Adults

Develop basic design skills for artistic and commercial applications through a variety of student projects, lectures, and demonstrations.

Adults

A hands-on tour of drawing, painting, watercolor, and collage, including foundational principles and language that can be used across disciplines.

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

Learn about line, value, perspective, and composition as you begin to draw and then improve your skills through quick sketches and completed drawings...

Adults

Create detailed drawings of animals using graphite, ink, and colored pencils, ideal mediums for rendering fur, feathers, and scales.

Adults

Bird lovers! Learn to draw birds from your own photos or images from the internet. Teacher demos and handouts will help you observe and simplify...

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.

Age 9–11

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

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

Explore a succession of techniques using instructor Katherine Amman’s four-step process: Gesture, Volume...

Adults

Work directly from a live model to 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

Select an object as your subject for a series of small realistic pencil works—the starting point for large-scale drawings full of gesture, movement, space, and energy.

Adults

Total beginners and experienced students: make vivid landscapes and cityscapes in a vacation sketchbook to enhance trip memories.

Adults

Practice a new drawing medium in each session and enjoy drawing success from the very first class.

Adults

Enhance drafting skills through drawing plant forms while exploring the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

Adults

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

Adults

Join us for the first iteration of this mindfulness-based drawing class guided with the aid of celebrated texts The Zen of Seeing and The Artist’s Way.

Adults

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

Adults

Absolute beginners or those with rusty skills will discover, strengthen, and hone painting skills during an enjoyable weekend.

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

Further develop basic skills in this perfect follow-up to the introduction to painting received in Painting I: Short Form.

Adults

Beginners or those with minimal experience learn different ways to start paintings, use paint as a wash or with texture, and practice old master techniques.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Join this finely tuned mixed media studio for those who wish to go deeper into the life and impact of the 2-D image.

Adults

Learn how to render botanical subjects in a realistic manner. Explore the work of the Dutch masters of still life, impressionist florals, and contemporary…

Adults

Learn practical skills necessary to accomplish accurate color mixing with oil or acrylic, plus explore the color wheel and simple color theory!

Adults

Learn time-honored oil painting techniques as we work directly from life, studying basic forms...

Adults

Explore color juxtaposition, color as space, push-pull, and more through the lens of Hans Hoffman, a master of contemporary painting.

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

Learn a personal approach to figure painting with a grounding in canonical painters such as Matisse, Milton Avery, Picasso, de Kooning, and many more.

Adults

Learn a number of painting techniques with an emphasis on “not knowing”: how to paint, how to think about painting, how to draw, and how to explain 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

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

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

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

We’ll review Stephen Quiller’s color theories and make our compositions more dynamic in whichever painting medium you choose.

Adults

Come to our new Friday open painting studio and work alongside your fellow painters at your own pace!

Adults

Beginners and those needing a refresher course alike will gain insight into the wonderful medium of watercolor during an enjoyable, challenging weekend.

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

Explore composition, form, value, and color mixing through painting objects in a realistic style.

Adults

Students will leave with a series of spontaneous and unique watercolor paintings.

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

This part workshop, part self-paced drawing and painting lab is designed as a follow-up to our Children's Book Illustration course!

Adults

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

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

Learn three approaches to drawing images of plants and flowers. Then, using your drawings, create color block prints.

Adults

Create a variety of images using gelatin printing, a form of monoprinting in which a gelatin slab is used as a printing plate along with acrylic paints or water-soluble inks.

Adults, Ages 14-18

Customize your own “art bike” in this exciting workshop in collaboration with the Austin Yellow Bike Project!

Adults

Learn the basics of manipulating and joining metal to create objects from simple tables to conceptual sculpture.

Adults

Learn metal casting, used by sculptors for 7,000 years, through this introduction to foundry and mold-making practices.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Learn the basics of welding and steel fabrication. Discover how to move from 2-D to 3-D, and create a small welded steel sculpture.

Adults

Design and build a steel sculpture with guidance from the instructor and improve welding skills by further understanding heat distortion, joint preparation, and machine settings.

Adults

Explore artists that weave humor, tragedy, politics, and history into compelling artworks with a storytelling component and create your own work.

Adults

Fabricate a wood and metal project as you familiarize yourself with material attributes, proper tool usage, and shop safety while learning the basics of welding and woodworking.

Adults

This class covers the fundamentals of fine woodworking and is perfect for those with no experience wanting to learn their way around the wood shop.

Adults

Beginner-to-intermediate woodworkers work on independent projects...

Adults

Using nonferrous materials like copper, brass, and nickel, learn to create a two-to-three-layered, expressive pendant using all the basic jeweler’s tools.

Adults

Beginners and experienced carvers: create through the interaction of dynamic shapes, lines, and volume and carve stone into abstract or figurative sculptures.

Adults

Using stoneware clay, gain a working knowledge of techniques such as slab construction, classic coil, pinched vessels, and throwing elemental wheel forms.

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

Explore inventive hand-building techniques for making functional pottery in this fun and informative class.

Adults

Learn how clay vessels have been built through history. Use basic forming techniques and add a personal touch to your work while exploring early clay forms.

Adults

Focus on surface and further skills in techniques including mishima and sgraffito. Learn to make underglaze decals and ceramic printing inks.

Adults

Focus on mastering basic hand-building skills and the use of slips, underglaze, and glaze to achieve a colorful palette with which to express yourself.

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

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

Adults

Build on existing skills and experiment with new techniques through individualized demos and self-directed projects in this intermediate-level casting class.

Adults

Enjoy the creative pleasure of making functional pottery off the wheel! Create hand-built cups and tumblers by utilizing templates and thin clay slabs.

Adults

Learn how to decorate your ceramics using various techniques such as slip trailing, mishima, and carving.

Adults

From understanding basic dipping and pouring to experimenting with fun and easy decorating techniques, students will learn to simplify glaze choices and gain versatility with a few favorites.

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

Learn the basics and develop your editing skills to transform your photos into richer, more visually interesting images.

Adults

Learn to work portrait models in natural light as well as with a professional studio lighting setup, and learn the steps to properly light still life.

Adults

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

Adults

Explore the kinds of glass that can be fused, the tools for cutting and working with glass, and how to achieve different effects...

Adults

Students will work with their choice of colored base glass and arrange small stacks of glass pieces that will fuse to create rings of depth and color!

Adults

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

Adults

Practice advanced mosaic cutting, layout and design techniques, and how to work with a variety of surfaces (both 2-D and 3-D).

Adults

Learn to create fundamental book structures: long-stitch and Coptic, a wrapped-strap book, and a hardcover journal or sketchbook.

Adults

Explore the world of erasure, a genre of book arts created by erasing found text!

Adults

Build the foundation for a lifetime exploration and enjoyment of calligraphy!

Adults

Steef Crombach leads students in learning her variation on the traditional Indonesian batik method of wax-guarded dyeing, which she has spent years perfecting.

Adults

Do you love collecting and experimenting with all sorts of materials? Do you enjoy “mixing it up” with paper, fabric, metal, paint, trinkets, and mementos? Bring your stash and imagination and let’s create together.

Adults

Learn to use soft materials to create a 3-D shape from a 2-D plane with templates, filling, or air as you gain inspiration from the sculpture on the grounds of Laguna Gloria.

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.

Adults

If you have some familiarity with weaving, this class will guide you through your own projects. Review materials and techniques, then tackle design and work independently.

Adults

Explore and learn how blocks work in weaving and unlock a whole universe of design possibilities.

Adults

This class meets in different locations, where students are challenged to create work from whatever is at hand, cobbling together serendipitous sculptures in situ.

Homeschool

Explore 3-D! Clay and other media are used to practice creating art in three dimensions while students learn about history’s notable sculptors.

Homeschool

Focus on art history of the 20th and 21st centuries while exploring formal elements and design principles and strengthening artistic skills.

Homeschool

Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas into 3-D forms while studying traditional and contemporary examples from art history.

Homeschool

Use a variety of mediums to take your artistic skills to a new level! Each class has a different theme: portraiture, still-life composition, figure drawing, capturing landscapes, and more.

Parent & Child

Design and decorate a large, beautiful platter perfect for use during the holidays!

Parent & Child

Create Picasso-esque witches, monster pop-up cards, and skeleton sculptures in this imaginative class, inspired by Halloween.

Age 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.

Age 4–5

Using ingredients from the kitchen, we’ll make our own clay to form brilliant creatures, and then move on to air-drying, oven hardening, and ceramic clay in the kiln.

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

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

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 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 4–5, Age 6–8, Age 9–11, Ages 12-14

Spend winter break with us! Courses in various subject areas are offered for children ages 4-14.

Adults

Learn about contemporary painters who explore perception through color theory, geometric abstraction, minimalism, and Op art!

Adults

Hone your drawing skills as we explore the world of cartoons and comics!

Age 9–11, 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!

Parent & Child

Bring a point-and-shoot camera or any device with a camera (iPhone/iPad) and learn to make your own movies from beginning to end.