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Abstract Sculptural Ceramics

Adults

Explore traditional ceramic hand-building techniques to create contemporary abstract sculptures.

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Vases, Lidded Jars & Cookware

Adults

Create beautiful and usable ceramic pieces.

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Still, Life: Painting the Ordinary

Adults

Slow down and focus on the beauty of the everyday.

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Intuitive Painting in Watercolor

Adults

Discover the joy of watercolor through intuitive, expressive painting.

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Level up your Sewing

Adults

Learn basic bead weaving in this course, with a focus on jewelry.

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The Artists Shadow

Adults

Focus on mastering the use of light, shadow, and form in 2D art.

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Nature and Abstract Drawing (online)

Adults

Explore the world of drawing through the lens of nature and abstraction.

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Drawing with Charcoal (online)

Adults

Use charcoal to create dramatic, expressive works of art.

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Screen Printing

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.

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Guided Projects in Metalworking

Adults

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

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Texas Explorers (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

Explore the Texas landscape by learning about animals and plants

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Painting Essentials (ages 12-14)

Ages 12-14

Experiment with texture in your artwork and explore painting techniques.

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Ceramics Handbuilding for Teens (ages 14-18)

Ages 14-17

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

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Explorations in Printmaking (ages 9-11)

Ages 9–11

Exploring relief prints, collagraphs, etchings, and more!

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Painting: Beyond Basics (ages 9-11)

Ages 9–11

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

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DND Character Design (ages 12-14)

Ages 12-14

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

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Fine Art Zines for Teens (ages 14-18)

Ages 14-17

Explore big ideas with tiny books!

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July 12 & 26

Saturday Sampler: Wheel Throwing

Adults

Experience the art of throwing clay!

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Saturday Sampler: Watercolor Greeting Cards

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

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JULY 12 + 13

Animal Portraits in Watercolor

Adults

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

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JULY 12 + 13

Visual Journaling

Adults

Combine writing with drawing, painting, mixed media and collage to create satisfying sketchbook pages.

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Saturday Sampler: Cyanotypes

Adults

Create prints using the cyanotype process!

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JULY 19 + 20

Personal Maps of the Imagination

Adults

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

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JULY 19 + 20

Summer Beaded Bags

Adults

Learn how to make a woven beaded bag using large beads.

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JULY 26 + 27

Monotype Printing with a Press

Adults

Create monotypes using watercolor and collage elements.

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Impressionist Painting

Adults

Explore brilliant color, exciting brushstrokes and capturing the feeling of light.

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AUG 2

Saturday Sampler: Ballpoint Drawing

Adults

Explore new ways drawing with a ballpoint pen.

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Watercolor Wildflowers

Adults

Explore different ways to paint flowers in the versatile medium of watercolor...

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AUG 2 + 3

Expressive Animal Portraits: Bold Color & Intuitive Painting

Adults

Create a vibrant, expressive animal portrait.

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Saturday Sampler: Botanical Sketching

Adults

Enter the world of botanical illustration in this entry level class!

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AUG 9 + 10

Gel Printing Monotype

Adults

Create monotype paintings on gel plates using drawing and painting techniques.

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AUG 9 + 10

Text as Artistic Image

Adults

This weekend workshop is all about the word and the image.

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AUG 16

Saturday Sampler: Colored Pencil Drawing

Adults

Learn how to use colored pencils.

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Vacation Sketching in Watercolor

Adults

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

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AUG 16 +17

Intuitive Art History and Drawing

Adults

Join us in blending intuitive art making and art history!

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Intermediate Ceramics: Wheel Throwing, Hand Building, and Glazing

Adults

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

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Metalworking 2.0

Adults

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

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Drawing With Metal! Surface, Texture, and Finishes

Adults

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

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Gouache Painting

Adults

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

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Explorations in Surface Decoration

Adults

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

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Artist Explorers (ages 4-5)

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!

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Life Drawing Open Studio

Adults

Work with a live model each week to explore the fundamentals of figure drawing in this open studio like class...

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Introduction to Relief Printmaking

Adults

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

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Storybook Art (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

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

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My Family Tree (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

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

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Mixed Media Collage for Teens (ages 14-18)

Ages 14-17

Discover the art of cut paper to create dynamic compositions.

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Imagination Garden (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

Explore the wonders of gardening!

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Fun on the Farm (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

Learn about farm animals and landscapes through art!

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Claymation (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

Create stop-motion animation!

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Fabulous Fish (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

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

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Explorations in Printmaking (ages 12-14)

Ages 12-14

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

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Metalworking for Teens (ages 14-18)

Ages 14-17

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

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Art Safari (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

Explore the jungles of the world...

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Wild Things (ages 4-5)

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!

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Color Relief Printmaking

Adults

Introduce color to your relief prints!

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Painters' Roundtable

Adults

Grow your painting practice through guided group discussion with your peers!

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Painting for Teens (ages 14-18)

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.

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Claymation (ages 9-11)

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…

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Beyond Basic Drawing (ages 9-11)

Ages 9–11

Take your drawing to the next level!

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Wheel Throwing with Soda and Raku

Adults

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

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Explorations in Abstract Art (ages 6-8)

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.

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Wild Things (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Drawing from Nature (ages 12-14)

Ages 12-14

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

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Printmaking for Teens (ages 14-18)

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!

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Exploring Watercolor, Ink, and Gouache

Adults

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

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Texas Botanicals and Wildflowers: Watercolor, Ink & Gouache Exploration

Adults

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

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Life Drawing II

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.

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Abstract Painting

Adults

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

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Landscape to Abstract

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.

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Magnificent Acrylics

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.

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Watercolor Basics and Beyond

Adults

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

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Beginning Wheel Throwing

Adults

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

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Wheel Throwing and Beyond

Adults

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

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Beginning Metalworking

Adults

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

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Art ABCs (ages 4-5)

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.

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Art Around the World (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

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

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Art Sampler (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!

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Cartooning (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Clay Creatures (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Drawing Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Fun with Frida (ages 6-8)

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.

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Dynamic Dinosaurs (ages 4-5)

Ages 4–5

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

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Outer Space Art (ages 6-8)

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!

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Paint, Draw, Sculpt Nature (ages 6-8)

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!

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Painting Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Sea World (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Storytelling Through Art (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Whimsical Clay (ages 6-8)

Ages 6–8

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

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Wizard Week (ages 6-8)

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!

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Awesome Clay Sculptors (ages 9-11)

Ages 9–11

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

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Cartooning (ages 9-11)

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

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Digital Drawing and Painting (ages 9-11)

Ages 9–11

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

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Mosaics (ages 9-11)

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!

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Wheel Throwing (ages 9-11)

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.

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Wonderful Weavers (ages 9-11)

Ages 9–11

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

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Digital Drawing and Painting (ages 12-14)

Ages 12-14

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

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Mosaics (ages 12-14)

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!

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Wheel Throwing (ages 12-14)

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!

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Life Drawing for Teens (ages 14-18)

Ages 14-17

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

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