Sculpture Classes in NYC, New York

Learn how to create contemporary soft sculpture using textiles and sewing techniques. This workshop is designed to show students, from beginners to advanced, how to explore approaches and materials used to create two and three-dimensional soft sculptures and installations. Students will discover how ordinary hand and machine sewing techniques can...

Touch is the first sense to develop when we are born. Yet most of our life is experienced through sight. During this unique experience, we will take you back to the very beginning. Explore your sense of touch by sculpturing...without sight. You will receive an introduction to basic clay handling. Then you will sculpt...blindfolded! Using only your...

Learn the basic fundamentals of beginning a sculpture in clay. Students will learn how to use a variety of sculpture tools, the advantages of sculpting in clay, and how to achieve a likeness.  Required materials for the class are as follows 1.) Basic set of sculpture tools if you have them. If you do not have tools we can supply these...

This class is not for people who make molds; this is a class for people who want to know how to make molds. Our Resin-Rubber Overview is geared toward new-comers to mold making who want to know about the materials available and the basics of how to use them. This class is designed for the beginner mold maker. An important step in successful mold making...

Highly  acclaimed sculptor, Ailene Fields, will be demonstrating and teaching the fine art of stone carving and finishing. Basics of stone carving - initial roughing out, developing a form, final finishing and polishing are presented during the course. There is a choice of softer stone or marble. tools, sharpening and maintenance are all covered. ...

Spend your Sunday in the 92Y ceramics studio with your little ones! Artist Carol Lewis will guide you and your family through the basics of ceramic sculpture to create your very own family portrait. Note: $75 per one child and one caretaker (each additional child or grown-up: $25) Please reach out to [email protected] for an additional child...

Grounds for Sculpture opened in 1992 on the site of the former New Jersey State Fairgrounds. The sculpture park's continuously surprising interplay of art and environment presents photographers with a myriad of creative photo opportunities. We'll begin with a discussion of composition, camera settings and how to shoot in various lighting situations....

Taught by a professor of sculpture and anatomy in the Academy's graduate school, this course offers instruction to students of all levels in modeling the human form. Working from the live model, students will sculpt a standing, seated, or reclining figure or a portrait head. Both water-based and oil-based clay will be provided, as well as armatures,...

The Art of Portrait Sculpture “In the footsteps of the Masters” This intimate workshop will introduce you to the art of portrait sculpture. During the four sessions we will complete a portrait bust in  (oil based) plasteline clay while learning how to work from a live model as well as with picture references of the same model. The students...

Use a variety of materials to create miniature sculptures of imaginary landscapes and familiar spaces. Explore historical traditions from dioramas and dollhouses to folk art, as well as the miniature work of contemporary artists such as Liliana Porter, Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz, Patrick Jacobs, Do Ho Suh and Charles LeDray. Delve into topics...

Basic and advanced techniques of direct stone carving - initial roughing out, developing a form, final finishing and polishing are presented. There is a choice of softer stone or marble. Hand and pneumatic tools are both covered. Participants should end the course with the basic knowledge necessary to work on their own.  Instruction is individually...

Not your grandma’s polymer clay! Reinvented and rediscovered by today’s makers, this versatile material comes in many colors, can be blended to make any color, and can be used to make a multitude of patterns that imitate millefiori, mosaic tiles, wood, stone, or even ceramics. You can fire it in a toaster oven! Bring your creativity and your ’80s...

This class is intended for the mid to advanced student looking to broaden their horizons and improve hand skills by way of the traditional Venetian goblet. With focus on teamwork, form and function, timing and garage work, students will leave the class with a better understanding of the material and how to assemble simple, as well...

Écorché sculpture workshop is strong method to master and to commit the complex forms of the human figure to memory. This course will focus on better understanding the skull and muscles of the face, as well as it's various facial features. Students will use oil-based clay on an armature to build a life size anatomical sculpture of...

Learn figure sculpting techniques in one of the best equipped ceramics studios in NYC! Working with a live model for portraiture and full-figure pieces, gain skills in depicting the human form in clay.  Both long and short poses will be offered, with some pieces created as exercises and some taken to completion and fired. Important Notes: ...