Join us at MassArt and find your creative voice. Reconnect with past efforts, prepare for advanced study, or jump into creative experimentation with a structured program to guide you. Try the Studio Arts Certificate -- it gives you the freedom to choose the classes that you are drawn to, while providing optional clusters of courses that serve as a guide.
An introduction to the basic glassblowing techniques used to make vessels and sculptural forms. Throughout the course, progressively more difficult assignments teach new concepts and develop students’ skills. Group glassblowing clinics encourage teamwork. Historical and contemporary glass techniques, designs, and applications are discussed and incorporated into student work. No previous … Read more
Start Date
05/20
Meeting Day
Week 1, Mon-Fri, Week 2, Tue-Fri
End Date
05/31
Faculty
Nikki Tsamis
Time
9am–5pm
Credits
3
This class is fully enrolled.
Design and fabricate individualized place settings, serving dishes, teapots, and vases. Employing hand-building, the potter’s wheel, plaster molds, and various kiln-firing techniques (stoneware, soda, low-fire) students are able to create pottery that is useful as well as personally expressive. Frequent demonstrations, lectures, and dialogue with the instructor enable beginners as … Read more
Start Date
05/21
Meeting Day
Tuesdays and Thursdays
End Date
07/11
Faculty
Ben Ryterband
Time
6pm–10pm
Credits
3
Screen printing is an old and versatile process with many modern uses. We present a variety of techniques and contemporary fine art applications of silkscreen printing. Students are guided through the transformation of an idea to printed image and encouraged to take a creative approach. The emphasis is on experimentation, … Read more
Start Date
05/21
Meeting Day
Tuesdays & Thursdays
End Date
07/11
Faculty
Carlos Alvarez
Time
6pm–10pm
Credits
3
In this workshop, you will learn various basketry construction techniques including coiling, twining, plaiting, netting, and interlacing. You’ll also learn how to create your own cordage from recycled materials. We’ll study historic basketry traditions, and also look at the way contemporary artists are using fiber construction techniques today. Using materials … Read more
Start Date
05/23
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
07/11
Faculty
Hadis Tourikarami
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
An introduction to illustration with an emphasis on observational drawing skills and the process of creating an illustration from concept development to final image. Students will complete illustrations for a variety of markets. Aspects of the professional illustration business will be addressed.
Start Date
05/28
Meeting Day
Tuesdays & Thursdays
End Date
07/18
Faculty
John Rego
Time
6pm–10pm
Credits
3
In this studio course, we will create abstract paintings using a variety of media while exploring aspects of form, color, composition, and format. We will also discuss a range of historical, technical, and conceptual approaches to abstract painting through slide lectures with a particular emphasis on current developments and trends … Read more
Start Date
06/03
Meeting Day
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays
End Date
06/21
Faculty
Santiago Hernandez
Time
9am–2pm
Credits
3
Metalshop 1 is a comprehensive introduction to steel fabrication techniques and processes. It includes various welding processes, such as the venerable oxy-fuel process, the lost art of “stick” welding, and an emphasis on MIG welding, better known as the “hot glue gun for steel” (just point and shoot!). The more precision oriented TIG welding process is … Read more
Start Date
06/04
Meeting Day
Tuesdays and Thursdays
End Date
07/25
Faculty
Reid Drum
Time
6pm–10pm
Credits
3
Individual attention in a supportive environment is the focus of this comprehensive figure drawing course designed for students of all levels. We will examine the works of historic and contemporary artists to understand the common principals of sound figure drawing. The foundations of gesture, proportions, and anatomical structures will be … Read more
Start Date
07/26
Meeting Day
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
End Date
08/23
Faculty
Gerry Hoag
Time
6pm–10pm
Credits
3
