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All Active Courses and Workshops

View courses that are still open for enrollment.

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Workshops and Courses by Date

View all courses and workshops by date. This includes past classes.

Ceramics

Explore personal ideas in clay through hand building, wheel throwing, mold making and more. Get lost in the endless possibilities of the glaze and kiln room. Hone your skills and fill your cupboards with original ceramic ware.

Comic Arts

Explore your creativity through comic characters and worlds! Visual storytelling in the form of graphic novels, manga, and comic books has become increasingly popular in recent years, and inspires all kinds of creative media work including film, video games, and virtual reality. Take a class, or go for the Visual Storytelling and Comic Arts Certificate!

Communication Design/Graphic Design

Communication Design (including Graphic Design) touches the life of every person. It is central to how we construct and convey meaning. Gain a robust working knowledge of print design, information design, branding, and dynamic media (user experience design).

Digital Media

Enhance your digital toolkit for applications including design and visual storytelling. Courses in digital photography and video, experience design, coding languages, web design, mixed reality, and more provide software skills and expanded possibilities for content creation! Choose individual classes or explore the Digital Media Certificate.

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Drawing

Choose from a variety of drawing topics including drawing from observation and abstract approaches. Push the boundaries of the discipline by drawing with a variety of media under the direction of accomplished artists/teachers.

Fashion Design

Push your creativity while building on time-tested principles of design and craft. Fashion courses at MassArt offer an opportunity for students to learn the fundamentals of fashion design in one of the oldest and most respected fashion programs in the country.

Furniture Design and Wood

Learn machine and hand woodworking fundamentals, push yourself as a designer and wood artist, practice new techniques and create original pieces of your own design.

Glass

Experiment with glass as a medium for individual expression, through the creation of vessels and sculptural forms.

On Campus and Hybrid Courses and Workshops

We welcome you to MassArt's campus for fully on site and hybrid classes. While not required, everyone is strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated, and to wear masks in all spaces unless otherwise noted.

Painting

Painting students are part of an intense working environment where they can pursue their own direction. Painting courses and workshops encourage diverse practice and foster independent creative thinking and making. Students are part of a unique learning environment that allows for independent thought as well as collaboration and critique.

Photography

Learn about photography as fine art with an emphasis on the history of photography and the body of criticism surrounding the medium. Develop your own personal vision and experimentation in the studio.

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Studio Arts

Join us at MassArt and find your creative voice. Reconnect with past efforts, prepare for advanced study, or jump into creative experimentation with a structured program to guide you. Try the Studio Arts Certificate -- it gives you the freedom to choose the classes that you are drawn to, while providing optional clusters of courses that serve as a guide.

Workshops

Get a taste of the topics you have been curious about with workshops in design, business, photography, wood, metals, printmaking, drawing, painting and more.