Adults

Spend a day immersed in art, yoga, nature, and mindfulness.

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

This skill-focused introduction to handbuilding explores the fundamentals of creating clay vessels.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Add color to your repertoire by drawing with colored pencils.

Adults

Create abstract paintings using acrylic paints and mediums

Adults

Study the form, mass, volume, perspective, negative space, and texture of trees.

Adults

Transform your surroundings into bold abstracted dreamscapes!

Adults

Create prints using the cyanotype process!

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

Adults

This workshop covers the basics of crafting a still life painting.

Adults

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

Adults

Explore a variety of approaches to geometric abstract painting.

Adults

Learn how to better capture photos on your smartphone!

Adults

Rejuvenate and relax using meditative mixed media drawing techniques.

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

Explore the art of cut paper and composition.

Adults

Explore a variety of approaches to expressive oil painting

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to appliqué, a hand sewing technique you can use to build a quilt top, create a wall hanging, or add custom embellishments to upcycled clothes and totes.

Adults

Build upon your basic watercolor skills as you explore color theory and new approaches to painting.

Adults

Learn new techniques of combining materials to create unique works of art.

Adults

Explore new ways drawing with a ballpoint pen.

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to use acrylics.

Adults

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

Adults

Have you ever wanted to mix all the colors of the rainbow using just red, yellow, and blue?

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to achieve complex, realistic textures such as wood, glass, metal, draped fabric, and more.

Adults

Reimagine the traditional still life through the lens of abstraction.

Adults

Select sites as inspiration for landscape studies and finished drawings in graphite, charcoal, and ink.

Adults

Learn improvisational quilting by diving deep into one simple shape: the square.

Adults

Explore a variety approaches to creating abstract drawings using graphite.

Adults

Play with color in a completely new way, by dyeing your own yarn!

Adults

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

Adults

Let your pigments mix on your paper surface, under your guidance.

Adults

Discover the rich, velvety world of gouache.

Adults

Experience the art of throwing clay!

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Draw outside the framework of your conscious mind.

Adults

Use basic embroidery stitches to embroider on paper.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Translate your favorite photos into abstract acrylic paintings.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to make beaded wire flowers that were popular in the 1950s.

Adults

Discover how to use mixed media techniques...

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to draw expressive, accurate portraits in this course designed for beginners and developing artists.

Adults

In this observational landscape painting class, students will paint outdoors to capture their environment.

Adults

Learn different strategies artists use to create abstract work.

Ages 4–5

Dive into the world of Dr. Seuss!

Ages 9–11

Dive deeper into the wonderful world of watercolors.

Ages 6–8

Learn about clay, glazes, and firing using real clay tools.

Enter a fairytale kingdom full of magic and adventure!

Ages 9–11

Experiment with wire, plaster casting, paint, and decorative embellishments to bring your unique creation to life.

Ages 9–11

Dive into the basics of clay and design a whimsical tea set for two!

Ages 6–8

Dive into the basics of clay and design a whimsical tea set for two!

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 9–11

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

Ages 4–5

Students will use a variety of art materials to design and make superheroes and superhero themed creations.

Ages 9–11

Create real or imaginary animals out of clay!

Ages 6–8

Create real or imaginary animals out of clay!

Ages 4–5

Through painting, drawing, and sculpting, kids will create their own wild and wacky critters inspired by nature.

Ages 9–11

Create handmade board and card games, puzzles, and hidden picture collages.

Ages 12-14

Explore paper engineering through interactive book structures like pop-ups, tunnel books, and accordion books.

Ages 9–11

Get ready to make your art jump off the page!

Ages 9–11

Get your hands messy and think in 3-D!

Ages 9–11

Fabulous and ancient, mosaics teach young artists 3-D design skills and techniques.

Ages 9–11

Explore non-ceramic sculpture through hands-on making

Ages 4–5

Students will paint, draw, and sculpt foxes, squirrels, towering trees, and more.

Ages 9–11

Design gnome houses, gardens, miniature tea sets, and tiny furniture.

Ages 6–8

Create clay art to build a whimsical world!

Ages 6–8

Collage making encourages self-exploration while learning visual awareness and design skills.

Ages 4–5

Enter a fairytale kingdom full of magic and adventure!

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!

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!

Adults

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

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

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

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

Learn to draw now!

Adults

Learn the fundamentals of working with oil pastels.

Adults

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

Adults

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

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

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

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

Come with ideas for some images you’d like to develop for a children’s book in this class taught by a national award–winning children’s book author and illustrator.

Adults

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

Ages 6–8

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

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

This workshop will cover basic paper folding techniques that will result in books for you to take home.

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Create beautiful and usable ceramic pieces.

Adults

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

Adults

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

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 14-17

Learn the fundamentals of watercolor and gouache

Ages 4–5

Explore the Texas landscape by learning about animals and plants

Ages 9–11

Exploring relief prints, collagraphs, etchings, and more!

Ages 12-14

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

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 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.

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!

Ages 12-14

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

Ages 12-14

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

Ages 4–5

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

Ages 4–5

Explore space through art!

Ages 4–5

Explore the wonders of gardening!

Ages 14-17

Learn about line, value, perspective, and composition.

Ages 4–5

Learn about farm animals and landscapes through art!

Ages 6–8

Create stop-motion animation!

Ages 4–5

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

Ages 12-14

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

Ages 14-17

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

Ages 4–5

Explore the jungles of the world...

Ages 12-14

Learn how to combine pen and ink drawing with liquid ink painting to create satisfying mixed media works.

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!

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!

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.

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…

Adults

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

Ages 6–8

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

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.

Ages 6–8

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

Adults

Develop ideas for original compositions and explore elements and principles of design to create balanced watercolor paintings.

Adults

Work on refining your wheel throwing skills to be able to replicate your successful pots!

Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

Learn the basics of wheel throwing in this beginner’s 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

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

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.

Ages 4–5

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

Ages 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.

Ages 4–5

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

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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

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.

Ages 4–5

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

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!

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 6–8

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

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!

Ages 6–8

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

Ages 9–11

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

Ages 9–11

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

Ages 9–11

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

Ages 9–11

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

Ages 9–11

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

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.

Ages 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 9–11

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

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

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

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

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

We’ll break tiles to decorate projects such as a flowerpot, small tabletop, wall hanging, or stepping stone.

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

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!