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Explore your artistic side in the vibrant city of Boston with a variety of art classes, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, where participants can learn new techniques and unleash their creativity.

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Jewelry

Museum of Fine Arts @ 465 Huntington Avenue , Boston, MA

Focus on basic metalsmithing techniques such as sawing, piercing, surface embellishment, soldering, filing, shaping, riveting, oxidation, polishing, and basic stone setting to create several finished pieces. Great introduction to jewelry making, however out small class sizes allow for more advanced students to further their knowledge and gain assistance with more difficult projects.

Beginner 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$335
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Sculpture

Museum of Fine Arts @ 465 Huntington Avenue , Boston, MA

Explore volume, space, line, and texture to discover how each relates to building and carving three-dimensional forms. Work with plasticine, wax, wood, and stone with a concentration on abstract forms and the human torso.   Students are responsible for providing their own supplies.

All levels 18 and older
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$240
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Sunset Painting Workshop

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

Have you always wanted to memorialize this amazing moment of the fading sunlight? If so, this workshop is just for you. We will teach you how to paint the most beautiful time of day so you can cherish it forever with our Sunset Painting Workshop. We will discuss all other materials at the first class. Please prepare $5 for the art materials if you don't have your own.

(11) All levels 16 and older
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Painting Workshop for Couples

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

This is an easy-going art workshop for couples. Express your romantic side with these love themed choices. You can paint one painting together, but if you prefer 2 separately - no problem! BYOB, relax, paint and enjoy our cozy artsy studio.

(11) All levels 16 and older
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Workshop: Cubism

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art. Cubism in its various forms inspired related movements in literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered to be among the most influential art movements of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris during the 1910s and throughout the 1920s....

(11) All levels 16 and older
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Intro to Embroidery

The Makery @ 2 Sewall Ave, Brookline, MA

Embroidery is an ancient art that has stood the test of time. It is wildly popular today and used by artists and crafts people alike. In this class you will be learning a wide range of embroidery techniques and terms. Leave the class with your new skills and ideas on how to incorporate embroidery into your art and daily life.

(1) Beginner 9 and older
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Fauvism Workshop

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

Fauvism is the style of Les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Fauvism as a style began around 1904.  The leaders of the movement were André Derain and Henri Matisse. Let's see how wild we can let ourselves go. We will discuss all other materials at...

(11) All levels 16 and older
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Art for 10-15 Years Old

Art School 99

Using a variety of different mediums and techniques, both 2D and 3D, students will explore concepts inspired by great artists and their works, delving into color, line, texture and other elements of art.  Through paintings, collage, clay sculpture and other multimedia projects, students will draw parallels across space and time and experience personalized problem solving and self-expression.

(11) All levels 10 - 15 years old
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Glass Blowing Experiences: Make your own Heart

Mill City Glass Works

Glass Blowing Experiences are safe and fun with little time commitment. Each experience lasts about 15 to 20 minutes.   With the help of an instructor; you will create a beautiful piece of glass.  Our projects consist of glass paperweights, ornaments, floats, flowers, hearts, and glasses. You can expect to add color, turn the pipe,, and feel the heat.  You will not be able to take your piece home the day of the event. It will need...

All levels 14 and older
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Glass Blowing Experience: Pint Glasses

Mill City Glass Works @ 122 Western Ave, Lowell, MA

Glass Blowing Experiences are safe and fun with little time commitment. Each experience lasts 25min. With the help of an instructor; you will create a beautiful piece of glass.  You can expect to add color, turn the pipe, blow, and feel the heat. Any Experience can turn into a private event or party with 6 or more people. We look forward to hearing from you. It will need to cool down over night.  Please wear closed toe shoes. And no...

All levels 14 and older
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Box Making - Laser Cutting and Design

The Makery

From keepsake to wine boxes, coaster to jewelry boxes, learn to make beautiful and functional boxes of all kinds. Add engraving, glass, stains and other finishes for a unique, personalized and useful creation. Learn how to design with Inkscape, a powerful, open source and free graphic design tool and then experience the versatility of the laser cutter and the art of hand finishing to create your desired size, shape, color and finish. You will...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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Glass Blowing Experience: Make Your Own Paperweight

Mill City Glass Works

Glass Blowing Experiences are safe and fun with little time commitment. Each experience lasts about 15min to 20min (except for glasses which are  30-40min) With the help of an instructor; you will create a beautiful piece of glass.  Our projects consist of glass paperweights, pumpkins, ornaments, floats, flowers, hearts, and glasses. You can expect to add color, turn the pipe, blow, and feel the heat. Please wear closed toe shoes. And...

All levels 14 and older
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Music & Making with Subaiou Zhang and Alyssa Lawson

The Makery

Listen to beautiful music performed by Subaiou Zhang (violin) and Alyssa Lawson (cello) from Spectacle Collective while you enjoy casual making in our lovely and intimate performance space. The Music You will be listening to music for violin and cello across different styles. Music with a theme of spring will range from 18th century French baroque, to jazz and tango. The Making Enjoy casual making while relaxing to beautiful music. Options will...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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Design, Build, & Engrave a Hardwood Cutting Board

The Makery @ 2 Sewall Ave, Brookline, MA

Experience the joy of handcraft combined with hi-tech machines. Create a high-quality, family heirloom while learning woodworking, laser cutting and design. Use hand and power tools, clamps and glue to build a beautiful keepsake board. Finish it off with your own laser-engraved design.  This is a two session class that covers woodworking basics, design and laser engraving. You will leave with a beautiful, hardwood, custom designed and engraved...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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$135

2 sessions

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Observational Drawing

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

Are you afraid of drawing? Do not be! Once you relax your wrist and fingers you will feel the line.  In this class, we will teach you the basic shapes required to draw objects, spaces, and figures. Once you get the basic shapes down you can then work on advancing your images. Break the line! Drawing is not so hard once you understand its logic and can relate to it.  Purchase 11 x 14" 60 lb drawing pad and a few pencils to the first class....

(11) All levels 16 and older
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A Color Wheel

Art School 99 @ Online Class, Online, MA

“Soon it got dusk, grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road What is the color wheel? How to use it? In this workshop, we will quickly learn about the history of a color wheel, paint our own using just a piece of watercolor paper and watercolor or watercolor...

(11) All levels 16 and older
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Theory of Painting & Drawing

The Boston School of Painting @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

This class offers skills building using Graphite Drawing concentrated on the Charles Bargue Drawing Course , Charcoal Drawing using plaster casts of classical sculpture, Oil Painting in still life as students progress in their skill and handling and Color study as it relates to exploration of color, exploring the relationships between Hue, Value and Chroma. 

(1) Beginner 14 and older
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Intensive Abstract Painting Workshop

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

Fun, innovative, and challenging, abstract painting is an exciting way to express yourself.  This program begins by teaching the fundamentals of design, composition, and color. Throughout the course, we will examine a history of Abstraction, learn how it started and find out "How, When and Why Paris moved to New York" in the middle of the XX century. Later on, we will examine the paintings of artists like Amy Sillman, Paul Kremer, Philip Guston,...

(11) Beginner 16 and older
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$100
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Drawing from the Imagination

The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA

Learn how illustrators and concept artists create dynamic and imaginative drawings using inspiration boards, reference images and lots of imagination. See how the best in the business develop character and costume design, animal, creature, and monster drawings, vehicles and robots, interiors and landscapes. Put it all together with art that is out of this world. Some prior life- and figure-drawing experience recommended.  Materials to bring...

Beginner 17 and older
No upcoming schedules
$295

6 sessions

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Upholstery Immersion

The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA

Learn to upholster with a project all your own. Join a shop away from home, with tools, mentorship and community. In this open-format class, there is no set curriculum. Instead, the instructor will circulate throughout the classroom,  giving upholstery instruction at all levels. Start with a dining chair or ottoman (large chairs take more than one semester). Bring your piece to the first class. We have limited storage-space on-site, so...

All levels 17 and older
No upcoming schedules
$450

10 sessions

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