Courses & Workshops

Love to draw and paint? Turn your drawings into beautiful embroidered pieces you can wear! Learn different techniques like split stitch, french knot, and beading to create new designs on your fabric. Embroidery is like painting with thread.

Learn the ins and outs of filmmaking to create your own short horror film. Gain experience in storyboarding, producing, directing, and editing while exploring career paths in the film industry and building your artist portfolio. Enjoy filming inside or outside of Marwen to film scary stories that will capture your audience.

Bring your fashion ideas to life in this t-shirt design class! Use Adobe Photoshop to create your own designs, and learn the principles of design, including color theory, typography, and composition to craft eye-catching t-shirt graphics.

Turn your drawings into prints. Explore a range of printmaking processes to discover different modes of line-based artmaking. The process involves creating a stencil (or screen) and using it to apply layers of ink on the printing surface.

Express yourself through the vibrant medium of graffiti! Learn the fundamentals of graffiti art, like how to create tags, throw-ups, and larger pieces using spray paint or markers. This class will inspire you to transform ideas into bold, eye-catching works of art.

Unleash your inner podcaster! Collect audio stories from Marwen’s community to create a podcast for and by youth. Learn interviewing skills, use editing software, design a podcast logo, and team up to transform your recordings into a polished podcast.

Get a crash course in oil painting, color mixing, and painting techniques to capture anything and anyone you see! Develop your style through individual and collaborative projects that challenge you to paint from real life models.

Explore experimental painting and figure drawing, using watercolors, acrylic paint, charcoal, and oil pastels to create expressive artworks on canvas and cardboard. Through a series of projects you will gain a variety of mixed media painting skills!

Create a rug from your imagination! Use yarn and textiles to learn techniques such as punch needles, loop and cut piles, and tassels. By the end of this course you will create a cozy addition that you can hang or lay out in your home.

Learn advanced ceramics techniques, and create functional and stylish works of art. Gain skills in hand-building techniques like coiling, pinching, slabs, and wheel throwing to craft one-of-a-kind mugs and plates.

Learn how to make a one-of-a-kind jacket from celebrity jacket-maker and embroiderer Stitch Gawd. Build skills in garment construction, dying, sewing, design, and branding. You will work in groups to complete jackets for some favorite celebrities. After finishing the jackets, the teaching artist will work to connect with and gift the celebrities your designs!