Get in touch with your creativity: Summer Art Classes for Adults in New York City 2014

Summer is a great time to get creative and invest in your self! Here are a list of some select museums, art centers and unique classes that will inspire and develop your inner artist in New York City. From traditional fine arts and photography to film production, sewing and pottery classes; New York City has it all. Adults need creative play time too!

International Center of Photography (ICP)

ICP is centrally located in midtown Manhattan and has a beautiful darkroom facility and offers classes and workshops for adults in foundation and techniques and professional practice. They have an open house to tour facilities, meet faculty and learn more about their continuing education program.  

School Open House

School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas

Friday, June 6, 6:00pm

The School at ICP offers more than 400 courses that range from traditional film and darkroom practice to digital media.  Learn more about summer courses here.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The Peoples Art Center

For adults who like Modern Art and Ideas you can explore various periods of modern and contemporary art through programs led by MoMA curators and other prominent experts, both inside and outside MoMA’s galleries. Check out there offerings here.

They also offer online courses http://www.moma.org/learn/courses/online#online

The Frick Collection

The Frick offers FREE sketch programs and interesting lectures/symposiums that focus on themes like Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States. Check out summer offerings for adults here.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gain fresh perspectives through a wide range of programs and resources for the novice as well as the expert. From artists talks to art making courses The Met has it all, whether you are an artist or an art appreciator. Check out summer offerings here.

Educational Alliance

The Educational Alliance has three downtown locations that offer a variety of multi-session summer courses like stone carving and portrait drawing. The Spring session ends at the end of June and they haven’t posted summer courses as of this post.

Uptown 92nd Street Y 

The 92^nd Street Y has a lot of adult offerings from jewelry making and ceramics to Plein Air painting in Central Park. Check out the plethora of offerings here.

The Arts Student League

The reknown Arts Students League is a great place to take a course where you can do monthly full-time, part time classes or drop in on a casual drawing session. They have a great open drawing class where you can pay $6.00 to do a live model sketch with no instructor for those who can’t commit but need there live drawing fix. You need to register before taking any classes workshops... Check out how it all works here.

Downtown Community Television (DCTV)DCTV is not just a learning center; they are a community of aspiring, emerging and established filmmakers and offer a variety of workshops in producing, production, postproduction and more. If you want to learn Wordpress, or how to create your own website in several sessions with small classes up to nine people, this is your place to go. It also offers a variety of classes that delve into all aspects of digital media, filmmaking that include:

·  Graphic & Web Design

·  Producing

·  Production

·  Post-Production

Check out there offerings here.

The Sewing Studio

For those of you who miss the days of Home Economics and want to learn how to sew on a machine, this is a great place to go in the Chelsea area. I took a wonderful weeklong class last summer that met my expectations and reintroduced me to a past love, sewing! Check out their classes and boot camps here.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Get your art on and explore the public programs that encompass seminars with artists, critics, writers, and scholars participate in roundtable conversations and panel discussions that respond to works on view and to broader trends within American culture at large. Check out there summer offerings here.

The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum has some great public programs this summer like gallery talks about there exhibitions that include Mel Bochner's Strong Language and Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, the first American museum exhibition to survey the style now known as Minimalism. Click here for a list of summer programs.

Mugi Pottery

For ceramic enthusiasts check out Mugi Pottery on the UWS

http://www.mugipottery.com/adult-pottery-classes

They offer kid and ADULT pottery classes and the summer session runs for 6 weeks from June 23 thru Aug 3, 2014, 6 weeks for $245.00. For more info, click here.

Mugi Pottery can also host parties/events and have an evening called couples night with an introduction to hand building techniques for functional pottery.

ArtMuse

I discovered this organization called ArtMuse in my search for adult classes and this group offers customized tours in NYC and Europe to get your art and culture juices flowing. They provide personal and custom tours and have a comprehensive website that describes who they are and what they offer. Worth reading if you are a serious art lover who wants to cultivate a customized experience for a group. 

From their website:

What is ArtMuse?
ArtMuse offers exceptional art experiences in New York City and Europe through museums, galleries, auction houses, art fairs, and artist studios. We offer Scheduled Tours & Class Series and Custom Designed Private Tours for adults, kids, and families in New York City, London, Paris, Rome, and Florence. ArtMuse tours can be customized regarding subject matter and degree of depth according to your interests and existing knowledge. We gear these tours and classes towards those who wish to have a new, cultural experience in an artistic city center of the world.

Dr. Sketchy Anti-Art School

For the anti art school crowd who seekd and alternative drawing experience there is Dr. Sketchy art classes… you may ask what is Dr. Sketchy's anti-art school?

From their website:

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art school is the world's premier alternative drawing movement. Artists draw glamorous underground performers in an atmosphere of boozy conviviality. Found in 2005 in a dive bar in Brooklyn, Dr. Sketchy's has now spread to over 100 cities around the world.

They have events all over, so check out there site. The next event in New York City celebrates Gay Pride at the historic Stonewall Inn.

Sun, June 15, 2014 • 4:00pm - Dr. Sketchy’s NYC - Queen’s Men