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Create Your Own Art Gallery with Marisabel Artieda – Fall 2025
8 weeks
Thursdays, 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM | September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November 6 and 13
The Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot
This unique class will guide you to create small art work that you will be able to hang in your own art gallery box! You will draw, paint and construct your unique art space. Let’s create master pieces!
Handmade Bookmarks with Marisabel Artieda – Fall 2025
8 weeks
Saturdays, 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8 and 15
Location: The Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot
This class is ideal for the Fall! You can start creating unique bookmarks in acrylic and watercolor for your books. Ideal also for presents for your family. We will provide different designs for you to get inspired. We will also have art books of different artists to motivate you!
Cancellation Policy
Participants who withdraw from a class must request a refund or credit more than 14 days prior to the start of the class in order to receive a full refund or credit (minus a $20 cancellation fee or 10% for one-day workshops).
Participants who cancel a registration between 8 and 14 days prior to the start of the class may receive a 50% refund or credit.
Participants who cancel a registration less than 7 days prior to the start of the class will not receive a refund or credit.
Washington Art Association does not offer prorating for classes, and there are no make-ups, credits or refunds if a student misses a class.
Membership fees are non-refundable.
From Studio to Submission: Developing and Presenting a Professional Art Practice with Nicole Bricker – Fall Class 2025
8 weeks
Thursdays, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM | September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6 and 131
Virtual Class
This professional development course is designed for visual artists who are ready to take the next step in their careers by refining the way they present themselves and their work. Through a series of focused weekly topics, group discussions, and hands-on assignments, artists will develop a comprehensive, professional toolkit to support submissions and representation.
Participants will work with existing bodies of work to build materials such as an artist statement, bio, digital portfolio, and pricing sheet. The course also covers best practices in documentation, presentation, marketing, and navigating relationships with galleries and institutions. Artists will leave with a clearer understanding of how to position themselves professionally and confidently pursue new opportunities. This is not a studio production class though continued making is encouraged, the emphasis is on strengthening the visibility, clarity, and professionalism of your existing practice.
Week 1 – Who Are You as an Artist
Define your creative voice through reflection, group dialogue, and image-based introductions.
Week 2 – Editing and Curating Your Work
Learn to select and sequence artwork that tells a clear and compelling visual story.
Week 3 – Critique and Constructive Feedback
Sharpen your editing skills through peer feedback and guided critique exercises.
Week 4 – Writing the Artist Statement and Bio
Craft a clear and meaningful artist statement and bio with peer review and support.
Week 5 – Presenting Your Work Professionally
Build confidence in documenting and formatting your work for both physical and digital presentation.
Week 6 – Working with Galleries and Arts Professionals
Gain insight into gallery relationships, professional expectations, and how to find opportunities that align with your work.
Week 7 – Pricing Your Work with Confidence and Clarity
Establish sustainable pricing grounded in value, consistency, and market context.
Week 8 – Final Presentation and Feedback
Share your completed artist toolkit and receive feedback to support your next steps. Outcomes:
A strong foundation in presenting your work professionally
Develop a polished digital portfolio, artist statement, and bio that clearly communicate your voice and vision.
A toolkit for navigating the art world with confidence
Gain practical knowledge in documentation, pricing, and gallery standards so you can pursue opportunities with clarity and professionalism.
A clear path forward with your work
Leave with a focused series, personalized feedback, and a list of next steps tailored to your goals as an artist.
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Mixed Media Collage with Heather Neilson – Fall 2025
6 weeks
Saturdays, 9:30 PM to 12:00 PM | October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8 and 15
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio
There is a $5 Supply Fee payable to the instructor.
Explore creative possibilities in this six-week abstract mixed media collage course. Working with acrylic paint and paper, you’ll begin by creating a library of personal collage materials—painted papers rich with color, texture, pattern, and mark making.
From there, you’ll explore how to combine these elements using key design principles like value, color, shape, and composition. Through a mix of guided exercises and open exploration, you’ll learn how to layer confidently, balance spontaneity with structure, and develop your own visual language.
This course is perfect for artists who want to loosen up, experiment freely, and expand their creative toolkit. Whether you’re new to mixed media or looking to deepen your practice, you’ll leave with fresh ideas, new techniques, and a body of work that’s uniquely yours.
Please note: This is an instructional and cumulative course with no make-up sessions. If you expect to miss more than two classes and are new to the course, consider enrolling at a time when you can attend the majority of sessions.
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Making the Unfamiliar: Experiments in Form and Matter – An experimental art lab for curious makers and material risk-takers with Nicole Bricker – Fall Class 2025
8 weeks
Mondays, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM | September 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3 and 10
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio
This class invites artists and creatives of all disciplines to step outside traditional methods and into a space of discovery, play, and transformation. Through a series of weekly challenges, you’ll deconstruct familiar forms, explore unconventional tools and materials, and allow process rather than perfection to guide your making. Each session combines hands-on experimentation with sketchbook prompts and material investigations designed to build toward a personal body of exploratory work.
Expect to paint on objects, stitch through memory, let time and gravity leave their mark, and reflect on the unexpected pathways your materials take you down. Whether you’re a seasoned artist looking to shake things up, or a curious beginner, this course prioritizes resourcefulness over polish and process over product.
Week 1 – Material Encounters
Start the course by engaging directly with materials without a defined outcome. Using both conventional and unconventional matter, you’ll investigate texture, resistance, fragility, and form. This session focuses on intuitive response, material curiosity, and noticing habits around control, polish, and perfection.
Week 2 – The Unlikely Canvas
What happens when you reject traditional surfaces? This week focuses on making work on materials like fabric, wood, or metal—learning how support affects expression.
Week 3 – Tools That Don’t Belong
This session challenges traditional mark-making by using unexpected tools—brooms, forks, or rope—to expand your visual language and surface experimentation.
Week 4 – The Material Remembers
Explore how materials carry memory, story, and identity. Hair, wax, fabric, and family photos become vehicles for exploring emotion and personal narrative through form.
Week 5 – Gravity, Decay, and Time
This week invites a collaboration with natural forces. Melting, stretching, eroding, and decomposing materials become active agents in your process.
Week 6 – Stitch, Bind, Wrap
Working with textile techniques and physical joining, we explore what it means to hold together, mend, or wrap. These gestures open conversations about care, tension, and repair.
Week 7 – Hybrid Experiments
Push the boundaries of your practice by blending materials, disciplines, or approaches. Try things that feel wrong. Break your habits and follow unexpected outcomes.
Week 8 – Final Works + Process Archive
Draw from your previous investigations to create a small set of completed works. Reflect on your sketchbook, select through-lines, and build a personal archive of your process and discoveries.
Outcomes:
Discover new ways of working with materials through hands-on experimentation, creative prompts, and supportive group dialogue.
Learn to document, reflect on, and edit your process in ways that deepen your understanding of your own creative voice.
Leave with either a small series or clear next steps for your practice, grounded in unexpected discoveries and new directions.
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A Nude in the Church with Bryan LeBoeuf – Fall 2025
8 weeks
Sundays, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2 and 9
Location: The Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot
This life drawing class aims to build the fundamental basis of drawing through direct observation. Throughout the weeks long course, it will address key components of line, form, gesture, light, shadow, composition, and perspective all concentrated through the figure at incremental pose lengths in time. Students should come away with a core of a working method from beginning and completion of drawing through observing the live model.
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Drawing the Portrait with Bryan LeBoeuf – Fall 2025
8 weeks
Sundays, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM | September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 6 and 9
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio, Washington Depot
Drop-ins welcome!
This class will aim to examine methods of making the portrait through various mediums but primarily executed and limited to drawing in (charcoal) from direct observation. It will stress the key factors of rendering the head and those specific to the portrait such as gesture, likeness, proportions, light structure, composition, and mark making.
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A Nude in the Church with Bryan LeBoeuf – Summer Session II 2025
6 weeks
Sundays, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | August 10, 17, 24, 31, September 7 and 14
Location: The Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot
Drop-ins welcome!
This life drawing class aims to build the fundamental basis of drawing through direct observation. Throughout the weeks long course, it will address key components of line, form, gesture, light, shadow, composition, and perspective all concentrated through the figure at incremental pose lengths in time. Students should come away with a core of a working method from beginning and completion of drawing through observing the live model.
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Life Drawing monitored by Marc Chabot – Fall Class 2025
Tuesdays, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Thursdays, 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio
No pre-registration required – Drop-ins welcome! | $15 Members/ $17 Non-members per session
This popular ongoing event is An Open Life Drawing Session where students and professional artists alike may draw at their own pace from various live models to study the anatomy of the human form. We begin with four five minute poses to warm up, the balance of the evening the poses are of a twenty minute duration, allowing for a more developed, finished drawing. While there is no formal instruction, the atmosphere is friendly camaraderie and mutual support in building confidence.
The Art of Seeing Like a Photographer with Rich Pomerantz – Fall Class 2025
8 weeks
Tuesdays, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM | September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, and 18
Location: The Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot
In this class we will learn how to see and capture what we see with our camera as opposed to just looking and snapping. We will discuss light, composition, black and white and color and basic camera functions in an effort to create imagery that is more than what you have seen before and to find your own voice and express it through the lens. There will be homework assignments and class reviews of your images in an open and sharing environment.
https://richpomerantz.com/portfolios
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