Age 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!

Age 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!

Age 4–5

Fantasies come alive for young artists when they build castles, create regal costumes, paint banners, and sculpt dragons with exciting art materials!

Age 4–5

Develop your superhero alter ego as you learn basic art concepts such as line, shape, color, pattern, and texture through 2-D and 3-D creations.

Age 4–5

Explore and create based on the imaginative world of Dr. Seuss! Read tales by this beloved storyteller and cartoonist and make 2-D and 3-D art.

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 6–8

Come experiment with building books, then fill them with your art and ideas!

Age 6–8

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

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

Create clay molds of mask shapes (animals and fantasy characters), then cover them with nontoxic, biodegradable papier-mâché.

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

Journey to Mexico by creating a variety of folk art projects designed to expand your art skills!

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

Make sculpture by combining interesting found objects such as branches, broken toys, and plastic with traditional art supplies like pen, paper, and paint!

Age 6–8

Invent amazing and fanciful creatures and characters in 3-D! Using the basic elements of sculpture (shape, color, scale, and texture), your work will seem to come alive!

Age 9–11

Inspired by the work of Eric Carle, create handmade papers to be used in collages of real or imaginary animals, landscapes, or abstractions.

Age 9–11

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

Age 9–11

Develop your drawing and painting skills the digital way using a Wacom tablet, Corel Painter, and Photoshop!

Age 9–11

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

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

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!

Age 9–11

Explore a variety of printmaking techniques (including relief and monoprinting) and use these techniques to produce individual prints, cards, and small handmade books.

Age 9–11

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

Age 9–11

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

Age 9–11

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

Age 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 12-14

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

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

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

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

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 the digital way using a Wacom tablet, Corel Painter, and Photoshop!

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

Explore, design, and construct fantastic kinetic (or moving) sculptures that look alive!

Ages 12-14

Build and decorate your furniture using wood, nails, and fabric. Operate power tools with adult supervision in our sculpture and fabrication studio!

Ages 12-14

Learn nontraditional photography without using a camera in this class packed full of projects and experimentation!

Ages 12-14

Invent amazing and fanciful creatures and characters in 3-D! Using the basic elements of sculpture (shape, color, scale, and texture), your work will seem to come alive!

Ages 12-14

Explore the urban environment in and around downtown Austin and embark on a shooting adventure to a different destination each day.

Ages 12-14

Learn the building blocks of designing your own video game using some of the most widely used software in the industry.

Ages 12-14

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

Ages 14-18

Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel as more than an industrial material.

Ages 14-18

Express your style in composition, content, and print quality in this portfolio development class!

Ages 14-18

We’ll discuss the differences between theatrical performance and performance art, develop our own performance pieces, and discuss important performance artists.

Ages 14-18

Make your mark at the museum! Create a large-scale group mural on the exterior of the Art School buildings at Laguna Gloria.

Ages 14-18

Working beneath the open-air, covered canopy of the Jones Center, students will use the immediacy of drawing to render views of the city.

Ages 14-18

Explore the urban environment in and around downtown Austin and embark on a shooting adventure to a different destination each day.

Age 4–5

Create plaster casts, sculpt newspaper bones, and hand-build clay artifacts during a week of artistic fun and superbly scientific satisfaction for young minds!

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!

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 14-18

Learn the building blocks of designing your own video game using some of the most widely used software in the industry.

Ages 14-18

Learn the basics of welding and woodworking. If your interest is to work with wood or metal or you just want to get comfortable using power tools, this course is for you!

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 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!

Adults

Create dramatic compositions while painting in the studio and on the beautiful grounds of Laguna Gloria...

Age 6–8

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

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

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

Adults

Learn how to approach portraiture in watercolor!

Adults

Learn the building blocks of screen printing in this workshop-style version of our longer screen printing series.

Adults

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

Adults

Learn the artist’s distinctive style and create works based on his pool paintings, portraits, and landscapes.

Adults

Using a provided selection of pre-fired “powder wafer” (thin glass) pieces, learn to arrange and fuse them to create a complete bowl or tray.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Learn about the unique colors and light effects of reduction on copper and silver in low-temperature glazes.

Adults

Come learn all about the fantastic world of overglaze decals! We will discuss composition, application, and what makes these decals so amazing.

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

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

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.

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

Create your own map of the imagination based on your own experiences and fantasies!

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

Learn how to transform representational objects into abstract formal compositions that reflect your personal interests.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adults

Through unusual subject matter and practicing new abstraction techniques, learn to perceive even realistic subjects abstractly.

Adults

Make your painting compositions more dynamic! Learn to use contrast, direction, the Golden Mean, color choices, and other elements and principles…

Adults

Learn how Richard Diebenkorn saw the world, mixed color, and applied paint to achieve brilliant works of art.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Age 6–8

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

Age 4–5

Children travel the world while learning about native cultures and the art that they make while experimenting with different types of media themselves.

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.

Adults

Explore the fundamentals of woodworking, focusing on the properties of wood, wood selection, project planning, joinery, and finishes.

Adults

Learn to use acrylic encaustic to create one-of-a-kind works of art, along with paint, papers, and found objects.

Adults

Color schemes can help simplify your choices and add more drama or softness. Learn to use a variety of color schemes to fulfill the purpose of your work.

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

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

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

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

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

Learn the essentials of adding color to metalwork through the basic techniques of enameling.

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

Learn to create your own simple templates and bisque molds. Follow along with demonstrations to discover the relaxed pace and creative potential of hand building.

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

Gain the experience of creating your own one- and two-part plaster molds, make and pour porcelain slip, then cast and attach parts to create either...

Adults

Learn to create an oil and vinegar set, a soy sauce drizzler, or any spouted vessel, using wheel-thrown parts that are then hand-built together.

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

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

Adults

Learn to perfect your photos by correcting or refining color and exposure, removing blemishes, smoothing out skin, and removing unwanted…

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

Stop animation—but so easy! Use provided iPads or your own mobile device to make a movie.

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

Develop an understanding of the major sources of funding for the arts and the fundamental elements of grant applications.

Adults

Be part of the Color Evolution! Explore an innovative solution to the critical lack of relevant color education in the United States.

Adults

Take a deeper look behind the dashboard of the new color field, focusing on practical solutions offered in the Field Guide Tool Kit.

Adults

Improve how you write about your own work for grant applications, the press, and the public, and deepen your understanding of your own work in critical context.

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

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

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.

Parent & Child

In this new series for parents and children to take together, learn all about sculpture in the middle of a beautiful sculpture park!

Age 4–5

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

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

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 your own textured paintings inspired by the beauty of Vincent van Gogh’s imaginative, beloved style and explore the techniques of colorful, self-taught painter Henri Rousseau.

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

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

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 9–11, Ages 12-14

Study drawing and painting, exploring form, color, perspective, texture, value, and composition using a realistic approach. Build the skills needed to capture subject matter convincingly!

Age 9–11, Ages 12-14

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing to create one-of-a-kind works of art.

Ages 12-14

Get the most out of your digital camera! Move step-by-step through the important manual digital camera functions as you...

Ages 14-18

Using earthenware clays, gain a working knowledge of techniques such as press molding, slab and-coil construction, and throwing cylinder and bowl forms.

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, Ages 14-18

Spend spring break with us! Courses in various subject areas are offered for children ages 4-18.