We offer a variety of programs for adults
interested in enriching their lives as artists.

We offer classes for all abilities, from beginners to working professional artists. The Art Students League is your retreat from the outside world; a space where you can enrich your life through the study of art.
 

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Ongoing Classes & Workshops

Ongoing classes are designed to provide students the opportunity for continuous learning in an open, individualized studio environment. New students are welcome at any time unless otherwise noted. To fit your schedule, ongoing classes may be prorated. Please register for the specific dates you wish to attend each month.

Workshops provide an in-depth class experience and are offered for a finite period. Students enrolling for a workshop are required to pay for all scheduled classes at the time of registration. Workshops cannot be prorated.

Supply lists

Most of our classes and workshops require that students to provide their own supplies. Supply lists can be downloaded for each class and workshop within the individual class listings in the Search for Classes, or a full list of current supply list can be found here.

Guide to Student Ability Levels

Our approach to art instruction is unique. Since our inception in 1987, we use the atelier method, a technique of fine art instruction modeled after European academies during the 15th–19th centuries. As a master guides an apprentice, students are taught by a faculty artist who works closely with them, offering individualized learning in a specific medium or genre. Every instructor incorporates their personal style, whether traditional or experimental, and integrates demonstrations, instruction, and critique.

Beginner: Students have limited or no experience in the fundamentals of art or in a specific art medium.

Intermediate: Students have a good foundation in the fundamentals of art including the principles of design and composition, and a level of proficiency in the technical aspects of a given medium.

Advanced: Students have technical mastery of a given medium and the fundamentals of art, and are interested in cultivating and exploring a personal aesthetic.

Professional: Instruction for working, selling artists whose art is shown in galleries, art centers, museums, and/or in publications. Artists have an interest in continuing to grow, refine, and explore new possibilities.

All Levels: Students from experienced beginners to advanced will have individualized instruction within the given structure and definition of the class. A range of student abilities will be represented.