Art School
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Drawing: Matrix
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.
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Exploring Paper Arts and Design
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...
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Contemporary Vessels
Adults
Learn a variety of hand building techniques, both traditional and innovative, to develop your own style.
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Surface Decoration Workshop
Adults
Learn about various surface design methods to decorate your ceramic work at both the green and bisque stages.
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The Contemporary Landscape
Adults
Work in an out of the studio as you draw artistic inspiration from the Laguna Gloria campus!
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Creative Paper Art: Layered Landscapes
Adults
Unleash your creativity and come play with paper! The options for individual style and creativity are endless.
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Designing Patterns: An Arts & Crafts Approach
Adults
Learn how to elaborate upon ideas for motifs and strategize designing with repetition.
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Sequential Art
Adults
Explores comics, sequential art, and graphic storytelling as a contemporary medium!
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Smartphone Photography II
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.
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Art of Flavor (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create your own artistic confections! Students will create a series of mixed-media desserts inspired by American artist Wayne Thiebaud.
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Drawing with Scissors (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!
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Storytelling Through Art (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Explore the artwork of your favorite storybooks to create masterpieces of your very own!
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Wizard Week (ages 6-8)
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!
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Crazy Critter Sewing (ages 9-11)
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!
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Drawing with Scissors (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!
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Texas Wildlife (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Step outside the classroom and take a closer look at the nature of Laguna Gloria and beyond.
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Wizard Week (ages 9-11)
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!
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DIY Kicks Design (ages 12-14)
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.
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Drawing with Scissors (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling.
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Fashion Week (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Bring your ideas from concept to completion in this weeklong fashion design class!
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Intro to Graphic Design (ages 12-14)
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!
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Mini Museum (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Make miniature paintings or drawings and one 3D sculpture inspired by your favorite famous artist!
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Texas Wildlife (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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Conceptual Sculpture for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Go beyond the basics of object construction and engage in a bigger conversation exploring the “why” and “how” of your artwork.
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DIY Kicks Design for Teens (ages 14-17)
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!
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Photography I
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.
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Photography II
Adults
Further your creativity and understanding of shooting in manual mode with full control.
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Photographing Your Art
Adults
Bring your artwork to class and practice shooting both 2-D and 3-D pieces. Learn shooting techniques to achieve true color rendering...
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Photoshop and Lightroom
Adults
Learn the basics and develop your editing skills to transform your photos into richer, more visually interesting images.
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iPhoneography Workshop
Adults
Explore the potential of the iPhone camera, including the best apps for creating artistic images and amazing examples of work by professional photographers.
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Batik/Wax Resist Dyeing
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.
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Book Arts: Paper Folding and Binding
Adults
This 2 day workshop will cover basic paper folding techniques that will result in 4-5 books for you to take home.
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Collaborative Tapestries: Fiber, Collage, and Natural Dyes
Adults
Create collaborative tapestries that resemble a dialogue of shapes or a conversation in color.
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Experimental Papermaking
Adults
Whether you’re an experienced papermaker or a beginner, this class will review basic paper making techniques and beyond.
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Exploring Fibers: Dyeing, Printing, Stitching
Adults
Experiment with fibers and textile design through a sampling of natural dye and embroidery.
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Weaving: Beginning and Beyond
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.
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Experimental Printmaking with Collage
Adults
Explore the fundamentals of relief printing through traditional printmaking tools and chine-collé.
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Experimental Printmaking 2.0
Adults
Students will explore a wide variety of relief printing techniques and think more critically about composition, color, and mark making....
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Printmaking with a Gelli Plate
Adults
Create a variety of images using gelatin printing, a form of monoprinting in which a gelatin slab is used as a printing plate...
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Relief Printmaking: Woodcut and Linoleum
Adults
Learn to prepare blocks, draw, carve, and print while examining the history of relief printmaking with an emphasis on contemporary 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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Bird Illustration
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...
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Botanical Illustration
Adults
Enjoy and examine the native plants in your own backyard/local parks and trails/(or florist) as your subjects.
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Design and Composition
Adults
Develop basic design skills for artistic and commercial applications through a variety of student projects, lectures, and demonstrations.
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Drawing I: Short Form
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.
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Drawing in a Series
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...
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Drawing I: Long Form
Adults
Learn about line, value, perspective, and composition as you begin to draw and then improve your skills through quick sketches and completed drawings...
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Exploring Great Women Artists
Adults
Explore the basics of 2D art through guided exercises based on artworks by great women artists...
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Gesture, Volume, Giacometti
Adults
Explore a succession of techniques using instructor Katherine Amman’s four-step process: Gesture, Volume...
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Life Drawing I
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.
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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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Intro to Art: 2-D
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.
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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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Portrait Drawing
Adults
Expand your visual acumen through study of the proportions, contours, volumes, and details of the head and face.
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Storytelling with Mixed Media Drawing
Adults
Explore visual storytelling through a series of mixed media drawings, discovering new ways to construct narrative-driven images. Draw with a variety of...
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Vacation Sketching
Adults
Total beginners and experienced students: make vivid landscapes and cityscapes in a vacation sketchbook to enhance trip memories.
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20 Oil Techniques
Adults
Explore options, gain clarity on tools and techniques for both realistic and abstract styles, and learn practical skills and time-saving tips.
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Painting I: Short Form
Adults
Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach painting with confidence. Understand oil and acrylic paint and develop a foundation for future work.
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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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Animal Portraits
Adults
Whether you're interested in painting pets, birds, livestock, or exotic wildlife, explore how to simplify the drawing and proportions...
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Botanical Painting Workshop
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…
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Color Theory and Abstraction
Adults
Work with unconventional, synthetic, and a non-local palette to create geometrical abstract works.
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Colored Pencil Painting
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.
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Exploring Cézanne
Adults
Learn to see like French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and paint dramatic depth alongside flatness!
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Exploring Gauguin
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!
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Jumpstart Your Painting
Adults
Absolute beginners or those with rusty skills will discover, strengthen, and hone painting skills during an enjoyable weekend.
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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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Painters' Studio
Adults
Paint freely among a like-minded community with the at-request feedback of an instructor!
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Painting Large
Adults
Learn how working large loosens up individual style and enables artists to make a powerful statement.
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Portrait 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.
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Portrait Painting Workshop
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.
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Toward Abstraction
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.
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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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Advanced Watercolor Techniques
Adults
Use this traditional media on an expanding range of subjects including water and glass, light paths, food and fabrics....
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Jumpstart Your Watercolor
Adults
Beginners and those needing a refresher course alike will gain insight into the wonderful medium of watercolor during an enjoyable, challenging weekend.
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Representational Watercolor
Adults
Explore composition, form, value, and color mixing through painting objects in a realistic style.
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Level Up Your Watercolor
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.
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Beginning Ceramics
Adults
Using stoneware clay, gain a working knowledge of techniques such as slab construction, classic coil, pinched vessels, and throwing elemental wheel forms.
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Ceramics: Beginning and Beyond
Adults
Beginners cover the basics of hand building, while experienced students build on previous lessons, refine techniques, and create vessels.
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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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Pots Off the Wheel: Hand Building Functional Pottery
Adults
Explore inventive hand-building techniques for making functional pottery in this fun and informative class.
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Sculptural Expressions
Adults
Explore and realize your own visions. Focus on narrative work employing human and animal forms, and develop and execute your own visual vocabulary.
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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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Wheel Throwing with Salt 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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Advanced Fabrication Open Studio
Adults
Advance your metalworking skills and work on personal projects in this new guided open studio!
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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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Metals 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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Sculptural Mosaics
Adults
Learn about various techniques for creating outdoor mosaics on dimensional surfaces.
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Art & Nature (ages 6-11 w/adult)
Parent & Child
Inspired by the beautiful setting of Laguna Gloria, create a variety of artworks using sticks, stones, leaves, and other natural objects.
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Swirl and Splash! Shibori Tie Dying (ages 6-11 w/adult)
Parent & Child
Come discover the secrets to using beautiful indigo shibori and tie-dye patterning techniques...
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Homeschool 3-D (ages 5-9)
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.
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Art ABCs (ages 4-5)
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.
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Wild Things (ages 4-5)
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!
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Artist Explorers (ages 4-5)
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!
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Beautiful Bugs (ages 4-5)
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.
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Fabulous Fish (ages 4-5)
Age 4–5
Children learn to paint, draw, and sculpt fish and other underwater creatures and plants while exploring basic art vocabulary.
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Tots Making Pots (ages 4-5)
Age 4–5
Using ingredients from the kitchen, we’ll make our own clay to form brilliant creatures.
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Cartooning (ages 6-8)
Age 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)
Age 6–8
Adventure into the amazing world of animals, including the jungle, zoo, and even imaginary realms, using clay forms.
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Claymation (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!
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Drawing Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
Age 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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Explorations in Abstract Art (ages 6-8)
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.
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Fun with Frida (ages 6-8)
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.
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Outer Space Art (ages 6-8)
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!
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Paint, Draw, Sculpt Nature (ages 6-8)
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!
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Painting Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create realistic paintings and express your artistic spirit in both bold and delicate colors using skillful brushstrokes.
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Whimsical Clay (ages 6-8)
Age 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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Wild Things (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create your own ''wild things'' and expand your skills in clay, paint, collage, and more!
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Awesome Clay Sculptors (ages 9-11)
Age 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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Beyond Basic Drawing (ages 9-11)
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.
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Beyond Basic Painting (ages 9-11)
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..
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Claymation (ages 9-11)
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…
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Digital Drawing and Painting (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Develop your drawing and painting skills digitally with free phone or tablet applications.
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Explorations in Abstract Art (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Use a variety of media to produce an exciting array of two-dimensional abstract art.
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Paint, Draw, Sculpt Nature (ages 9-11)
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!
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Wheel Throwing (ages 9-11)
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.
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Classical Drawing and Painting (ages 9-14)
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.
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Awesome Clay Sculptors (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Build strong foundations with clay to create a life-size 3-D sculpture of a favorite person, creature, or character!
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Claymation (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!
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Drawing: Beyond Basics (ages 12-14)
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.
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Painting: Beyond Basics (ages 12-14)
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.
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Swirl and Splash! Natural Dye Techniques (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes!
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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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Beginning Metalworking for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel as more than an industrial material.
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Ceramics for Teens (ages 14-17)
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.
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Digital Drawing and Painting for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Develop your drawing and painting skills the digital way, using a Wacom tablet, Corel Painter, and Photoshop.
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Life Drawing for Teens (ages 14-17)
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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Mural Painting for Teens (ages 14-17)
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.
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Screen Printing for Teens (ages 14-17)
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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Swirl and Splash! Natural Dye Techniques for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Come discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes...
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Spring Break Art ABCs (ages 4-5)
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.
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Spring Break Tots Making Pots (ages 4-5)
Age 4–5, Spring Break Classes
Using ingredients from the kitchen, we’ll make our own clay to form brilliant creatures.
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Spring Break Drawing Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
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.
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Spring Break Painting Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8, Spring Break Classes
Create realistic paintings and express your artistic spirit in both bold and delicate colors using skillful brushstrokes.
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Spring Break Whimsical Clay (ages 6-8)
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.
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Spring Break Claymation (ages 9-11)
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!
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Spring Break Wheel Throwing (ages 9-11)
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!
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Spring Break Claymation (ages 12-14)
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!
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Spring Break Wheel Throwing (ages 12-14)
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!
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Spring Break Metalworking for Teens (ages 14+)
Ages 14-17, Spring Break Classes
Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel as more than an industrial material.
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Drawing: Matrix
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.
Read MoreExploring Paper Arts and Design
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...
Read MoreContemporary Vessels
Adults
Learn a variety of hand building techniques, both traditional and innovative, to develop your own style.
Read MoreSurface Decoration Workshop
Adults
Learn about various surface design methods to decorate your ceramic work at both the green and bisque stages.
Read MoreThe Contemporary Landscape
Adults
Work in an out of the studio as you draw artistic inspiration from the Laguna Gloria campus!
Read MoreCreative Paper Art: Layered Landscapes
Adults
Unleash your creativity and come play with paper! The options for individual style and creativity are endless.
Read MoreDesigning Patterns: An Arts & Crafts Approach
Adults
Learn how to elaborate upon ideas for motifs and strategize designing with repetition.
Read MoreSequential Art
Adults
Explores comics, sequential art, and graphic storytelling as a contemporary medium!
Read MoreSmartphone Photography II
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.
Read MoreArt of Flavor (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create your own artistic confections! Students will create a series of mixed-media desserts inspired by American artist Wayne Thiebaud.
Read MoreDrawing with Scissors (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!
Read MoreStorytelling Through Art (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Explore the artwork of your favorite storybooks to create masterpieces of your very own!
Read MoreWizard Week (ages 6-8)
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!
Read MoreCrazy Critter Sewing (ages 9-11)
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!
Read MoreDrawing with Scissors (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling!
Read MoreTexas Wildlife (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Step outside the classroom and take a closer look at the nature of Laguna Gloria and beyond.
Read MoreWizard Week (ages 9-11)
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!
Read MoreDIY Kicks Design (ages 12-14)
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.
Read MoreDrawing with Scissors (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Experiment with color, shape, and space to create collage masterpieces and explore the art of cutting and assembling.
Read MoreFashion Week (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Bring your ideas from concept to completion in this weeklong fashion design class!
Read MoreIntro to Graphic Design (ages 12-14)
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!
Read MoreMini Museum (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Make miniature paintings or drawings and one 3D sculpture inspired by your favorite famous artist!
Read MoreTexas Wildlife (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Step outside the classroom and take a closer look at the nature of Laguna Gloria and beyond.
Read MoreConceptual Sculpture for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Go beyond the basics of object construction and engage in a bigger conversation exploring the “why” and “how” of your artwork.
Read MoreDIY Kicks Design for Teens (ages 14-17)
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!
Read MorePhotography I
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.
Read MorePhotography II
Adults
Further your creativity and understanding of shooting in manual mode with full control.
Read MorePhotographing Your Art
Adults
Bring your artwork to class and practice shooting both 2-D and 3-D pieces. Learn shooting techniques to achieve true color rendering...
Read MorePhotoshop and Lightroom
Adults
Learn the basics and develop your editing skills to transform your photos into richer, more visually interesting images.
Read MoreiPhoneography Workshop
Adults
Explore the potential of the iPhone camera, including the best apps for creating artistic images and amazing examples of work by professional photographers.
Read MoreBatik/Wax Resist Dyeing
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.
Read MoreBook Arts: Paper Folding and Binding
Adults
This 2 day workshop will cover basic paper folding techniques that will result in 4-5 books for you to take home.
Read MoreCollaborative Tapestries: Fiber, Collage, and Natural Dyes
Adults
Create collaborative tapestries that resemble a dialogue of shapes or a conversation in color.
Read MoreExperimental Papermaking
Adults
Whether you’re an experienced papermaker or a beginner, this class will review basic paper making techniques and beyond.
Read MoreExploring Fibers: Dyeing, Printing, Stitching
Adults
Experiment with fibers and textile design through a sampling of natural dye and embroidery.
Read MoreWeaving: Beginning and Beyond
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.
Read MoreExperimental Printmaking with Collage
Adults
Explore the fundamentals of relief printing through traditional printmaking tools and chine-collé.
Read MoreExperimental Printmaking 2.0
Adults
Students will explore a wide variety of relief printing techniques and think more critically about composition, color, and mark making....
Read MorePrintmaking with a Gelli Plate
Adults
Create a variety of images using gelatin printing, a form of monoprinting in which a gelatin slab is used as a printing plate...
Read MoreRelief Printmaking: Woodcut and Linoleum
Adults
Learn to prepare blocks, draw, carve, and print while examining the history of relief printmaking with an emphasis on contemporary art.
Read MoreScreen 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.
Read MoreBird Illustration
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...
Read MoreBotanical Illustration
Adults
Enjoy and examine the native plants in your own backyard/local parks and trails/(or florist) as your subjects.
Read MoreDesign and Composition
Adults
Develop basic design skills for artistic and commercial applications through a variety of student projects, lectures, and demonstrations.
Read MoreDrawing I: Short Form
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.
Read MoreDrawing in a Series
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...
Read MoreDrawing I: Long Form
Adults
Learn about line, value, perspective, and composition as you begin to draw and then improve your skills through quick sketches and completed drawings...
Read MoreExploring Great Women Artists
Adults
Explore the basics of 2D art through guided exercises based on artworks by great women artists...
Read MoreGesture, Volume, Giacometti
Adults
Explore a succession of techniques using instructor Katherine Amman’s four-step process: Gesture, Volume...
Read MoreLife Drawing I
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.
Read MoreLife 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.
Read MoreIntro to Art: 2-D
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.
Read MoreLife Drawing Open Studio
Adults
Work with a live model each week to explore the fundamentals of figure drawing in this open studio like class...
Read MorePortrait Drawing
Adults
Expand your visual acumen through study of the proportions, contours, volumes, and details of the head and face.
Read MoreStorytelling with Mixed Media Drawing
Adults
Explore visual storytelling through a series of mixed media drawings, discovering new ways to construct narrative-driven images. Draw with a variety of...
Read MoreVacation Sketching
Adults
Total beginners and experienced students: make vivid landscapes and cityscapes in a vacation sketchbook to enhance trip memories.
Read More20 Oil Techniques
Adults
Explore options, gain clarity on tools and techniques for both realistic and abstract styles, and learn practical skills and time-saving tips.
Read MorePainting I: Short Form
Adults
Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach painting with confidence. Understand oil and acrylic paint and develop a foundation for future work.
Read MoreAbstract Painting
Adults
Conquer a variety of abstract painting techniques, including abstracting real objects, intuitive painting, and gestural works.
Read MoreAnimal Portraits
Adults
Whether you're interested in painting pets, birds, livestock, or exotic wildlife, explore how to simplify the drawing and proportions...
Read MoreBotanical Painting Workshop
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…
Read MoreColor Theory and Abstraction
Adults
Work with unconventional, synthetic, and a non-local palette to create geometrical abstract works.
Read MoreColored Pencil Painting
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.
Read MoreExploring Cézanne
Adults
Learn to see like French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and paint dramatic depth alongside flatness!
Read MoreExploring Gauguin
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!
Read MoreJumpstart Your Painting
Adults
Absolute beginners or those with rusty skills will discover, strengthen, and hone painting skills during an enjoyable weekend.
Read MoreLandscape 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.
Read MoreMagnificent 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.
Read MorePainters' Studio
Adults
Paint freely among a like-minded community with the at-request feedback of an instructor!
Read MorePainting Large
Adults
Learn how working large loosens up individual style and enables artists to make a powerful statement.
Read MorePortrait 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.
Read MorePortrait Painting Workshop
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.
Read MoreToward Abstraction
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.
Read MoreWatercolor Basics and Beyond
Adults
Beginners are introduced to the watercolor medium while intermediate-level students advance technique and skills through practice and critiques...
Read MoreAdvanced Watercolor Techniques
Adults
Use this traditional media on an expanding range of subjects including water and glass, light paths, food and fabrics....
Read MoreJumpstart Your Watercolor
Adults
Beginners and those needing a refresher course alike will gain insight into the wonderful medium of watercolor during an enjoyable, challenging weekend.
Read MoreRepresentational Watercolor
Adults
Explore composition, form, value, and color mixing through painting objects in a realistic style.
Read MoreLevel Up Your Watercolor
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.
Read MoreBeginning Ceramics
Adults
Using stoneware clay, gain a working knowledge of techniques such as slab construction, classic coil, pinched vessels, and throwing elemental wheel forms.
Read MoreCeramics: Beginning and Beyond
Adults
Beginners cover the basics of hand building, while experienced students build on previous lessons, refine techniques, and create vessels.
Read MoreIntermediate Ceramics: Wheel Throwing, Hand Building, and Glazing
Adults
Expand your understanding of stoneware or porcelain, under-glaze colors, and high-fire glazes.
Read MorePots Off the Wheel: Hand Building Functional Pottery
Adults
Explore inventive hand-building techniques for making functional pottery in this fun and informative class.
Read MoreSculptural Expressions
Adults
Explore and realize your own visions. Focus on narrative work employing human and animal forms, and develop and execute your own visual vocabulary.
Read MoreWheel 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.
Read MoreWheel Throwing with Salt 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…
Read MoreAdvanced Fabrication Open Studio
Adults
Advance your metalworking skills and work on personal projects in this new guided open studio!
Read MoreBeginning Metalworking
Adults
Learn welding, cutting, and grinding as you create steel sculptures in this foundational class...
Read MoreMetals 2.0
Adults
Expand your skills, practice MIG (metal inert gas) welding techniques, and become more familiar with oxy-acetylene and hot form steel.
Read MoreSculptural Mosaics
Adults
Learn about various techniques for creating outdoor mosaics on dimensional surfaces.
Read MoreArt & Nature (ages 6-11 w/adult)
Parent & Child
Inspired by the beautiful setting of Laguna Gloria, create a variety of artworks using sticks, stones, leaves, and other natural objects.
Read MoreSwirl and Splash! Shibori Tie Dying (ages 6-11 w/adult)
Parent & Child
Come discover the secrets to using beautiful indigo shibori and tie-dye patterning techniques...
Read MoreHomeschool 3-D (ages 5-9)
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.
Read MoreArt ABCs (ages 4-5)
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.
Read MoreWild Things (ages 4-5)
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!
Read MoreArtist Explorers (ages 4-5)
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!
Read MoreBeautiful Bugs (ages 4-5)
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.
Read MoreFabulous Fish (ages 4-5)
Age 4–5
Children learn to paint, draw, and sculpt fish and other underwater creatures and plants while exploring basic art vocabulary.
Read MoreTots Making Pots (ages 4-5)
Age 4–5
Using ingredients from the kitchen, we’ll make our own clay to form brilliant creatures.
Read MoreCartooning (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Turn those doodled creations into terrific cartoon characters. Explore cartooning, craft your own cartoons, and practice lettering, perspective, timing, and expression.
Read MoreClay Creatures (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Adventure into the amazing world of animals, including the jungle, zoo, and even imaginary realms, using clay forms.
Read MoreClaymation (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!
Read MoreDrawing Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Venture into real and imaginary worlds with the stroke of a marker, the rub of charcoal, and the glide of pastels.
Read MoreExplorations in Abstract Art (ages 6-8)
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.
Read MoreFun with Frida (ages 6-8)
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.
Read MoreOuter Space Art (ages 6-8)
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!
Read MorePaint, Draw, Sculpt Nature (ages 6-8)
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!
Read MorePainting Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create realistic paintings and express your artistic spirit in both bold and delicate colors using skillful brushstrokes.
Read MoreWhimsical Clay (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create whimsical clay art while exploring basic ceramic skills, building with rich clay materials, and using a variety of glazes.
Read MoreWild Things (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8
Create your own ''wild things'' and expand your skills in clay, paint, collage, and more!
Read MoreAwesome Clay Sculptors (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Build strong foundations with clay to create a life-size 3-D sculpture of a favorite person, creature, or character!
Read MoreBeyond Basic Drawing (ages 9-11)
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.
Read MoreBeyond Basic Painting (ages 9-11)
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..
Read MoreClaymation (ages 9-11)
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…
Read MoreDigital Drawing and Painting (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Develop your drawing and painting skills digitally with free phone or tablet applications.
Read MoreExplorations in Abstract Art (ages 9-11)
Age 9–11
Use a variety of media to produce an exciting array of two-dimensional abstract art.
Read MorePaint, Draw, Sculpt Nature (ages 9-11)
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!
Read MoreWheel Throwing (ages 9-11)
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.
Read MoreClassical Drawing and Painting (ages 9-14)
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.
Read MoreAwesome Clay Sculptors (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Build strong foundations with clay to create a life-size 3-D sculpture of a favorite person, creature, or character!
Read MoreClaymation (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!
Read MoreDrawing: Beyond Basics (ages 12-14)
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.
Read MorePainting: Beyond Basics (ages 12-14)
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.
Read MoreSwirl and Splash! Natural Dye Techniques (ages 12-14)
Ages 12-14
Discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes!
Read MoreWheel 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!
Read MoreBeginning Metalworking for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel as more than an industrial material.
Read MoreCeramics for Teens (ages 14-17)
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.
Read MoreDigital Drawing and Painting for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Develop your drawing and painting skills the digital way, using a Wacom tablet, Corel Painter, and Photoshop.
Read MoreLife Drawing for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Advance your skills drawing the human form. Create drawings that incorporate movement, large structural relationships, proportions, and line.
Read MoreMural Painting for Teens (ages 14-17)
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.
Read MoreScreen Printing for Teens (ages 14-17)
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!
Read MoreSwirl and Splash! Natural Dye Techniques for Teens (ages 14-17)
Ages 14-17
Come discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes...
Read MoreSpring Break Art ABCs (ages 4-5)
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.
Read MoreSpring Break Tots Making Pots (ages 4-5)
Age 4–5, Spring Break Classes
Using ingredients from the kitchen, we’ll make our own clay to form brilliant creatures.
Read MoreSpring Break Drawing Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
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.
Read MoreSpring Break Painting Basics and Beyond (ages 6-8)
Age 6–8, Spring Break Classes
Create realistic paintings and express your artistic spirit in both bold and delicate colors using skillful brushstrokes.
Read MoreSpring Break Whimsical Clay (ages 6-8)
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.
Read MoreSpring Break Claymation (ages 9-11)
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!
Read MoreSpring Break Wheel Throwing (ages 9-11)
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!
Read MoreSpring Break Claymation (ages 12-14)
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!
Read MoreSpring Break Wheel Throwing (ages 12-14)
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!
Read MoreSpring Break Metalworking for Teens (ages 14+)
Ages 14-17, Spring Break Classes
Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel as more than an industrial material.
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