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"Capturing Nature in Clay"
February 15-16, 2025
 

Learn how to translate ideas of nature and abstraction into three-dimensions through the medium of clay. Combine your observations of the forms and textures of the natural world with your imagination to create sculptures that capture the graceful lines, fluid forms, and intricate patterns of leaves, bark and branches, flowers, animal matter, and geological features. Students are encouraged to explore traditional and contemporary treatment of subject matter, with abstract expression encouraged to capture the essence and beauty of organic objects. Open to all levels; no experience necessary.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Colleen O'Donnell
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Using Cast Shadows in Watercolor"
Fridays, February 21 - March 28, 2025
 

In this fast paced and fun workshop, we will learn how to use cast shadows to enhance the feeling of light in our compositions and dramatically improve our work.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Mick McAndrews
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Teen/Adult Drawing and Painting Workshop"
Saturdays, February 22 - March 29, 2025
 

This 8-week course is for beginners who want to explore drawing and oil painting, and for more experienced artists who want to improve their artistic skills. Using still-life compositions, students will learn about form, space, design, value, and color through working observationally. In addition, the instructor will introduce a variety of artists who are representative of the lessons provided, and conduct in-process and final critiques for a helpful synopsis of the student’s progress and ideas. The class will be broken up into four weeks of drawing and four weeks of painting, but the student is open to work in any medium if they prefer.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Annie Thompson
Cost: $280
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Critical Explorations with Tom Csaszar"
February 22 & March 29, 2025
 

In evaluating visual works fully, often one has to see them outside your studio, in another context, perhaps with other works, and also hearing responses from other people about them. Each class will begin with a discussion of one to four works brought to the class by each participant and continue with studio time in which each person can work in the mediums they bring with them to develop visual works in drawings, watercolors, paintings, collages, or other mediums. We will end with a short discussion of the works made in class. If time permits, and according to the interests of the class, we may look and discuss works in the Cerulean Gallery that are pertinent to our works.
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tom Csaszar
Cost: $95 each
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Watercolor Workshop"
February 22-23, 2025
 

Interested in learning or improving your watercolor skills? All materials and techniques will be discussed, including the selection of papers, brushes, and pigments, as well as transparent and opaque painting methods. Students will work from still-life subjects and/or their own source material. All levels welcome.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: James Toogood
Cost: $225
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Color and the Landscape"
February 22, 2025
 

Learn how to use color for emotional impact and scenic clarity in your landscape paintings. We'll see how color works in realistic and expressive landscapes throughout art history and apply those lessons to our paintings. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this workshop will allow you to slow down and explore color from a new angle. We will discuss how color is used to create depth, atmosphere, and mood in a painting and how the color of the sky disperses throughout a landscape, unifying and harmonizing everything you see. Students will work from photographs in the studio, and together we will do small painting exercises focused on color. Students may use oil, acrylic, or gouache.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Claire Haik
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Experimenting with Gouache Workshop"
February 22-23, 2025
 

This intensive workshop will cover the basics of working in the Gouache medium as well as delve into its ability to facilitate experimentation and perhaps bring a fresh approach to your other favorite painting mediums. Because gouache is a simple water based medium and very quick drying, it is great for trying out ideas and painting techniques that would be more difficult and time consuming in an oil painting. Plus, it’s just dammed fun to paint with. The workshop will consist of demonstrations on Jon’s personal approach to the medium as well as lots of class time and encouragement to experiment with your own techniques, subjects and ideas. Working from both still life subject and/or photo references is encouraged.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jon Redmond
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Watercolor Painting with Gouache & Ink"
Sundays, February 23 - March 30, 2025
 

Experience the joy of watercolor painting in combination with gouache and ink to create a range of effects! Learn techniques for layering ink and watercolor to develop a deep, rich surface as well as direct, alla prima methods while you work from your own photographs. Add gouache and drawing media for contrast and definition. All tools and techniques will be explained and demonstrated including preparatory drawing, brushes, types of paper, use of color and painting methods. Designed to be instructional and fun for students of all levels of experience from beginner to advanced.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michael Kowbuz
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Drawing Workshop: The Art of Fantasy (Age: 7+)"
February 23, 2025
 

Learn how to draw fantastical beasts, wizards, and Wookies in this workshop inspired by Harry Potter, Star Wars and more. Enter the imaginative world of fantasy drawing in fun and creative two-hour workshop.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tony Squadroni
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Art of the Portrait (Painting in Oils)"
Mondays, Febuary 24 - March 31, 2025
 

This course will focus on issues of composition, color, texture, measure, likeness, proportion, with special attention given to technical painting issues, like, how to translate skin’s complex surface characteristics in paint. Demonstrations of a layered painting technique to bring out the full depth and richness of color in our portraits will be presented and discussed. Portraits often reveal a variety of qualities of the sitter, like social class, age, beauty, occupation, etc. The class will include demonstrations, discussions of masterworks, both traditional and contemporary, and thoughtful feedback on work. This course is open to all skill levels, from beginners to advanced, encouraging all participants to deepen their knowledge of portraiture through the process of painting.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Ernie Norcia
Cost: $335
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Teen Sculpture: Soapstone Carving (Age: 12+)"
Mondays, February 24 - March 24, 2025
 

The world of stone carving is at your fingertips! Have fun learning to carve stone using traditional hand and power tools. Students choose a raw piece of soapstone or alabaster on their first day of class. Following step-by-step instructions about basic stone carving techniques, students turn a block of stone into a 3-Dimensional sculpture, using hammers, chisels and other tools. Camaraderie working with others helps students watch and adapt new ideas and techniques, enhancing their knowledge, experience, and understanding of sculpting stone. All tools and materials are included. Safety glasses will be provided. This class is a 5 week, after-school 1.5 hour class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Piera Raffaele
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Jewelry 101: Let's Get Started"
Tuesdays, February 25 - April 1, 2025
 

Ever wanted to try your hand at the craft of jewelry making? Make a ring? Fabricate a pendant? Set a stone? We can do all that and much more at the Wayne Art Center’s fully equipped jewelry studio. You will be introduced to a different technique weekly that will give you enough skills to produce a finished piece of work. Toolboxes supplied. Students will purchase sterling silver.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Chris Darway
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Magical Mosaics (Age: 8+)"
Tuesdays, February 25 - March 25, 2025
 

Join us to learn the ancient artistic technique of mosaics! Mosaic art is the art of arranging small pieces of stone, colorful tile, shiny glass, and more into a larger, complete pattern or picture, then holding it all together with grout to make your artwork strong and enduring. In our mosaics class, students will decorate everyday objects, such as a clay flowerpot, tray, frame, or mirror to create beautiful one-of-a-kind artworks. The transformation is magical! This is a 5-week, 1.5 hour class on Tuesdays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Kate Hochner
Cost: $135
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Figure Drawing"
Wednesdays, February 26 - April 2, 2025
 

In this class, our main focus will be on the study of form in a spatial context. We will begin by drawing the figure on toned paper. Our drawing tools will be charcoal and white chalk. We will explore physical viewpoint, effective composition and effective rendering of light and shadow to shape our expression and create a unified pictorial image. The goal is to encourage a sensitive approach to handling a wide range of values, in tandem with a variety of lines and edges to build a drawing vocabulary. The class will include demonstrations, discussions of masterworks, both traditional and contemporary, and thoughtful feedback. This drawing course will be a valuable resource for students of any age and skill level.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Ernie Norcia
Cost: $335
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Acrylic Pour Painting"
Wednesdays, February 26 - April 2, 2025
 

Explore the versatility of acrylic paint! Learn to pour fluid layers of paint to make abstract paintings or peel, sculpt and collage them into something else. Discover alternative supports, brushes, and methods of paint application to incorporate into your current painting practice. All levels welcome!
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Anthony Ciambella
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Teen Studio: Portrait Club (Age: 12+)"
Wednesdays, February 26 - March 26, 2025
 

Learn the art of painting portraits! Every week we will talk about a famous portrait painting throughout history and try and recreate it using each other as models. Students are encouraged to bring in light props to model with -- a hat, a scarf, anything that is unique to the painting we are discussing. For the first class, we will explore the structure of the head and how it relates to the body, what makes a likeness, simple drawing techniques, and the use of different materials. We will also incorporate fun techniques into our artwork like contour line drawing, simple printmaking or collage. One week, we will explore a self-portrait using the techniques above. This is a 5-week, 1.5 hour class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Dori Spector
Cost: $135
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Mixed Media Collage Painting"
Thursdays, February 27 - April 3, 2025
 

Explore your creativity, open your senses and sharpen your mind to new realms of art-making with noted artist Mikel Elam. Mikel will help you articulate your vision and bring it to concrete reality in the form of a finished work. Explore techniques new and old with paint, paper, found objects and ephemera to best express both representational and abstract perspectives. Channel ideas of progressive artists from the past and present including Henri Matisse, Romare Bearden, Cecily Brown, Joan Mitchell while finding your own voice.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Mikel Elam
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Mixed Media"
Thursdays, February 27 - April 3, 2025
 

This dynamic course invites artists of all skill levels to explore the limitless possibilities of mixed media. Students will learn to create richly layered artworks that express their unique artistic vision by combining various materials and techniques. Class sessions will cover a range of media, including acrylics, collage, ink, cut and torn paper, found objects, and more; while emphasizing principles of composition, texture, and color theory. Students will engage in hands-on experimentation, guided exercises, and individual projects, discovering how to merge different art forms into cohesive pieces. Whether you’re a beginner eager to try something new or an experienced artist seeking fresh inspiration, this course fosters creativity, self-expression, and an appreciation for the unexpected beauty of mixed media art.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Heidi Techner
Cost: $285
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Watercolor, Transparent & Opaque"
Fridays, February 28 - April 4, 2025
 

Watercolor is a versatile medium, which can be both transparent and opaque. Using a variety of subject matter, some techniques explored will be drawing for watercolor, painting without drawing, wet-in-wet watercolor, glazing with watercolor washes, the use of gouache and other aqueous media with watercolor. The instructor will start each class with a demonstration or an explanation of the technique for the day. Students will be encouraged to work in their own personal style. Each class will end with a group critique with the emphasis on constructive criticism.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Wendy Scheirer
Cost: $240
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Preschool Art (Ages: 4-5)"
Fridays, February 28 - March 28, 2025
 

A bright and fun introduction to drawing, painting, collage & printmaking, this is a great class for children who already love to make art and for those who are just discovering their creative side. Children's natural inquisitiveness and creativity will be both encouraged and nurtured as students work together to create mini-masterpieces of art! This is a 5-week, 1.5 hr. class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Cost: $135
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Paper, Paint, and Beyond! (Ages: 9-14)"
Fridays, February 28 - March 28, 2025
 

In this engaging and fun-filled course, students will explore the fascinating world of abstract art through a combination of Painting, Mixed Media and Collage techniques. Students will experiment with acrylic paint and mixed media in a playful and positive environment that nurtures creativity and curiosity. Through demonstrations and guided activities, children will learn abstract painting techniques and be encouraged to develop their unique artistic style. Each week, students will delve into key concepts like proportion, contrast, balance, movement, rhythm, and basic color theory to create striking abstract pieces. This class is ideal for beginner and intermediate artists. No prior experience necessary. This is a 5-week, 1.5 hour class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Birgit Raders-Eichinger
Cost: $135
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Energizing Your Painting"
March 1-2, 2025
 

Let’s warm up our creative painting skills for the coming season of outdoor painting. Fred will do some paint sketch demos to illustrate some ways of how to start a painting, define some compositional ideas, and show a variety of ways to apply and move paint on the canvas. We will paint from Life; a visually complex still life composition will be our subject. The idea is to edit - simplify and define what you like - a skill required for landscape painting. By doing a series of paint sketches, we test different compositional structures, color combinations, and mark making techniques. Finding a way that works for you can offer confidence and lead to creating a successful bold painting.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Fred Jackson
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Family Day of Clay: Fairy Door (Age: 6+)"
March 1, 2025
 

A tiny fairy door nestled at the base of a tree invites you into a world of magic and wonder. Join us for an afternoon of clay together with your child to create a magical portal into your imagination, or simply a fun decoration to hang in a special place on your wall. Learn the basics of working with kiln-fired clay and colorful glazes while you make one project together with your child. If you each want to create your own Fairy Door, please register yourself and each child separately. Ages 6 and up with an adult. All works created will be fired and ready for pick up approximately two weeks from the date of the workshop.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Cost: $55
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Hand-Printed Monotype"
Sundays, March 2 - April 6, 2025
 

Monotype are one-of-a-kind prints, also known as "printed paintings." Learn easy monotype methods that do not require a press or fully equipped shop in this workshop with noted printmaker and teacher Tony Rosati. These techniques are easily transportable for use outside for plein air work, or at home on a desk or kitchen table. Techniques covered will include: darkfield and light-field methods with oil based and water-soluble inks, paint and crayons. Expressing images quickly or in detailed ways, from traced methods to mixed media touches, will be shown. An inspiring class for those interested in pursuing printmaking at home or for teachers looking for projects that can be adapted for the classroom.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tony Rosati
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Fun with Fibers: Crochet, Weaving and More (Age: 8-10)"
Mondays, March 3-31, 2025
 

Come learn to crochet, weave and more! The classic craft of crochet encourages creative thinking and problem solving. It strengthens fine motor skills and is an early introduction to more advanced fiber arts skills. Through weaving, we will explore a craft form that combines artistic expression with math. Students will work with a variety of natural and synthetic fibers on cardboard looms and use plastic needles. All materials are included and supplied by Wayne Art Center. This is a 5-week, 1.5 hour, after-school class on Mondays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Candy Stringer
Cost: $135
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Colored Pencil Workshop"
Thursdays, March 6 - April 10, 2025
 

For those wishing to work in a medium that allows for images containing precise detail as well as ample latitude for personal expression, this workshop is for you. Whatever image category, still life, landscape, figurative, fantasy, etc., this workshop will offer you a new outlook on what is possible. Working from photographs, we will explore the process of developing articulate images with colored pencils. We will begin with a demonstration of the process, explaining the materials involved, how to select good raw images (photographs in this case) to work from, then manipulate and shape them through pencil & ink drawing, watercolor and colored pencil into meaningful pieces of art.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Ernie Norcia
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Fundamental Watercolor"
Thursdays, March 6 - April 3, 2025
 

This class will focus on the fundamentals of painting with Watercolors. This class will include step by step instruction with demonstrations and practice. Attention and focus on individual growth in the students’ own pace will be central in this class. Learn to paint watercolors in a free, fun and fluent manner. Discover and nurture your own personal style of expression. All levels welcome.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Indira Cariappa
Cost: $240
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Exploring the Landscape"
Fridays, March 7-28, 2025
 

This intermediate-level landscape painting workshop offers an exciting opportunity to deepen your understanding and skills in capturing the natural world. Whether you work from plein air studies or reference photos, you’ll have the chance to learn how to develop more complete and nuanced paintings. Throughout the course, we will focus on key elements of landscape painting, including: Shapes and Composition, Color, Light and Atmosphere. Please come prepared for the first class with your painting supplies and a selection of surfaces in various sizes. All mediums are welcome. The instructor will be working in oils.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Claudia Rilling
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Painting & Ephemera"
Fridays, March 7-28, 2025
 

Reboot your painting practice by incorporating unexpected materials that you wouldn't normally compose a painting with - grocery lists, diary pages, junk mail, things in the street such as a flattened pencil or chunk of sanding belt, or something that you don’t really know what it is but the shape or material interests you. Learn practical methods to incorporate these materials into a cohesive painted surface, as well as strategies for defeating artist's block so you can start and move a painting(s) forward. Question stereotypical notions of what paintings are and how to make them in order to realize your personal vision and practice.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Philippa Beardsley
Cost: $175
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Teen Studio: Advanced Drawing & Painting/Portfolio Prep (Age: 14+)"
Saturdays, March 8 - April 5, 2025
 

This class is for high school students looking to deepen their skills in 2D composition and life drawing and painting. Working from a still life arrangement, students will create detailed 18" x 24" realistic compositions from life using chalk pastels and acrylic paint. Students will benefit from highly individualized instruction in a small class setting. As many college art programs and art schools require observational work in portfolio submissions, this class will also provide the opportunity to create a strong and essential portfolio piece. This is a 5-week, 2.5-hour class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sarah Colby
Cost: $225
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Beginning Botanical Art"
March 8, 2025
 

Join us in exploring the captivating world of contemporary botanical art. This course is perfect for beginners and will guide you through a brief history of botanical art while developing your drawing and painting skills. We'll start with graphite techniques and progress to dry brush watercolor, all centered around the beauty of nature. Gain confidence in accurately depicting botanical subjects and enjoy the process of capturing the natural world through this time honored genre.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Margaret Saylor
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Still Life Painting"
March 8-9, 2025
 

In this workshop, students will gain a stronger understanding of materials and techniques while exploring the process of still life painting. This class will include demonstrations by the instructor, personal instruction, discussions and more. Students will emerge from this class with a better understanding of composition, paint handling and artistic problem solving. Students are encouraged to bring their own still life objects.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Alexander Shanks
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Quilling Workshop - Spring Garden Inspiration (Age: 8+)"
March 9, 2025
 

Come learn the ancient art of Quilling and discover why this fun artform is becoming so popular! Quilling is the art of rolling or coiling thin paper strips using a special tool to create shapes that you combine together to make your creation. Quilling is an art in itself, or can be used to decorate greeting cards, picture frames, boxes, and more. Join us for a fun afternoon with your child and learn a new creative outlet. Please register each participant separately.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Shuping Dong
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Drawing Workshop: Superhero Sunday (Age: 7+)"
March 9, 2025
 

Whether it's Superman, Wonder Woman or the Hulk, learn how to draw your favorite comic book hero and discover the tips and tricks that will make your Superheroes come alive!
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tony Squadroni
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Fiber Workshop: Woven Rainbow Wall Hanging (Age: 8-13)"
March 9, 2025
 

Explore working with textiles and weaving during our afternoon workshop at Wayne Art Center. This art workshop is ideal for your 8 through 12-year-old artist. We use cardboard as a weaving loom and young artists will create a rainbow on their loom. This will be turned into a wall hanging piece of décor ideal for pre-teen and teen bedrooms!
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jenna Gruber
Cost: $55
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Fast and Unfussed Oil Painting"
Mondays, March 10 - April 14, 2025
 

Cultivate fluid mark-making and bold approaches to subject matter through rapid and loose painting studies. Tight and precise painting, especially in the early stages of an artwork, can sometimes lead to work that appears stiff and over-labored, or to locked-in compositions that are difficult to change or correct. Working from the still life, cityscapes, and the life model, utilize short, small painting exercises to learn new ways of starting paintings, keeping compositions open to adjustment, and both initiating and retaining a sense of freshness in your forms and brushstrokes. Instruction will address color mixing, painting materials and methodologies, and the importance of setting a viable learning environment for your painting practice. Discover the beauty and freedom of loosening up your painting!
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Roger Chavez
Cost: $310
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"The American Watercolor Tradition"
Mondays, March 10 - April 14, 2025
 

Explore the painting techniques of the masters who pioneered the 19th and 20th century American watercolor movement, including Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, and Charles Demuth. Characterized by bright color and bold handling that includes accents of opaque watercolor and loose washes, work in this tradition captures subject matter with dazzling light-filled effects. Practice these classic methods and learn to incorporate them into your own artwork to achieve a greater freedom of expression as well as adaptability and control in the way that you paint. Demonstrations and art historical discussions will be combined with short and more extensive still life and self-portrait exercises. This course is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Richard Estell
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Pour, Peel, and Paint: Abstract Techniques in Acrylics"
Tuesdays, March 11 - April 15, 2025
 

Push the boundaries of what it means to paint with acrylics in this exciting exploration into experimental techniques. Explore the fluid, sculptural, assembled possibilities of acrylics! This hands-on, one-of-a-kind journey will take you places that you never thought you would go in acrylic painting: pour paint to make layers of color that can be peeled up, sculpted into three-dimensional forms, or collaged and layered into other paintings or mixed-media works. Create flexible tiles of acrylic color that can be snipped, shaped, and assembled into mosaics or applied to a variety of surfaces for artistic or decorative effects. Discover a myriad of alternative supports, brushes, and methods of paint application to incorporate abstract effects into your work.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Anthony Ciambella
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Monoprinting, Collagraph and Collage"
Tuesdays, March 11 - April 15, 2025
 

This workshop will focus on helping students transform their works on paper, including drawings, paintings and prints into mixed media pieces, with a focus on collage. Students are encouraged to bring in previous work that they consider unfinished or unsuccessful as a starting point for their mixed media experiments and creations. Students will have access to the etching press and printing inks to make new prints to add to their pieces. Instruction will be based on a student’s individual interests and skills and thus is appropriate for beginners through advanced level. See materials list for detailed information on supplies.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Christine Stoughton
Cost: $285
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Basic Sculpture"
Wednesdays, March 12 - April 30, 2025
 

This class focuses on the essential processes of sculpture and provides a comprehensive foundation for creating three-dimensional art. Explore and experiment with fundamental techniques such as modeling, carving, and construction. Gain a greater understanding of form and space by exploring a variety of additive and subtractive processes. Instruction will cover the methods and techniques for working in clay, plaster, wood and metal. Content will emphasize both aesthetic concepts and the safe use of sculpture shop equipment. This experience will create a sound point of departure for advanced and dynamic sculpture study. Note: Tuition includes a $40 lab fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Steve Nocella
Cost: $415
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Oil Painting Foundations"
Wednesdays, March 12 - April 16, 2025
 

Whether you are new or returning to oil painting, learn its materials and techniques and how to apply them effectively in this foundational course. Instruction will discuss and demonstrate a range of colors, paint brands, and painting mediums and demystify painting conventions such as “fat over lean” and “thick over thin.” Working from still-life subject matter, begin with simple “direct” alla prima sketches, and then advance to “indirect” layering approaches of building upon a tonal underpainting. Develop methodologies for the process of making a painting, including managing color and value, and constructing an engaging composition. Previous drawing experience recommended.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Frederic Kaplan
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Cartooning (Age:7+)"
Wednesdays, March 12 - April 9, 2025
 

Students will learn to draw funny faces and silly scenes by incorporating the tips and tricks of cartooning. They will learn to include the use of exaggeration to make characters come to life and tell a story. Students work from well-known cartoons, reference pictures, and their own imaginations! This is a 5-week, 1.5 hr. class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tony Squadroni
Cost: $135
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Drawing Fundamentals: Cast and Figure"
Thursdays, March 13 - April 17, 2025
 

For students seeking to expand their beginning drawing skills or those new to working from the figure, this class will focus on applying drawing’s basic elements to the human form. Starting with sculpture from PAFA’s cast collection and progressing to work from the life model in short and long poses, work in charcoal and graphite to explore figure-based concepts of gesture, proportions, anatomy, and expression. Instruction will cover sight-drawing and measuring techniques, use of materials, gauging value, and ways of defining form and space. This course is excellent as a foundation for future study in any discipline or for more advanced figure-based work. Note: This part 2 course includes the use of nude models. Tuition includes a $35 models fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Phyllis Laver
Cost: $330
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"The Armory Show Lecture"
March 13, 2025
 

In the spring of 1913, a group of American artists organized the International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York. Their intension was to display work by the best modern American artists. Better known today as the Armory Show, the results were just the opposite with works by European artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and most infamously Marcel Dechamp stealing the headlines. This talk will explore the history and consequences of this groundbreaking exhibition with consideration of some of the works exhibited in the original show. William Perthes is an educator, author, and curator. He is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes Foundation. Bill has a background in philosophy and art history.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: William Perthes
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Lithography"
Fridays, March 14 - April 18, 2025
 

Lithography is a versatile printmaking process that allows for a complete range of drawing effects: contour line, hatching/cross-hatching, painterly wash applications, expressive mark-making, and reductive techniques. Learn all aspects of the lithographic process through step-by-step demonstrations and hands-on practice: preparing a traditional stone or lightweight aluminum plate; creating your own drawing from observation, imagination or photographic transfer using a range of drawing materials; selecting paper; printing in black-and-white and color; and editioning your prints. Note: Tuition includes a $30 lab fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Justine Ditto
Cost: $315
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Painless Perspective Workshop"
March 15-16, 2025
 

Perspective is at the heart of good drawing. It allows us to transform the 3D world into a believable 2D image, and it need not be difficult to understand. With still life and interiors as subject matter, learn basic principles and simple methods presented in clear language and without the need for special tools or complex geometry. This workshop serves as a good foundation for further study in drawing. A modest amount of previous drawing experience is recommended.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Frederic Kaplan
Cost: $195
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Figure Painting: The Extended Pose"
Saturdays, March 15 - April 19, 2025
 

Paint from a life model in poses of varying lengths to develop and refine your figure painting compositions. Extended poses will allow students to adjust and resolve issues of surface, color, and composition. Instruction will cover a variety of topics including glazing, broken color, surface texture, composition and design, the relationship of the figure to the environment, the creation of atmosphere and color harmony, disrupted realism, and open- versus closed-form painting. All levels welcome. Instruction will be geared toward oil, but students are welcome to draw-only, or use other appropriate media, if they wish. Note: Tuition includes a $35 models fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: David Wilson
Cost: $330
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Fresh Water; Watercolor Workshop"
March 15, 2025
 

What are the brush strokes and washes that keep a watercolor looking fresh and full of life? In this workshop we will replicate multiple wet washes and clean strokes of color, exploring how to interpret a landscape in a fresh way. Participants will learn how Stewart approaches watercolor painting from beginning to knowing when to stop. Learn how to create moods, temperature and fresh washes in watercolor working from slides, still life, the figure and en plein air. This workshop will give you the tools to confidently lay down a variety of washes, work wet-in-wet with predictable results, see dynamic compositions, simplify, and approach virtually any subject with effective strategies to execute a successful painting.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Stewart White
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"The Portrait - Simplifying the Complex"
March 15-16, 2025
 

This workshop will simplify the complexity of information that a face presents by breaking down the two critical components of “likeness” and “light on form”. While painting from a live model, we will achieve a likeness by identifying the simple proportions of the face and features. Additionally, to understand how “light on form” works we will identify the simple structure of the values in light and shadow, and see how this creates a sense of dimension in your work. Our paintings will start with a grisaille (tonal study in paint) and then move into color with a simplified palette. The workshop is geared toward oil painting, but mediums other than oil are welcome.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Ellen Cooper
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Capturing Mood & Atmosphere with Watercolors"
Thursdays, March 20 - April 10, 2025
 

In this 4-session workshop, we will explore the expressive potential of watercolors to evoke mood and atmosphere in your artwork. We will learn how to capture the feeling of a scene that can elevate your work from mere representation to a compelling visual story. This workshop is ideal for watercolor enthusiasts looking to deepen their understanding of the medium and harness its emotional power. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have the skills to infuse your watercolor paintings with deeper emotional resonance and transport viewers to another world. Photographic references will be provided for each class, or you can work from your own photographs using them as merely a guide.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Radhika Srinivas
Cost: $200
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Watercolor Workshop"
March 22, 2025
 

Learn to paint beyond basic representation with watercolor in this one-day intensive workshop! Artist and educator Lou Schellenberg will guide you through the process of simplifying observed forms for effective painting, using the still life and/or your photographs as subject matter. Basic watercolor techniques will be explained and demonstrated. Open to all levels.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Lou Schellenberg
Cost: $95
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647


"Botanical Alla Prima Painting Workshop"
March 22-23, 2025
 

Embody the spirit of spring with fresh and immediate painting! Learn to capture the essence of a living, botanical subject quickly and spontaneously in pencil and watercolor. This alla prima method can be used for preparatory studies for sustained paintings, compiling a field sketchbook, or as an end in itself. All levels welcome. Tuition includes a $10 materials fee to cover floral subjects.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Linda Gist
Cost: $205
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Painting Trees: A Beginners Approach"
March 22, 2025
 

This one-day tree painting workshop dives into tree structure and how to capture a tree's personality in painting. We will focus on building the tree's gesture, capturing its shape and movement, creating depth with its trunk, and understanding how its foliage integrates into the larger form. Our goal is to learn how to generalize the tree's structure and capture its essence without getting bogged down in minute details. The class will include lots of one-on-one instruction and a lecture exploring how both historical and contemporary painters approach tree construction. Instead of aiming for finished paintings, we'll create two or three tree studies to solidify our understanding of trees and how we can communicate their individual character. Work in oil or acrylic.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Claire Haik
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Intuitive Painting"
March 22-23, 2025
 

There is a misconception that drawing and painting are two completely different animals. Not true! Drawing and painting come from the same root. Both are forms of mark making. If we take that to heart, we can better understand the mechanics of how paintings are made. This then leads to an open path in the pursuit of art making. This two-day course will immerse the student in a series of exercises that with strengthen and reinforce very basic principles that are often overlooked. Your artwork will take on a dynamism and movement that only a painting can convey. I will show you ways to stretch your visual experience and then gain confidence with your image making thru intuitive choices.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Lon Brauer
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Drawing Workshop: Fantastic Creatures (Age: 7+)"
March 23, 2025
 

Whether it is fire-breathing dragons, magical unicorns, or grotesque griffins, we will learn how to draw mystical creatures of all kinds. Explore the world of fantastic mythical creatures while discovering different techniques and drawing mediums.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tony Squadroni
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Advanced Portrait Drawing Workshop"
March 29-30, 2025
 

This intensive workshop is designed for those looking to push their portrait drawing abilities toward the professional level. Demonstrations and in-class exercises will open up how you see, think, and approach the creation of a likeness, avoiding common pitfalls. Explore subtleties of form and the relationships of lines, planes and tones, capturing the character and energy of the subject. Additionally, instruction will cover facial expressions and deep anatomy of the face, neck, and upper body. Drawing will be primarily in graphite pencil and stick. Introductory portrait drawing or equivalent recommended.Note: Tuition includes a $10 models fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: RA Friedman
Cost: $205
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Oil Painting Working From Photographs"
March 29-30, 2025
 

This workshop will explore the process of working in the studio from photographs, looking at both historic and contemporary examples, as well as class demonstrations and individual instruction. We will sort through the inherent strengths and weaknesses of using the photograph as the basis for a painting. Jon will also discuss ways to manipulate your photos with the iPhone and how to choose the best photos from which to work.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jon Redmond
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Still Life with Water Mixable Oils"
March 29, 2025
 

Wondering what Water Mixable Oil paints are all about? During this one-day intensive workshop, Beth shares her unique technique with students. Known for blurring the line between watercolor and oil paintings, Beth Bathe's unparalleled style evokes feelings of nostalgia, like an old sepia-toned photograph. Beth uses unconventional tools including squeegees and Q-tips, along with her brushes focusing on composition, values, edges, and drawing rather than color. Beth will have paint for her students to try as well as one of her prepared painting panels, brushes and other supplies for you to use during the workshop. This workshop is for all level of painters.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Beth Bathe
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Drawing Workshop: Manga Mania! (Age: 7+)"
March 30, 2025
 

Discover the popular Manga style of cartooning or improve your skills if you are already a Manga artist! You will learn the background of Manga, a popular style of drawing created in Japan, learn how to construct characters in the Manga style, and learn to draw your favorite Manga characters!
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Tony Squadroni
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Fiber Arts Workshop: Two for Crochet! (Age: 8+)"
March 30, 2025
 

Come learn to crochet together! Learn crochet basics - chain stitch, slip stitch, double/ treble stitch & others. Create a Spring Flower, Wriggly Worm or Lucky Shamrock. Choose to make it into a bookmark or pin during this family fiber introductory workshop. Crocheting TWOgether offers the opportunity for you and your child to work side-by-side learning and creating a unique crochet project. All yarn, crochet hooks and embroidery needles will be included as a kit to take home for each registered participant.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Candy Stringer
Cost: $60
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"Gardens in Gouache"
Tuesdays, April 1 - May 6, 2025
 

Gouache (opaque watercolor) is the perfect medium for landscape painting in the open air! Painters of all levels will fall in love with this portable, fast-drying, and easy-to-clean-up alternative to oils. Explore the medium’s vibrant color and versatile application and layering methods as you portray the beauty of springtime gardens in Philadelphia’s parks in your own personal style. Learn techniques for choosing a composition and working efficiently outdoors as you complete a series of rapid sketches and at least one sustained painting. Topics will include color, paint materiality/texture, transparent and opaque layering techniques, color mixing and historical palettes, pigments, and paper choices. Open to all levels. Painting locations featuring shade, restrooms, and other amenities.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michelle Oosterbaan
Cost: $375
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"The Landscape Oil Sketch"
Wednesdays, April 2 - May 7, 2025
 

The oil sketch is a traditional way for painters to execute preparatory ideas and quickly capture initial impressions – perfect for plein air painting! Learn useful techniques for rapidly encapsulating color and form while working directly from observation. Locations with shade and restrooms include Bartram’s Garden along the Schuylkill River and the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, near Philadelphia International Airport. Note: Students are responsible for their own transportation to painting locations.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Roger Chavez
Cost: $375
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Family Day of Clay: Bunny Bowl (Age: 6+)"
April 5, 2025
 

Create a bunny-shaped bowl or planter to add a whimsical touch to your holiday table, or to hold small trinkets or blooming plants. Join us for an afternoon of clay together with your child to create bunny-shaped bowl or a sweet planter. Learn the basics of working with kiln-fired clay and colorful glazes while you make one project together with your child. If you each want to create your own Bunny Bowl/Planter, please register yourself and each child separately. Ages 6 and up with an adult. All works created will be fired and ready for pick up approximately two weeks from the date of the workshop.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Cost: $55
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"The Figure in Clay Workshop"
April 5-6, 2025
 

Learn the techniques and tools of figure sculpture through demonstration and hands-on sculpting from the model. Explore anatomy, proportion, gesture, and design through the versatility of clay. Personal expression will be emphasized though representational and abstract approaches. Open to all levels and perfect for beginners. Note: Tuition includes a $40 models fee.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Colleen O'Donnell
Cost: $235
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Painting with a Palette Knife"
April 5-6, 2025
 

This two-day workshop will focus on the use of the palette knife, the freedom it affords and the emphasis of color in your paintings. While the palette knife can be used to enhance brush paintings, it is a perfect tool for impressionistic as well as abstracted images rich in color. I will introduce the differences between brush painting and knife painting by executing 2 small paintings of the same subject with the different tools as I briefly review issues of composition, value, and color mixing. As you work on your own paintings in oil or acrylic, I will assist you in color relationships, values, use of the knife, edges, etc.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Cynthia Rosen
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"City Landscape Drawing and Painting"
Sundays, April 6 - May 18, 2025
 

Capture the small-town beauty Manayunk's hilly streets, rowhomes, and storefronts. Learn to create a convincing sense of space, light and time of day while depicting streetscapes, trees, water and sky. Color mixing and painting techniques for oils will be demonstrated, but all drawing/painting media are welcome. Located just 15 minutes outside of Philadelphia, Manayunk offers engaging urban and riverside neighborhood subjects with parking, shade, provisions and facilities available. Note: Students are responsible for their own transportation to painting locations.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Larry Francis
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"The Dazzling World of Florine Stettheimer"
April 10, 2025
 

Artist, feminist, poet, and socialite Florine Stettheimer created a brilliant body of work that captured the excitement and glamour of the 1920s. Sophisticated and cosmopolitan Stettheimer attracted a circle of friends that included expatriate artists Marcel Duchamp and Elie Nadelman as well as Americans Marsden Hartley and Georgia O'Keeffe. Come experience the work of this fascinating artist and those in her artistic orbit. William Perthes is an educator, author, and curator. He is the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes Foundation. Bill has a background in philosophy and art history.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: William Perthes
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


"The Portrait in Watercolor Workshop"
April 12-13, 2025
 

Learn to paint the portrait in watercolor! Instruction will cover drawing the head structure and features, mixing flesh tones, various application techniques will be discussed. Materials and techniques will be discussed, including the selection of papers, brushes, and pigments, as well as transparent and opaque painting methods. Students will have the option to work from portrait models or their own photo source material. All levels welcome. Tuition includes a $35 models fee. All levels welcome.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: James Toogood
Cost: $260
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Plein Air Painting at Ridgeland Mansion"
April 26-27, 2025
 

Paint on location on the grounds of beautiful Ridgeland Mansion, the historic 18th century Federal-style house located in west Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Landscape painting topics will include color mixing to achieve a sense of light and air, capturing time of day, compositional fundamentals, and sound painting practices for oil, acrylic, or pastel painting. Students are responsible for their own transportation.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Joseph Sweeney
Cost: $115
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Sketch-on-the-Go Workshop"
May 3, 2025
 

Capture the active life of the city and its rich architecture. This is an excellent workshop for anyone who wants to learn to sketch on the bus or train, in cafés and public parks, or while traveling abroad. Topics include perspective, gauging proportions by eye, gesture figure drawing, and methods for simplifying form. All levels welcome.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Frederic Kaplan
Cost: $115
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632


"Abstraction from Nature Workshop"
May 12-15, 2025
 

This class covers the fundamental tenets of design in art. You get to decide the level of abstraction you wish to explore. It is more a learn-how-to-think class where you learn a process that you can use to explore new ideas. It’s a crash course on finding authenticity in your work. This class covers the seven principles of creative expression and the language of art. Larry’s intent is to help each artist find a way that works that is unique to them, whether they wish to interpret from life, push their process, or go fully abstract. This is not a class for beginners, participants need to have some experience with drawing, color and painting.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Larry Moore
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553


 

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