Adults

Take a break in your day and join us for a relaxed, lunch-hour dive into art history at our downtown museum!

Adults

Learn the art of mosaics and use china and other dishes creatively in your piece.

Adults

Explore the relationship between wheel-throwing and hand-building.

Adults

Practice Self Portraiture through graphite drawing on paper from a mirror/photograph combination.

Adults

Discover the relationship between color and form and how they work together in still life.

Adults

Learn different strategies artists use to create abstract work.

Ages 4–5, Spring Break Classes

Creative young artist-scientists will observe and re-create the beauty and color found in nature's insects.

Ages 4–5, Spring Break Classes

Travel the world while learning about the art of other cultures!

Adults

Explore significant artworks from cultures around the world.

Adults

Study modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century to the present.

Adults

Layer images, materials and ideas into one compelling composition.

Adults

Transform familiar forms into compositions full of gesture, movement, space, and energy.

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

Rejuvenate and relax using meditative mixed media drawing techniques.

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

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

Adults

Learn to draw now!

Adults

This course is designed to stretch your painting skills, as we focus on the basics through drills and challenges.

Adults

This beginner-friendly life drawing class blends traditional figure drawing techniques with art history.

Adults

Broaden your beginner drawing skills using graphite, colored pencils, pen and ink, and charcoal.

Adults

Learn the basics of modern watercolor landscapes!

Adults

Slow down and focus on the beauty of the everyday.

Adults

Work from personal photographs to create portraits that capture a likeness.

Adults

Draw outside the framework of your conscious mind.

Adults

Explore the vibrant world of food painting in this hands-on watercolor class.

Adults

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

Adults

Enjoy and examine the native plants in your own backyard/local parks and trails/(or florist) as your subjects.

Adults

Explore ink markers as a drawing medium for expressive mark making.

Adults

Develop or sharpen observational drawing skills.

Adults

Fundamental steps, along with diverse techniques will lead you to discover your own capabilities...

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

Speed up your color mixing and strengthen your compositions.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

Transform your surroundings into bold abstracted dreamscapes!

Adults

Discover how to incorporate mixed media techniques into your watercolor creations.

Adults

Discover the joy of watercolor through intuitive, expressive painting.

Adults

Approach florals in watercolor with ease.

Adults

Learn how to layer mediums to create satisfying mixed media collages in your sketchbook or on loose watercolor paper.

Adults

Discover how to use mixed media techniques...

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Read a beloved children's story and use its illustrations as inspiration to create your own unique artwork!

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Make greeting cards filled with pop up elements.

Parent & Child, Ages 4–5, Ages 6–8

Explore the magic of color, texture, and imagination together in this parent-and-child workshop!

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Discover the stories behind well-known artists and turn their iconic styles into your own mini masterpieces.

Adults

Make your watercolors glow and have more depth and interest by emphasizing light and shadows in your paintings.

Adults

Animal subjects are a great way to introduce yourself to the magic of watercolor painting.

Adults

Paint stylized clouds or skyscapes using step-by-step drawing and painting methods.

Adults

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

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

Adults

Learn the basics of drawing botanical subjects with beautiful Laguna Gloria and Mayfield Park as inspiration...

Adults

Experience the art of throwing clay!

Adults

Learn how to use colored pencils.

Adults

Discover how collage and painting can come together.

Adults

Explore visual storytelling through a series of mixed media drawings, discovering new ways to construct narrative-driven images. Draw with a variety of...

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

Learn how to read patterns and use a Pro 10" loom in order to create a potholder that features a heart design.

Adults

Discover, strengthen, and hone painting skills during an enjoyable weekend.

Adults

Explore conventional and non-conventional practices of mark-making in this intensive drawing workshop.

Adults

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

Adults

Create a unique and sparkling mosaic with meaning.

Adults

Transparent watercolor is the perfect medium for landscape.

Adults

Create prints using the cyanotype process!

Adults

Learn how to start and keep a consistent sketchbook practice.

Adults

Learn how to better capture photos on your smartphone!

Adults

Explore techniques and approaches to create abstract compositions using oil pastels.

Adults

Explore optical illusions, subliminal advertising, and the visual effects of complementary color schemes.

Adults

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

Adults

Spend an afternoon learning the basics of Figure Drawing

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

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

Adults

Explore the versatility of drawing with ink!

Adults

Create more interesting shapes and depth in your watercolor paintings...

Adults

Immerse yourself in a weekend workshop exploring the vibrant world of Texas botanicals and wildflowers.

Adults

This versatile design is perfect for holding small plants or other household items.

Adults

Learn how to use acrylics.

Adults

Explore abstract pattern making using a variety of drawing materials.

Adults

Explore the art and science of making artistic mediums from scratch.

Adults

Learn the techniques of perception Georgia O’Keeffe used to paint her incredible landscapes, cityscapes, and objects...

Adults

Learn some tips and tricks to translate what you see more fluidly onto paper.

Adults

Learn to cut and arrange handmade smalti glass (imported from Italy) using historical Byzantine patterns

Adults

Use acrylic paints to explore the thick, textured painting style known as impasto.

Adults

Learn all about saggar firing as you take your ceramic projects into the realm of alternative firing.

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Remember making potholders when you were a kid?

Adults

Work on self-directed projects, with the freedom to explore abstract, figurative, or functional forms.

Adults

Combine traditional printmaking with experimental practices!

Adults

Create beautiful and usable ceramic pieces.

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

Take your machine sewing skills to the next level!

Adults

Learn basic sewing skills in this course, such as how to hem pants/skirts/dresses, repair holes and replace buttons and zippers.

Adults

discover different hand building techniques to sculpt abstracted figures.

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

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

Adults

Create monotype paintings on printmaking plates using drawing and painting techniques

Adults

Explore the fundamentals of figure painting

Ages 9–11, Ages 12-14

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

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!

Adults

Integrate collage into a painting on canvas.

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

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

Adults

Learn how to hand build your own one-of-a-kind lamp base out of clay.

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

This course examines the gestural and expressive qualities of steel through composing lines in space and drawing with molten metal.

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

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

Adults

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

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

Create an artwork celebrating you!

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

Learn techniques to successfully convey light and shadow...

Adults

Learn how to elaborate upon ideas for motifs and strategize designing with repetition.

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

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

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

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

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

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.

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Explore different art techniques to create personalized and unique holiday greeting cards!

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

Continue to expand your metalworking skills!

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.

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

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 14-17, Spring Break Classes

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

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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