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Explore your artistic side in the vibrant city of Boston with a variety of art classes, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, where participants can learn new techniques and unleash their creativity.

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Lamp Making

The Makery @ 2 Sewall Ave, Brookline, MA

In this two session class you will experience the making of a custom designed lamp using laser cutting, wood working, electrical wiring and artistic finishing techniques. Project partners welcome! Additional materials fees apply. Please see details below. What we will do: Learn a design program called Inkscape to create a custom design for your lamp shade Learn about laser cutting to cut panels for your lamp shade Create unique effects for the...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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$120

2 sessions

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Glass Blowing Experiences: Make your own Heart

Mill City Glass Works

Glass Blowing Experiences are safe and fun with little time commitment. Each experience lasts about 15 to 20 minutes.   With the help of an instructor; you will create a beautiful piece of glass.  Our projects consist of glass paperweights, ornaments, floats, flowers, hearts, and glasses. You can expect to add color, turn the pipe,, and feel the heat.  You will not be able to take your piece home the day of the event. It will need...

All levels 14 and older
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Glass Blowing Experience: Pint Glasses

Mill City Glass Works @ 122 Western Ave, Lowell, MA

Glass Blowing Experiences are safe and fun with little time commitment. Each experience lasts 25min. With the help of an instructor; you will create a beautiful piece of glass.  You can expect to add color, turn the pipe, blow, and feel the heat. Any Experience can turn into a private event or party with 6 or more people. We look forward to hearing from you. It will need to cool down over night.  Please wear closed toe shoes. And no...

All levels 14 and older
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Box Making - Laser Cutting and Design

The Makery

From keepsake to wine boxes, coaster to jewelry boxes, learn to make beautiful and functional boxes of all kinds. Add engraving, glass, stains and other finishes for a unique, personalized and useful creation. Learn how to design with Inkscape, a powerful, open source and free graphic design tool and then experience the versatility of the laser cutter and the art of hand finishing to create your desired size, shape, color and finish. You will...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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Art for 10-15 Years Old

Art School 99

Using a variety of different mediums and techniques, both 2D and 3D, students will explore concepts inspired by great artists and their works, delving into color, line, texture and other elements of art.  Through paintings, collage, clay sculpture and other multimedia projects, students will draw parallels across space and time and experience personalized problem solving and self-expression.

(11) All levels 10 - 15 years old
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Glass Blowing Experience: Make Your Own Paperweight

Mill City Glass Works

Glass Blowing Experiences are safe and fun with little time commitment. Each experience lasts about 15min to 20min (except for glasses which are  30-40min) With the help of an instructor; you will create a beautiful piece of glass.  Our projects consist of glass paperweights, pumpkins, ornaments, floats, flowers, hearts, and glasses. You can expect to add color, turn the pipe, blow, and feel the heat. Please wear closed toe shoes. And...

All levels 14 and older
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Music & Making with Subaiou Zhang and Alyssa Lawson

The Makery

Listen to beautiful music performed by Subaiou Zhang (violin) and Alyssa Lawson (cello) from Spectacle Collective while you enjoy casual making in our lovely and intimate performance space. The Music You will be listening to music for violin and cello across different styles. Music with a theme of spring will range from 18th century French baroque, to jazz and tango. The Making Enjoy casual making while relaxing to beautiful music. Options will...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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Design, Build, & Engrave a Hardwood Cutting Board

The Makery @ 2 Sewall Ave, Brookline, MA

Experience the joy of handcraft combined with hi-tech machines. Create a high-quality, family heirloom while learning woodworking, laser cutting and design. Use hand and power tools, clamps and glue to build a beautiful keepsake board. Finish it off with your own laser-engraved design.  This is a two session class that covers woodworking basics, design and laser engraving. You will leave with a beautiful, hardwood, custom designed and engraved...

(1) All levels 9 and older
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$135

2 sessions

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Theory of Painting & Drawing

The Boston School of Painting @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

This class offers skills building using Graphite Drawing concentrated on the Charles Bargue Drawing Course , Charcoal Drawing using plaster casts of classical sculpture, Oil Painting in still life as students progress in their skill and handling and Color study as it relates to exploration of color, exploring the relationships between Hue, Value and Chroma. 

(1) Beginner 14 and older
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A Color Wheel

Art School 99 @ Online Class, Online, MA

“Soon it got dusk, grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road What is the color wheel? How to use it? In this workshop, we will quickly learn about the history of a color wheel, paint our own using just a piece of watercolor paper and watercolor or watercolor...

(11) All levels 16 and older
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Workshop for Couples

Art School 99 @ 86 Joy St, Somerville, MA

Reignite your creative spark and deepen your connection with your partner at a Saturday night painting experience that combines art, wine, and romance. Create a stunning masterpiece together under the guidance of expert instructors, while enjoying a relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. Perfect for all skill levels, this unforgettable date night will leave you with a beautiful painting to cherish.

(11) All levels 21 and older
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Drawing from the Imagination

The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA

Learn how illustrators and concept artists create dynamic and imaginative drawings using inspiration boards, reference images and lots of imagination. See how the best in the business develop character and costume design, animal, creature, and monster drawings, vehicles and robots, interiors and landscapes. Put it all together with art that is out of this world. Some prior life- and figure-drawing experience recommended.  Materials to bring...

Beginner 17 and older
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$295

6 sessions

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Upholstery Immersion

The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA

Learn to upholster with a project all your own. Join a shop away from home, with tools, mentorship and community. In this open-format class, there is no set curriculum. Instead, the instructor will circulate throughout the classroom,  giving upholstery instruction at all levels. Start with a dining chair or ottoman (large chairs take more than one semester). Bring your piece to the first class. We have limited storage-space on-site, so...

All levels 17 and older
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$450

10 sessions

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Hat-making: Straw & Fabric Hats

The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA

Using the techniques of garment sewing with those of the milliner, we will create unique combination hats of fabric and straw. With professional milliners' supplies and tools, we will explore the blocking and sculpting of straw blanks for one part of the hat (Crown or Brim) and the other part can be made of fabric. Use steam and special hat blocks and molds, learning basic blocking, edge-finishing and trimming techniques The instructor will provide...

All levels 17 and older
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$115

2 sessions

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Basic Tool Sharpening

The Eliot School @ 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA

Learn to sharpen your own tools. Start by preparing, sharpening and honing a 1" chisel and a card scraper, then move on to plane irons, carving tools, and more. Materials Please bring: A new 1" chisel A new card scraper Any woodworking edge tools you want to sharpen- we'll take these on after sharpening the two new tools. A $10 materials fee is payable in class.

All levels 17 and older
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Soap Making and Soap Crafting

Assabet After Dark @ 215 Fitchburg St, Boston, MA

Learn two soap making techniques in one evening. This three hour class consists of a lecture, demo and hands on portion, where students will make both cold Process soap from scratch and enjoy some soap crafting with Melt and Pour pre-made base. Each student will take home 2 bars of each type of soap.

All levels 18 and older
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Windsor Chairs

North Bennet Street School

Chairs are one of the most challenging objects to design and build. Students work with green wood and hand tools to create one of the iconic forms of American furniture: the Windsor Chair. Building a Windsor chair is not about learning a style, it’s about learning a technology, a way of working with wood that is a wide departure from the usual flat and square. The class covers all the steps from tree to chair. Students split parts from a log, shave...

All levels 18 and older
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Turned, Lidded Boxes

North Bennet Street School

This class explores the turned lidded box, showing a variety of options. As most lidded boxes are end-grain turned, considerable time is spent exploring how to hollow and finely finish off end-grain. This includes a look at using hook and ring type tools. From there students make at least three finished boxes of differing features. This includes different types of joints, joint details, texturing, inlay and shapes. Students also have you a chance...

All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to the Skew Chisel

North Bennet Street School

Take a detailed look at this somewhat challenging woodturning tool. Students start by learning the process of refining, shaping and obtaining scary sharp edges, then execute a number of practice pieces focusing on at least eight different cuts. On the second day, discover a series of projects that apply techniques learned. These projects include at least the following: tool handle, finial, door stop, egg, and spinning top. Prerequisite: Students...

Beginner 18 and older
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Introduction to Bowl Turning

North Bennet Street School

This two-day class introduces students to faceplate and bowl turning, which is very different from spindle turning. In bowl turning, the grain of the wood is typically perpendicular to the bed of the lathe; in spindle turning, the grain is parallel to the bed of the lathe. Various methods of attaching the wood to the lathe and an overview of sharpening the appropriate tools for bowl turning are covered. Hands-on projects include small bowls and plates....

Beginner 18 and older
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