Studio Arts: What's New

Upcycle a vintage quilt or make your own fabric selection and follow a basic pattern to craft your custom quilted coat just in time for fall.

Discover a variety of approaches to creating mixed-media collages and learn techniques for creating interesting, personalized papers for art applications. Find out how to capitalize on everyday materials; learn to use household tools and utensils to make stencils and create patterns and textures on papers.

Beginning students explore watercolor techniques and learn new approaches to painting through demonstration, discussion, and experimentation.

Making art can be a wonderful way to escape from everyday life. It can also be a useful tool to understand current events. Work with newspapers, magazines, and mixed-media techniques to create a visual representation of the news.

Say goodbye to flat and boring painting as you learn to create patterns of light and dark in watercolor through demonstrations and hands-on exercises.

Take your paintings to the next level with simple secrets that every watercolor artist should know. Techniques demonstrated in the class are particularly useful for painting captivating landscapes.

Students are introduced to the materials, tools, and technologies used in collage and assemblage. They find inspiration in artists who worked in collage, including Joseph Cornell, Romare Bearden, and Gertrude Greene.

Learn to use the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate for illustration and animation. With this minimal toolset, artists can create a wide range of visuals. Students get an introductory lecture on the basics of digital art production, demonstrations, and experience drawing in Procreate on an iPad.

Explore the possibilities of collage, realistic abstraction, and altered images as you create works centered around people and places. Experiment with a range of materials and techniques to create your own story, including exploring real or imagined landscapes, architecture, portraits, and self-portraits.

Find your sense of color confidence while learning to apply color to embroidery art as would a painter using pigments and a palette.