票.

李玛瑛曾多次被邀请到芝加哥儿童博物馆工作访教授中华文化艺术授教国画等，她具有全面的美术教学经验, 对儿童、青少年及成人均有独特的教学方法, 注重培养学生绘画兴趣和绘画技巧相结合。她的使命是提供高质艺术学院,创造性和专业指导。她的信念是，美术不仅对绘画和绘画艺术的了解，而且对社会带来的改善。美术给人民一个更好的个人平台。

李玛瑛在教学中集中西各种流派的精华，潜心辅导学生对艺术的感受，使学生在掌握绘画技巧同时让他们体验美感享受。她教授的课程包括：油画、中国画、水彩、水粉画、素描、卡通画、室内、外写生、树叶画、木工艺及陶瓷制作等.

芝加哥培英美术学校自2000年创办以来, “啟发青少年儿童艺术创意,塑造美术专业才能” 是培英美术学校的办学宗旨.

李玛瑛的使命是提供高质量艺术专业指导。她的信念是: 美术不仅是对绘画和绘画艺术的了解，美术给人以美感享受，丰富多元的精神生活，提升人们的生活品质。

培英美术学校学生作品多次在芝加哥艺术学院Chicago Art institute 及儿童博物馆展出.

在李玛瑛老师的指导下，培英美術學校歷年來取得了輝煌成績，得奖名次和数量在美中地区少儿画作比赛中名列前茅。