Open Print Lab is designed to be a creative exploration space! Open Print Lab is where our intergenerational printmakers, with an established practice, meet with others, share work, tips, and life's journeys! Enjoy access to 3 manual roll-top etching/relief presses for your self-directed projects! This studio session is not a regular instructional class, so we recommend beginners start with one of our various printmaking classes.

Folks are welcome to bring in anything that they wish, just so long as it goes back home with you! A Studio Monitor is available to answer questions and orient you on materials. Some materials are available at cost, so bring cash for additional supplies.

Friday Print Lab is where our intergenerational printmakers, with an established practice, meet with others, share work, tips, and life's journeys! Enjoy access to 3 manual roll-top etching/relief presses for your self-directed projects! This studio session is not a regular instructional class, so we recommend beginners start with one of our various printmaking classes.

Membership with The Drawing Studio is required for Print Lab participation. Membership dues allow us to keep cost low. 

Folks are welcome to bring in anything that they wish, just so long as it goes back home with you! A Studio Monitor is available to answer questions and orient you on materials. Some materials are available at cost, so bring cash for additional supplies.

Ever imagined writing a book for a child, or a poem with illustrations for a sister, aunt or friend? Well, here's your chance – Maggie Miller, ED of the Drawing Studio along with illustrator Brianna Stevens (whose work was recently seen in the Food Journey posters at Juneteenth) will walk you through both language and imagery for the production of your book in time for the holidays. Whether a simple one-word, one-page First Reader for a new born, or a beautiful crafted soliloquy for a loved one, this class will use community feedback and an easy atmosphere for a fun and creative outcome.

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio; however, a sketch book, journal, and a couple of well-loved children's books with illustrations are encouraged.

This stand-alone class features a live model and will cover how to immediately begin to capture movement and drama with the energy that is expressed in the first three minutes of a pose.

We will explore the anatomical elements that comprise the skeleton and muscular systems to understand distribution of weight, directions of movement and tensions in each pose.

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio.

Art can come in all shapes and sizes, but there's something special about tiny treasures. In this class, students will explore painting on small canvases with acrylic paints. Students will learn basic techniques for working with acrylic on canvas and how to choose subjects that work well for small formats. At the end of class, students can take their tiny treasure home with them or can donate it for our annual Tiny Treasures Holiday Art Sale, which benefits The Drawing Studio's programs. 

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio. 

Aprender y Jugar is a community focused effort to explore the Spanish language, then expand its reach, by exposing folks through the arts - visual, music and story. This class invites young artists and their guardians to get familiar with Spanish vocabulary by listening and repeating words from a story.

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio.

No matter if you are interested in pastel, oils or acrylics or even colored pencils, color matters. Understanding how to make colors by mixing, understanding the harmony of colors and how color is used is critical to every artist. We will work with the color wheel, creating hues, values and harmonious combinations to explore how color can create great artwork.

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

Water color paper

Gouache: Cadimum yellow, Phthalocyanine blue, Pyrrol Red, black

We will learn symmetry and proportions of the face and head including light, shadows, and shading from life sized plaster casts. 

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

-pencils of your choice

-papers of your choice