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Summer 2026

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All Active Courses and Workshops

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Workshops and Courses by Date

View all courses and workshops by date. This includes past classes.

Category: Animation. Image: College student in stop-motion animation studio interacting with two figures in a crafted outdoor scenery on a table with a camera pointed towards the scene.

Animation

Through exposure to a variety of techniques and viewpoints, gain the ability to work creatively beyond the conventions of mainstream animation.

Category: Digital Media. Image: Abstract digital collage created by Megan Riley featuring tall apartment buildings overlaid with colorful swirling patterns, transparent geometric shapes, and layered textures in pink, blue, and yellow tones.

Digital Media

Enhance your digital toolkit for applications including design and visual storytelling. Courses in digital photography and video, experience design, coding languages, web design, mixed reality, and more provide software skills and expanded possibilities for content creation! Choose individual classes or explore the Digital Media Certificate.

Category: Drawing. Image: A pencil sketch by Summer Hutchins of the Boston Public Library courtyard with arched walkways, tall columns, and a hanging lantern.

Drawing

Choose from a variety of drawing topics including drawing from observation and abstract approaches. Push the boundaries of the discipline by drawing with a variety of media under the direction of accomplished artists/teachers.

Category: Experience Design. Image: Green linework Illustration on black background by Claire Sun

Experience Design

Experience design is a set of practices that can be applied to services, products, user journeys, spaces, and events. In these classes, students learn how to use design, spatial and behavioral strategies to create and project the experiences they seek to deliver. Students explore areas ranging from interactive objects and media, to web, application, and exhibition design, to mixed reality and a wide variety of digital storytelling techniques. Choose individual classes or explore the Digital Media Certificate.

Fashion Design

Push your creativity while building on time-tested principles of design and craft. Fashion courses at MassArt offer an opportunity for students to learn the fundamentals of fashion design in one of the oldest and most respected fashion programs in the country.

Fibers

Learn traditional fiber techniques to support experimental work across all areas of art, artisanry, and design with classes in weaving, surface design, interlacing, dyeing, clothing construction, soft sculpture and more.

Film / Video

Study film and video as fine arts, in an environment that emphasizes and supports the development of a personal vision and encourages experimentation across mediums and genres.

Category: Glass. Image: A person shapes a glowing orange blob of molten glass with a tool, likely during the glassblowing process.

Glass

Experiment with glass as a medium for individual expression, through the creation of vessels and sculptural forms.

History of Art

Learn to identify, classify, describe, and interpret works of art from a wide range of periods and world cultures.

Humanities

Humanities courses are designed to provide context, insight, and fresh perspectives for students pursuing the arts. Topics include writing, literature and film criticism.

Integrated Sciences and Biological Arts (ISBA)

The Department of Integrative Sciences and Biological Arts plays a fundamental role in formal and informal science learning, science literacy, and science engagement across the college and in the community and includes the study of social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics.

Category: Interior Design. Image: A modern entryway with a patterned turquoise chair, a beige console table holding five black vases with pink flowers, and decorative wallpaper with teal and gold designs. Frosted double doors are in the background. Photo credit: Liz Hidalgo.

Interior Design

The Interior Design Certificate Program offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of interior design. With a focus on topics essential to the field, coursework provides students with the foundational skills and knowledge needed to create effective designs for interior spaces.

MassArt New England

Built on the understanding that time and focus for creative work are rare and precious, MassArt New England fosters a supportive environment where serious studio art enthusiasts can connect with like-minded peers, learn from expert faculty, and pursue innovative projects. Whether refining your craft, exploring new artistic directions, or immersing yourself in a dynamic creative community, this residency offers an unparalleled opportunity for growth and inspiration.

Category: Painting. Image: A person wearing a paint-stained apron uses a palette knife to mix white paint on a wooden palette, with small blobs of various colored paints nearby.

Painting

Painting students are part of an intense working environment where they can pursue their own direction. Painting courses and workshops encourage diverse practice and foster independent creative thinking and making. Students are part of a unique learning environment that allows for independent thought as well as collaboration and critique.

Category: Photography. Image: A person adjusts a Nikon camera focused on large green leaves, as seen from behind their shoulder. The camera’s display screen shows a grid and exposure settings, with part of their hands visible.

Photography

Learn about photography as fine art with an emphasis on the history of photography and the body of criticism surrounding the medium. Develop your own personal vision and experimentation in the studio.

Category: Printmaking. Image: A woman sorts through colorful floral prints in an art studio, while another person works at a table nearby. Art supplies and color charts are visible on the walls and surfaces around them.

Printmaking

Printmaking courses encourage the mastery of traditional techniques as well as experimentation and innovation. Explore etching, lithography, silkscreen, relief, photographic print processes, drawing, and more.

Category: Sculpture. Image: A person wearing a protective mask uses a brush to coat a sculpted figure with a light-colored substance inside a workshop.

Sculpture

Discover a wide range of materials, including wood, different types of metals, clay, plaster, mixed media, glass, fiber and more.

Category: Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). Image: Open box of colored pencils.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior

Spend a week in historic Boston with TAB educators to develop and expand understandings about choice-based pedagogy in Pre K–12 art programs.

Workshops

Get a taste of the topics you have been curious about with short workshops in design, business, photography, wood, metals, printmaking, drawing, painting and more.