Autumn Celebration of Crafts Around the World
Celebrate autumn traditions from around the world through art, stories, and cultural exploration. Young artists will create multimedia projects inspired by festivals such as China’s Mid-Autumn Festival, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, India’s Diwali, Spain’s La Mercè, and more while expanding their understanding of our diverse global community.
Art & Literature Series: Classic & Modern Fairytales
Explore classic and modern fairy tales, myths, and animal stories through creative art projects. Children will paint, draw, sculpt, and create using a variety of materials while bringing beloved stories such as Stellaluna, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White to life. Imagination and artistic choice are encouraged every step of the way! Please note: No class 10/12
Try Your Hand At Painting & Drawing Workshop: Session A
This workshop is geared towards the absolute adult beginner. Learn the basics of painting and drawing in a supportive, judgement-free session. Spend the morning in the GAC studios and learn about basic techniques, materials and approaches to working creatively in two dimensions. Come discover your creative potential!
The Art of Magical Beings: Fall Fairies and Fantastic Beasts from the World of Harry Potter
Explore the magical world of fairies, elves, and fantastical creatures inspired by folklore and the Harry Potter series. Using natural materials and mixed-media techniques, young artists will create fairy houses, dragons, phoenixes, wizard wands, potions, and more while experimenting with sculpture, painting, and clay.
Portrait and Figure Drawing
Learn the fundamentals of drawing realistic portraits and the human figure. Explore facial proportions, measurement, shading, and hair rendering, then progress to figure drawing using shapes, proportions, posture, and basic anatomy from photo references. Handouts, portrait reference photos, and one live clothed model session are included. Suitable for beginners and intermediate artists. This class has a required materials list.
Painting Or Drawing The Portrait
Become more confident as a portraitist and capture the personality of your subject in your art. Students already confident in a medium other than graphite pencil (e.g. oil, acrylic, pastels, etc.) should feel free to bring them to class. Otherwise, prepare to draw with pencil and bring a 9 x12 sketch pad, a few soft pencils (anything from 6B to 9B), and, preferably, a kneaded eraser.
Drawing For All
Students will draw with graphite pencil, learning about line, dark and light values, composition and more. We will turn the ordinary into the sublime, working from a still life (and other things) of each student’s own design. Please bring a few soft pencils (6B to 9B) and a 9 x12 sketch pad to the first class. Please note: no class 10/12
Try Your Hand At Painting & Drawing Workshop: Session B
This workshop is geared towards the "absolute adult beginner" to come learn the basics of painting and drawing in a supportive, judgement-free session. Spend the morning in the GAC studios and learn about basic techniques, materials and approaches to working creatively in two dimensions. Come discover your creative potential.
Exploring Colored Pencils Workshop
Learn some tips that can help you along-remember to start light and build up to darker shades; blend your colors for great effects. Work in a sketchy style or pursue a more final, burnished look. There are many more approaches to learn about and demos will be given by the instructor. This class has a required materials list.
Drawing in Charcoal Workshop
Working in charcoal is one of the most classical of mediums: you can smooth transitions from soft, hazy effects to crisp, defined marks.It’s so forgiving: easy to layer, smudge, and erase, It’s ideal for practice and experimentation. Using it is expressive: it allows for energetic, emotional, and realistic results, from dramatic portraits to atmospheric landscapes. This class has a required material list.