Guide to Art Workshops & Craft Programs

Academy of Realist Art Workshops
Workshops & short-term programs that emphasize classical, realist-style drawing & painting using old-master methods. Full-time degree program also available.

All-Inclusive Art Holiday
A destination for an all-inclusive creative art vacation (art instruction, meals & lodging) for art lovers of any ability, beginner to...

Arabia's Art Gallery
Painting workshops featuring morning classes, afternoon on-location landscape painting and evening critique and demos. Painting classes for children & adults. Stained...

Armand Cabrera Workshops - The Fundamentals of Painting
Studio and outdoor workshops. Oil & acrylic instruction. Armand demos everyday. Critiques.

Art & Soul Workshops
Mixed media workshops featuring fiber, metal, fabric & paper arts.

ART Watercolor BJ Dickhute Studio Workshops & Retreat
Watercolor/Retreats hosted by BJ Dickhute Studio in Shenandoah Valley Virginia with visiting artists from the U.S. and Europe. Limited accommodations on...

Art Workshop - Plein Air in Tuscany with Trisha Adams
Live and paint in the Tuscan village where Michelangelo once lived! Day trips to other locations. Expert instruction by Trisha Adams....

ArtLink Workshops
Six hours of daily instruction in visual arts, music, & artisan skills.

Arts, Castles and Coastline: Painting in Portugal
Virginia artist Lynn Goldstein teaches a plein air workshop from Cascais, Portugal. Experiment with color, interpret the landscape through shape and...

Augusta Heritage Workshops
Workshops include basketry, calligraphy, paper & fabric marbling, bookbinding, wood engraving, quilting, rug hooking, weaving, instrument repair, furniture making, celtic design,...

Batiking
Learn one of the oldest resist dyeing techniques while creating beautiful fabric! Batik is an ancient wax-resist dyeing technique used to...

Beginning Blacksmithing
This beginning blacksmithing class will introduce students to the equipment, tools and safety precautions involved in the use of the blacksmith’s...

Beginning Metalsmithing
Students will be introduced to many techniques that will allow them to manipulate metal to create jewelry and/or small sculptural objects....

Beginning Oil Painting
Oil paints are lustrous and sumptuous but can also be intimidating, with their many pigments, oils, varnishes, turpentine and brushes. This...

Beverley Street Studio School
Painting workshops focusing on the visual & tactile response to observed color, form, light & space. Weekly classes also.

Botanical Drawing
Botanical drawing focuses on the realistic representation on specific flora indigenous to the area and season. This is a great class...

Campfire Rotisserie & Tools
This is a beginning to intermediate level course. Students will make basic campfire tools such as tongs, fire rake and/or others....

Carving Animals of the Blue Ridge
Learn to carve two woodland residents of the area. Students will learn carving safety, making various cuts with a carving knife,...

Catherine Hillis Adventures in Watercolor Painting
Watercolor painting workshops focus on painting with brilliant color, building a sense of light and drama, and the development of good...

Cedar Lakes Crafts Center
Crafts, blacksmith, & music workshops

Chair Weaving
Don’t throw that old chair frame away: learn to weave a traditional splint seat and put it back into use. This...

Cheng-Khee Chee Workshops
Watercolor workshops

Chestnut Cove/Zekiah Glass
Glass Getaway Weekend our specialty. Learn glass techniques while creating your own original panel. B&B lodging available 1-4 guests, class optional....

Collage Techniques & Creative Exploration
Explore composition & creation of a personal visual vocabulary while you learn exciting new collage technique that eliminates liquid adhesives from...

Country Owl Studio
Summer workshops in decorative arts, fiber art, basketry, woodcarving, painting, drawing, crafts.