Public Education Course Details and FAQs
Public Education is now offering our summer + fall course schedule online. Please read additional details below regarding our summer offerings.
We will keep students informed as soon as we know more.
Deepen your practice through course instruction that complements and enhances skills, knowledge, and concept.
View our current course offerings below. Our course table is sortable by medium, price, day of the week, faculty name, and course title to help you find what you are looking for. Trying to locate a specific class? Use the search bar below to type in keywords.
Courses fill on a first-come, first-serve basis. Early registration is recommended.
Course schedules are posted a month prior to the registration start date.
FALL 2020
Registration opens Aug 1, 2020
Courses run Sep–early Dec
SPRING 2021
Registration opens Dec 1, 2021
Courses run late Jan–Apr
SUMMER 2021
Registration opens Apr 1, 2021
Courses run Jun–Aug
| Introduction to Drawing (Online)
October 19- December 7 6:00-9:00pm |
Mondays | Emily McPeek | This class will provide a comprehensive understanding of various techniques in drawing as well as methods on how to conceptually approach it. | $385 | Drawing | Register |
| Notebook as Studio (Online)
October 21- November 18 (No class November 11) 6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays | Kate Laster | In this workshop we will explore the many modes of image making through keeping a sketchbook. Students will work in dry and wet medium, acquiring skills to draw from life and imagination. | $195 | Drawing | Register |
| Online Writing for Artists (Online)
November 2- December 7 6-9pm |
Mondays | Kathy Sirico | Writing for Artists will help you develop confidence in your writing skills. This course will focus on improving your technical and professional skill sets, while also considering writing as a process for idea development. | $295 | Artist-Driven Experience | Register |
| How to Be Online: Professional Practice for Visual Artists
October 5- October 26 5:00-6:30pm |
Mondays | Ward Long | Making art is hard enough, but sharing and promoting it online requires a totally different set of skills. This course covers the practical basics of web-site building, online promotion, social media, and drawing healthy digital boundaries. | $100 | Artist-Driven Experience, Photography | Register |
| Human Expression - Online
September 29- November 17 6:00-9:00pm |
Tuesdays | Emily McPeek | Investigate human expression. This course will examine the human face structurally and will give students a comprehensive understanding of how to draw and paint faces. | $385 | Drawing | Register |
| Intermediate Oil Painting Techniques (Online)
October 1- December 10 No class November 26 6:00-9:00pm |
Thursdays | Ingrid V. Wells | Develop a series of three oil paintings using your own source material while at home, tailored to the specific needs of participating students through an individual tutorial approach. | $480 | Painting | Register |
| Contemporary Landscape Painting (Online)
September 26 - November 21 No class October 31 1:00-4:00pm |
Saturdays | Lauren Jade Szabo | Through demonstrations, studio practice, and one-on-one tutoring, students will investigate the natural, urban, and hybridized landscape within approaches of contemporary painting. Individual portfolio progress will be emphasized. | $385 | Painting | Register |
| Making Monsters (Online)
October 10- December 19 10:00am-1:00pm |
Saturdays | Scott Isenbarger | Make paintings that explore the depths of their imaginations and examine the correlations between mark making, color choice, and subject matter through the lens of the “monstrous.” *This class presumes one has some knowledge of art history and the processes of painting and drawing, although it is not necessary. | $480 | Painting | Register |
| Visual Narratives (Online)
October 15 - November 19 6:00-8:00pm |
Thursdays | Cecilia Borgenstam | Designed for beginner and intermediate photographers who are interested in developing their personal artistic voice and create a cohesive body of work. | $180 | Photography | Register |
| Considering The Anthropocene thru Photography (Online Intensive)
October 3-October 11 10:00am-1:00pm |
Saturday + Sunday | Beth Davila Waldman | This is a photography studio intensive exploring how to create work that addresses the impact of humans through our natural environment- known in our current epoch as The Anthropocene. | $195 | Photography | Register |
| Printmaking Without a Studio: Screenprint & Cyanotype (Online)
October 6 - December 1 (No class November 3. Go Vote!) 6:00pm-8:00pm |
Tuesdays | Steph Kudisch | This course will provide an introduction to at-home screenprinting & cyanotype techniques, focusing on methods of printing that enable artists to flourish without access to a full studio. | $260 | Printmaking | Register |
| Block Printing (Online)
October 28- December 9 No class November 11 6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays | Rebecca Rippon | Learn to design and create block prints at home while discovering this medium’s fascinating past and political role in history. | $295 | Printmaking | Register |
| Animated GIF as a Medium (Online)
November 18- December 9 5:30-7:30pm |
Wednesdays | Tessa Siddle | Learn to make animated GIFs and learn to use them to make web-based art installations. | $195 | New Genres | Register |
| Introduction to Sound Art (Online)
October 29-December 10 No class November 26 6:30-8:30pm |
Thursdays | Marc Manning | This course will provide students with an overview of sound art. The focus will be on the history of the medium through listening and discussion of important pieces. | $195 | New Genres | Register |
| Sculpture Inside Out (Online)
November 5-December 10 No class November 26 7:00-9:00pm |
Thursdays | Liesa Lietzke | This course proposes a series of experiments in embodied sculpture, inspired by historical and contemporary artistic practices that stretch beyond the pedestal: sculptures that are worn, inhabited, performed, or that otherwise exist in a nontraditional relationship with their creators and audience. | $165 | Sculpture | Register |
| Creating Miniature Spaces (Online)
November 7 - December 5 No class on November 28 10:00am-1:00pm |
Saturdays | Amy M. Ho | This course introduces students to the use of miniature models and spaces in art. Students will experiment working in miniature and create their own diorama or miniature space. | $195 | Sculpture | Register |
| The Body in Performance (Online)
October 6- December 1 No class November 3. Please vote! 5:30-7:00pm |
Tuesdays | Dana Morrison | Learn the historical and contemporary use of the body in performance art. This online class will utilize documenting assignments to share and critique together, along with conceptual readings, discussions and viewing the work of poignant artists in the field. | $195 | New Genres | Register |
| Contemporary Photography: Intersections in Landscape (Online)
October 19 - October 23 10:00am-1:00pm |
Monday–Friday | Beth Davila Waldman | Using image, material and landscape, this photography studio intensive will guide you through a series of daily projects engaging in a socio-economic dialogue with place, exploring the politics, economy and culture of your chosen landscape setting with your camera. | $245 | Photography | Register |
| Institutional Garbage: At Work in the Archive (Online)
October 7- November 18 6:00-8:00pm |
Wednesday, | Sean Dickerson | Waste away with art practices that have exploited or engaged in archival excess, cults of the ephemeral, trash as resource, or dustbin histories. | $200 | Artist-Driven Experience | Register |
| Drawing: Personal Mythology (High School Non-credit)
October 17- December 5 10:00am-12:00pm |
Saturdays | Mara Ramiriez | Investigate your own personal mythology through visual journaling, ethical storytelling, and meditative drawing. | $200 | Drawing, Painting | Register |
| Critique Class (Online)
October 7-December 16 (No class November 11) 5:30-7:45 |
Wednesdays | J. John Priola | Refine your work in this instructor-led critique group. | $$350 | Artist-Driven Experience | Register |
| Introduction to Oil Painting (Online)
October 6- December 1 (No class November 3. Go Vote!) 5:30-8:30pm |
Tuesdays | Robert Xavier Burden | Oil painting fundamentals, such as drawing, brushwork, color theory, and the technical manipulation of paint will further your skills along with demOil painting fundamentals, such as drawing, brushwork, color theory, and the technical manipulation of paint will further your skills along with demonstrations and exercises designed to encourage new ideas in a positive atmosphere as you complete a number of paintings during the course. | $385 | Painting | Register |
| Feminist Art and Culture (Online)
October 6- December 15 6:00-8:00pm |
Tuesdays | Joyce Burstein | Students will be exposed to a broad cross section of Feminist Art through viewing and dialogue with the goal of engaging a feminist gaze on art and culture. There will be nudity, irreverence, anger and glee. | $350 | Artist-Driven Experience | Register |
| Performance and Video Art (High School Non-credit)
October 24 - November 28 3:00-6:00pm |
Saturdays | Sang Chi Liu | The course examines how one’s body connects to the contemporary world and gets into the radical history of artists who utilize their own bodies as material. | $295 | New Genres | Register |
| Horizons of the Metaverse (Online)
October 7 - October 28 6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays | Judit Navratil + Beatriz Escobar | Experiment with working with a VR space and combining multiple media to push the boundaries of embodied practices and digital art. | $195 | Art & Technology | Register |
| Adobe Lightroom: Taking Your Photos to the Next Level (Online)
October 14 - November 18 6:30-8:30pm |
Wednesdays | Victoria Mara Heilweil | Learn the building blocks of Adobe Lightroom to gain the skills and confidence to realize your photographic vision. | $195 | Photography | Register |
| Photographic Design and Composition (Online)
August 26 - September 30 6:30-8:30pm |
Wednesdays | Victoria Mara Heilweil | Learn how photographic design and composition strategies can be used successfully to strengthen the visual impact, originality and narrative in your photographs. | $195 | Photography | Register |
| Meditative Drawing (Online)
October 17- December 5 No class October 31+ November 28 11:00am-2:00pm |
Saturdays | Emily Peck | A drawing course that frames observational drawing as an act of mindfulness. | $295 | Drawing | Register |
| Contemporary Photographic Practices (Online High-School Non-Credit)
October 3- November 14 11:00-1:00pm |
Saturdays | Zachary Sumner Schomp | Dive into the world of digital photography through exercises, tutorials and professional practices. | $200 | Photography | Register |
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