Educational Alliance Art School Upcoming Classes in NYC

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Intro to Embroidery

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

Create an embroidery sampler as an introduction to the french knot, running, back, and cross stitches. Practice putting these stitches to use by designing your own patch!

Beginner 18 and older

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$45

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Advance Portrait Painting Workshop

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

This workshop focuses on mixing skin tones in an organized manner. Working with a live model, students learn to see the various colors and tones in the face. The concept of warm and cool colors and how to apply to skin tone mixing is demonstrated. Working Alla Prima, wet-in-wet techniques will be also be demonstrated.

Advanced 18 and older

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$40

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Virtual Handbuilding & Surface

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In this five-week virtual pottery course, students will deepen their understanding of handbuilding with clay and decorating the surface of their ceramic forms. Students will explore a variety of techniques, focusing primarily on carving from a solid block of clay to produce functional tableware and decorative art objects. Through demonstrations, students will learn how to embellish and adorn the surface of these vessel forms with stamps, etching,...

All levels 18 and older

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Adult Artist Ceramics

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

Prospective students across skill levels are invited to join our Adult Ceramics course, where burgeoning potters will be introduced to the foundations of the medium—from using a pottery wheel to hand-sculpting and glazing—and intermediate students can take rudimentary practices to the next level by learning how to forge handles, lids, spouts, and other finishing touches that elevate basic vessel forms. Advanced participants will have the opportunity...

All levels 18 and older

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$475

10 sessions

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Beginning Ceramics

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

Learn how to use the potter’s wheel and hand-building techniques to create decorative and functional objects such as bowls, cups, vases or plates. Discover pottery techniques such as slips, glazes and embossed surface decorations to finish and enrich the forms. Individuals with prior experience will learn new skills such as creating handles, lids, spouts and other finishing applications. Note: Price Includes $40 Materials Fee

Beginner 18 and older

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$445

11 sessions

Advanced Ceramics

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For experienced ceramic students to work on projects of their choice, while honing technical skills. Course allows for creative exploration within the medium and an opportunity for students to develop their own style and voice. For adults who have taken at least three beginning and/or intermediate ceramics courses. Prerequisite: At least four (4) beginning and/or intermediate ceramics courses

Advanced 18 and older

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Virtual Ceramics: Coil Construction

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In this virtual five-week course, students will deepen their understanding of handbuilding with clay and create robust vessel forms from coiled clay. Students will explore a variety of techniques, focusing primarily on coil construction to produce functional tableware and decorative art objects. Students will learn how to embellish and adorn the surface of these vessel forms with stamps, etching, and underglaze. Anyone interested in pottery...

All levels 18 and older

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Adult Silk Screening

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

Gain basic mastery of silk-screening prints on paper and fabric in this course focused predominantly on the photo emulsion method (by which stencils are burned directly into the screen). Students are encouraged to investigate their own visual interests as they become familiarized with this process of printing. Learn how to prepare and transfer a design to the screen, mix ink, layer images, and print multiple editions. Who knows, you may be...

All levels 19 and older

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$285

5 sessions

Stone Carving

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Discover how the stone carving process can be a source of inspiration and even meditative. Learn effective techniques of traditional carving with hammer and chisels: cutting, shaping, filing and polishing. Students develop their vision for the final piece through a clay sketch, before carving the stone.

All levels 18 and older

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Color Theory

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An essential class for artists and designers, this course covers the aspects of color and light, visual perception of color, and color mixing. Through lecture, demonstration, critique, and hands on exercises, students investigate color theory, as well as the history and use of color.

All levels 18 and older

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Terracotta Figure Sculpture

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Beginners quickly discover how to use malleable clay to sculpt the human form. Working from the nude model, students gain knowledge of sculptural concepts of proportion, anatomy, and portraiture as they learn to depict the figure in three dimensions. Completed work is fired at the end of the term.

All levels 18 and older

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Landscape Painting in Oil

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Explore the centuries-old tradition of landscape painting by learning basic techniques to achieve atmospheric perspective and the rendering of light and space. Focused group exercises and instructor demonstrations help students complete paintings ranging from Master studies to original compositions to photographs. For beginners and people with experience in oil painting.

Beginner 18 and older

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Paint Your Vision

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

This advanced painting course encourages seasoned artists to pursue a personal project in oils, acrylics, watercolor or mixed-media. Each participant will realize an independent vision at their own pace, guided by feedback sessions and advanced demonstrations based upon students’ varying needs. In this in-person course, there will be a maximum of 5 students due to COVID-19. Students must follow safety requirements and protocols in all classes....

Advanced 18 and older

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$375

10 sessions

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Adult Printmaking

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

This class is an opportunity for students to learn about both monotype and relief printmaking techniques and will culminate in an investigation of how to combine both methods for maximum effect. Students will learn how to transfer their images by hand with and without using a printing press. All skill levels are welcome. No previous printmaking experience necessary.

All levels 19 and older

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$300

8 sessions

Acrylic Painting

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Express your inner artist through acrylic paint by learning about color mixing, tone value, texture, and composition. From a reference picture or a still life setup, participants will learn fundamental techniques while cultivating a personal painting style rooted in perception, imagination, or abstraction. Small class sizes allow for plenty of one-on-one critique. Beginners and advanced students are welcome.

All levels 19 and older

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Chinese Ink Painting

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This course introduces the principles of the ancient and expressive tradition of the basic brush stroke painting to create bamboo, flowers, and landscape. Other techniques such as the use of ink and water, an understanding of imbalance and empty space, and depicting perspective without the use of shadows will be explored.

Beginner 18 and older

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Painting in Acrylic and Oil

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Express your creativity through acrylic or oil paint. Learn about the distinct characteristics and advantages of each medium and how they can be used together in creative ways. Through class demonstrations and personalized instructions, students learn each medium’s potential, color mixing, tonal and value control, textural exploration, and overall composition. While painting in any style, students create from perception and imagination to discover...

All levels 18 and older

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Introduction to Drawing

Educational Alliance Art School @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY

This course will cover the basic techniques of drawing for students to create their own work. This course is designed for beginners to build confidence and make drawing simple and fun. Working with still lifes, students will warm up with gesture drawings then progress into drawing shapes, shading, and seeing objects in geometric forms. We will work with charcoal and pencils on paper. No previous experience necessary. In this in-person...

Beginner 18 and older

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$385

10 sessions

Drawing at the Metropolitan Museum

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Drawing inspiration from sculpture and old masters in museums is a time honored tradition. Degas, Ingres, Delacroix and Picasso in the Louvre. The Metropolitan Museum is an outstanding resource for inspiration and learning. We will draw from masterpieces of Roman, Medieval, 19th century and American sculpture. We will seek out less traffic galleries to avoid people looking over your shoulder. A wonderful way to learn to draw and explore the artwork....

All levels 18 and older

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