Saturday Art Classes

Young Artists Getting Started [Sections A, B, & C]

Bring your creative skills and get ready to discover your inner artistic voice! Young artists are challenged to play with a wide variety of media while learning basic theory on shape, color, pattern, and even design thinking. This class is great for those wishing to provide young artists with a gently structured creative environment where art and learning intersect.

Young Artists Finding Your Voice [Sections A & B]

Develop your unique artistic voice and hone creative skills! Young artists are challenged to explore different media while focusing on self-expression and personal artistic processes. This class is great for those wishing to provide young artists with a gently structured creative environment where art and learning intersect.

(Re) Imagination Station

This course will challenge students to innovate using common everyday items such as drinking straws, cardboard, and recyclable materials. Students will brainstorm, sketch, prototype, test, and reflect, revise and construct original designs in this innovative workshop. Inventors will study sculpture and product design methods to make their own toys, vehicles, dimensional spaces, and more!

Character Design

Learn the basics of character design in this exciting class! Artists will consider shape, expression, and even species while creating characters inspired by the world around them. Study movies, television, and video games to learn how the professionals create the memorable characters we know and love.

Color Theory

Discover the secret life of color through a variety of mediums. This course allows artists to explore color theory as a narrative practice as well as an expressive choice. Young artists will experiment with papercraft and materials such as pastels and acrylic paint.

Digital Art

Can you draw, paint, or even sculpt with a computer? Yes, you can! Computer technology merges traditional illustration with the digital world. Learn to illustrate using industry-standard tools and software for a contemporary twist on traditional arts.

Expressive Drawing

Develop your technique in this expressive art form through still life, contour drawing, perspective drawing, and other illustrative approaches. This course allows artists to explore different media all grounded in the foundational skill of drawing.

Illustrated Comics

Learn how to design imaginative characters for children's books, comic books, and animation through a variety of fun drawing projects and exercises. Students will explore everything from costumed gesture drawing to designing and constructing 3D characters from Sculpey. This workshop will cover the necessary skills to bring doodles of superheroes or characters to life.

Prototype Hype

Designers are always coming up with new ways, or improving old ways, of doing things. Investigate contemporary innovations in design, learn about how interior architecture and product design works, and create your own prototypes to bring your wildest ideas to life! Design anything from fantastical furniture to avant-garde fashion or footwear. Students will take home research, concept design, and a final design prototype at the end of this course, and learn how to use systems and machines like laser cutters and 3D printers.

2D Animation

Traditional animation meets technology with the use of digital animating tools. Learn to animate objects and characters using basic walk and morph cycles. Fundamentals of animation including character design, timing, and movement will be introduced along with skill-building exercises for drawing and animating the human body. Mastering 2D animation basics lays a foundation for continued work in creating the illusion of movement.

Experimental Illustration: From 2D to 3D

Formerly titled “3D Illustration”, this class teaches foundational drawing techniques that take images from the page to 3D objects. Experiment with mixed media techniques, collage, clay, and more as we learn and bend the rules of developing characters and artistic storytelling.

Digital Art

Can you draw, paint, or even sculpt with a computer? Yes, you can! Computer technology merges traditional illustration with the digital world. Learn to illustrate using industry-standard tools and software for a contemporary twist on traditional art.

Digital Comics

Computer technology merges traditional comics illustration with the digital world. Learn to illustrate using industry standard tools and software for a contemporary twist to this popular platform. Storytelling and character design will be emphasized while reviewing the history of digital comics. Utilizing digital tools allows faster changes to panels and a format that makes it easy to share finished work.

Dragons, Dice, and Design

Young artists and designers will learn about character and creature design, world-building, and game strategy. Students will develop design thinking skills and foundational art skills as they learn—and have fun!—through game design. Perfect for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and role playing games!

Expressive Drawing

Take drawing techniques to the next level by creating personal narrative works. Delve into a study of the variety of materials that can be used to express yourself with drawing. You’ll explore charcoal, Conté crayon, ink, and toned papers while practicing silhouette and shapes. Learning when and how to combine drawing techniques and materials for your own desired effect will help reveal your aesthetic voice.

Foundations of Painting

Foundations of Painting expands students’ understanding of color and technique through a variety of paint materials. Traditional painting techniques as well as experimentation are used to guide students toward greater confidence in their medium and in their ability to create unique, expressive works.

Intro to Fashion Design

It’s time to give clothing an upgrade. Learn to design and construct totally new, one-of-a-kind garments and accessories from patterns, scratch, and out of existing clothing. Using the latest fashion trends as inspiration, skills learned in this workshop will allow you to give your wardrobe a makeover.

Character Design

Learn the basics of character design in this exciting class! Artists will consider shape, expression, and even species while creating characters inspired by the world around them. Study movies, television, and video games to learn how the professionals create the memorable characters we know and love.

Digital Art

Can you draw, paint, or even sculpt with a computer? Yes, you can! Computer technology merges traditional illustration with the digital world. Learn to illustrate using industry-standard tools and software for a contemporary twist on traditional arts.

NEW: Digital Painting

In this workshop, students will utilize computer based  drawing programs and techniques to create digital paintings. Projects that demonstrate the  process of creating concept art and painted illustrations will allow students to grow in their ability to create dynamic compositions and  lighting while exploring the expressive powers of colors and perspective. This workshop will have a strong focus on more niche digital techniques, like blending, photo-bashing, keyboard shortcuts, and photo editing skills.

Illustrated Comics

Learn how to design imaginative characters for children's books, comic books, and animation through a variety of fun drawing projects and exercises. Students could explore everything from costumed gesture drawing to designing and constructing 3D characters from Sculpey as well as creating their own comics panels. This workshop will cover the necessary skills to bring doodles of superheroes or characters to life.

Digital Sculpting & 3D Modeling

Students learn, practice, and utilize 3D modeling software for generation of form, character, and building environments. Includes conceptualization, development, and final delivery of 3D models. Perfect course for those interested in animation, 3D printing, environments design, and game design.

NEW: Concept Art - Exploring Fantasy & Science Fiction 

The most elaborate Science Fiction and Fantasy worlds often start with concept art. Bring your creative vision to life using a variety of mediums and learn how artists take their concepts from first sketches to fully-realized projects. A great fit for those interested in storytelling, character design, environment design, and the fantastical intersection between art and technology.

NEW: Intro to Game Art & Design

This course provides a project-oriented introduction to game development and design, including concept development, elements of game, flowcharts, level design, and character/environment design. Students will be introduced to working with game engines and 3D programs, learn basic programming, and keep documentation through game docs. Polygon count, optimization, prototyping, and testing will be stressed, with students learning the full game pipeline to develop a playable level.

NEW: Stop Motion Animation

Life is full of movement! You’ll learn how to capture it in this unique hands-on animation workshop. Students will work with experimental forms (think claymation, 2D paper forms, or other forms of animation made with unexpected materials) and industry grade software to develop unique characters and animated shorts. Students will have the incredible advantage of making these works using state of the art Animation facilities, with the support of an expert instructor.

NEW: 2D Animation

Traditional animation meets technology with the use of digital animating tools. Learn to animate objects and characters using basic walk and morph cycles. Fundamentals of animation including character design, timing, and movement will be introduced along with skill-building exercises for drawing and animating the human body. Mastering 2D animation basics lays a foundation for continued work in creating the illusion of movement.

Ceramics

This course provides a foundational exploration of design and structure, wheel throwing techniques, hand building, and sculpture. Artists will experience exercises designed to encourage creativity and craftsmanship while developing a repertoire of methods for working with clay.

Drawing

Hone your technique in this expressive art form through still life drawing, illustrative approaches, perspective drawing, and other techniques. This course allows artists to explore different media all grounded in the foundational skill of drawing.

Figure Drawing

This foundational course offers the opportunity to learn how short-term speed drawings and sustained life drawing studies can develop your skills as an artist. Explore different artistic media and objects while gaining confidence in anatomy, expression, and gesture with life models and challenges that strengthen artists at all levels. Live, clothed figure models will attend many class sessions, but not all lessons will make use of a live model.

Oil Painting

Learn to create vibrant, colorful paintings using a limited palette. Artists will experience the power and versatility of primary colors while creating beautiful landscape, still life, and portrait paintings in the studio. Exercises designed to expand knowledge of color theory and painting with oils are included.

Watercolor Painting

Learn to create vibrant, colorful paintings using a limited palette. Artists will experience the power and versatility of primary colors while creating beautiful landscape paintings on location and still life paintings in the studio. Exercises designed to expand knowledge of color theory and painting with watercolor paints are included.

Advanced Techniques in Ceramics 

Building off of the techniques explored in our introductory ceramics class, continuing artists will be challenged to explore new methods of building and glazing custom designs and more advanced forms of ceramics. Perfect for those who have some experience in the studio and wish to grow their skills.

Advanced Techniques in Oil Painting

Ready to move beyond the fundamentals and take your oil painting to the next level? In this course, artists will expand into a broader palette of color to develop unique finished still life, portrait, and landscape paintings in the studio. Designed for those who have prior experience working with oil or acrylic paint.

NEW: Illustrative Costumed Figure Drawing

Expand your knowledge of figure drawing fundamentals with this specialized course. With a focus on capturing the intricate details of draped fabric, jewelry, embellishments and other elements of clothing and costume in addition to more advanced rendering of human form and proportion, this class combines figure drawing with fashion illustration to create dynamic illustrations of the human figure. Live, clothed figure models will attend many class sessions, but not all lessons will make use of a live model.

Typography (3-Week Workshop)

Typography - the art of arranging the written word in both print and digital applications - is a design discipline with centuries of history. Learn how to create legible, dynamic type layouts that fit your identity as an artist and communicator. Explore the use of different typefaces, see how subtle shifts in spacing can impact readability, and develop your digital voice in this new three-week course.

Cost: $175*
Class dates: Sept. 20–Oct. 4

Graphic Design (3-Week Workshop)

Explore the fundamentals of layout, logos, commercial design, and more! Students in this class will have the opportunity to study basic graphic design techniques, software, and applications. This class will focus on graphic design tools within the Adobe Creative Suite.

Cost: $175*
Class dates: Oct. 11–Oct. 25

Web Portfolio (3-Week Workshop)

Today’s artists use digital portfolios to share their work with the world. Learn to create a professional web presence using industry-standard software. Design skills such as type, graphics and color theory will be explored while editing and preparing images for use online. Creativity and personalization are emphasized to achieve a unique representation of your artistic voice.

Cost: $175*
Class dates: Nov. 1–Nov. 15

*Bundle deal! Enroll in all three courses for $360, lowering the cost to $120 per workshop!

NEW: Printmaking Studio (5-Week Workshop)

With a focus on block-printing, this 5 week course introduces students to the rich world of printmaking. Carve your own designs in linoleum and explore layers, colors, and texture as you produce one-of–a-kind prints in CCAD’s specialized printmaking lab.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Jewelry Design: Getting Started (5-Week Workshop)

Use professional-grade tools such as saws, drills, torches, and presses to make lasting, one-of-a-kind jewelry in this series of five workshops. With a focus on metalwork and foundational skill-building, this class is designed for beginners through confident jewelry makers who wish to enhance their techniques in a fun, welcoming environment.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Jewelry Design: Advanced Workshop (5-Week Workshop)

Move beyond the foundational techniques taught in our introductory course and tackle even more ambitious projects in our professional-grade jewelry studio! Hammer, saw, file, anneal, and solder metal into beautiful, wearable art that expresses your distinct style.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Oct. 25 - Nov. 22

Sewing & Mending (5-Week Workshop)

Learn about visible mending traditions and techniques and hone your skills to transform or extend the life of a garment. This workshop series will cover the basics of hand and machine sewing to help you understand the construction and care of your favorite fabrics. Students will leave with a foundational understanding of garment construction, care, and mending techniques.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

Digital Photography (5-Week Workshop)

In Digital Photography, students will investigate photographic techniques and aesthetic principles of subject, light, and composition. Students will learn fundamental techniques of photographic artmaking for still photography. They will have a deeper understanding of how to use the settings of their DSLR or smartphone camera to create successful images, be able to composite aesthetically pleasing images and edit images in the student's own artistic style.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

Intro to Film Photography (5-Week Workshop)

Prepare to create original images with meaning as you develop your technical skills in traditional film photography! In addition to exploring how essential elements of art like composition, line, value, and space help artists capture more dynamic images; this course will teach you all the basics from start to finish, including 35mm camera controls, B&W film processing, and darkroom processing techniques. Designed for students new to film photography, as well as more experienced photographers looking to reconnect with traditional practices.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Oct. 25 - Nov. 22

NEW: Jewelry Design: Getting Started (5-Week Workshop)

Use professional-grade tools such as saws, drills, torches, and presses to make lasting, one-of-a-kind jewelry in this series of five workshops. With a focus on metalwork and foundational skill-building, this class is designed for beginners through confident jewelry makers who wish to enhance their techniques in a fun, welcoming environment.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Jewelry Design: Advanced Workshop (5-Week Workshop)

Move beyond the foundational techniques taught in our introductory course and tackle even more ambitious projects in our professional-grade jewelry studio! Hammer, saw, file, anneal, and solder metal into beautiful, wearable art that expresses your distinct style.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Oct. 25 - Nov. 22

Intro to Garment Construction (5-Week Workshop)

In this course, you'll expand on the sewing skills taught in our Sewing & Mending workshop to master garment-making techniques, including pattern reading, size charts, elastic sewing, and pocket construction. By the end of the class, you'll have a finished garment and the confidence to tackle more sewing projects on your own!

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Bookbinding & Art Journaling (5-Week Workshop)

Whether it’s full of doodles, observational drawings, poems, or unstructured musings, a journal can become a valued piece of an artist’s creative practice. Learn how to construct and bind your own journal or sketchbook using a variety of traditional bookbinding techniques and embark on your own art journaling journey.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

Ceramics

This course provides a foundational exploration of design and structure, wheel throwing techniques, hand building, and sculpture. Artists will experience exercises designed to encourage creativity and craftsmanship while developing a repertoire of methods for working with clay.

Drawing

Hone your technique in this expressive art form through still life drawing, illustrative approaches, perspective drawing, and other techniques. This course allows artists to explore different media all grounded in the foundational skill of drawing.

Figure Drawing

This foundational course offers the opportunity to learn how short-term speed drawings and sustained life drawing studies can develop your skills as an artist. Explore different artistic media and objects while gaining confidence in anatomy, expression, and gesture with life models and challenges that strengthen artists at all levels. Live, clothed figure models will attend many class sessions, but not all lessons will make use of a live model.

Oil Painting

Learn to create vibrant, colorful paintings using a limited palette. Artists will experience the power and versatility of primary colors while creating beautiful landscape, still life, and portrait paintings in the studio. Exercises designed to expand knowledge of color theory and painting with oils are included.

Watercolor Painting

Learn to create vibrant, colorful paintings using a limited palette. Artists will experience the power and versatility of primary colors while creating beautiful landscape paintings on location and still life paintings in the studio. Exercises designed to expand knowledge of color theory and painting with watercolor paints are included.

Advanced Techniques in Ceramics 

Building off of the techniques explored in our introductory ceramics class, continuing artists will be challenged to explore new methods of building and glazing custom designs and more advanced forms of ceramics. Perfect for those who have some experience in the studio and wish to grow their skills.

Advanced Techniques in Oil Painting

Ready to move beyond the fundamentals and take your oil painting to the next level? In this course, artists will expand into a broader palette of color to develop unique finished still life, portrait, and landscape paintings in the studio. Designed for those who have prior experience working with oil or acrylic paint.

NEW: Illustrative Costumed Figure Drawing

Expand your knowledge of figure drawing fundamentals with this specialized course. With a focus on capturing the intricate details of draped fabric, jewelry, embellishments and other elements of clothing and costume in addition to more advanced rendering of human form and proportion, this class combines figure drawing with fashion illustration to create dynamic illustrations of the human figure. Live, clothed figure models will attend many class sessions, but not all lessons will make use of a live model.

Typography (3-Week Workshop)

Typography - the art of arranging the written word in both print and digital applications - is a design discipline with centuries of history. Learn how to create legible, dynamic type layouts that fit your identity as an artist and communicator. Explore the use of different typefaces, see how subtle shifts in spacing can impact readability, and develop your digital voice in this new three-week course.

Cost: $175*
Class dates: Sept. 20–Oct. 4

Graphic Design (3-Week Workshop)

Explore the fundamentals of layout, logos, commercial design, and more! Students in this class will have the opportunity to study basic graphic design techniques, software, and applications. This class will focus on graphic design tools within the Adobe Creative Suite.

Cost: $175*
Class dates: Oct. 11–Oct. 25

Web Portfolio (3-Week Workshop)

Today’s artists use digital portfolios to share their work with the world. Learn to create a professional web presence using industry-standard software. Design skills such as type, graphics and color theory will be explored while editing and preparing images for use online. Creativity and personalization are emphasized to achieve a unique representation of your artistic voice.

Cost: $175*
Class dates: Nov. 1–Nov. 15

*Bundle deal! Enroll in all three courses for $360, lowering the cost to $120 per workshop!

NEW: Printmaking Studio (5-Week Workshop)

With a focus on block-printing, this 5 week course introduces students to the rich world of printmaking. Carve your own designs in linoleum and explore layers, colors, and texture as you produce one-of–a-kind prints in CCAD’s specialized printmaking lab.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Jewelry Design: Getting Started (5-Week Workshop)

Use professional-grade tools such as saws, drills, torches, and presses to make lasting, one-of-a-kind jewelry in this series of five workshops. With a focus on metalwork and foundational skill-building, this class is designed for beginners through confident jewelry makers who wish to enhance their techniques in a fun, welcoming environment.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Jewelry Design: Advanced Workshop (5-Week Workshop)

Move beyond the foundational techniques taught in our introductory course and tackle even more ambitious projects in our professional-grade jewelry studio! Hammer, saw, file, anneal, and solder metal into beautiful, wearable art that expresses your distinct style.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Oct. 25 - Nov. 22

Sewing & Mending (5-Week Workshop)

Learn about visible mending traditions and techniques and hone your skills to transform or extend the life of a garment. This workshop series will cover the basics of hand and machine sewing to help you understand the construction and care of your favorite fabrics. Students will leave with a foundational understanding of garment construction, care, and mending techniques.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

Digital Photography (5-Week Workshop)

In Digital Photography, students will investigate photographic techniques and aesthetic principles of subject, light, and composition. Students will learn fundamental techniques of photographic artmaking for still photography. They will have a deeper understanding of how to use the settings of their DSLR or smartphone camera to create successful images, be able to composite aesthetically pleasing images and edit images in the student's own artistic style.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

Intro to Film Photography (5-Week Workshop)

Prepare to create original images with meaning as you develop your technical skills in traditional film photography! In addition to exploring how essential elements of art like composition, line, value, and space help artists capture more dynamic images; this course will teach you all the basics from start to finish, including 35mm camera controls, B&W film processing, and darkroom processing techniques. Designed for students new to film photography, as well as more experienced photographers looking to reconnect with traditional practices.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Oct. 25 - Nov. 22

NEW: Jewelry Design: Getting Started (5-Week Workshop)

Use professional-grade tools such as saws, drills, torches, and presses to make lasting, one-of-a-kind jewelry in this series of five workshops. With a focus on metalwork and foundational skill-building, this class is designed for beginners through confident jewelry makers who wish to enhance their techniques in a fun, welcoming environment.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Jewelry Design: Advanced Workshop (5-Week Workshop)

Move beyond the foundational techniques taught in our introductory course and tackle even more ambitious projects in our professional-grade jewelry studio! Hammer, saw, file, anneal, and solder metal into beautiful, wearable art that expresses your distinct style.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Oct. 25 - Nov. 22

Intro to Garment Construction (5-Week Workshop)

In this course, you'll expand on the sewing skills taught in our Sewing & Mending workshop to master garment-making techniques, including pattern reading, size charts, elastic sewing, and pocket construction. By the end of the class, you'll have a finished garment and the confidence to tackle more sewing projects on your own!

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18

NEW: Bookbinding & Art Journaling (5-Week Workshop)

Whether it’s full of doodles, observational drawings, poems, or unstructured musings, a journal can become a valued piece of an artist’s creative practice. Learn how to construct and bind your own journal or sketchbook using a variety of traditional bookbinding techniques and embark on your own art journaling journey.

Cost: $225
Class dates: Sept.20–Oct. 18