Youth, Teen, & Adult Classes
Our year-round youth, teen, and adult programming offers a diverse range of classes taught by local artists. We provide our students with a high quality arts educational experience by working with artists who are eager to share their knowledge and expertise while supporting their educational growth. Artspace teaching artists will devote the necessary time to each student and provide them with technical assistance and substantive feedback, allowing for the best possible educational experience. To make the arts more accessible to all, Artspace will provide all necessary materials unless otherwise specified.
Artspace Members enjoy a 10% discount on our summer camps and year-round classes. Not a member? Join today!
Cancellation policy for classes: Cancel up to 15 days in advance of the class for a full refund. Any cancellations made within 15 days of the class will not receive a refund.
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Spring Classes
with Michelle Wilkie
Saturday, March 13, 1-4pm
ages 16+
$60
with Renée Boyette
Saturday, March 28, 1-4pm
ages 5-12 + parent/guardian
$50
Join us in making a world made of fabric! Families will design and build their own layered fabric landscape, from rolling hills and glowing moons to tiny houses, gardens, animals, and imaginative characters. Using recycled textiles, patterned scraps, yarn, lace, trims, and other tactile treasures, you’ll learn how to cut, layer, and attach materials to create depth, texture, and dimension. This collaborative experience invites parents and children to dream up a shared story and bring it to life through color, shape, and texture. By the end of the workshop, you’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind soft collage artwork filled with personality, imagination, and meaningful moments you created together.
Tickets are sold in pairs, one parent and one child. Additional tickets for both an adult or child may be purchased. This is a collaborative workshop designed for ages 5-12 along with their parent/guardian.
Friday, March 20, 9am-5pm
Grades 1-5
$105
No school? No problem! Turn the next Teacher Workday into an all-day art making experience for your child with our Studio Days program.
Studio Days invites young artists in grades 1-5 to spend the day experimenting and making art with guidance from professional teaching artists. Students will spend the day trying out new materials, exploring fun themes and taking on creative artistic challenges that will encourage big ideas. By the end of the day, each child will head home with artwork in hand and stories to tell about what they created. Lunch and snack breaks are built into the day and parents should pack a lunch along with 3-4 snacks and water. Students should dress for the mess that will definitely take place.
Let’s Play With Paint! w/ Kathryn Smith (Grades 1-3)
Join us for Let’s Play with Paint!, a workshop where paint becomes a tool for exploration and there is no limit to the exciting possibilities that it can offer. We’ll find out together what happens when we use anything BUT a paint brush to make colorful marks, what happens when we use movement to create big strokes and what happens when we let go of what we think is the right or wrong way to make art! Expect to leave with unique art works and messy, but fun memories.
Alien Worlds w/ Jane Cheek (Grades 3-5)
Spend the day imagining an alien planet unlike anything we’ve ever seen before! What worlds are yet to be discovered and what might the plants from there look like? Perhaps some that are filled with carnivorous plants from a Great Dismal Swamp, or others plants are sentient and walk amongst the other life forms. Some of the projects that we’ll explore will include drawing new plants with ink, adding textures and color to those drawings, creating imagined environments, and sculpting alien plants.
with Leslie Pruneau
Saturday, April 11, 1-5pm
ages 16+
$85
Join studio artist Leslie Pruneau for a painting workshop that explores both the external and internal landscapes that connect us.
It is a wonder to see vibrant life emerge from a muddy plot of soil. And similarly in painting, we can quickly transform a muddy palette and messy underpaintings into colorful canvases filled with emotion and enough visual information to spark change in the viewer’s experience. Join oil painter Leslie Pruneau at Artspace for this immersive half-day painting workshop where we will explore both the external and our internal landscapes.
Through quick warm-up exercises and live demonstrations, participants will receive personalized one-on-one critiques as they work independently, with a focus on application processes and the powerful and personal use of color, to reveal their own connections with the natural world.
This is an intermediate level painting workshop. Intermediate acrylic and watercolorists are welcome, but demos will be performed in oil. Click here for the recommended supply list for this workshop. Artspace will help supplement some materials, but it is strongly recommended you arrive with your own.
Monthly Meet-ups
Sip + Stitch
Third Sunday of each month, 11am-1pm
ages 16+
Free! Please register though so that we may anticipate attendance.
Bring your coffee/tea and your own fibers-based project and materials for a casual, drop-in style gathering for artists of all levels to create fibers-based works in community. Sip + Stitch meets on the third Sunday of every month, 11am-1pm. Hosted by Studio Artist Michelle Wilkie.
Please note, this is not an instructor-led workshop, but a casual monthly get together of artists.
Images, l-r: detail of Rails II by Michelle Wilkie
Let your imagination soar in Artspace’s Open Studio and enjoy a self-guided art making activity for ages 5 and up. Every month there will be a new, beginner-level art making activity to experience. All ages are invited to participate! Registration is required for children and adults.