Public Education Courses
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 online days prior to the registration start date.
SPRING 2018
Registration opens Dec 1, 2017
Courses run late Jan–Apr
SUMMER 2018
Registration opens Apr 1, 2018
Courses run Jun–Aug
FALL 2018
Registration opens Jul 1, 2018
Courses run Sep–early Dec
Late Summer + Fall 2018 Course Schedule
| Painting in Time
July 3–August 7 6:30–9:30pm |
Tuesday | Tom Colcord | Contemplate the 4th dimension in this painting course focused on how to convey duration, immediacy, and the element of time in your work as you complete a series of short exercises and an individual final painting. | $295 | Painting | Register |
| Tree to Object: Simplified Woodworking for Sculpture
July 18–August 15 6:30–9:30pm |
Wednesday | Marshall Elliott | Develop the skills to work with wood as a contemporary sculptural medium, focusing on the use of accessible hand tools and a range of wood types. | $245 | Sculpture | Register |
| Photography Intensive: Idea-Generation + Image-Making
July 17–August 7 6:30–9:30pm |
Tuesdays | Daniel Melo | Reinvigorate your current photographic approach with exposure to new assignments, new artists from around the world, new ideas, new approaches; each designed to get you making and thinking about photography differently. | $195 | Photography | Register |
| Weekend Intensive: Print, Pattern + Textiles
August 4, 5, 11, 12 11am–3pm |
Saturday + Sunday | Kaitlin Trataris | Learn how to print on textiles using silkscreen printing methods while transforming your imagery into sculptural forms. | $295 | Printmaking | Register |
| Personal Mythology in Painting: Weekend Painting Workshop
August 3–5 10am–4pm |
Friday–Sunday | Soraya Sharghi | Discover, shape, and express your personal mythology as you complete three projects in this themed painting course. | $295 | Painting | Register |
| Chance Drawing + Sculpture: The Cracks and the Dice
September 11- October 9 7:30-10:30 pm |
Tuesday | Joanne Easton | Through drawing and sculpture, explore methods of chance, randomness, and indeterminacy as a means of discovery. | $295 | Drawing, New Genres, Sculpture | Register |
| Photoshop Basics
September 11- October 16 6:30- 9:30pm |
Tuesdays | Elisabeth Ajtay | Learn how to manage image files, as well as how to remove, correct, and manipulate images in this class focused on gaining a deeper understanding of Photoshop. | $295 | Photography | Register |
| Critical Symbology: Interdisciplinary Critique Seminar
September 18- October 23 6:30-9:30 pm |
Tuesdays | Eric Carson | We see over a thousand images each day. How do we use them and how are we used by them? In this class we will investigate the ways symbol and imagery are used personally, commercially, and politically to convey meaning. You’ll create buddhist style mandalas, mock scientific diagrams, logo mutilations, and other beautiful paradoxes as we put image saturated culture to work for us. | $295 | Artist-Driven Experience | Register |
| Video as an Expression of Self in the Environment
September 18- October 23 6:30–9:30pm |
Tuesdays | Raheleh Minoosh Zomorodinia | Investigate the relationship between “Self” and the environment in this video installation course focused on personal identity. | $295 | Film | Register |
| Creative Mixed-Media Still Life
October 16- November 20 6:30–9:30pm |
Tuesdays | Carey Lin | Using colored pencil, collage, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic, learn still life basics and create mixed-media pieces based on colorful, dynamic compositions. | $295 | Drawing | Register |
| Contemplative Drawing
September 12- November 28 6:30–9:30pm |
Wednesdays | Sarah Ammons | Sync your hands with your eyes and practice contemplative drawing in this course focused on working from life, pattern, figure, and concept. | $530 | Drawing | Register |
| Portrait Painting
September 12- December 5 no class November 21 due to Thanksgiving holiday 7:30–10:30pm |
Wednesdays | Ingrid V. Wells | Develop a series of three portraits using your own source material in this class tailored to the specific needs of participating students through an individual tutorial approach. | $530 | Painting | Register |
| Drawing Through Photographs
September 12- October 31 6:30-9:30 pm |
Wednesdays | Jacob Kincheloe | Use photographic sources to create drawings as you explore both the technical and conceptual side of working from photos, including the strategies of various artists who follow the same practice. | $385 | Drawing | Register |
| Personal Projects
September 12- October 10 6:30–9:30pm |
Wednesdays | Victoria Mara Heilweil | Receive individualized feedback to move your personal photographic project forward and into the world in this course focused on developing strategies for maximum progress. | $245 | Photography | Register |
| Welding 101
September 12- November 28 7:30–10:30pm |
Wednesdays | Tim Kopra | Develop your basic metal skills to create a personal project with mild steel while gaining in-depth safety training and confidence in the metal shop. | $530 | Sculpture | Register |
| Abstraction Concentration
September 19- November 7 7:30–10:30pm |
Wednesdays | Alice Gould | Explore abstract painting as you experiment with brush choices, palette knives, color investigations, painting mediums and complete a series of works. | $480 | Painting | Register |
| Outdoor Installation
October 17- December 5 no session November 21 due to Thanksgiving holiday 6:30–9:30pm |
Wednesdays | Annie Albagli | Create site responsive work in this course focused on process and one’s relation to site from new vantage points. | $345 | Sculpture | Register |
| Everyday Ceramics
October 3- November 7 6:30–9:30pm |
Wednesdays | Alyssa Block | $295 | Sculpture | Register | |
| Suspended Sculpture
October 3- October 31 7:30–10:30pm |
Wednesdays | Vanessa Gingold | Consider the sculptural possibilities of the suspended object--inspired by Calder’s mobiles and contemporary design and installation--you will work with mixed media to create hanging sculptures and installations through playful experimentation. | $195 | Sculpture | Register |
| Exploring Installation Art
September 13- November 15 6:30–9:30pm |
Thursdays | Amy M. Ho | Discuss, explore, and create your own installation art as you learn of how artists address their surrounding environment through design and creation. | $480 | New Genres | Register |
| Introduction to Oil Painting
September 13- December 6 (no session Nov 21 due to Thanksgiving) 7:30–10:30pm |
Thursdays | Robert Xavier Burden | Oil 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 three paintings during the course. | $530 | Painting | Register |
| Advanced Photography Tutorial
September 13- December 6 no session November 22 due to Thanksgiving holiday 7:30–10:30pm |
Thursdays | Chris Grunder | Receive focused feedback on your personal photography projects in this course with an intensive tutorial structure aimed at substantive individual progress. | $530 | Photography | Register |
| Color + Context: Natural Dyes from the Local Landscape
September 20- November 8 6:30–9:30pm |
Thursdays | Rebecca Foster | This class will explore the natural landscape as material as you create natural dyes, inks, and watercolors from locally-sourced plants and vegetables to use in your practice. | $385 | Artist-Driven Experience, Printmaking | Register |
| Artists’ Books: Voices and Visions
September 8 - October 20th no class October 6 10am–1pm |
Saturdays | Ariel Hansen Strong | Explore the artist's book as a vehicle for voice and creative vision while learning a variety of printmaking and bookbinding techniques. | $315 | Printmaking | Register |
| Advanced Painting Lab + Seminar
September 8- November 3 no class October 6 10am–1pm |
Saturdays | Felicita Norris | This advanced painting course is designed to help you develop an individual aesthetic based on conceptual prompts that will be used to enhance critical and conceptual thinking and to help you be able to defend your ideas in a critique setting. | $385 | Painting | Register |
| Creative Lighting Techniques
September 15- October 20 10am–1pm |
Saturdays | Alex Peterson | Learn how to properly set up and operate a variety of strobes, lighting modifiers, continuous lighting, mixed lighting sources, and natural light for use in portraits, still life, and product photography. | $295 | Photography | Register |
| Printmaking with Botanicals: Layered Compositions
September 22- November 3 no class October 6 10am–1pm |
Saturdays | Rebecca Rippon | Use plants directly in the process of building an image in multiple printmaking disciplines including screenprinting, etching, and monotypes in this course emphasizing experimentation. | $295 | Printmaking | Register |
| Introduction to Figure Drawing
September 29- November 3 10am–1pm |
Saturdays | Ignacio Rojas | Gain a heightened understanding of the relationships between the body’s various parts and features through focused observation in order to further inform, investigate, and grow individual studio practices. | $295 | Drawing | Register |
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