Our Philosophy: 

We are living in one of the most technologically advanced times of human history.  With that, though, come downsides.  People of all ages, and especially young learners, have become more separated from creating.  We scroll on our phones and grow more distant from our physical surroundings.  Children, and even adults, have lost basic motor and social skills. At Get Art, we have found a way to counter that.  Our goal is to combine our love of the arts and language learning into comprehensive, fun, and interactive courses that will change the way people view education.  Get Art is about valuing creativity all around us and using it, as our ancestors did, as a means of communication.  Not only will you learn one of the most valuable languages of the world, English, but you will also learn about creativity, and therefore yourself.  

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Chicago native Vanessa De Wig has a B.A. in Anthropology and a TEFL teaching certificate.  While in Chicago, Vanessa started teaching ESL to refugees and adult learners. In 2009, she moved to Poland to raise her son near his Polish family and continued teaching English to all ages, from young children to adults.  Courses ranged from General English and Reading classes to Business English and Cambridge Exam Prep.  She’s also given lectures at Kozminski University and run workshops for the American Corner in Radom.  

In addition to teaching English, Vanessa has been an art teacher at a primary school in Warsaw for the past six years, where she has honed her skills in teaching Art and English simultaneously to young learners.  Vanessa has created a new art festival for the school every year for the past six years, bringing the whole school together to value and celebrate the arts.  Another way Vanessa has shared her passion is through the children’s book she co-created with Kimba Kerner titled ‘Mama, Please, Please, Please!’ which was sponsored by the American Embassy in Warsaw.  In her free time, Vanessa enjoys sketching, ink work, and collages.  She’s always trying to find ways to incorporate creativity and language into her life. 

It’s Vanessa’s keen belief that Art is the most fundamental aspect of what it is to be human, and her goal is to share her philosophy whenever possible.  

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Native to Philadelphia, Dr. Kimba Frances Kerner received her Bachelor’s degree from The Parsons School of Design in New York in 2008, majoring in Design and Technology. In 2011, she completed her Master’s studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, in the Industrial Design faculty.

In 2021, she completed her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she worked in printmaking and ceramics, and subsequently earned her PhD in 2025. During her postgraduate studies, she specialized in combining ceramics with printmaking. Her mentor’s workshop now continues her research with new students. 

Her artistic achievements include more than 15 solo exhibitions and dozens of group exhibitions across multiple countries. Dr. Kerner has received several awards, including Honorable Mention in the IKI Foundation Competition, Poland (2024); the Creative Scholarship Award from the Ministry of Culture in Poland (2022); First Prize – scholarship from the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Foundation, Poland (2019); and others.

Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Romanticism in Opinogóra, the Museum of Literature in Warsaw, the National Museum of Art in Taiwan, the Polish Cultural Institute in Tokyo, Ćmielów Design Studio, and other independent collections.

For the past 17 years, she has taught Art to children of all ages in various programs, including Montessori, the International Baccalaureate, and the International General Certificate of Education. She has taught English to children and adults, combining multiple approaches. This knowledge she honed while working as an instructor in a teaching program at the WIT School of Higher Education, under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences; as an Academic Writing Instructor at Collegium Civitas; and as an assistant teacher at the International Harvard Business School online program.