Adults

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

Adults

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

Adults

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

This class is perfect for motivated artists with ideas and an existing art making practice.

Adults

Learn Jan Heaton’s personal top six watercolor pigments and painting tools.

Adults

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

Adults

Learn how to paint botanical subjects in a realistic manner.

Adults

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

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

Dive into the art of papermaking by recycling old to make new.

Adults

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

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...

Parent & Child

Adults

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

Adults

Create art with photographic images and explore different ways of building collages and make prints of final creations.

Adults

Go deeper into the many photographic possibilities of iPhones and other smart phones.

Adults

Learn how to better capture your images and improve them with small adjustments and big creative edits.

Adults

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

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

Learn from Giorgio Morandi, the master of still life.

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

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

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

Explore the potential of the iPhone camera, including the best apps for creating artistic images and amazing examples of work by professional photographers.

Adults

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

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

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

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

Learn the building blocks of screen printing in this workshop-style version of our longer screen printing series.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

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 render botanical subjects in a realistic manner. Explore the work of the Dutch masters of still life, impressionist florals, and contemporary…

Adults

Learn practical skills necessary to accomplish accurate color mixing with oil or acrylic, plus explore the color wheel and simple color theory!

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

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

Adults

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

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

Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach painting with confidence. Understand oil and acrylic paint and develop a foundation for future work.

Adults

Beginners or those with minimal experience learn different ways to start paintings, use paint as a wash or with texture, and practice old master techniques.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adults

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

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

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

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

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

Create beautiful and functional pieces using glass, marbles, stones, mirrors, dishes, and tiles in this class suitable for beginners.

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

Bring a point-and-shoot camera or any device with a camera (iPhone/iPad) and learn to make your own movies from beginning to end.

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...

Parent & Child

Create with mom, dad, grandparent, or guardian to make a small edition of prints to share as Valentine cards. We'll sketch...

Ages 5-9, Homeschool

Use a variety of mediums to take your artistic skills to a new level! Each class has a different theme: portraiture, still-life composition, figure drawing, capturing landscapes, and more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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 14-18, Spring Break Classes

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