Courses & Workshops

Create your own fantasy landscapes and creatures like robots, spaceships, dragons, or unicorns with laser eyes! Learn drawing and illustration techniques to explore character development and fantasy design.

Take inspiration from Hollywood films, both old and new, to create your own photographic mystery narrative. Learn to use a 35mm SLR camera, studio lights, and props to create dramatic images on location, then develop them in the darkroom.

Bring your drawings to life through intaglio printmaking -- a process where a design is cut, scratched, or etched into a printing surface. Create a series of images then use Photoshop to digitally combine your prints into short animations.

Learn a variety of fiber processes that will allow you to “draw” on fabric. Experiment with different approaches such as shibori dyeing, block printing, and embroidery to discover new ways to create pattern and design and bring your drawings to cloth!

Share your knowledge and ideas to support Marwen’s community of students, families, and staff. Join SAB! You will receive a $20 stipend per meeting.

Learn professional methods for drawing and hand-coloring comic books. Develop characters and give them a story to tell while learning penciling, inking, and coloring processes to create your own comic books!

Learn hand building and wheel throwing techniques to create your own ceramic sculptures and pottery. Work with a variety of construction methods, surface design, and glazing techniques to create fantastic clay forms inspired from your own imagination.

Learn how to operate a DSLR camera like a pro. Gain a deeper understanding of camera controls, exposure, composition, and lighting to create photographs with purpose.

Learn how to take your static character drawings and turn them into movable animations! Using Photoshop and Adobe After Effects, learn the professional process called Digital Puppet Animation to bring your flat drawings to life.

Learn to use analog black and white photography to influence change in your community. Create portraits of your family and fellow students to communicate stories about your lives and experiences while learning the ins and outs of the darkroom.

Discover how to make multiples of your art. Create hand-drawn designs; learn techniques to carve them into linoleum; then stamp them to make posters, t-shirts, bags, and more! Learn the basics of printmaking to print your artwork onto any surface.

Learn the basics of 2D design. Use paper and found images to create analog collages by hand, then learn to make digital composites in Photoshop. Explore how to use line, shape, color, and more to make bold compositions that reflect your personal identity.

Become a street artist! Work with stencils, stickers, and spray paint to create your own graffiti designs. Gain inspiration from murals, photography, printmaking, and graffiti to experiment with different types of street art.

Create papier-mâché masks using your face as a form. Build on the mask to make designs inspired by your culture and the urban environment. Then decorate the masks using paint to express your personal identity.

Marwen Lab is a 2-term program that gives you the opportunity to work with an experienced teaching artist and your peers to develop your own art-making techniques and concepts. You will have access to all of Marwen's studios and art-making resources to help you complete projects for your portfolio. Your work will also be featured in a special exhibition! Marwen Lab is open to students who will be in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade in the 2019-2020 school-year.

Sketch, design, and construct your own custom garments in this interdisciplinary fashion course. If you are passionate about your personal style and want to learn about fashion from multiple perspectives, this is the class for you!

Make your character drawings and designs come off the paper and into your hands! Learn to use 3D computer modeling programs to give your drawings and sketches dimension, then print them using 3D printers.

Students will be hired and paid a $250 stipend to design and paint a large-scale mural for the Night Ministry, an organization supporting youth and adults experiencing homelessness. The project meets on Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm during Fall Term 2019 (October 5 - December 14). Open to current Marwen students in grades 9-12.

Love the art design of 3D video games? Learn to be a video game artist and designer. Use your drawing skills to create concept art for a game power pickup item, then model the object in 3D on a computer the same way that professional game artists do!