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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: 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: 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.

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History of Art

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

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Humanities

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

Category: Illustration. Image: A surreal, red-toned illustration by Alex Gerasev shows human and animal figures playing chess at a table lit by candles, surrounded by strange objects and shadowy figures in a mysterious, eerie atmosphere.

Illustration

Every illustrator is a storyteller at heart. Learn about character development and narrative techniques, research and develop ideas, characters, stories, and settings to create imagery. Explore illustration on paper or digitally.

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Integrative 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: 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: 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.