Investigate new techniques and processes with guest artist instructors in our intensive single or dual-day,
hands-on instruction in the studio as well as twice weekly non-instructional figure drawing sessions.
Click on the workshop of your choice for more details and to register!
Please read OPAL’s Registration Class Policies and Studio Code of Conduct
- Please do not bring food or alcoholic beverages into the studio. Individual water bottles are permitted -
With Charlotte Hong
Saturday November 23rd and Sunday November 24th
1pm - 5pm
This hands-on workshop is a primer in the production skills and principles of stop-motion animation. Students will learn to craft paper cut-out puppets, collaborate on an exquisite corpse and be introduced to a selection of techniques to create their own stop-motion animated films.
with Bethany Cordero
Sunday November 24 10am-1pm
Join OPAL’s current Artist In Residence, Bethany Cordero, for an engaging and creative hands-on workshop where we'll explore how memories can be physically woven into meaningful, tactile art forms.
with Bryan Northup
Saturday, December 7 from 1pm - 4pm
Make some handmade fused glass ornaments just in time for the holiday season. Surprise your friends and family with one-of-a-kind glass ornaments made by you!
with Jackie Lakely
Sunday, December 8th, 10am - 4pm
Oracle cards mean different things to different people, but I see them as intuitive, uplifting messages to your future self, or visual ideas/messages/thoughts that you like to have around you.
with Bryan Northup
Saturday, December 14th from 12pm - 2pm
Learn some tips and tricks on how to wire framed work properly, sign work, and present artworks for photographing or to gallery preparators to hang in a show. Bring a piece you want help with.
Sunday, December 1st, 10am - 1pm
Model: Coco
This figure session will be a clothed model session open to teens 12+ as well as adults.
This is the traditional OPAL Sunday figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Thursday, December 5th, 9am - 12pm
Model: Emily
Figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Thursday, December 12th, 9am - 12pm
Model: Deandrea
Figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Sunday, December 15th, 10am - 1pm
Model: Deandrea
This is the traditional OPAL Sunday figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Thursday, December 19th, 9am - 12pm
Model: TBA
Figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
