Join illustrator Lena Shiffman and explore your favorite medium in this painting and drawing class. Work from your own photos, still life, or weekly images provided by Lena, while receiving guidance to enhance your skills. Each week features demonstrations and personalized attention, allowing you to start a new project or spend extra time developing one piece. Students are encouraged to share ideas, experiment with different styles, and try new mediums throughout the course.

This class runs for 12 sessions.

Non member price: $428

Member price: $403

This open-studio workshop welcomes painters of all skill levels and media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and mixed media. It is a friendly space for experimenting, learning, and exploring why painting matters, whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist. Through demonstrations, hands-on guidance, and group discussions, we will explore topics such as starting a painting, using color effectively, and developing personal expression. The focus is on growth, clarity, and discovering your unique style, with an emphasis on the creative process rather than judgment. You will engage with techniques and ideas connected to perception, memory, and human experience.

Whether you are new to painting or looking to deepen your practice, this workshop invites you to slow down, observe closely, and reconnect with your art. Come ready to create, take risks, and enjoy thoughtful conversations about the role art plays in our lives.

Will you be joining us virtually? Please check your receipt for the Zoom link.

The class will meet for 10 sessions

Non member price $356

Member $331

Art From Your Start offers a personalized art exploration experience. Led by artist Barbara Guerriero-Flites, students share their inspiring images and collaboratively select a project aligned with their interests and goals. This course encourages students to develop work that highlights their individual style and creativity within a supportive, non-judgmental setting.

This course meets for 10 Sessions.

No Class 11/6, 11/12, 11/26

Non-Member Price: $300

Member Price: $275

Students should bring a 16x 20 canvas, a set of acrylic paints, and a variety of brush in assorted sizes.

This unique painting class explores the ideas of metamodernism, a contemporary approach that embraces both sincerity and self awareness. Together we will examine how to care deeply about painting while remaining conscious of the rich history, traditions, and artifice that shape the medium. Through guided exercises and open studio time, students will strengthen their skills in drawing, surface, color, and composition while engaging with the emotional depth of their work. We will explore the creative “oscillations” that define metamodern painting, moving between hope and doubt, beauty and critique, skill and deconstruction. Discussions of art history and contemporary theory will support your studio practice, and thoughtful critique will focus on both technical development and conceptual clarity.

This class is ideal for artists who want to advance their craft while situating their work within today’s artistic landscape. Participants should have some prior painting experience.

Come ready to think deeply, work seriously, and create paintings that are both technically strong and meaningfully engaged with the present moment.

The class meets for 10 sessions

Supply List Meta Modern Workshop Supply List

Non member price $356
Member price: $331

Will you be joining us virtually? Please check your receipt for the zoom link. 

Watercolor Exploration is the next step for students who are comfortable with the basics and ready to further develop their skills. In this class, you will build on your foundational knowledge and apply it through guided projects. By working from photographs and still-life arrangements, you will improve your brush control, color mixing, understanding of value relationships, and composition skills. Instruction is tailored to individual needs, allowing each student to grow at their own pace while deepening their understanding of watercolor.

Class Level: Adults and Teens 16+ 

Supply List: Watercolor Exploration Supply List

This class meets for 6 sessions. 

No Class 11/26

Non-Member Price: $ 215

Member Price: $ 190

Learn to capture the essence of the pose by sketching quickly and painting just a little slower. Working with a clothed model, we’ll warm up with gesture drawings, then paint short poses with one color for the shadow. We will build up to painting a longer pose exploring how light interacts with the figure, revealing its form and details. We’ll let colors blend where the values are the same. Their figures were full of light and life. 

Supply List Figure Sketching in Watercolor

This workshop is not eligible for a member discount. 

This student-moderated studio provides a relaxed, focused environment to practice in the medium of your choice. With no formal instruction, you have the freedom to experiment, observe, and develop your work at your own pace. Register for the full four-week session to work from the same clothed live portrait model, giving you time to truly refine your skills, or drop in for any day that fits your schedule.

Non-Members Price: $135

Member Price: $110

Walk ins are always welcome. Daily tuition is $40. You may call ahead or stop by the front desk before the session begins to submit payment.

Portraiture with a Model is open to artists working in all mediums

Learn the art of decorating Easter eggs in the traditional Eastern European style known as pysanky. In this workshop, you will learn an ancient but easy-to-follow technique using a tool called a kistka to apply melted beeswax to raw eggs, which are then dipped in bright dyes to create detailed, colorful patterns. This hands-on class is fun, creative, and results in beautiful designs that will impress your family and friends. All supplies are provided.

Class Level: Adult and Teens 14+ (All Levels)