Adults

The Contemporary Austin is pleased to offer a virtual lecture series for members that focuses on several sculptures currently on view.

Age 4–5, Parent & Child

Enhance your child’s innate creativity! Young artists learn to think creatively and shape ideas into art they can see, touch, and know.

Age 4–5, Parent & Child

Explore the jungles of the world and learn about the creatures living there. Create birds and beasts using feathers, fabric, cloth, and other wild materials!

Age 4–5, Parent & Child

Children travel the world while learning about the art of other cultures. We’ll explore Hopi sculpture, Japanese origami, Australian Aboriginal painting, and ancient Egyptian masks.

Age 4–5, Parent & Child

Creative young artist-scientists will observe and re-create the beauty and color found in nature, especially insects, learning how art and biology intersect.

Age 4–5, Parent & Child

Children learn to paint, draw, and sculpt fish and other underwater creatures and plants while exploring basic art vocabulary.

Age 6–8

Venture into real and imaginary worlds with the stroke of a marker, the rub of charcoal, and the glide of pastels.

Age 6–8

Create realistic paintings and express your artistic spirit in both bold and delicate colors using skillful brushstrokes.

Age 6–8

Create playful and dramatic out-of-this-world art from another universe by drawing, painting, and sculpting aliens, robots, and other imaginary life-forms!

Age 9–11

Hone your drawing skills and turn doodled creations into terrific cartoon characters!

Age 9–11

Venture into real and imaginary worlds with the stroke of a marker, a piece of charcoal, and pastels while learning more advanced design and drawing skills.

Age 9–11

Set up a palette, blend brilliant colors, and use different types of brushes. Create volume with light and make shadows in a still life, paint a landscape, and more..

Age 9–11

Develop your drawing and painting skills digitally with free phone or tablet applications.

Ages 12-14

Use a variety of media including watercolor, acrylics, oil pastels, and chalk pastels to produce an exciting array of two-dimensional abstract art.

Age 9–11

Learn to capture images, then explore the creative possibilities in Photoshop to bring out your vision as an artist.

Ages 12-14

Learn to capture images, then explore the creative possibilities in Photoshop to bring out your vision as an artist.

Ages 12-14

Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!

Age 9–11

Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star. Discover secrets and tricks to make…

Age 6–8

Children travel the world while learning about the art of other cultures. We’ll explore Hopi sculpture, Japanese origami, Australian Aboriginal painting, and ancient Egyptian masks.

Age 9–11

Children travel the world while learning about the art of other cultures. We’ll explore Hopi sculpture, Japanese origami, Australian Aboriginal painting, and ancient Egyptian masks.

Adults

Expand your skills in fundamental painting methods!

Adults

Explore the modern concept of collage through techniques employed by Picasso, Braque, and other Cubists.

Adults

Go deeper into the many photographic possibilities of iPhones and other smart phones.

Adults

Pointillism is an offshoot of Impressionism in which the painting technique uses dots of color to achieve the forms.

Ages 14-18

Learn how to create amazing designs, fantastic creatures, and artistic landscapes with 3-D modeling.

Ages 12-14

Learn how to create amazing designs, fantastic creatures, and artistic landscapes with 3-D modeling.

Adults

Let's get out of the studio and experience nature!

Ages 12-14

Ages 14-18

Hone in your technical photography skills while exploring your environment.

Adults

Learn how working large loosens up individual style and enables artists to make a powerful statement.

Adults

Explore the open-ended and fun medium of collage to create unique works of art!

Adults

Practice a new drawing medium in each session and enjoy drawing success from the very first class. Refine your technique in a supportive environment for beginners.

Adults

Enhance drafting skills through drawing plant forms. Enjoy Laguna Gloria’s beautiful 14-acre site by sketching its flora in and out of the studio.

Adults

Expand your visual acumen through study of the proportions, contours, volumes, and details of the head and face.

Adults

Absolute beginners use a variety of materials including charcoal and Conté crayon and employ basic principles of drawing while working from a live model.

Adults

Perfect your ability to render the human figure and expand upon basic drawing skills, through a variety of different nude models and lengths of poses.

Adults

Learn how to create abstract drawings using natural forms as inspiration.

Adults

Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach painting with confidence. Understand oil and acrylic paint and develop a foundation for future work.

Adults

Explore Vincent van Gogh's wonders of perception! Learn to use and mix color in new ways, as well as paint using impasto techniques, applying thick paint to heighten the emotional response to your work.

Adults

Break away from traditional landscape painting and explore color, shape, and brushwork in a new class that explores the connection between landscape forms and abstract painting.

Adults

Work from a live model or personal photographs to expand your skills through study of the proportions, contours, volumes, and details of the head and face.

Adults

Beginners are introduced to the watercolor medium while intermediate-level students advance technique and skills through practice and critiques...

Adults

This workshop-style class picks up where Watercolor Basics and Beyond leaves off, featuring new exercises and demos that focus on value, pattern, and color.

Adults

Learn how to approach portraiture in watercolor!

Adults

All levels are welcome in this information-packed class taught by a national award–winning children’s book author and illustrator.

Adults

Learn to prepare blocks, draw, carve, and print while examining the history of relief printmaking with an emphasis on contemporary art.

Adults

Beginners cover the basics of hand building and wheel throwing, while experienced students build on previous lessons, refine techniques, and create vessels.

Adults

Take better photographs and learn the best techniques in the revolutionary photo editing program Adobe Lightroom CC.

Adults

Explore the potential of the iPhone camera, including the best apps for creating artistic images and amazing examples of work by professional photographers.

Age 6–8

Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!

Age 6–8

Boost your art confidence while exploring basic ceramic skills, building with rich clay materials, and using a variety of glazes.

Age 6–8

Turn those doodled creations into terrific cartoon characters. Explore cartooning, craft your own cartoons, and practice lettering, perspective, timing, and expression.

Ages 12-14

Study drawing and painting, exploring form, color, perspective, texture, value, and composition using a realistic approach.

Ages 14-18

Advance your skills drawing the human form. Create drawings that incorporate movement, large structural relationships, proportions, and line.

Age 6–8

Adventure into the amazing world of animals, including the jungle, zoo, and even imaginary realms, using clay forms.

Age 6–8

Explore painting, sculpture, and more while drawing inspiration from the contemporary masters on view at Laguna Gloria!

Age 6–8

Learn to use line, color, shape, and texture to make your paintings stand out and to gain realistic effects.

Age 9–11

Paint, draw, and sculpt nature by creating bug sculptures, animal portraits, and landscape paintings of the history-laden land around your critters!

Ages 12-14

Venture into real and imaginary worlds with the stroke of a marker, a piece of charcoal, and pastels while learning more design and drawing skills.

Ages 12-14

Set up a palette, blend brilliant colors, and use different types of brushes. Create volume with light and shadow in a still life.

Ages 12-14

Enter the inventive and fabulous world of Surrealism—beyond realism—and use it as a springboard for creativity!

Ages 12-14

Develop your drawing and painting skills digitally with free phone or tablet applications.

Age 6–8

Paint, draw, and sculpt nature by creating bug sculptures, animal portraits, and landscape paintings of the history-laden land around your critters!

Adults

Expand your skills in fundamental painting methods. Instead of rushing into advanced theories and techniques, keep things simple and paced for comfort, ease, and comprehension...

Age 9–11

Study Frida's paintings, especially her self-portraits, as inspiration for your own artwork. Use a variety of materials to create works that express personal and unique life experiences.

Ages 14-18

Become familiar with acrylic painting materials, techniques, and terminology. Experiment with landscape, portrait, and figure painting using a foundation of basic drawing techniques.

Adults

Develop the perceptual skills necessary to see things as they really are.

Adults

Shooting assignments focus on expanding composition skills, understanding light, and becoming comfortable and confident in manipulating manual exposure.