Workshops allow you to kick-start your creativity or learn a specialized skill in a convenient, shorter format. Taught by professional artists, workshops are available for students at all levels of experience and are kept small to ensure that individual attention can be given to everyone. Students learn in a supportive environment and are encouraged to fully explore their creativity and strive for excellence.
April
Japanese Lampmaking
with Phillip Chambers
Department: Sculpture
Level: All Levels
Make an elegant Japanese lamp in this easy workshop. Supplies provided with instruction on electrical wiring to create a floor or table lamp.
Sunday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, 4/8
1 session: $125; Early Bird price: $118.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
Pottery Sampler
with Michael Bradford
Department: Pottery
Level: All Levels
Check out our one-day sampler to find out what pottery is all about without committing to a whole term. You’ll be introduced to the studio and briefed on how to use our equipment. Then, dive in for some hands-on time with the potter’s wheel and a lump of clay. We provide the tools — just show up with an open mind and be ready to play!
Supplies: Come dressed for action.
Sunday, 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm, 4/15
1 session: $30; Early Bird price: $28.50 (Discount available until 2/9)
April Vacation Art Program
with Eva Scopino
Department: Young People
Level: Ages 7-11
Join us for a week of adventures in art! Creative, fun, thought-provoking projects in clay, drawing, painting, collage, papier-mâché, and more. Explore a variety of art materials and techniques. Learn and create in a studio environment with other young people who enjoy making art. On Friday, we’ll have a student art exhibition and celebration for families and friends. Includes a daily snack.
Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm, 4/16 – 4/20
5 sessions: $287; Early Bird price: $272.65 (Discount available until 2/9)
The Magic Box
with Cathy Reeve
Department: Book Arts
Level: Intermediate + Advanced
Learn how to make a Magic Box — a lidded box with compartments, based on the structure used in a Jacob’s Ladder. Depending on how the box is opened, different compartments are hidden and revealed. All materials will be provided.
Prerequisite: One bookbinding or box making class or equivalent experience.
Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, 4/21
1 session: $65; Early Bird price: $61.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
Build a Birdhouse with a Buddy
with Philip Levine
Department: Young People
Level: Ages 7-11 with an adult
Build a real wooden birdhouse that will last for years. Use precut, high-quality building materials: solid wood, galvanized nails and screws, and 20-year roofing material. We’ll include a door on the bottom, so that the house can be cleaned. Work together to create and build a family project and lasting memories. Bring a pint of outdoor paint for your birdhouse; all other materials supplied. We’ll construct the birdhouse during the workshop, and begin painting if time allows. Painting will be finished at home.
Supplies: A pint of outdoor paint in any color.
Saturday, 10:00 am – 1:30 pm, 4/21
1 session: $64; Early Bird price: $60.80 (Discount available until 2/9)
Birds!
with Eva Scopino
Department: Young People
Level: Ages 7-11
Welcome, spring! Learn about backyard birds, such as robins and cardinals. Create artwork about our feathered friends using collage, watercolor, pastel, feathers, watercolor resist painting, and paper cutout collage. We’ll also build a bird on a stick with movable wings.
Thursday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 4/26
1 session: $25; Early Bird price: $23.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
Handquilting
with Robin Green
Department: Fiber
Level: All Levels
Whether creating heirlooms for future generations or practicing a meditative craft, nothing compares to quilting by hand. Learn the basics in this workshop, where we will acquire new skills and begin a small project that can be turned into a pillow, table mat, or market bag.
Saturday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 4/28
1 session: $96; Early Bird price: $91.20 (Discount available until 2/9)
May
Wish Flags
with Eva Scopino
Department: Young People
Level: Ages 7-11
Create a string of good wishes and hopes for the garden or the season, inspired by flags of peace and love. We’ll create flags from cloth, fabric crayons, markers, and paint that can be hung indoors or outdoors.
Thursday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 5/10
1 session: $25; Early Bird price: $23.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
Introduction to Natural Dyes
with Robin Green
Department: Fiber
Level: All Levels
Explore a world of color harvested from roots, bark, leaves, and flowers! In this hands-on workshop, learn how to extract dyes from plants and how to prepare wool, cotton, and silk for dyeing. Each participant will leave with mini-skeins of yarn and silk or cotton fabric that they have dyed themselves.
Saturday, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 5/12
1 session: $65; Early Bird price: $61.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
Make Your Own Plant Markers
with Eva Scopino
Department: Young People
Level: Ages 7-11
Create your own set of plant markers for veggies, herbs, and flowers in the garden or in pots. Have fun creating with sticks, scrap wood, Sharpies, and acrylic paint.
Thursday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 5/24
1 session: $25; Early Bird price: $23.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
June
Perspective Drawing of Buildings and Architecture
with Eric March
Department: Drawing + Painting
Level: Intermediate + Advanced
Learn a fundamental approach to perspective and how it can be used to draw buildings and urban scenes. One- and two-point perspective will be covered through lectures, demonstrations, and on-site drawing in downtown New Haven. Some advanced perspective techniques will also be covered, including how to find the center of a wall in perspective, creating regular spacing of objects (like street lights) in perspective, and other tips. This class is a good preparation for “Plein Aire Cityscape Painting.”
Supplies: Click here to download a materials list.
Saturdays, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm, 6/2 – 6/9
2 sessions: $85; Early Bird price: $80.75 (Discount available until 2/9)
Plein Aire Cityscape Painting
with Eric March
Department: Drawing + Painting
Level: Intermediate + Advanced
Enjoy painting the beautiful architecture of downtown New Haven in this class designed to teach methods of painting outdoors and capturing the light, color, and spirit of urban scenes. Compositional considerations and how to quickly “lay in” a painting will be addressed, as well as color mixing techniques that respond to the observed colors in the motif. This class is a good follow-up to “Perspective Drawing of Buildings and Architecture.”
Supplies: Click here to download a materials list.