Adults

Students will work in a limited context or matrix, and use the restrictions not as an inhibiting factor, but as a challenging format for discovery and expression.

Adults

If you love paper and learning new techniques, this class is for you. Play with different transfer methods, make acrylic “skins” to use in collage...

Adults

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

Adults

Learn a variety of hand building techniques, both traditional and innovative, to develop your own style.

Adults

Learn about various surface design methods to decorate your ceramic work at both the green and bisque stages.

Adults

Work in an out of the studio as you draw artistic inspiration from the Laguna Gloria campus!

Adults

Unleash your creativity and come play with paper! The options for individual style and creativity are endless.

Adults

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

Adults

Explores comics, sequential art, and graphic storytelling as a contemporary medium!

Adults

Learn the basics of posing and modeling 3-D assets to enhance your painting!

Adults

Explore the intersection of sound and art!

Adults

Learn how to better capture photos on your smartphone!

Adults

Pick up where Smartphone Photography I ended! Continue to improve upon and work with familiar tools to edit and improve your smartphone photo-capturing skills.

Adults

Expand your understanding of the workings of your phone's camera!

Age 4–5

Step into the colorful pages of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

Age 6–8

Create your own artistic confections! Students will create a series of mixed-media desserts inspired by American artist Wayne Thiebaud.

Age 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!

Age 6–8

Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

Step into the colorful pages of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

Age 6–8

Make magic come alive through your art! Create potion and pixie jars, customize your own wand, and dream up your own familiar!

Age 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!

Age 9–11

Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!

Age 9–11

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

Age 9–11

Make magic come alive through your art! Create potion and pixie jars, customize your own wand, and dream up your own familiar!

Ages 12-14

Have an old or new pair of kicks you want to bring to life? Explore illustration, design, composition, and color to reinvent your ordinary sneakers.

Ages 12-14

Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling.

Ages 12-14

Bring your ideas from concept to completion in this weeklong fashion design class!

Ages 12-14

Learn the history of sculpture and explore different 3D modalities!

Ages 12-14

Learn about the history of graphic design then create your own digital media projects including poster design, product design, logo design and more!

Ages 12-14

Make miniature paintings or drawings and one 3D sculpture inspired by your favorite famous artist!

Ages 12-14

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

Ages 14-17

Go beyond the basics of object construction and engage in a bigger conversation exploring the “why” and “how” of your artwork.

Ages 14-17

Have an old or new pair of kicks you want to bring to life? Explore illustration, design, composition, and color to reinvent your ordinary sneakers!

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

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

Adults

Bring your artwork to class and practice shooting both 2-D and 3-D pieces. Learn shooting techniques to achieve true color rendering...

Adults

Learn the basics and develop your editing skills to transform your photos into richer, more visually interesting images.

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

Develop your drawing and painting skills the digital way!

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

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

Adults

Create collaborative tapestries that resemble a dialogue of shapes or a conversation in color.

Adults

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

Adults

Whether you’re an experienced papermaker or a beginner, this class will review basic paper making techniques and beyond.

Adults

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

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 the fundamentals of relief printing through traditional printmaking tools and chine-collé.

Adults

Students will explore a wide variety of relief printing techniques and think more critically about composition, color, and mark making....

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 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

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

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

Adults

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

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

Students will select an object, either man made to from nature, to use as a source for a group of drawings that function as a series...

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 the basics of 2D art through guided exercises based on artworks by great women artists...

Adults

Explore a succession of techniques using instructor Katherine Amman’s four-step process: Gesture, Volume...

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

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to paint botanical subjects in a realistic manner.

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

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

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

Learn to see like French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and paint dramatic depth alongside flatness!

Adults

Explore how artist Paul Gauguin perceived his world, using flat shapes of color and symbolism to express his vision of Tahiti, in this exciting new class!

Adults

Begin your exploration of abstract painting!

Adults

Absolute beginners or those with rusty skills will discover, strengthen, and hone painting skills during an enjoyable weekend.

Adults

Enjoy nature in the studio and learn principles for painting outside!

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

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 still life as you've never seen it done before!

Adults

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

Adults

Paint freely among a like-minded community with the at-request feedback of an instructor!

Adults

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

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 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

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

Adults

Use this traditional media on an expanding range of subjects including water and glass, light paths, food and fabrics....

Adults

Big, juicy abstract florals captured in watercolor.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Explore composition, form, value, and color mixing through painting objects in a realistic style.

Adults

Create dramatic compositions in watercolor inspired by...

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

Learn how to approach portraiture in watercolor!

Adults

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

Adults

Using stoneware clay, gain a working knowledge of techniques such as slab construction, classic coil, pinched vessels, and throwing elemental wheel forms.

Adults

Everyone has a story to tell—let’s turn yours into ceramic sculptures.

Adults

Beginners cover the basics of hand building, while experienced students build on previous lessons, refine techniques, and create vessels.

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

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

Adults

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

Adults

Customize your own “art bike” in this exciting workshop in collaboration with the Austin Yellow Bike Project!

Adults

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

Adults

Go beyond basic object construction and engage in a bigger dialogue...

Adults

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

Adults

Continue to expand your metalworking skills!

Adults

Take your mosaics to the next level with this master class.

Adults

Learn about various techniques for creating outdoor mosaics on dimensional surfaces.

Parent & Child

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

Parent & Child

Parent & Child

Use your imagination to create a whimsical pinch pot pal out of clay!

Parent & Child

Come discover the secrets to using beautiful indigo shibori and tie-dye patterning techniques...

Ages 5-9, 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.

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.

Age 4–5

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

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

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.

Age 6–8

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

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 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

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

Age 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.

Age 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.

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!

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!

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

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

Age 6–8

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

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

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

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

Age 9–11

Use a variety of media to produce an exciting array of two-dimensional abstract art.

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

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.

Age 9–11, Ages 12-14, Ages 9-14

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

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

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

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

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

Discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes!

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 14-17

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

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 14-17

Ever wanted to print your own T-shirts, posters, or cards? Master the fundamentals of screen printing so you can experiment confidently!

Ages 14-17

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

Age 4–5, Spring Break Classes

Enhance your child’s innate creativity! Young artists learn to think creatively and shape ideas into art they can see, touch, and know.

Age 4–5, Spring Break Classes

Using ingredients from the kitchen, we’ll make our own clay to form brilliant creatures.

Age 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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

Age 6–8, Spring Break Classes

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

Age 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.

Age 9–11, Spring Break Classes

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

Age 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

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

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!

Ages 14-17, Spring Break Classes

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