Courses & Workshops

Transform your everyday life into fantasy! Learn how to use a sewing machine and pattern making to create outfits from your wildest dreams. Explore craft techniques like paper-mâché to create masks and wire armature to create wings and appendages.

Explore computer-based mediums such as digital collage, video, GIFs, sound, and creative coding. Apply these new skills to construct your own interactive, web-based artworks using Twine (an open-source tool for telling interactive stories). By the end of this course you will feel comfortable creating your own digital artwork!

APPLICATION CLOSED: The Lab Residency is a year-long (Sep-May) program that fosters a community of 20 young artists (10th-12th grades) developing independently-driven projects with the support of a team of artist mentors. Lab residents have access to supplies, equipment, studios and art-making resources to help develop work, both solo and in collaboration with fellow residents. Throughout the year, Lab residents complete an independent creative project for their portfolios and present it in a culminating group exhibition.

Do you enjoy collage and sculpture and want to try something new? Brighten up your home with handmade mosaic masterpieces. Learn to arrange glass and tiles to create 2D or 3D patterns and designs.

Have you ever wanted to turn your sketches into physical, playful ceramic objects? You can visibly change your environment using clay and intuition. Learn how to draw and paint with underglaze on clay, then use hand-building techniques to create a sculpture based on your image.

Create your own custom skateboard mini-deck! Learn hands-on painting and drawing techniques and how to digitally paint using iPads and the Procreate app. Create sketches, designs, and cool illustrations like your favorite skaters, and develop your own personal design style.

Have you ever looked at your sketchbook and gone blank? Learn drawing techniques, zine making, typography, and block printing to incorporate into your own sketchbook. We’ll also experiment with collaborative sketchbooks as a class.

Develop an eye for portrait photography! Learn how to create a photoshoot from the ground up using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses to capture decisive moments. Create remarkable scenes through editing software, such as Lightroom and Photoshop.

Create paper-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 and express your personality with graffiti lettering.

Design and sew playful 3D stuffed fabric figures. Create animals, monsters, and characters from your own imagination that celebrate many spectrums of identity. Use fabric and basic sewing techniques, then embellish your plushies with stitching, buttons, and sequins. This course takes place virtually on Zoom.

Have you ever wanted to remake your favorite photos as colorful, bold acrylic paintings? Take your painting skills to the next level by learning how to paint with different brush techniques and color mixing. Develop your style through individual and collaborative prompts that challenge you to paint from photos in new imaginative ways.

Learn painting techniques in texture, color mixing, lighting, shape, form, depth, material setup, and brush control. Practice building your own piece of work with freedom to create your own story through painting. Listen to your creative instincts and be true to yourself, no cap!

Learn how to make a one-of-a-kind jacket from celebrity jacket maker and embroiderer “Stitchgawd.” Learn dying, sewing, design, as well as branding. We will spend time talking about the ethos behind fashion and how that informs the things we make. Break out new ideas, and translate them into clothing. The class will end with a stylized photoshoot of the maker’s piece!