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

Spend time connecting with art history and other people.

Adults

Explore how drawing, carving, and layered decoration can transform both wheel-thrown and hand-built pottery.

Adults

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

Adults

Join this fun hands-on course to explore the art of the custom-drafted t-shirt.

Adults

Learn to decode written and charted patterns and crochet with confidence.

Adults

Capture the vibrant energy of everyday life using just a sketchbook and a few portable drawing tools.

Adults

Focus on the cylinder as the foundation of ceramic form.

Adults

Draw outside the framework of your conscious mind.

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

Discover the elegant art of tambour embroidery, the luxury embellishment technique used by couture houses.

Adults

Find inspiration in the rich botanical landscape of Laguna Gloria as you develop your sketching and drawing skills.

Adults

Develop several paintings over multiple class sessions while learning how artists build themes.

Adults

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

Adults

Explore a number of techniques and approaches to drawing real-world subjects.

Adults

Look at various artists throughout art history for inspiration on how color can be used in drawings.

Adults

Create a mosaic gazing ball or mosaic mushroom for your garden using a wide array of beautiful materials.

Adults

Take your drawing practice beyond representation and discover new ways of seeing and making.

Adults

Build your own unique stash of collage fodder to create a small series of original collages,

Adults

This hands-on course will give you the skills, confidence, and techniques to make clothes that fit.

Adults

Build close-looking practices, interpretation, and community.

Adults

Explore pen and ink drawing techniques combined with liquid ink painting processes to create satisfying mixed media works!

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 improvisational quilting—a freeform approach that skips rigid patterns and encourages creative intuition.

Adults

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

Adults

Slow down and focus on the beauty of the everyday.

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to paint botanical subjects in a realistic manner.

Adults

Speed up your color mixing and strengthen your compositions.

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

Experiment with paper mache, paper clay, and paper engineering by making playful sculptures.

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

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

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

Adults

Learn to draw now!

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

Capture what you see as well as learn to translate your responses, as you interpret nature with fluid watercolor...

Adults

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

Adults

Level up your sewing skills by creating a custom-fit pair of trousers.

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

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

Adults

Plan successful projects that are fun to make and a joy to wear.

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to approach portraiture in watercolor!

Adults

Learn the basics of watercolor landscapes!

Adults

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

Adults

Transform your surroundings into bold abstracted dreamscapes!

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 mixed media techniques—such as fine pens and alcohol inks—as tools for expressive visual journaling.

Adults

Translate your favorite photos into abstract acrylic paintings.

Adults

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

Adults

Rejuvenate and relax using meditative mixed media drawing techniques.

Adults

Come be inspired by Renaissance and Contemporary Florals! Cut and tear paper petals and leaves to make your own bouquet.

Adults

Create abstract paintings using acrylic paints and mediums

Adults

Focus on techniques to depict reflective surfaces like metal and glass.

Adults

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

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

Adults

Create a small reed basket.

Adults

Learn how to suggest form and light without relying on white paint

Adults

Explore improvisational quilting and hand appliqué through the lens of storytelling - No sewing machine required!

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Create a unique and sparkling mosaic with meaning.

Adults

Discover a range of tools for developing a sustainable creative practice that supports long-term health and flourishing.

Adults

Step away from the pursuit of perfect proportions and discover new ways to capture the essence of a figure.

Adults

Learn how to carve linoleum blocks and print an edition of your images in this two-session class.

Adults

Discover the art of papermaking by recycling old to make new.

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

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

Adults

Let’s play for an afternoon making timed collages.

Adults

Create charcoal drawings that explore shading, value, and form.

Adults

Learn how to better capture photos on your smartphone!

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

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

Adults

Experiment with improvisational composition in a postmodern dance context

Adults

Learn how to use acrylics.

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

Combine sun printing with intuitive quiltmaking— no patterns or sewing machine required.

Adults

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

Adults

Create prints using the cyanotype process!

Adults

Produce a variety of monotype prints using a Gelli plate.

Adults

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

Parent & Child, Ages 4–5, Ages 6–8

Families will be invited into a unique, process-centered environment where curiosity leads the way.

Adults

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

Adults

Explore flowers, leaves, shells, and other natural forms as a starting point for abstraction.

Adults

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

Adults

Explore a variety approaches to creating expressive drawings using Oil Pastel.

Adults

Spend an afternoon jump-starting your holiday crafting -make your own holiday cards and gift tags!

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Make greeting cards filled with pop up elements.

Adults

This class explores different approaches to artmaking through the work of selected artists.

Enter a fairytale kingdom full of magic and adventure!

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

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!

Ages 9–11, Ages 12-14

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

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

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

Ages 9–11, Ages 12-14

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

Adults

Introduce color to your relief prints!

Adults

Explore several firing techniques including Raku, Horse Hair, and Foil Saggar Firing.

Adults

Further your creativity and understanding of shooting in manual mode with full control.

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 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

Develop a solid understanding of the slip-casting process.

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

Continue to expand your metalworking skills!

Ages 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!