Adults

Join The Art School in partnership with Practice Yoga Austin for our Art and Wellness Retreat.

Parent & Child

Come discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes...

Adults

Add interest to your photos while you are making them.

Adults

Explore watercolor while painting forests, fields and waterscapes.

Adults

Students will work in a limited context or matrix, and use the restrictions not as an inhibiting factor, but as a challenging format for discovery and expression.

Adults

A hands-on tour of various 2-D mediums such as drawing, painting, watercolor, and collage, including foundational principles and language that can be used across disciplines.

Adults

Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach acrylic painting with confidence.

Adults

Have you ever wanted to print your own T-shirts, posters, or cards? Master the fundamentals of screen printing so you can experiment confidently.

Adults

Our Saturday Sampler classes take place every Saturday from 1-4pm, and each explore a different art medium.

Adults

Advance your metalworking skills and work on personal projects in this new guided open studio!

Adults

Join us in our community print shop on Fridays for a morning of exploration and printmaking!

Adults

Sculpt a life-size solid, clay portrait bust based on photographs or cast model.

Adults

Harness the fluidity, intensity, and transparency of Watercolor Inks.

Adults

Create monotype paintings on printmaking plates using drawing and painting techniques

Explore a variety of approaches to creating texture and dimension using acrylic paint

Adults

Celebrate the playful, unpredictable essence of the natural world

Adults

Explore the fundamentals of figure painting

Adults

Experience the art of throwing clay!

Adults

Experience an online drawing class using supplies you already have around your home.

Ages 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 14-17

Learn the fundamentals of watercolor and gouache

Ages 4–5

Explore the Texas landscape by learning about animals and plants

Ages 12-14

Experiment with texture in your artwork and explore painting techniques.

Ages 14-17

Focus on mastering basic ceramics hand-building skills to express yourself.

Ages 9–11

Exploring relief prints, collagraphs, etchings, and more!

Ages 9–11

Explore illustration, design, composition, and color to reinvent your ordinary sneakers

Ages 9–11

Set up a palette, blend brilliant colors, and use different types of brushes.

Ages 12-14

Create, design, and illustrate a Dungeons & Dragons character.

Ages 14-17

Develop skills to create a public artwork and engage in conversation with arts professionals.

Ages 14-17

Explore big ideas with tiny books!

Adults

Explore a variety of approaches to expressive oil painting

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

Adults

Use the traditional art of Japanese sashiko stitching to hem and patch your jeans.

Adults

Experience a standard online painting class using minimal supplies

Adults

Let loose your creativity and come away with one or more meandering books.

Adults

Stitch your very own bespoke soft sculpture in this engaging workshop

Adults

Learn a personal approach to figure painting with a grounding in canonical painters.

Adults

Learn about watercolor...

Adults

This 2 day workshop will cover basic paper folding techniques that will result in 4-5 books for you to take home.

Adults

Learn about various surface design methods to decorate your ceramic work at both the green and bisque stages.

Adults

Bring your artwork to class and practice shooting both 2-D and 3-D pieces. Learn shooting techniques to achieve true color rendering...

Adults

Create a small reed basket

Adults

Learn the basics of photo editing to create more visually interesting images.

Adults

Explore options, gain clarity on tools and techniques for both realistic and abstract styles, and learn practical skills and time-saving tips.

Adults

Create a variety of images using gelatin printing, a form of monoprinting in which a gelatin slab is used as a printing plate...

Adults

Create prints using the cyanotype process!

Adults

Connect with other painters from your own home with this online class.

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

Set up a palette, blend brilliant colors, and use different types of brushes.

Parent & Child

Explore the wonders of watercolor to create a unique work of art!

Adults

Spend time connecting with art history and other people.

Adults

Create beautiful and functional pieces using glass, marbles, stones, mirrors, dishes, and tiles in this class suitable for beginners.

Adults

Expand your understanding of stoneware or porcelain, under-glaze colors, and high-fire glazes.

Adults

Expand your skills, practice MIG (metal inert gas) welding techniques, and become more familiar with oxy-acetylene and hot form steel.

Adults

Learn a variety of hand building techniques, both traditional and innovative, to develop your own style.

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

Learn complete manual control of a camera. While using a digital SLR is essential, you will subsequently be able to pick up any camera and make a manual exposure.

Adults

Advance your water media skills by creating unique gouache landscape, still life, and portrait paintings.

Adults

Using tools like Google Street View, we will explore locations both near and far to discover...

Adults

We will explore how a flat piece of clay can turn into an organic flowing vessel...

Adults

Explore a variety of surface decoration techniques including sgraffito, mishima, slip trailing, watercarving, and more.

Ages 4–5

Students will create maps, sketches, and watercolor paintings of birds, fish, and plants as they explore the ecology of Laguna Gloria and Mayfield Park next door!

Ages 12-14

Learn the history of sculpture and explore different 3D modalities!

Adults

Learn the basics of color theory and some new mixed media painting techniques while exploring the geometries, beauty, and surprises found in nature.

Adults

Explore relief printmaking (carving into a surface) using linoleum to create dynamic oil-based relief prints.

Adults

Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach oil painting with confidence.

Adults

Learn to draw now!

Ages 4–5

Dive into the world of storybooks and bring some of the most beloved tales to life!

Ages 4–5

Create art with various art media that tells your unique story.

Ages 14-17

Discover the art of cut paper to create dynamic compositions.

Ages 4–5

Explore the wonders of gardening!

Ages 14-17

Learn about line, value, perspective, and composition.

Ages 6–8

Create an artwork celebrating you!

Ages 4–5

Learn about farm animals and landscapes through art!

Ages 6–8

Create stop-motion animation!

Ages 4–5

>Children learn to paint, draw, and sculpt fish and other underwater creatures and plants!

Ages 12-14

Learn about the traditional history of printmaking and create your own unique prints

Ages 14-17

Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel...

Ages 4–5

Explore the jungles of the world...

Ages 12-14

Learn how to combine pen and ink drawing with liquid ink painting to create satisfying mixed media works.

Ages 9–11

Create your own crazy critter stuffie by designing a sewing pattern, cutting fabric, threading a needle, and learning a variety of stitching methods!

Ages 4–5

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!

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing. Learn to throw cylinders and turn them into one-of-a-kind works of art!

Ages 12-14, Spring Break Classes

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing. Learn to throw cylinders and turn them into one-of-a-kind works of art!

Adults

Explore comics, sequential art, and graphic storytelling as a contemporary medium!

Adults

Carve, Print, Fold, Repeat!

Adults

This course is perfect for beginner and experienced oil or acrylic painters...

Adults

Learn techniques to successfully convey light and shadow...

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 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…

Ages 9–11

Take your drawing to the next level!

Adults

Beginners and experienced students will enjoy this welcoming class. Learn the basics of centering, opening, and pulling clay on the potter’s wheel…

Ages 6–8

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

Adults

Learn the basics of making cloth on a loom. We will cover planning a project, choosing yarns, warping and setting up the loom, and weaving itself.

Ages 6–8

Create your own ''wild things'' and expand your skills in clay, paint, collage, and more!

Ages 12-14

Step outside the classroom and take a closer look at the nature of Laguna Gloria and beyond.

Ages 14-17

Ever wanted to print your own T-shirts, posters, or cards? Master the fundamentals of screen printing so you can experiment confidently!

Ages 9–11

Dive deeper into the wonderful world of watercolors and learn how to set up your palette, mix new colors, and apply this knowledge to your work.

Adults

Immerse yourself in the world of watercolor, ink, and gouache in this exploration-based class.

Adults

Immerse yourself in the world of Texas botanicals and wildflowers through an engaging exploration of watercolor, ink, and gouache techniques.

Adults

Work on refining your wheel throwing skills to be able to replicate your successful pots!

Adults

Design and complete your own original works by learning basic techniques of couture embroidery.

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

Conquer a variety of abstract painting techniques, including abstracting real objects, intuitive painting, and gestural works.

Adults

Whether you're interested in painting pets, birds, livestock, or exotic wildlife, explore how to simplify the drawing and proportions...

Adults

Learn how to paint botanical subjects in a realistic manner.

Adults

Work with unconventional, synthetic, and a non-local palette to create geometrical abstract works.

Adults

Add color to your repertoire by drawing with colored pencils. Explore layering, burnishing, and dissolving the waxy pencil to create luminous works of art.

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

Enjoy the brilliant colors of fast-drying acrylics and learn to build layers of textures and washes in landscape, still life, and abstract painting.

Adults

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

Adults

Come with ideas for some images you’d like to develop for a children’s book in this class taught by a national award–winning children’s book author and illustrator.

Adults

Learn the basics of wheel throwing in this beginner’s class!

Adults

Everyone has a story to tell—let’s turn yours into ceramic sculptures.

Adults

Explore and realize your own visions. Focus on narrative work employing human and animal forms, and develop and execute your own visual vocabulary.

Adults

Beginners will be introduced to basic shapes while experienced potters will expand skills and explore forms such as lidded jars and large objects.

Adults

Learn welding, cutting, and grinding as you create steel sculptures in this foundational class...

Adults

Bring the heat in this exciting class that combines MIG and oxy-acetylene welding with forging.

Adults

Continue to expand your metalworking skills!

Parent & Child

Make greeting cards filled with pop up elements.

Parent & Child

Use your imagination to create a whimsical pinch pot pal out of clay!

Parent & Child

We'll look at traditional Pysanky (Ukrainian) designs to inspire our own unique creations using bee waxes and various dyes to create detailed multi-colored eggs.

Parent & Child

Come discover the secrets to using beautiful indigo shibori and tie-dye patterning techniques...

Parent & Child

Create with mom, dad, grandparent, or guardian to make a small edition of prints to share as Valentine cards. We'll sketch...

Ages 4–5

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

Ages 4–5

Children travel the world while learning about the art of other cultures...

Ages 6–8

Children travel the world while learning about the art of other cultures.

Ages 6–8

Create your own artistic confections! Students will create a series of mixed-media desserts inspired by American artist Wayne Thiebaud.

Ages 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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 4–5

Travel back to a land before time and explore the prehistoric world of dinosaurs!

Ages 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!

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

Paint, draw, and sculpt with inspiration from our watery friends of the deep.

Ages 6–8

Explore the artwork of your favorite storybooks to create masterpieces of your very own!

Ages 6–8

Create whimsical clay art while exploring basic ceramic skills, building with rich clay materials, and using a variety of glazes.

Ages 6–8

Make magic come alive through your art! Create potion and pixie jars, customize your own wand, and dream up your own familiar!

Ages 9–11

Build strong foundations with clay to create a life-size 3-D sculpture of a favorite person, creature, or character!

Ages 9–11

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

Ages 9–11

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

Ages 9–11

Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!

Ages 9–11

We’ll break tiles to decorate projects such as a flowerpot, small tabletop, wall hanging, or stepping stone. Imagine, design, glue, grout, and go!

Ages 9–11

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing. Learn to throw cylinders and turn them into one-of-a-kind works of art.

Ages 9–11

Make magic come alive through your art! Create potion and pixie jars, customize your own wand, and dream up your own familiar!

Ages 9–11

Learn to weave natural fibers and discover amazing colors, design patterns, and textures!

Ages 12-14

Build strong foundations with clay to create a life-size 3-D sculpture of a favorite person, creature, or character!

Ages 12-14

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

Ages 12-14

Have an old or new pair of kicks you want to bring to life? Explore illustration, design, composition, and color to reinvent your ordinary sneakers.

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

We’ll break tiles to decorate projects such as a flowerpot, small tabletop, wall hanging, or stepping stone. Imagine, design, glue, grout, and go!

Ages 12-14

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing. Learn to throw cylinders and turn them into one-of-a-kind works of art!

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 4–5, Spring Break Classes

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

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

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