Adults

Learn how to use ink pens to create richly textured naturalistic drawings of plants and animals.

Adults

Discover alternative photographic processes that connect artmaking with the natural world.

Adults

Strengthen your understanding of 3D objects and learn how to draw anything in perspective.

Adults

Work with copper and brass to learn the basics of sawing metal, piercing components, and joining pieces with rivets.

Adults

Experiment with different patterns and designs while building your skills and confidence with jewelry-making tools and materials.

Adults

Discover new ways of seeing and interpreting the natural world through drawing, painting, and abstraction.

Adults

Focus on the features that often present the greatest challenges for artists.

Adults

Learn to use light and shadow as expressive tools for creating depth, atmosphere and visual drama in drawing.

Adults

Look at influential images from the past that have gone on to become the inspiration or focus for later artists.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Explore a variety of approaches to geometric abstract painting.

Adults

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

Adults

Create prints using the cyanotype process!

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

Create realistic or whimsical watercolors using all things wild as your subject matter.

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Explore the wonders of watercolor to create a unique work of art!

Adults

Learn how to better capture photos on your smartphone!

Adults

Discover how to use mixed media techniques...

Adults

Create a unique and sparkling mosaic with meaning.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Come play with paper and see the countless ways recycled material can be turned into colorful and textured artwork!

Adults

Learn how to use colored pencils.

Adults

Students will look at artworks and draw in nature—two creative practices that support long-term health and flourishing.

Adults

Rejuvenate and relax using meditative mixed media drawing techniques.

Adults

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

Adults

Produce a variety of monotype prints using a Gelli plate.

Adults

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

Adults

Experience the art of throwing clay!

Adults

Create abstract paintings using acrylic paints and mediums

Adults

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

Adults

Learn the fundamentals of painting on silk with dyes and paints.

Adults

Arrange flowers, leaves, and found objects on photographic paper.

Adults

Break free from the confines of rigid pattern instructions and create unique art!

Adults

Experiment with fibers and textile design through a sampling of natural dye and embroidery.

Adults

Use watercolor to depict the landscape, focusing on the Texas Hill Country.

Adults

Create a small reed basket.

Adults

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

Adults

Learn how to recycle and transform old clothing, textiles, garments, and accessories into exciting new items.

Adults

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

Adults

Explore the versatility of drawing with ink!

Adults

A three day workshop inspired by locally grown produce discovered at various farmers’ markets and farms.

Adults

Learn how to start and keep a consistent sketchbook practice.

Adults

Make photographs with plants, sunlight, and everyday pantry ingredients.

Adults

Learn about watercolor.

Adults

Discover new ways to construct narrative-driven images.

Adults

Explore a variety of approaches to Surrealist painting.

Adults

Master twining techniques to create your own unique basket.

Adults

Strengthen your skills of observation and mark making in this one-day workshop on drawing animals!

Adults

Let’s play for an afternoon making timed collages.

Adults

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

Adults

Discover how artists organize lines, shapes, spaces, values and forms to create compelling works of art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Learn to draw now!

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

Develop or sharpen observational drawing skills.

Adults

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

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

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

Parent & Child, Ages 4–5, Ages 6–8

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

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.

Adults

Learn different strategies artists use to create abstract work.

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 4–5

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

Ages 6–8

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

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 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!

Enter a fairytale kingdom full of magic and adventure!

Ages 12-14

In this fun, hands-on sewing class, students will learn how to make their very own t-shirts from start to finish!

Ages 6–8

Create clay art to build a whimsical world!

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

Explore drawing personal objects utilizing graphite and colored pencils.

Adults

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

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

Create beautiful and usable ceramic pieces.

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.

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Come discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes...

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

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.

Adults

Integrate collage into a painting on canvas.

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

Bring to life the luscious colors and textures of all kinds of food!

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 9–11

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

Enjoy nature at its finest with paintbrush in hand and paint the landscape en plein air.

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.

Parent & Child, Ages 6–8, Ages 9–11

Inspired by the beautiful setting of Laguna Gloria, create a variety of artworks using sticks, stones, leaves, and other natural objects.

Ages 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!

Ages 6–8

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

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.