Art Schools and Workshops
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Workshops and Residencies
International Study
Etruscan Places Tuscany, Italy
Contact: Joe Vinson
10 Ashland Street
Newburyport, MA 01950
(212) 780-3216
(212) 673-6502
Buonconvento, Montalcino, Murlo, and Roman Campagna. One-week intensive landscape painting workshops in idyllic Italian locations. Four distinct courses. May-October. Instruction supported by slide lectures and museum visits. College credit available. All levels. Class limit: Twelve.
International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy
Contact: Marc Servin
06057 Montecastello di Vibio
Perugia (PG) , Italy
+39 075 878 0072; US: (866) 449-3604
+39 075 878 0072
The ideal artist’s community: enchanting medieval Italian hill town in Italy, halfway between Rome and Florence, a setting of breathtaking beauty. Studio, residency, and continuing education programs for artists. Day-trips to Rome, Florence, Assisi, Arezzo.
Schools
Academy of Art University
79 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(800) 544-2787
Established in 1929, Academy of Art University, the nation's largest private accredited art university, offers AA, BA, BFA, MA, MFA, and M.ARCH degrees in: acting, advertising, animation and visual effects, architecture, art education, fashion, fine art, game design, graphic design, illustration, industrial design, interior architecture & design, landscape architecture, motion pictures and television, multimedia communications, music for visual media, photography, and web design and new media.
Boston University, Metropolitan College Master of Science (MS) Degree in Arts Administration
Contact: Daniel Ranalli, Director
808 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-4064
(617) 358-1230
The masters degree program in arts administration at Metropolitan College is designed for students who wish to pursue careers in visual arts, performing arts, and arts service organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Graduate certificates are also offered in arts administration and fundraising management.
College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Contact: Main campus
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
(508) 999-8000
Star Store campus: 715 Purchase Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
Currier Museum Art Center
180 Pearl Street
Manchester, NH 03104
(603) 669-6144 ext.122
Museum school of visual arts that uses museum’s collections to cultivate and broaden student’s artistic skills. Classes and workshops for all ages and abilities, plus summer vacation art camps for children ages five to fourteen and teen intensives.
Hartford Art School
Contact: Assistant Dean, Robert Calafiore
University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
(860)-768-4393
Established in 1877, Hartford Art School became one of three founding schools of the University of Hartford in 1957, and is now a professional college of visual arts and design within a larger university. 350 full-time undergraduates with eight majors offered, including ceramics, drawing, illustration, media arts, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and visual communication design. Fifty fulltime students in two low-residency MFA programs: illustration and photography. Intensive studio programs with individualized attention.
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
130 Neal Street
portland, ME 04102
(207) 771-8887 / (207) 450-6083
IDSVA offers a PhD in philosophy and art theory to art professionals. Instruction includes preeminent international visiting faculty, residencies in Tuscany, the Venice Biennale, Paris, Berlin and New York City, plus year-round distance-learning. Accepting applications.
Kansas City Art Institute
4415 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 802-3426 or (800) 522-5224
(816) 802-3377
Premier college of art and design focused on BFA in animation, art history, ceramics, creative writing, digital filmmaking, digital media, fiber, graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Certificates in Community Arts and Service Learning (CASL) and Asian Studies. Summer ArtLabs for high school art teachers/students.
Maine College of Art
522 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
(800) 699-1509
MECA offers a BFA degree in ten majors, an MFA in Studio Arts, a Post-Baccalaureate in Art Education and Continuing Studies. The Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA is free and open to the public.
Maine Media College
70 Camden Street
Rockport, ME 04856
(207) 236-8581 or (877) 577-7700
(207) 236-2558
Located on the campus of Maine Media Workshops, Maine Media College offers one-year professional certificate programs and low-residency MFA degree programs in photography, filmmaking, and multimedia.
North Bennet Street School
39 North Bennet Street
Boston, MA 02113
(617) 227-0155
(617) 227-9292
admissions@nbss.edu or workshop@nbss.edu
Full-time programs and workshops. Bookbinding, Cabinet/Furniture Making,
Carpentry, Jewelry Making, Locksmithing, Piano Technology, Preservation Carpentry, and Violin Making. Full-time programs accredited by Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges. Financial aid available for eligible full-time students.
Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education
345 South Main Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 454-6200
(401) 454-6218
Year-round, RISD Continuing Education offers traditional and digital art and design courses for adults, teens and children, as well as a broad variety of certificate programs for adults and teens. In the summer, RISD/CE offers several intensive programs, including the Pre-College Program, Summer Studies, the Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies, and the Textiles Summer Institute.
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Contact: Office of Extended Programs
700 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 585-6724 or 6729 or (800) 773-0494 ext. 6724 or 6729
Professional college of visual art and design within a larger university. Summer programs include studio residencies for art educators, young artist residency program, college courses for high school students, online portfolio preparation courses, and summer session for college and adult students. Credit and non-credit courses in the visual arts, design, technology, and art history in various forms from June through August. Choose from full courses, weekend intensives, weeklong workshops, online options, and travel courses.
The Cape School of Art
Contact: Registrar
P.O. Box 1365
Provincetown, MA 02657
(508) 413-9492
Learn to see and paint color in the Impressionist tradition. The principles of light and color taught by Charles Hawthorne and Henry Hensche, beginning in 1899, continue today at The Cape School of Art.
The Museum School at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
(508) 487-1750
Join an arts community that spans a century of ground-breaking creativity. Year-round opportunities to work with professional local artists, in Painting, Drawing, Art History, Printmaking, Computers, Film, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture, and more.
University of Massachusetts, Lowell Art Department
71 Wilder Street, Suite 8
Lowell, MA 01854
(978) 934-3494
Workshops and Residencies
Arts in Education Summer Institute at Plymouth State University
Contact: College of Graduate Studies
17 High Street [MSC 11]
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
(603) 535-2636
(603) 535-2572
A one-week course, held July 16-20, 2012, designed to help teachers re-discover their creative spirit and develop a toolbox of instructional methods and interdisciplinary arts-infused activities linked to critical skills and state standards (3 credits).
Creative Arts Workshop
80 Audubon Street
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 562-4927
(203) 562-2329
Located in New Haven’s Audubon Arts District, Creative Arts Workshop offers year-round classes and workshops for adults of all levels in book arts, design, drawing, fibers, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and more.
Fine Arts Work Center
24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
(508) 487-9960 ext.103
(508) 487-9960
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown offers Summer Program Workshops in the visual arts. 2012 faculty includes Catherine Kehoe, Amy Arbus, Joel Janowitz, Linda Bond, Lynne Allen, Peik Larsen, Nathalie Miebach, and David Hilliard.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Contact: Candy Haskell, registrar
P.O. Box 518
Deer Isle, ME 04627
(207) 348-2306
(207) 348-2307
Offering one- and two-week workshops, conference, May through September, in blacksmithing, clay, glass, graphics, fibers, metals, wood, and writing. Financial aid available. General applicant deadline is April 1. All
levels.
Jentel Artist Residency Program
Contact: Mary Jane Edwards
130 Lower Piney Road
Banner, WY 82832
(307) 737-2311
(307) 737-2305
One-month residencies in a rural ranch setting in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains December 13–January 15. Award includes accommodation, studio, and stipend for visual arts in any media and writers in any genre.
Maine Media Workshops
70 Camden Street
Rockport, ME 04856
(207) 236-8581 or (877) 577-7700
(207) 236-2558
For over thirty-seven years, this international school has offered hundreds of workshops in photography, filmmaking, multimedia, design, and book arts. Programs are available for beginners, serious amateurs, high school and college students, and working professionals. Professional certificate and low-residency MFA degree programs are offered through Maine Media College.
Oil Painting Workshops with Pamela Dulong Williams
315 Main Street
South Berwick , ME 03908
(603) 205-1727
Plein Air: Block Island, RI: June 4–8. Portsmouth, NH: June, 25–29. Côte d'Azur, France: September 15–22. Portraiture: Kittery, ME: July 16–28. Rowayton, CT: October 20–21.
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Contact: Office of Extended Programs
700 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 585-6724 or 6729 or (800) 773-0494 ext. 6724 or 6729
Studio residencies for art educators are offered during the month of July in an intensive week-long format. One studio residency, “Artists Who Teach: Figure Painting, Abstract Ink Drawing, or Monotype Printmaking” is offered at the Art Institute of Boston campus. A second residency, “Works on Paper,” is offered in Bar Harbor, Maine. These courses are designed for artists who are also art educators and have limited time to create their own work in a focused setting. Housing options are available if needed. Young Artist Residency Program (YAR), July 5–30, 2012. Four weeks of classes and art-making and six college credits—designed to offer high school students a professional art college experience while living on campus.
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
10 Meetinghouse Road & 1 Depot Road P.O. Box 756
Truro, MA 02666
(508) 349-7511
(508) 349-7513
Truro Center for the Arts, located in the dunes of Truro and within walking distance to Cape Cod Bay, provides an inspirational and meditative backdrop that enhances the workshop experience. Faculty consist of prominent artists in the fields of painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and writing. Experience the world of inspiration: a community of artists.
Vermont Studio Center
P.O. Box 613
Johnson, VT 05656
(802) 635-2727
(802) 635-2730
Year-round two-to-twelve-week residencies for artists and writers: private studio, housing, and all meals provided. Prominent visiting artists and writers offer talks and studio visits. Full fellowship applications due June 15, 2012, October 1, 2012 and February 15, 2013. Low-residency MFA with Johnson State College.
Watermark Press Printmaking Studio
Contact: Martha Jeffrey Galuszka
30 Arbor Street #205
Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 233-2286 or (860) 930-5491
Classes and workshops in contemporary printmaking techniques: monotype, intaglio, wood and linocut, silk aquatint, watercolor, carborundum, collagraph, book arts and more. All ages and experience. Etching and Vandercook relief press. Connecticut’s only solvent-free printmaking studio, featuring non-toxic methods and materials. Private lessons, memberships and press time for independent work.
Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
(508) 793-4333 or (508) 793-4334
(508) 793-4433
Develop your artistic voice. Pursue painting, watercolor, sculpture, printmaking, writing, mixed media, and many other classes. In addition to onsite classes, WAM offers a unique Travel Learning program abroad and in the US.
Zea Mays Printmaking
320 Riverside Drive
Florence, MA 01062
(413) 584-1783
Zea Mays Printmaking is one of the finest print studios in the country dedicated to safe and non-toxic printmaking practices. 6,000-square-foot studio offering workshops and private tutorials in intaglio, monotype, relief, silkscreen, and photopolymer. New for 2012: Artist Residency Program.
