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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The 92nd 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 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:
Check out there offerings here.
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.
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 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.
For ceramic enthusiasts check out Mugi Pottery on the UWS
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.
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.
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.
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
