Morley School is an interdisciplinary art school for 21st century creators of all ages. We teach skills that help you thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Our mission is to design and sustain a unique learning environment for harmonious creative development of a student. After completing a workshop or a course at Morley School a student is confident in their creative skills and ready for a wholesome life and a successful career in the contemporary world.
Making the classroom a democratic setting where everyone feels a responsibility to contribute is a central goal of transformative pedagogy. ¹
Our founders Dinara Asadulina and Christos Kakouros are artists and educators with 15+ years of successful international experience.
Dinara is a writer and a social entrepreneur. Everything she does comes from direct experiences of the everyday. The themes she explores span topics of trauma, being genuine, and existing with complex cross-national identities. Dinara is part of Morley House, an artist duo that contains all her work as an artist. Morley House began at Cambridge University, where she completed her MPhil in Democratic Leadership and Education. She implements that every day through teaching art and writing online and in-person. She also dances and draws small animals, fruits, and other recurring elements when she is not writing or teaching.
Christos Kakouros is an artist and an architect working at the crossroads of visual art, literature and design. His work spans multi-disciplinary forms and themes, exploring topics of human connection, grief, loss and the joy of being alone or with others. Paintings, sculptures, books and often furniture or interiors are the result of that practice. Christos works with Dinara, a writer and an art educator, as part of the artist duo, Morley House. They also live together as a couple. He gained soft and hard skills at Cambridge University, where he completed an MPhil in Architecture.