Courses & Workshops

Explore abstract and decorative mosaic designs to create 2D artworks. Learn how to use mosaic tools and materials, cut glass or ceramic tile, and compose with line, shape, color, and pattern to create beautiful abstract designs.

Learn the art of knotting -- macrame -- and create wall-hangings or plant hangers using a variety of fibers, materials, and weaving techniques.

Explore the world of sculptural ceramics! Learn to use fun handbuilding techniques to create 3D works of art with meaning. Whatever your interests, through experimentation and practice, you can have the time and space to create what you love.

Summer is the perfect time to be inspired by nature! Study flowers, leaves, plants, trees, fruits, vegetables, and more. Go on field trips to botanic gardens, study from observation and life, as well as photographs to develop illustrations and watercolor paintings.

Experience the process of creating and self publishing your own comics. Be inspired by classic and contemporary comics, learn to storyboard, use traditional illustration techniques, design unique characters, and create your own stories!

Travel to the Shedd Aquarium and draw inspiration from coral reefs, octopi, jellyfish and other creatures of the deep! Explore a wide array of materials and techniques to craft your own sea creatures and imaginary ecosystem.

Discover the science and magic behind the camera! Experiment with different photographic processes such as photograms and cyanotypes, and create your own cameras from soup cans and other objects to learn about what led to today’s technology.

Tell your story! Learn video making processes, including screenwriting, video camera operation, and digital editing. You’ll make a short, individual film based on letters you address to your future self, 5 years in the future.

Create beautiful and complex images and patterns on fabric using Japanese tie-dye art. Learn how to stitch, tie, clamp, wax, dye and more to develop mesmerizing images, color patterns, or narrative designs on fabric.

Gain inspiration from street art, hip hop culture, and contemporary art to develop your own graffiti style. Learn graffiti lettering, drawing, and spray painting techniques and use your refined skills to design your own skateboard deck!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to become your own superhero! Use paper-mache, plaster, clay, and found materials to create identity concealing masks, superpower accessories, and protective armor that makes you unique and powerful.

Learn techniques to paint realistic faces and dynamic portraits. Bring in pictures of friends or family or use images of your favorite role models or celebrities, then transform them through elaborate ornamentation, including gold leaf!

Make your drawings, illustrations, or comic characters 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!

Learn handbuilding and wheel-throwing techniques to craft functional vessels that represent important people in your lives. Make a teapot-teacher, a mother-mug, or a berry-bowl-best-friend to expresses their personalities through color and design.

Create your own indoor garden by building pots and planters! Explore handbuilding and wheel-throwing techniques to create your own one-of-a-kind ceramics. Choose a plant to put in your pot and learn how to grow and care for it.

Take part in designing and creating a large-scale mural by exploring contemporary graffiti art. Develop your own skills through stylized writing, collage, character design, and stencils to express your individuality, culture, and community.

Create experimental animated shorts by transforming looped videos and GIFs using Photoshop and After Effects. Pick something that inspires you and encapsulate it in a film by experimenting with sound, color, and text to create unique visual stories.

Explore the world through sound! Sound is a part of everyday life - Art, Film, Radio. Develop your own Podcast narratives by learning script writing, sound design using recording devices, and editing software to tell your own story.