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.
 

Winter-Spring 2012 Catalog
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Ongoing Classes

If you have had previous art experience and are comfortable with the fundamentals, our ongoing classes offer you opportunities for continuity in your studies. They have been designed to provide students individualized learning in an open studio environment. Classes are typically offered September through May and students may join at any time. To fit your schedule, you have the option of prorated classes. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Workshops

Our specialty workshops allow you to focus on a specialized technique or subject, or encourage you to explore a new art form, media or style. Each of these workshops may be offered for an intense day or two, or from one to three months and are presented by our faculty or guest artists and presenters.
 

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.