Courses & Workshops

Explore the world of sculptural ceramics! Learn to make trinket dishes, slab-built bowls, and hand-built lanterns by applying various sculptural techniques that can bring your art to life. This course will cover pinch and coil methods with an emphasis on slab-building and sculptural techniques. This exciting course will bring your ideas to life while teaching new techniques.

Do you find your sketchbook a little empty? Learn better drawing techniques! Travel around the city to fun places like parks and downtown Chicago, sketch faces and figures in minutes, and practice capturing people’s likenesses. Fill your sketchbook pages with so many exciting new ideas you’ll gain in this speed drawing class.

From mixed-media approaches to bold experimentation with materials, this class encourages you to push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Through hands-on experimentation, you'll uncover new avenues for creative expression. Develop a unique monotype and cyanotype, explore printing with found objects, and make a relief print.

Explore how to use a photography darkroom. Experience using analog cameras to take black-and-white photographs. You'll work in a wet darkroom using chemicals and red lights and learn developing techniques. Walk away knowing how to get a beautiful print using traditional photographic methods.

Want to paint realistic portraits of yourself? Gain the confidence to create unique portraiture using acrylic paint, pastel, and charcoal. Learn new techniques to paint the real version of your inner self.

Learn to capture any image and turn it into a print you can put on t-shirts or tote bags. Take your printmaking skills to the next level by learning printmaking using different techniques. Develop your style through individual and collaborative prompts that challenge you to paint from photos in new imaginative ways.

Turn your favorite character or food into a plushie! If you are interested in hand sewing, this class is for you. Practice how to make plushies with different materials like fabric, baked clay, aluminum foils, and armature wire. Take your work to the next level with all the new skills and tricks you’ll learn.

Ready to take your skills to the next level in this advanced rug-making course? After learning the basics of Rugs 101, you will develop new technical skills to enhance your rug projects. This course will help you flesh out your big ideas and make big and small pieces of rugs that can be displayed on the wall.

Build a world, and make short videos with stop-motion animation. Use recycled materials to make individual characters, and meet and interact in a group to develop a storytelling project. Through iStopMotion and iMovie software, you will develop character design and storytelling skills and learn the animation and editing processes.

In this introduction course, learn about the art of character design and animation. Explore the medium's unique qualities using various animation techniques, such as hand-drawn, stop-motion, and digital cutout animation. You will also learn about the history and practice of animation.

Explore textile print design and learn techniques such as weaving, printmaking, and dyeing. Design with fibers to make unique textiles while exploring personal and cultural expressions and dive into the vibrant world of textiles.

Slow down and unplug by creating photographs using analog cameras. Explore the basics of black-and-white darkroom photography and experience this medium through a different lens. Discover the power of capturing yourself and your friends using traditional portraiture techniques that will help you connect with your inner artist.

Focus on hand-building techniques and create personal and unique fantastical pieces of ceramics that hold a small piece of your fashion. Make custom jewelry for any occasion, from necklaces to earrings and everything!