Each year, the League hosts several dozen weekend and weeklong workshops. League instructors and prominent visiting artists work with intimate groups of about a dozen students. Workshops focus on a particular aspect of art-making (such as landscapes) or specific mediums or techniques (such as egg tempera or color spot painting). Workshops are generally held at the 57th St. location in Studio 6, or at the Vytlacil Campus. Although prices vary, workshops are generally priced as follows: weekend workshops are $265–$290; half-day weeklong workshops are $400–$425; and all-day weeklong workshops are $700–$800. A current schedule of upcoming workshops is available on the League website. Workshops are subject to change and may be cancelled on short notice.
Special Workshops
The League also offers workshops abroad each year. Join us this fall for Landscape Painting in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with Gregg Kreutz.
To register, please visit the League's main office or call 212-247-4510, x. 101.
If you are registering for the first time and wish to register by phone, first fill out the online Student Information Form.
For more information, please e-mail info@artstudentsleague.org. Please note: you may not register for a workshop via email.
The Art Students League of New York admits students of any race, color, national, and ethnic origin.
Please note that photography and filming/taping of workshops is prohibited.
Please see below for refunds and withdrawal policies.
Workshops
*Free transportation to Vytlacil Campus Workshops is provided.
Please visit the Vytlacil Campus page for more information.
Greg Follender
Dynamic Comic Book Illustration: From Anatomy to Panel Composition
A Series of Weekend Workshops in Sequential Art
Enrollment limited to 12 students
May 25-26
Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fees: $290
This workshop is designed to give students interested in comic book/graphic novel illustration and other sequential media a better understanding of how the drawn figure can interact both dynamically and convincingly in deep space or in an enclosed environment. Through basic anatomical formulas and body landmarks, students will be able to confidently render realistic or stylized figures in both natural and dynamic poses and place them within a graphic frame of reference. The importance of proportion, weight, perspective, and momentum will be addressed in both classical terms and with an exaggerated cartoon sensibility. Additional focus on basic panel work and layout skills will help students learn how to block out and create engaging comic book pages through pencil roughs and tight thumbnail stages. These powerful techniques, along with tips on facial expression and body gesture, will supply aspiring comic artists with the tools to bring the characters and tableaus they see in their heads convincingly and dramatically to life!
Please pick up a supply list for more details on each session.
May 25-26
Workshop 4: Color Treatment
Using completed penciled pages as templates, students will work out color schemes and tonal studies in thumbnail form, utilizing color to establish environment, mood, and narrative tone. Varied coloring options will be explored and utilized in order to maximize the impact of the fully rendered comic book page.
Greg Follender is an artist/illustrator that has been teaching both drawing and sculpting classes at the American Museum of Natural History for over a decade. His passionate pursuit of rendering the human form has taken him from the illustrative world of comic books and graphic novels, to character design and costume fabrication in the industry of film and television. With this course, Greg explores the basic foundations of comic book storytelling along with the dynamic figure-drawing basics that inspire his own personal narrative imagery.
Naomi Campbell
Contemporary Approaches to Painting the Figure in Watercolor
This workshop is sold out.
Please see the registrar to join a waiting list.
June 3–7
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–12:30 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration.
“Conversing in paint to find the essence of spontaneity and its interaction with the surface, the painter will search for the true nature of the figure.”
Object-based painting of the model becomes the platform for true creativity through an examination of the technical and the experimental. Each person will derive their own mark unique to the individual through a week of exploration of dynamic form and light in space where color, line and malleable space will transform gesture and time, going beyond the expected. The goal is to develop new visual vocabularies and a voice while discussing the idea of the body in art today.
With work in several permanent public collections nationally and internationally, Ms. Campbell has four Signature Memberships and numerous awards including four National Gold Medals of Honor for her work with the body and watercolor. An instructor at the Art Students League of New York, she is published in 16 books and numerous art magazines, and has contributed to art journals and magazines. Ms. Campbell is a guest lecturer and has judged and juried at numerous colleges and art organizations in New York. Ms. Campbell has painted in watercolor for over twenty-eight years. Her other mediums include: mixed media, installation, oil, pastel, acrylic, printmaking, sculpture and public art.
Alex Zwarenstein
Perspective Made Easy
June 3-7
Monday–Friday, 1:30–5:00 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present every day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
A practical course in perspective for the working artist, this workshop starts with broad easy-to-understand principles. The workshop covers concepts such as scenic space, architecture, natural space, still life, positioning of figures in space, forced perspective, and more.
Alex Zwarenstein received his B.A. with honors from London University, and his M.A. from the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 1979, he was awarded the prestigious biennial Royal Academy Gold Medal for painting, and the Turner Travelling Scholarship. Mr. Zwarenstein exhibits in New York and around the world. For more information please visit: www.zwarenstein.com.
Michele Liebler
Absolute Beginners - Oil
June 3-7
Monday–Friday
6:00–9:30 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
Your choice of technique directly influences the choice of material, how the painting is made, and ultimately what it looks like. It is essential as a painter to experiment with your working methods and ideas. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of mark making and finding your own personal mark in oil painting.
The workshop will explore step-by-step techniques: under-drawing, wet-in-wet/dry brush, knife painting and then the last day using all the techniques simultaneously. Each day will be dedicated to one of the techniques listed above. In this 5-day workshop students will learn the effective way to achieve their own personal vision through the introduction of these techniques.
Michele Liebler received her B.F.A. from Purchase College in painting and drawing and her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. She studied with Mary Beth Mckenzie and Burt Silverman. She has exhibited in such venues as Parrish Art Museum, Arnot Art Museum, National Academy Museum, Butler Institute of American Art and private collections internationally. She received numerous awards including Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, GIP Grant, Horlick Painting Award, and Arnot Art Museum Award for Painting. She is represented by First Street Gallery in NYC. She has years of experience teaching workshops and classes at the National Academy Museum & School and substituted for Mary Beth Mckenzie at the Art Students League.
Deborah Winiarski
Contemporary Uses of Wax and Encaustic—
Introduction to Encaustic Painting
This workshop is sold out.
Please see the registrar to join a waiting list.
June 10-11
Monday-Tuesday, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $330 (includes $30 materials fee)
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
In these hands-on workshops, students will explore the luminous beauty and versatility of encaustic—painting with molten, pigmented beeswax. This ancient art form has evolved into one of the most versatile mediums available to contemporary artists and offers many exciting, creative possibilities! The workshop will focus on encaustic painting basics, as well as how to easily and inexpensively incorporate encaustic into a regular studio practice. Equipment and tools, encaustic paint recipes, painting supports and more will be discussed. Students will learn how to create image, texture and line using a variety of techniques and how to embed collage elements, found objects and image transfers within translucent layers of wax. No matter your current medium or genre, encaustic has much to offer. Beginners are welcome, as are prior workshop registrants. Ample time for hands-on work will be provided.
Deborah Winiarski has been teaching encaustic workshops at the Art Students League of New York since 2009. Her encaustic work has been exhibited at venues in New York City and across the United States. In 2012, her work was included in the National Encaustic Art Exhibition at The Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM; The Wax Book: Altered, Repurposed, Remade at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA; and WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works at Pajaro Valley Arts Council in Watsonville, CA. Her work will also be included in the upcoming 3rd edition of Embracing Encaustic. For more information about the instructor, please visit: www.deborahwiniarski.com.
Deborah Winiarski
Encaustic in Three Dimensions: Plaster Cloth
June 12-14
Wednesday-Friday, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $455 (includes $30 materials fee)
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
This workshop will explore the sculptural possibilities of wax and encaustic. Rigid and absorbent when dry, plaster cloth makes a wonderful support for dimensional encaustic work. In this three-day workshop, participants will work with this versatile material to create 3D forms and reliefs that can stand alone or be incorporated into encaustic panel paintings. When wet, plaster cloth is easily wrapped, folded, draped or molded over armatures, wire mesh or any solid surface. Once dry, the forms will readily accept encaustic paint. Participants will have ample opportunity to work and apply various encaustic painting techniques to their created plaster cloth forms. Other dimensional techniques such as creating poured wax castings from simple molds and free-hand modeling of encaustic medium will be demonstrated. Additional discussion and demonstrations will include fusing techniques for dimensional work, options for joining multiple forms, and advanced techniques for incorporating imagery. Since beginning encaustic techniques will not be addressed in this workshop, prior work with encaustic is advised.
Deborah Winiarski has been teaching encaustic workshops at the Art Students League of New York since 2009. Her encaustic work has been exhibited at venues in New York City and across the United States. In 2012, her work was included in the National Encaustic Art Exhibition at The Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM; The Wax Book: Altered, Repurposed, Remade at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA; and WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works at Pajaro Valley Arts Council in Watsonville, CA. Her work will also be included in the upcoming 3rd edition of Embracing Encaustic. For more information about the instructor, please visit: www.deborahwiniarski.com.
Vytlacil Campus Workshop: Dean Hartung
Plein Air - Composing a Landscape
June 15-16
Saturday-Sunday, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Both days: $275
One day: $140
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 20 students
Free shuttle leaves the Art Students League at 9:00 am and leaves Vytlacil at 4:30 pm to return back to the Art Students League before 5:00 pm. You must have registered for the workshop to use the shuttle and you must have noted upon registration that you will take advantage of it. Please notify security in the ASL lobby that you wish to be on the shuttle and they will notify you when it arrives.
Bring your own lunch or bring $10/d cash for lunch ordering.
Picture making sometimes gets lost in the quest to improve skills like drawing and painting—but what is more important than the impact your art makes from across a room? How do you attract the eye of a viewer, and make the viewer linger on your work? Fortunately, the more you learn about your compositional tendencies, the more you learn about yourself as an artist, and about what you want to express in your work. Color relationships, design, composition, simplifying all that information, and the benefits of outdoor painting will be discussed. We will focus on massing in shapes, values, color, brushwork and edges while working wet into wet in order to complete a painting in one session.
Dean Hartung studied at Kent State University in Ohio; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Institute of Art; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He assisted Jack Beal on several large paintings, including the mosaic subway mural commission in NYC. Dean attended the La Napoule Art Foundation on a fellowship and was invited to paint at the Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Colorado. His paintings are in private and public collections. He has exhibited in a number of galleries and museums and has been commissioned to create several important murals, including nine murals for Montefiore Hospital and six murals for the Delaware County Courthouse. He has taught at several institutions including the New York Academy of Art, the National Academy of Design, Penn State University, Swarthmore College and Community College of Philadelphia. He received special recognition from the Ohio House of Representatives in 1998.
Elizabeth Allison
Direct Plaster Sculpture
June 15 & 22
Saturdays, 10:00 am–4:30 pm
Fee: $275
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Sculpting directly in plaster is an exciting, immediate way to create a permanent artwork. Plaster allows the flexibility of softer modeling materials such as clay, and the capacity for detail and refinement found in harder material such as stone. Once mastered, plaster is liberating to work with, giving the artist the best qualities of several mediums. This course consists of two parts: an introductory demonstration and a workshop. Armature and tools will be discussed, and workshop students will receive intensive individual instruction. This workshop is open to all levels.
Elizabeth Allison studied at the Art Students League and received a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of the Raluca Popescu Memorial Scholarship, a Nessa Cohen Grant, and three Elizabeth Greenshields Grants. She was a Model to Monument Participant in 2010-2011, and had a monumental sculpture in Riverside Park South. She was a visiting artist at Buffalo State College and is a technical instructor at the Art Students League. She is represented by Bertrand Delacroix Gallery. For more information please visit www.elizabethallisonart.com.
Leonid Gervits
Landscape Drawing
June 15, 22, 29
Saturdays, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $450
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop is an opportunity to draw using a broad range of papers and drawing materials, as well as a relative amount of freedom regarding subject interpretation. This will help students improve or polish their technique and compositional skills. Landscape drawing is an important part of academic education and the drawing of trees improves the discipline of attention. In this workshop, students will try to use all well-known materials such as: Conté pencil or crayon, pen-and-ink, regular pencil, and charcoal pencil, as well as mixed media, etc. Our images will be based on the magnificent landscape of Central Park, with its romantic, multi-scale views and architectural structures. For many centuries, landscape drawing was only a byproduct of the process of making a great painting. Lately, the drawings of the great masters have become much more significant for both museums and private owners. (Images right: Da Vinci, Russian student, Rembrandt)
Leonid Gervits belongs to the European/Russian realist tradition of painting and drawing. In 1966, he graduated from the Odessa Art College. In 1973, he received an MFA from Repin Academy, where he later worked as a professor for sixteen years. Mr. Gervits moved to the United States in 1991, working as an instructor at the New York Academy from 1992 to 2000. He has been an instructor at the Art Students League since 1997. An artist of the realist tradition and of serious academic training, Mr. Gervits is able to work in a broad spectrum of genres. His works are present in numerous state and private collections in USA and abroad (Russia, Germany, Switzerland, e.t.c.). For more information, visit www.gervits.com.
Costa Vavagiakis
Portrait Painting
June 17–21
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Fee: $800
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
In this intensive all-day workshop, we examine the construction of the portrait: from the drawing study, to the grisaille undercoat, to the finished painting. Working from a single pose for the duration of the week, students develop a thorough understanding of facial physiognomy by studying the underlying structure of the skull and features of the face. In order to ensure a good foundation for capturing likeness, emphasis is placed on the study of proportions, light, form and tonal relationships. Students learn through the instructor’s demonstrations of drawing and painting techniques, as well as lectures on the history of portrait painting.
Costa Vavagiakis currently teaches at the Art Students League of New York, The National Academy and the Gage Academy. He has been the recipient of many distinguished Awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Gregory Millard Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mr. Vavagiakis works have appeared in exhibitions at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Museum of the City of New York, NY, ACA Galleries, NY, and Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA. He has recently been featured in the publications The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist Drawing and Curve: The Female Nude Now. His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States. For more information, please visit: www.costavavagiakis.com.
Ismael Checo
How to Paint the Portrait in One Sitting
June 17-21
Monday–Friday, 6:00 pm– 9:30 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration.
This workshop is designed for the artists who want to improve their ability to recognize the shape that describes the model in a more efficient way. The workshop is based on an exercise that prepares a firm foundation for continued growth in painting. By learning to separate the shapes of light from the shapes of shadow, and by working from large areas to small, students will learn to control the value and colors of the images they will be painting.
Ismael Checo studied painting at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santo Domingo, the Arts Students League of New York, and as an apprentice in Andalusia, PA with Nelson Shanks. Later he was trained as a painting conservator in New York. His paintings explore a view of life that grows out of the Dominican/European influences that he has experienced. The human influences include irony, satire, and sarcasm. He views painting within the historical context of fine art. Since 1982, he has shown his work in many museum and gallery exhibitions. His paintings and drawings have been published in national and international books and magazines.
Frederick Brosen
Watercolor Painting along the Hudson in Riverside Park
June 24-28
Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 15 students
Please request supply list upon registration.
The first class will meet at 9:00 am at the Art Students League, Studio 6 on the 4th floor.
Come and enjoy the beautiful light of early summer along the Hudson River in Riverside Park. Ample tables and benches, as well as access to water fountains, bathrooms and refreshments, make this a comfortable and picturesque location for watercolor painting. Working on-site, each day will include both lectures and demonstrations on a variety of landscape elements, including sky techniques, tree anatomy and architectural rendering.
The subtle nuances and expressive flexibility of watercolor make it an ideal medium for landscape and cityscape subject matter. Working over an initial graphite drawing, students are taught to layer transparent washes of pure color, developing light, mass and texture within a painting. In case of inclement weather, alternatives will include enclosed park locations, local museum and gallery visits to selected watercolor exhibitions, or studio work at the League.
Frederick Brosen’s watercolors have been featured in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions across the country, and his works are in the permanent collection of many museums. In 2006 a book on his New York City paintings, Still New York, was published with an introduction by Ric Burns. In May 2012 he will have a solo show at the Museum of the City of New York’s new South Street Seaport location. He is represented by Hirschl & Adler Galleries and his most recent show there was in November 2012.
Barbara Yeterian
Expressionistic Figure Painting—
Unleashing Your Emotional Palette
June 24-28
Monday–Friday, 1:30–5:00 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
Focus will be on painting the model in an expressionistic manner. In capturing the figure, the student will learn to go beyond the superficial representation of the model, and endeavor to express the inner state, mood and essence of the figure, incorporating the student’s feeling about the subject. This can be attained by exaggerating features and gestures with non-conventional colors and brushwork, which illuminate the emotional and expressive content of the painting. The students will also learn how to effectively connect the figure with an environment that enhances and further evokes its distinctive emotional quality.
Barbara Yeterian is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and NYU with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art and art education. She also studied at the University of California, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Art Students League. Ms. Yeterian has had several solo exhibitions, including those at Jersey City University, Artsforum Gallery, the New Art Center and the Levitan Gallery. Her paintings have been widely exhibited in California, New York, New Jersey and Russia. In 1996, she was the winner of two national painting competitions. Her Genocide Paintings were chosen to be included in the Prestigious Legacy Project Website (www.legacy-project.org), sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation alongside world renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Arshile Gorky. Besides teaching at the Art Students League, Yeterian has taught children, teenagers and adults privately in her studio for many years and has developed a large following in the Bergen County area.
Anthony Antonios
Basic Figure Drawing and Anatomy:
A Sculptor’s Perspective
This workshop is sold out.
Please see the registrar to join a waiting list.
June 24-28
Monday–Friday, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Fee: $390
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration.
This workshop presents an in-depth exploration of human form through drawing. It will include anatomy, form concepts, proportion, structure, composition and design. It will also offer a conceptual approach to drawing. Individual attention will be given to each student, and there will be a daily talk and demonstration. The class will include a model. Students will get a basic foundation in figurative drawing that will give them the tools necessary for exploring personal expression and for further developing their drawing skills.
Anthony Antonios is a figurative sculptor and draftsman who works three-dimensionally and in relief. Throughout his career he’s been commissioned by many institutions, including the Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health (SC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY), and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (Wash. DC). His work has been shown nationally, and is in many collections, including Brookgreen Gardens, the British Museum and the Smithsonian. Antonios graduated from the High School of Art and Design and continued his education at Pratt Institute, the National Academy School of Fine Arts, and the Art Students League, where he studied with Robert Beverly Hale. He has taught sculpture and drawing at the League, the National Academy and the Lyme Academy. For more information, visit: www.anthonyantonios.com.
Mary Reilly
Drawing with Tone – An Introduction
July 1-3
Monday – Wednesday, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fee: $240
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This course is intended to teach students the fundamentals of a tonal graphite technique, from the initial toning of the paper to laying in darks and lifting highlights. This technique teaches a tonal approach to drawing with graphite pencil, enabling students to achieve richness and volume in their drawings. This course will cover basic materials and techniques such as layering, burnishing and erasure.
Mary Reilly studied at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy. Her graphite pencil drawings have been the subject of numerous museum and gallery shows, most recently at the Garvey Simon Art Access in Chelsea and the Museum of the City of New York. Her work has been shown in magazine articles including American Artist Drawing Magazine and is in the collections of the New York Historical Society.
Jerry Weiss
Large Scale Figure Drawing
July 1-2
Monday–Tuesday, 1:30 pm–8:00 pm
Fee: $290
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 10 students
Please request supply list upon registration
Recommended for intermediate and advanced students
In this workshop, students will draw the life-size figure on six-foot lengths of paper. Attention will be devoted to quality of line, observation of the rhythms of the standing figure, proportion, and modeling of sculptural forms through value. Topics of discussion and demonstration will include the initial blocking-in of the drawing, use of lines for comparison, attention to prominent anatomical landmarks, and shading and rendering of form through massing and linear hatching. While this practice is useful as preparation for large-scale painting, it also serves as a complete experience in and of itself. Poses range in length from one hour on Monday to a single pose on Tuesday, allowing students to build from a rapid gestural approach to a drawing of greater resolution. Each day will feature demonstrations by the instructor.
Jerry Weiss studied with Roberto Martinez in Florida, and with Harvey Dinnerstein, Robert Beverly Hale, Ted Seth Jacobs, Mary Beth McKenzie, and Jack Faragasso in New York. He has had one-man shows at the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, among others. His work is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art; the State Capitol Building, CT; and the Harvard Club of New York City. His work and teaching methods have been featured in American Artist Workshop and American Artist Drawing, and he is Contributing Editor for The Artist’s Magazine. He is represented by The Cooley Gallery, CT; Portraits Inc.; and Ingram Fine Arts, SC. For more information, please visit www.jerrynweiss.com.
Sergey Voronin
Asian Landscape Painting
July 6, 13, 20, 27
4 Saturdays, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Fee: $380
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
These four sessions will introduce students to old Far-Eastern painting traditions. Students will learn to draw and paint mountains, trees, different plants, streams and waterfalls while working in ink and watercolor with calligraphic brushes. We will work on creating a peaceful atmosphere in the artwork with foggy perspectives and mountain skylines vanishing in the background. There will be class discussions and lectures on topics like format and composition and the unique difference between Eastern and Western classical landscape painting. The instructor will demonstrate different techniques.
Voronin is an art teacher and artist from Moscow. His drawing and watercolor painting skills were acquired from the classical methods he learned at the Academy of Architecture, where he worked as a visual arts instructor for eight years after completing his studies. Voronin has also worked as an interior designer and muralist. In his own work he has been focused on city views, landscapes and architectural fantasies using watercolor, ink, pencil and related mediums; constantly experimenting with different techniques, styles and materials.
Ephraim Rubenstein
Plein Air Landscape Painting
July 8-12
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–12:30 pm
Fee per section: $400
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 15 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop provides training in direct plein air landscape painting, working on-location in various areas of Central Park. The workshop is open to beginning students, who have never worked outside before, and to more advanced students, who wish to refine their plein air handling. The course addresses issues including: direct versus indirect approaches to oil painting in the landscape, topographical versus atmospheric emphasis, and the notion of space composition. The class also offers practice in handling changing light and weather conditions. Students must have a folding French easel (or something similar).
Ephraim Rubenstein received his B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and his M.F.A. in Painting from Columbia University's School of the Arts. Mr. Rubenstein has had ten one-person exhibitions in New York, at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Tatistcheff & Co. and most recently at George Billis Gallery in Chelsea. He has also exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design, where he won the Emil Carlsen and Beatrice Laufman Awards. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Rubenstein is an active teacher and is currently on the faculty at Columbia University, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League of New York. For more information, please visit www.ephraimrubenstein.com.
Wendy Shalen
Portfolio Development - Landscape Drawing and Painting in Central Park
July 8-11
Monday–Thursday, 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
Fee: $320
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 14 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop focuses on the development of a cohesive presentation of artwork and covers plein air drawing (using reed pen and ink, or charcoal) or painting (using full color pastel or watercolor). Emphasis is placed on the strengthening of drawing and painting skills. While working from the landscape, students will be guided to complete work to be used in their portfolios for high school, college and graduate school admission.
Wendy Shalen is a graduate of Brandeis University (B.A., magna cum laude) and studied at the Art Students League with Daniel Greene, Harvey Dinnerstein and Robert Beverly Hale, and privately with Burton Silverman. She has shown at Abbot & Holder, London; Allan Stone Gallery, New York; The Katonah Museum of Art, New York; The Housatonic Museum of Art, Connecticut; The Belskie Museum, New Jersey; and several galleries in Martha’s Vineyard (Gardner Colby, Hermine Merel-Smith and Carol Craven). Her work hangs in numerous private collections. Additional information and images can be found at www.wendyshalen.com.
Recent portfolio students of Ms. Shalen have been admitted to the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard, Boston University, Cooper Union, Cornell, FIT, Duke, Georgetown, LaGuardia High School, Maine College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), New Hampshire Institute
of Art, New Jersey College, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, Savannah College of Art and Design, School of Visual Arts, Skidmore, Syracuse Univ., Univ. of Michigan, Tulane Univ., University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Univ. of Rhode Island, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, and Univ. of Southern California.
Greg Follender
Dynamic Gestural Figure Drawing
Short Pose Intensive
July 8-12
Monday–Friday, 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
Through this workshop students will discover a unique set of tools and techniques designed to distill the nude figure into its purest, gestural state. Short, timed drawings will allow participants to quickly turn the figure within deep space and represent the human form in more dramatic and challenging poses. The exercises are designed to establish easy-to-follow anatomical formulas and increased recognition of important body landmarks. The sketch sessions will build confidence exponentially until students find that they can document the human figure in dramatically less time than before, enabling them to concentrate more on the fluid expression of their marks on paper instead of the simple reportage of their subject. Rendering the human figure in a gestural, vital way can not only enhance an already well-seasoned drawing technique, but also help beginning artists to confidently render the human forms they conjure up in their mind’s eye.
Greg Follender is an artist/illustrator that has been teaching both drawing and sculpting classes at the American Museum of Natural History for over a decade. His passionate pursuit of rendering the human form has taken him from the illustrative world of comic books and graphic novels, to character design and costume fabrication in the industry of film and television. With this course, Greg returns to the roots of his work…the dynamic figure-drawing basics that inspire his personal narrative imagery.
Arslan
Sculpting the Figure
July 13 & 20
Saturdays, 10:00 am–4:30 pm
Fee: $290
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration.
Workshop held in sculpture studios in the basement.
This intensive workshop consists of a lecture, a demonstration and hands on sculpting. The course is designed to acquaint the beginner with the basics of figurative sculpture while helping more advanced students deepen their understanding of the figure. Anatomy, proportion, gesture and form will be addressed as well as capturing a likeness to the model. Each student will sculpt a figure from the live model. This course is open to all levels of experience.
Arslan received his M.F.A. from Moscow Stroganov College of Art and Design. He has had numerous solo shows both nationally and internationally. His works are in many public and private collections, and he has been honored to receive multiple awards, including the Alex J. Ettl Grant from the National Sculpture Society. He is represented by Galerie Claudine Legrand in Paris and Janus Avivson in London. For more information please visit arslanart.com.
Wendy Shalen
Portfolio Development - Self-Portraiture in Line, Tone and Color
July 15-18,
Monday–Thursday, 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
Fee: $320
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 13 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop focuses on the development of a cohesive presentation of artwork and covers self-portraiture using linear and tonal approaches to drawing. Emphasis is placed on the strengthening of drawing and painting skills. While working on self-portraiture students will be guided to complete work to be used in their portfolios for high school, college and graduate school admission. Students may work with black and white charcoal and sanguine conté, reed pen and ink, and silverpoint. Pastel painters are welcome. Thorough explanations of each technique will be given on an individual basis. (Image right: Work by Gina Hatch, student of Wendy Shalen)
Wendy Shalen is a graduate of Brandeis University (B.A., magna cum laude) and studied at the Art Students League with Daniel Greene, Harvey Dinnerstein and Robert Beverly Hale, and privately with Burton Silverman. She has shown at Abbot & Holder, London; Allan Stone Gallery, New York; The Katonah Museum of Art, New York; The Housatonic Museum of Art, Connecticut; The Belskie Museum, New Jersey; and several galleries in Martha’s Vineyard (Gardner Colby, Hermine Merel-Smith and Carol Craven). Her work hangs in numerous private collections. Additional information and images can be found at www.wendyshalen.com.
Recent portfolio students of Ms. Shalen have been admitted to the Art Institute of Chicago, Bard, Boston University, Cooper Union, Cornell, FIT, Duke, Georgetown, LaGuardia High School, Maine College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), New Hampshire Institute
of Art, New Jersey College, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, Savannah College of Art and Design, School of Visual Arts, Skidmore, Syracuse Univ., Univ. of Michigan, Tulane Univ., University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Univ. of Rhode Island, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, and Univ. of Southern California.
Lisa Dinhofer
The Magic of Color in Theory and Practice
July 15-19
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 14 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop will focus on color—how it works and why it works—through practice rather than theory. Experience is the only route to a working vocabulary of color ideas. This one week workshop will begin with the classic study of the interaction of color using Josef Albers’ techniques, primarily with cut paper and collage. The students will then explore the density and transparency of light and color, through careful observation from life with color pencils. Color creates magic in any work of art, and this workshop will teach each student how. Students of all skill levels and disciplines are welcome.
Lisa Dinhofer—painter, draftswoman and printmaker—earned her BA with honors from Brandeis University. For two years, she participated in the summer program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, later receiving her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo shows were at Purdue University (Indiana, 2010) and at Denise Bibro Fine Art (New York, 2013). Her paintings, drawings and prints are widely collected, and publicly represented at Brooklyn Museum of Art, City College (CUNY), IBM and other venues. In 2003, she completed a 90-foot glass mosaic mural, Losing My Marbles, which was commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program. It is centrally located at the Times Square subway station. Currently, Ms. Dinhofer is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York. For more information please visit www.lisadinhofer.com.
Edmond Rochat
Contrapposto: An Introduction
July 15–19
Monday–Friday, 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present every day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
The movements of the body have been the fascination of artists for centuries. Drawing from the live model, the class will analyze the way in which the body organizes itself through a theme of counter positioning forms known as contrapposto. The body reacts to its specific circumstances, whether in repose or in a state of dynamic response, by composing its forms in a constant state of oscillation. By introducing students to various structural analogs and the potentials of human motion, students will start to become sensitized to the various ways in which the principle of contrapposto manifests itself. Lectures and individual critiques will be supplemented by an introduction to concepts of human anatomy and the nature of gesture.
Edmond Rochat studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at duCret School of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Janus Collaborative School of Art. He supplemented his studies as lab assistant for advanced artistic anatomy offered by Janus Collaborative School of Art and hosted by Drexel University School of Medicine. Rochat received the Dr. Furman Fink Award for portraiture, and the Chairman's Award from the Salmagundi Club's Junior/Scolarship members show. He was also awarded a grant from the John F. and Anne Lee Stacey Scholarship Fund, which he used to study Greek and Renaissance sculpture at the Slater Memorial museum. His works have appeared in the Persimmon Hill Journal and in The Visual Language of Drawing: Lessons on the Art of Seeing. He currently teaches figure drawing and painting at the Janus Collaborative School of Art.
Max Ginsburg
Painting from Life - Traditional Realism, Alla Prima Painting
July 22-26
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am–4:30 pm
Fee: $800
Instructor present every day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop will be concerned with the development of traditional realistic painting. We will concentrate on seeing the relationship of shapes, values and colors as they appear on the model and the set up. Careful observation of form will be stressed to achieve the unique character of the model.
During the five days of this workshop we will paint a single model and a two figure composition as follows:
- Day 1: Paint a portrait.
- Day 2: Paint a figure composition.
- Day 3. Paint studies for a two figure composition.
- Days 4 & 5: Paint a two figure composition
Max Ginsburg has exhibited extensively. He recently had a retrospective at The Butler Institute of American Art (Sept. 15 - Nov. 13, 2011) and at The Salmagundi Club (Summer of 2011 and at other public venues. He has won many awards, most recently the "Best in Show" in the Art Renewal Center online competition of 2011 for his War Pieta painting. Several of his paintings are touring five museums in China with the World Art Museum and ACOPAL in 2012 - 2013. From 1980 - 2004 he was one of America's foremost illustrators and for over forty years he taught art at The Art Students League, The School of Visual Art and the High School of Art and Design. Ginsburg recently published a coffee table art book of his paintings (1956 - 2010), "Max Ginsburg - Retrospective", available at the ASL Store and online at www.ginsburgretro.com. He has also recently completed a DVD which includes a three hour "Painting from Life" Demo, an Interview, his Exhibition at The Butler Institute and more. To see trailer and order visit www.ginsburgvideo.com. For more information, please visit www.maxginsburg.com.
Fred Bendheim
Principles of Composition
July 29-31
Monday - Wednesday, 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Fee: $250
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop is for art students of all levels who wish to learn the principles and history of composition in the visual arts, and to explore these ideas in their own work. We will work in a variety of media to explore the basics, the subtleties and the pure excitement of creative work in drawing, painting and other media. Students will learn about composing for figurative and for abstract work, about the “key points” of the picture plane, about rules to follow and rules to break. Students will learn that composition is crucial to visual design, but that it is not a static set of rules, but is a dynamic tool adaptable to the intentions of the artist. Students will be encouraged to find their own solutions in their art with practical help.
Fred Bendheim has exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Costa Rica, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, the Plotkin Museum, Jason McCoy Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Art, the Arsenal Gallery, Bradley International Airport, McGrath Galleries, The Brooklyn Public Library, Mayo Center for Humanities and Simon Liu Gallery. Commissions include sculptures for Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and paintings for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. In addition to his paintings and sculptures, Mr. Bendheim is known for his drawings, public art, collages, and illustrations. He has written many articles about art for the British journal, The Lancet. He teaches art in New York City.
Edmond Rochat
Drawing Hands and Feet
July 29 - August 2
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–12:30 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present every day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
The aim of this workshop is to gain a greater awareness of the structures and movements of the hands and feet. The hands and feet initiate and complete the body's response to intended action. Furthermore, hands and feet should not be neglected as carriers of emotion over the overt visual cues of the face: they contain expressive power in spite of what the face may convey. The hands and feet are elusive because of their complexity, but understanding their subtlety of action unlocks the depth of human expression. We will combine the anatomy of hands and feet and structural analogs to arrive at a three-dimensional understanding of form. In addition, we will apply other principles such as light, gesture, and perspective to create holistically organized drawings of hands and feet.
Edmond Rochat studied painting, drawing, and sculpture at duCret School of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Janus Collaborative School of Art. He supplemented his studies as lab assistant for advanced artistic anatomy offered by Janus Collaborative School of Art and hosted by Drexel University School of Medicine. Rochat received the Dr. Furman Fink Award for portraiture, and the Chairman's Award from the Salmagundi Club's Junior/Scolarship members show. He was also awarded a grant from the John F. and Anne Lee Stacey Scholarship Fund, which he used to study Greek and Renaissance sculpture at the Slater Memorial museum. His works have appeared in the Persimmon Hill Journal and in The Visual Language of Drawing: Lessons on the Art of Seeing. He currently teaches figure drawing and painting at the Janus Collaborative School of Art.
Jack Faragasso
Landscape Foundation Workshop
July 29 - August 2
Monday–Friday, 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop is a complete unique landscape painting program that will take place in the studio. It will enable the students to approach painting outdoors with confidence. The workshop is designed to reorient the student’s vision to see natures colors, values and moods more accurately as well as how we think and feel about them. There will be lectures, demonstrations and studio work to prepare you to paint—both in black and white, and in color—the ever-changing outdoor colors and values. Painting technique and the basic palette for painting skies, trees and foliage is explained, as well as the various steps in painting trees. Also discussed is the painting of clouds, mountains, streams, and stormy skies; dawn and dusk; sunrise and sunset; and autumn and winter. The workshop then covers the color note and value theory, the landscape sketch and finally a finished landscape. The last half hour of each session will be devoted to making an oil study of the topic discussed. Students may bring in their work for critique and advice.
Since 1968, Jack Faragasso has taught drawing and painting to students of all levels at the Art Students League of New York. Mr. Faragasso studied at the League, both in New York City and in Woodstock, NY. He studied with instructor Frank J. Reilly at the Woodstock location during summers, learning to paint landscape and the figure in outdoor lighting. He has enjoyed a lengthy career as a fine artist, illustrator, art instructor and writer. He is the author of The Students Guide to Painting, Mastering Drawing the Human Figure from Life, Memory, Imagination and The Early Photographs of Bettie Page, an American Icon. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections.
Deborah Winiarski
Encaustic Monotype Printmaking
August 3 and 10
Saturdays,10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fee: $330 (includes $30 materials fee)
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
This workshop combines the directness and immediacy of the monotype with the richness and luminosity of encaustic painting. This versatile process eliminates the multiple steps of encaustic painting, and the toxicity of inks and solvents of traditional printmaking on a press. Drawing with pigmented wax, students will create one-of-a-kind prints by ‘pulling’ their painted image directly from a heated plate—no printing press required! Encaustic monotype lends itself to natural and spontaneous mark making, allowing for extensive creative exploration. Additional techniques including stenciling, stamping and blocking will be explored the ‘encaustic’ way. Demos and discussions will include paper possibilities, wax recipes, basic studio set-up, etc. Whether used as a primary body of work or combined with mixed-media, collage or book arts, encaustic monotype offers endless possibilities for today’s artist. Ample time for hands-on work will be provided. No prior experience in encaustic painting or printmaking is necessary for this workshop. Prior workshop registrants are welcome.
Deborah Winiarski has been teaching encaustic workshops at the Art Students League of New York since 2009. Her encaustic work has been exhibited at venues in New York City and across the United States. In 2012, her work was included in the National Encaustic Art Exhibition at The Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM; The Wax Book: Altered, Repurposed, Remade at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA; and WAX: Contemporary Encaustic Works at Pajaro Valley Arts Council in Watsonville, CA. Her work will also be included in the upcoming 3rd edition of Embracing Encaustic. For more information about the instructor, please visit: www.deborahwiniarski.com.
Costa Vavagiakis
Portrait Drawing: Approaches and Practices
August 5–9
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Fee: $800
Instructor present each day
Enrollment is limited to 14 students
Please request supply list upon registration
Throughout the history of western art, portrait drawing has remained a vital artistic practice. Artists such as Michelangelo, Holbein, Van Dyck, and Ingres have explored this motif. These works speak to us because they are immediate, direct and honest. This workshop focuses on the methods and tools needed to draw a portrait with accuracy and feeling. Students learn to capture the likeness and unique personality of the sitter by carefully observing the subtleties of the human face. Composition, perspective, proportions and the effects of light and dark will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on an in-depth investigation of the underlying structure of the head, skull and facial features. There will be a weeklong pose and each day the class will be augmented by lectures and demonstrations.
Costa Vavagiakis currently teaches at the Art Students League of New York, The National Academy and the Gage Academy. He has been the recipient of many distinguished Awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Gregory Millard Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mr. Vavagiakis works have appeared in exhibitions at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Museum of the City of New York, NY, ACA Galleries, NY, and Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA. He has recently been featured in the publications The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist Drawing and Curve: The Female Nude Now. His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States. For more information, please visit: www.costavavagiakis.com.
Aydasara Ortega featuring Ruben Rivera
Papermaking
August 5-9
Monday–Friday, 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Fee: $440 (includes $40 materials fee)
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop offers an introduction to the papermaking process, including how to pull sheets of paper, as well as various papermaking and artistic techniques. Each session includes a lecture, demonstration, viewing of works from the instructor’s portfolios, and hands-on experimentation:
- Making Paper/Sheet forming
- Embedded papers
- Embossed papers
- Dying pulps/Pulp painting
- Dry papers
Aydasara Ortega's interest in making paper stems from her longtime efforts to personalize her own artwork through distinctive textures and forms. Over the years, she has experimented with a wide variety of materials in a quest for papermaking techniques that provide the creator an enriching experience. With a Master of Arts, she teaches extensively. Aydasara's artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Ruben Rivera Matos is a visual artist originally from Puerto Rico and now residing in New York. While working with handmade paper, Ruben is constantly aware about the relationship of his design and the texture of the handmade paper selected as substrate for the artwork. The resultant images, always unexpected in this process, have completely different characters; as the dialogue with the medium of painting and with his drawings are different ones. For more information, please visit: www.rubenart.com.
Sylvie Covey
Photoshop for Artists
August 12-16
Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
This workshop is designed for painters, printmakers and visual artists who want to discover and develop their computer skills with Photoshop and apply them in various techniques of visual fine art. This workshop will cover: drawing and painting digitally; working with layers and masks; learning color modes and adjustments; transforming, editing and retouching images; sepia toning; and using infrared and Sabattier effects. The instructor will provide notes and images for exercises, and students will also be able to work from their own images and photographs.
Computer requirements: Students must bring their own laptops (Mac or PC) with Photoshop software installed (there is a free 30 day trial version).
Sylvie Covey is currently an instructor at the Art Students League, FIT, and the Art Center of Northern New Jersey. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and received a BA from Empire State College and an MFA from Hunter College. Ms. Covey has been represented by Denise Cadé Gallery and is currently represented by the Old Printshop Gallery in New York City. For more information about the artist, visit www.sylviecovey.net.
Ephraim Rubenstein
Plein Air Landscape Painting
August 12-16
Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–12:30 pm
Fee: $400
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 15 students
Please request supply list upon registration
This workshop provides training in direct plein air landscape painting, working on-location in various areas of Central Park. The workshop is open to beginning students, who have never worked outside before, and to more advanced students, who wish to refine their plein air handling. The course addresses issues including: direct versus indirect approaches to oil painting in the landscape, topographical versus atmospheric emphasis, and the notion of space composition. The class also offers practice in handling changing light and weather conditions. Students must have a folding French easel (or something similar).
Ephraim Rubenstein received his B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and his M.F.A. in Painting from Columbia University's School of the Arts. Mr. Rubenstein has had ten one-person exhibitions in New York, at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Tatistcheff & Co. and most recently at George Billis Gallery in Chelsea. He has also exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design, where he won the Emil Carlsen and Beatrice Laufman Awards. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Rubenstein is an active teacher and is currently on the faculty at Columbia University, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League of New York. For more information, please visit www.ephraimrubenstein.com.
Mary Beth McKenzie
Monotypes
August 12–16
Monday–Friday, 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list upon registration
A monotype is a painting or drawing that has been printed on paper. Because monotypes must be done quickly, the application of paint is bold and loose and can be very expressive. The process of making a monotype is relatively simple:
The first method is similar to painting on canvas (light-field). Paint or ink is applied directly to a clean non-porous surface such as Plexiglas, plastic or glass. When paper is pressed to this surface, provided the paint or ink is still wet, the image transfers to the paper. When the paper is removed, the image will be reversed.
In the second method (dark-field), a fairly thick layer of ink or paint is spread or rolled evenly over a nonabsorbent surface, such as Plexiglas, plastic or glass, and the image is wiped away or extracted from this dark tone. The workshop focuses on these and other methods of doing monotypes with demonstrations and live models. Only a spoon is needed for printing.
Mary Beth McKenzie has 3 oil paintings as well as several monotypes in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work has been on exhibit in the museum three times; most recently with the monotype Trapeze Artist, on display in a circus installation in Johnson Gallery for prints and drawings, Aug.-Nov., 2012. A Monotype was on display in 2009 and a self-portrait was on view Jan.-Sept., 2001 in the exhibit “Looking At You”. She is a painting instructor at the Art Students League of New York and at the National Academy, where she was elected a member in 1994. For more information, please visit www.marybethmckenzie.com.
Workshop Refund Policy
In the event a student chooses to withdraw after registering for a workshop, a 75% tuition refund will be granted when a student submits a “Request for Refund Form” (available in the office or online), by fax: (212) 541-7024, email: info@artstudentsleague.org or in person at least five (5) business days before the start date of the workshop. No refunds will be given within four (4) business days of a workshop. Materials fees are not refundable. Refunds are by check or ASL credit, only.
Workshop Cancellation Policy
Workshops are subject to cancellation. In the event of cancellation by the Art Students League, registered workshop students will receive a 100% tuition refund. Workshops may be cancelled on short notice. No refunds are given for travel expenses due to cancellations or schedule changes.
Admission to our workshop is on a first come, first serve basis. Admission will not be in excess of our studio capacity and therefore a waiting list will be generated. Tickets can not be reserved and are not guaranteed and are subject to change.