Get a taste of the topics you have been curious about with short workshops in design, business, photography, wood, metals, printmaking, drawing, painting and more.
Do you long for more self-expression, art and color in your life? Would you like creativity to become a habit but you don’t know where to start? Do you doubt your artistic skills or do you think you don’t have any artistic skills at all? In this 2 day workshop, … Read more
Start Date
01/04
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/05
Faculty
Katia Wish
Time
10am–2:30pm
Credits
0
Line drawing is an ancient art form that dates back almost 75,000 years. However, you may have come across the common stereotype that line drawing is a “lesser” art form due to its simplicity. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Simple animations of line and color can be wonderfully … Read more
Start Date
01/06
Meeting Day
Mondays and Thursdays
End Date
01/16
Faculty
Kristin Powers
Time
6:45pm–9pm
Credits
0
In this workshop we will explore the fascinating world of self-portraiture through the lens of collage and assemblage. Self-portraits take on a countless number of manifestations: they can be realistically drawn or painted, they can be an emotional, non-realistic expression of yourself, you can simplify your self-portrait into what you … Read more
Start Date
01/08
Meeting Day
Wednesdays and Saturday
End Date
01/15
Faculty
Kristin Powers
Time
Wed, 6-9pm, Sat, Jan 11, 10am-1pm–
Credits
0
Rich and expressive, monotype joins the graphic qualities of printmaking with the spontaneity of painting. This hands-on workshop teaches the basics of chine colle, pronto plate, collagraph, as well as other processes, and explores the sequential possibilities of monotype to develop images conceptually and formally. Image-making methods, ink handling, print … Read more
Start Date
01/10
Meeting Day
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
End Date
01/12
Faculty
David Bligh
Time
Fri, 6:30-9:30pm, Sat & Sun, 9am-3pm–
Credits
0
Thinking about a career in graphic design? Do you currently “dabble” in graphic design for personal projects? Have you found yourself designing flyers, webpages, brochures or other graphic design work professionally without any design training? This one-day workshop is specifically targeted for those with no graphic design background, to understand what makes a design “work” visually … Read more
Start Date
01/11
Meeting Day
Saturday
End Date
01/11
Faculty
Alisa Aronson
Time
9am–4pm
Credits
0
Have you considered yourself a good storyteller? Would you like to learn the basic elements of illustrating a simple story? In this 2 day workshop, Katia Wish invites you to develop a short narrative and illustrate it. Students are introduced to important concepts of narrative illustration: character, plot, composition, pacing, … Read more
Start Date
01/11
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Katia Wish
Time
10am–2:30pm
Credits
0
In this two-day workshop, students gain the fundamental tools and skills to take their drawings to the next level, in both accuracy and expression. Students work with a range of subjects, from still-life to the human hand. In addition to problem-solving drawing exercises, students learn techniques for depicting proportion, mark-making … Read more
Start Date
01/11
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Janet Loren Hill
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
0
Over the course of a six hour day, students will paint from a live nude model twice (morning & afternoon sessions). The course focuses on color mixing (skin tones), basic anatomy, and overall composition. Some painting experience is preferred. Materials needed for Figure Painting: *Oil Paints- suggested Titanium White (120 … Read more
Start Date
01/12
Meeting Day
Sunday
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Brett X. Gamache
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
Traditionally, watercolor is a light-to-dark medium. Light washes are built up gradually in order to achieve rich tones. The focus of this course is to explain that when beginning a painting with the application of pre-mixed, middle value, transparent wet-on-wet watercolor washes, artists can create images that exude “instant” atmosphere, … Read more
Start Date
01/13
Meeting Day
Monday and Friday and individual meetings
End Date
01/17
Faculty
Irena Roman
Time
9:30am–12:30pm
Credits
0