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
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.
Saturday, May 9, 1-2:30pm
ages 13+
$80 (includes 2 tickets)
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a custom jewelry workshop!
Join us and learn the basics of hand-stamping metal jewelry in this engaging, hands-on class at Artspace. Through demonstrations and guided practice, you’ll learn how to use metal stamps, hammer, and customize your designs, and finish your pieces with professional results.
Each participant will create two metal cuff bracelets using aluminum blanks, one to keep and one to give! A variety of letters, numbers, and decorative symbols will be available so you can personalize your jewelry with meaningful words and patterns.
All tools and materials are provided. No experience necessary. Open to ages 13+. Adult participants will also enjoy some refreshing mimosas, courtesy of Artspace.
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.