Programs

Whether you are traveling, exploring, or just adventuring through your daily life, draw the things that are important to you and start noticing the wonderful small details around you.

Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped script of ancient Mesopotamia, had preserved the stories, science, and secrets of civilizations for millennia—only to have its meaning lost to history. Journalist Joshua Hammer delves into the story of how three unlikely Victorian adventurers unlocked the secrets of cuneiform, illuminating the forgotten voices of the ancient world and offering a glimpse into humanity’s earliest recorded past.

Find your sense of color confidence while learning to apply color to embroidery art as would a painter using pigments and a palette.

Draw birds from around the world in creative ways using a variety of mediums, including ink, watercolor, and charcoal.

Through group discussions and imaginative studio activities, engage your creativity and boost insight in weekly eye-opening, hands-on, interactive art workouts.

Learn to use the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate for illustration and animation. Students get an introductory lecture on the basics of digital art production, demonstrations, and experience drawing in Procreate on an iPad.

Students are introduced to the materials, tools, and technologies used in collage and assemblage, finding inspiration in artists who worked in collage, including Joseph Cornell, Romare Bearden, and Gertrude Greene.

As soon as television began in the late 1940s, advertising was a vital part of the picture. Media historian Brian Rose examines how advertising evolved during television’s first two decades and the important role it played in convincing viewers that the key to happiness was to buy their way into the American dream.