Category: Art Classes
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Category: Art Classes

News from our art classes in Old Town Alexandria, including teacher interviews, videos from inside the classroom, and updates on teachers and students. Find out what’s going on at the School and what class you want to take next!

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You’ll find a number of new instructors in the mix this school year, teaching drawing, painting, photography, mosaics, clay animation, and fashion illustration….
The 2014–15 catalog for The Art League School is here! Classes will be uploaded to our website over the next few days, and print…
With the second week of Art Camp drawing to a close, here’s an update on some of what was happening over at the Madison…
This summer is your chance to dive into a new art class, whether you’re starting something you’ve never tried before or continuing a lifetime…
What is a microcontroller? It’s another tool in the artist’s kit. A way to add lights, sound, and movement and make artwork interactive and…
Born in Alexandria, drawing since age two, and now on his way to teach in Shanghai, Dan Thompson is leading a workshop next month…
At The Art League School, the world is our classroom, and what better time than the spring to take advantage of that?…
Linear perspective is an essential component to representational painting….
One of the most frequently asked questions at The Art League School is “what class is good for beginners”?…
Students in Marsha Staiger’s class Emerge: Advanced Acrylic/Mixed Media explored mediums and gels this Winter….
“Some watercolor artists tend to define wet-in-wet watercolor and glazing watercolor as two totally separate and opposed approaches to the medium. I tend to…
“My focus shifted from the end product to the experimental act, which made me more audacious and less critical.”…
This month and into April, The Art League is offering workshops for emerging and professional artists who want to learn more about marketing, taxes,…
The workshop instructor, longtime Art League teacher Bobbi Pratte, sent us some images she painted on the iPad, along with this note:…
In addition to wet felting and nuno felting, these pieces incorporate techniques like hand-dyeing and millinery — see below for the key….
We asked artist Nada Abizaid, a graphic designer during the day, about taking ceramics classes and creating the piece that won the Dennis Davis…
Our slate of youth and teen classes is well-represented in an exhibit just upstairs from the Gallery, on the second floor of the Torpedo…
“People say watercolor is unforgiving, which just means you have to enjoy risk and accident. I’m trying to get there.”…
When you see something that makes you say “Wow, I want to learn how to do that,” just take a look at the tag…
Registration is now open for Art Camp 2014 at The Art League!…
In an exhibit here at the Torpedo Factory, you can see all the different, beautiful ways students have used the color, texture, and translucency…
This is your chance to shake off the cabin fever and bring the creative part of your brain out of hibernation….
If you’re interested in going to the upcoming travel workshop to Ethiopia, it’s not too late!…