Studio Arts: What's New

Create a powerful personal record of experiences by drawing and painting moments from your life to include in your sketchbook.

Expand on your technical background and grow your practice as an oil painter. This class provides students with the opportunity to work on personal projects, set up a still-life arrangement, and explore figure painting from a live model. Unfurl your style with support and feedback from the instructor.

Getting a grip on the myriad of tools and materials for mixed media can be daunting. Explore paints, mediums, inks, adhesives, and the array of equipment that can accelerate your creativity and ensure that your artwork is finished to a high standard.

Travel the world with the summer edition of Sketching the Smithsonian as you take an artful break and explore the fascinating, vast collections of this extraordinary museum.

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.

Learn the techniques needed to create fine mosaic jewelry as you make silver-plated mosaic pendants using mosaic gold, smalti, semiprecious stones, stained glass, and millefiori.

Capture the magic of your travels in a whole new way. Learn how to easily transform your favorite vacation photos of places into beautiful, expressive paintings in watercolor and ink.

Travel the world with the summer edition of Sketching the Smithsonian as you take an artful break and explore the fascinating, vast collections of this extraordinary museum.

Jump-start your journey into acrylic painting with this one-day immersive workshop. Get introduced to the basics and first steps, learning how to use materials; touching on essential color theory; and exploring this exciting medium with hands-on guided projects.

Take a break from your art creating routine and revive and reimagine your unfinished or unsuccessful pieces. Using mixed-media materials and techniques, explore ways to alter works to arrive at new interpretations.