Portrait Painting (Online)
July 2- August 20
6:00-9:00pm |
Thursdays |
Ingrid V. Wells |
Develop a series of three portraits using your own source material while at home, tailored to the specific needs of participating students through an individual tutorial approach. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Strike While the Ink is Hot: Political Printmaking
July 22- August 19
5:00-8:00pm |
Thursdays |
Kate Laster |
This online lecture class dive into the radical history of political printmaking focusing on artists of color, womxn and queer activists.
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$245 |
Printmaking |
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Expanded Collage (Online)
July 22 -August 12
6:00-8:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Connie Zheng |
Challenge yourself to experiment with scale and a variety of materials in this experimental collage class. |
$195 |
Drawing, Painting |
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Personal Mythology in the Age of Social Distancing (Online)
July 1- August 5
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesday |
Mara Ramiriez |
Investigate your own personal mythology in an unprecedented time through self-portraiture, visual journaling, and storytelling. |
$295 |
Drawing |
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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 |
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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.
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$195 |
Drawing |
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Contemporary Plein Air Painting
July 18- August 8
10:00am-4:00pm |
Saturdays |
Lauren Jade Szabo |
Take your painting practice outside and investigate today's natural, urban, and hybridized landscape within approaches of contemporary painting from observation. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Soft Sculptures and Creatures (Online)
September 15 -October 27
6:00-8:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Cristina Velázquez |
Engage your creative side in 3D object making and immerse yourself in creating amorphous shapes and objects made of stuffed fabric material. |
$225 |
Sculpture |
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Online High School Expressive Figure Drawing (Non-Credit)
June 29- July 22
10:00am-1:00pm |
Monday + Wednesday |
Felicita Norris |
Learn to tell stories, communicate visually, and imagine new worlds through large- and small-scale drawings working from models and beyond. This course has been adapted to be delivered online. |
$385 |
Drawing |
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Online High School Painting + Permutations (Non-credit)
June 30- July 23
10:00am-1:00pm |
Tuesday + Thursday |
Katie Curry |
Emphasize originality and craftsmanship in your painting as you bring your ideas to light. This course has been modified to be delivered online. |
$385 |
Painting |
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Modern Art History: Women and POC (Online)
July 1- August 5
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Liesa Lietzke |
This course attempts to restore the legacy of overlooked nonwhite artists and female artists of the 20th Century in Europe and America. |
$295 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Introduction to DIY Filmmaking (Online)
July 29- August 19
6:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Tessa Siddle |
Immerse yourself in this introductory course to DIY video and filmmaking practices. |
$195 |
Film, New Genres |
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Introduction to San Francisco’s Contemporary Art Scene
Please see description for specific dates
5:00-7:00pm |
Selected Thursdays + Saturdays |
Katherine Vetne |
A beginner’s guide to the people and organizations that make up contemporary art in San Francisco. Meet artists, dealers, curators, and more! |
$210 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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Digital Media Compositions (Online)
July 21 - August 11
Online |
Tuesdays |
Nancy Jones |
Create visual representations of moods and learn visual literacy with media imagery. |
$$195 |
Artist-Driven Experience, Photography |
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Chance Drawing + Sculpture: The Cracks and the Dice (Online)
September 3 - October 8
6:00-8:00pm |
Tuesdays |
Joanne Easton |
Through drawing and sculpture, explore methods of chance, randomness, and indeterminacy as a means of discovery. |
$195 |
Drawing, Sculpture |
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Online Writing for Artists (Online)
November 2- December 7
Online |
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 |
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Modern Art History: Women and PoC (Online)
September 24-October 29
7:00-9:00pm |
Thursdays |
Liesa Lietzke |
This course attempts to restore the legacy of overlooked nonwhite artist and female artist of the 20th Century in Europe and America. |
$200 |
Artist-Driven Experience |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ex-Voto: Your Story in a Painting (Online)
September 9 - October 7
7:00- 9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Raphael Noz |
The ex-voto is a living, narrative painting tradition in Mexico, done out of gratitude. Everyone has a story to share- what’s yours? |
$295 |
Painting |
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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.
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$480 |
Painting |
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Storytelling: Photographing with Meaning (Online Intensive)
September 26-27 and October 3-4
10:00am-12:00pm |
Saturday-Sunday |
Ellen Jacob |
Dive into this two-weekend intensive and learn to visually tell your story and explore the strategies necessary to create compelling imagery. |
$130 |
Photography |
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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 |
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Considering The Anthropocene thru Photography (Online Intensive)
October 3-October 10
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 |
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Reading Images: A Guide to Visual Literacy (Online)
September 9- September 30
9:00-10:30am |
Wednesdays |
Nancy Jones |
Develop your visual literacy skills in reading images as well and practice creating meaning. |
$130 |
Art & Technology, Artist-Driven Experience |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Photographic and Image Based Directed Study + Tutorial (Online)
September 15 - November 24 No class November 3. Go Vote!
5:00- 6:30pm |
Tuesdays |
Daniel Melo Morales |
Designed for students of all levels, this course is for those working in photography or video who want to strengthen the core of their practice in an independent study setting. |
$250 |
Photography |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Exploring Installation Art (High School Non-credit)
September 12 - October 17
10:00am-1:00pm |
Saturdays |
Amy M. Ho |
In this course students will be introduced to a variety of installation artists that address the surrounding environment in the design and creation of their work. Students will be asked to complete two installation art assignments and develop one final project. |
$$295 |
New Genres |
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Experimental Large-Scale Drawing (Online)
September 19- October 3
10:00am-1:00pm |
Saturdays |
Connie Zheng |
Explore diverse methods of working gesturally on a variety of large-scale surfaces. |
$195 |
Drawing, Painting |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sculpture in Place: Making Objects When you can’t go Anywhere” (Online)
September 2- October 7
7:00-9:00pm |
Wednesdays |
Marshall Elliott |
Explore new routes of opening up our relationship to our surroundings and work with tangible objects that redefine our relationship to touch and spatial orientation. |
$195 |
Sculpture |
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Performance and Video Art (High School Non-credit)
October 10- November 21 (No class October 31)
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 |
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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 |
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Working from Your Surroundings: Ideation Through Attention (Online)
September 19 - October 24
10:00am-12:00p |
Saturdays |
Tim Kopra |
This class develops an approach to creating work through daily surroundings and natural |
$195 |
Sculpture |
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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.
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$195 |
Photography |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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