Session One:
Sketch to Study | Painting and Sculpture
March 8 - March 29, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

The Visual Arts Saturday Program mirrors The Academy’s Visual Arts Department’s curriculum and pairs teaching foundational skills and techniques with contemporary art-making practices. 

In Sketch to Study students will explore working at various speeds from gesture and improvisational methods of drawing to more planned and intentional methods of image making. Students will learn a variety of drawing techniques and will use their “quick” ideas as a resource to create more involved painting and sculpture projects. Weekly exercises will include drawing from observation as well as imagination. Our program’s instruction is highly individualized and projects will be geared towards and accessible to students who are beginners as well as to students with advanced levels of arts training and experience.

Session Two:
Sequential and Narrative Art | Drawing and Printmaking
April 12 - May 3, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Students will learn printmaking techniques to develop and build a series of narrative images. From monoprints to working with relief plates, students will experiment with the various ways images can convey information and tell stories. Students will work from observation and imagination and explore abstraction and variety in composition and framing. Our program’s instruction is highly individualized and projects will be accessible to students with beginning to advanced levels of arts training and experience. Though recommended, Sketch to Study: Painting and Sculpture is not a prerequisite for this session.