People love watching visual art in progress, whether you’re documenting, demonstrating, or just talking about it.

October 13, 2017

Experience “Splendid Fortitude”

Exhibits

M. Jane Johnson builds her mixed-media paintings layer by layer, piece by piece, using scrapes of paint and scraps of paper.

January 27, 2017

4 Kinds of Videos Artists Can Make Right Now

Artful Resources

Making your first artist video can seem like a daunting task, but the truth is that you probably already have your video camera in your pocket, and free editing software on your computer.

December 22, 2016

Charcoal Drawing Demo with Scott Hutchison

Art Classes

Drawing transparent objects sounds difficult, but Art League instructor Scott Hutchison demonstrates a simple approach in the video above.

June 2, 2016

Watch Two New Instructor Demos

Art Classes

You can now watch Learning from Per Kirkeby with Delna Dastur, and a Structural Drawing Demo with Dan Thompson.

April 14, 2016

Watch Teresa Oaxaca’s Drawing Demo

Events, Exhibits

If you missed yesterday's still-life drawing demonstration in the Gallery, you're in luck!

November 12, 2015

Watching (& Sketching) the John Singer Sargent Talk

Events

For anyone who missed last week's lecture on John Singer Sargent, given by scholar Richard Ormond, we have good news!

June 25, 2015

Watch: Woodblock Printmaking in Action

Art Classes

June 5, 2015

New Videos Coming Soon!

Art Classes

There are new videos headed your way from our Spring classes! We're working on editing them now, so until they're posted, here's a little preview.

May 22, 2015

One Month Until Art Camp!

Art Classes

To start the countdown, here's a video featuring cartoonist and t-shirt designer Cole Goco.

March 14, 2015

One Million YouTube Views!!

News

Sometime Wednesday morning, an Art League video was watched for the 1,000,000th time on YouTube!

March 2, 2015

Two Trompe L’œil Demos with Patrick Kirwin

Art Classes

Patrick Kirwin, a trompe l’oeil master, shares his bag of tricks in his classes at The Art League. We recently visited the classroom to see how he paints picture-perfect marble.

November 7, 2014

Watch the Portrait & Figure Festival Keynote

Art Classes, Events

We've just uploaded the video of Portrait & Figure Festival's opening keynote and panel discussion, featuring Ted Reed, Danni Dawson, Rob Liberace, and Dan Thompson.

September 18, 2014

Last Chance to See the Athenaeum Exhibit

Exhibits

If you haven't seen “Influence & Inspiration,” the 60th anniversary exhibit at the Athenaeum, this weekend is your last chance!

September 4, 2014

The 2014 Art Camp Photo/Video Scrapbook

Art Classes

Sharing everything that happened at Art Camp this year would take another summer. So instead, here's a short scrapbook with some photos and videos from the past few weeks.

April 25, 2014

Art on the Rocks: A Pop Art Preview

Events

The Pop Art edition of Art on the Rocks is less than a week away, and our competing restaurants are beginning to reveal the cocktails they've created for the evening.

March 7, 2014

The Ikebana Show: Open Through Sunday Only!

Exhibits

It comes but once every two years, and in a few days it'll be gone again: the 15th Biennial Ikebana Exhibit is here!

November 21, 2013

Sculpture Class Finale

George's Artistic Adventure

Last week was the end of Fall classes here at The Art League School, which also meant it was time for my latest artistic venture to come to a close.

November 15, 2013

Sculpture Class: What We’re Up To

George's Artistic Adventure

I'll share my finished sculpture in a post next week, but today, I thought I'd fill you in on what some of the other students in my class are doing.

October 22, 2013

Sculpture Class: Week Four

George's Artistic Adventure

This was week four of Wood & Stone Sculpture — I'm halfway through the class now, and things appear to be coming together nicely, as you can see in the video.