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Visual Arts Classes

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 882-8700
www.albrightknox.org

Children and adults learn by studying the masters in the gallery and then create their own art.  

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Art Yard Studio

Art Yard Studio
5701 Main Street
Williamsville, NY 14221
(716) 634-0989
www.artyardstudio.com 

Art Yard Studio offers a full range of visual arts classes for children, teens and adults including pottery, drawing and painting.

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Bryant Street Studio

289 Bryant Street
Buffalo, NY
(716) 884-5542

Bryant Street Studio offers art classes for children and adults. 

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Buffalo Arts Studio 

2495 Main Street, Suite 500
Buffalo, NY 14214
(716) 833-4450
www.buffaloartsstudio.org

The Buffalo Arts Studio's Project CREATE Education Program offers classes in pottery, photography, painting, figure drawing, and printmaking for children and adults.

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Carnegie Art Center

240 Goundry Street
North Tonawanda, NY 14210
(716) 694-4400
www.carnegieartcenter.org 

The Carnegie Art Center offers classes for children and teens. They also sponsor the family-friendly ArtCamp Day each summer.

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CEPA Gallery

617 Main Street, Suite 201
Buffalo, NY 14203
(716) 856-2717
www.cepagallery.com

CEPA offers classes in photography and digital arts for children and adults.  They also sponsor a youth education program.

 

NEW! KID’S PHOTO CAMP!  DARKROOM and DIGITAL!!

Tuesday and Thursday, July 5 - 28, 10AM-1PM

Kids ages 10-15 · $200 member / $225 non-member

 

Photography*

 

Basic Photo Immersion Weekend

Thurs, Fri, Sat 6/23-25, 10AM-4PM

Instructor: Gayle Gorman

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Basic Photography

Tuesday/Wednesday, 6/14-6/29, 6-9PM

Instructor: Eric Jensen

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Intermediate Photography

Tuesday/Wednesday, 7/5-7/20, 6-9PM

Instructor: Eric Jensen

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Intro to Digital Photography

Thursday, 6/16, 6-8PM

Instructor: Jan Nagle     

$25 member / $50 non-member

 

Cyanotypes

Saturday 6/11, 11-3PM

Instructor: Jan Nagle     

$50 member / $75 non-member

 

Photo Assemblage

Saturdays 6/18 & 6/25, 12-4PM

Instructor: Christine Serchia

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

Studio Strobe

Tuesday 6/21 & Thursday 6/23, 6-9PM

Instructor: Lauren Tent

$75 member / $100 non-member

 

Toning and Hand-coloring

Thursday, 6/30, 6-9PM

Instructor: Jan Nagle

$50 member / $75 non-member

 

Liquid Emulsion

Thursday, 7/7, 6-9PM

Instructor: Jan Nagle

$50 member / $75 non-member

 

Pinhole Photography

Saturdays 7/9 & 7/16, 12-4PM

Instructor: Anna Chiaretta

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

Polaroid Image Transfer

Thursday, 7/14, 6-9PM

Instructor: Jan Nagle     

$50 member / $75 non-member

 

Basic Matting & Presentation

Thursday, 7/21, 6-9PM

Instructor: Jan Nagle

$50 member / $75 non-member

 

Gum Prints

Saturday & Sunday 7/23-24, 10-2PM

Instructor: Anna Chiaretta

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

Flash Photography

Tuesdays, 7/26 & 8/2, 6-9PM

Instructor: Eric Jensen

$75 member / $100 non-member

 

Night Photography

Wednesdays, 7/27 & 8/3, 6-9PM

Instructor: Eric Jensen

$75 member / $100 non-member

 

Infrared Photography

Sundays, 7/31 & 8/7, 12-3PM

Instructor: Eric Jensen

$75 member / $100 non-member


 

Digital**

 

Basic Adobe Photoshop

Mondays & Wednesdays 6/13-29, 6-8PM

Instructor: Gayle Gorman

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Intermediate Adobe Photoshop

Mondays & Wednesdays 7/6-7/18, 7-9PM

Instructor: Anna Chiaretta

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

Advanced Adobe Photoshop

Mondays & Wednesdays 7/20-8/1, 6-8PM

Instructor: Alison Slein

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

Basic Adobe GoLive

Saturdays 6/11-6/25,12-4PM

Instructor: Aaron Price

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Basic Adobe InDesign

Saturdays 7/9-7/23,12-4PM

Instructor: Aaron Price

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Intermediate Macromedia Flash

Tuesdays & Thursdays 6/28-7/14, 6-8PM

Instructor: Val Head

$150 member / $175 non-member

 

Theory

 Existentialism

Wednesday 6/8-7/13, 6-8PM

Instructor: Nicole Jowsey

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

Apollo Vs. Dionysus

Thursday 6/16-7/21, 6-8PM

Instructor: Nicole Jowsey

$100 member / $125 non-member

 

All workshops must be paid in full by 5PM one business day prior to the start of the workshop.

 

CUSTOM WORKSHOPS

AVAILABLE IN ALL MEDIA.

Great for businesses, schools, clubs!

Please call for info.

 

Tutoring

Individual Instruction available.

$25/hr with a two-hour minimum per session. Call for info.

 

Darkroom

Open Lab, By Appointment Only.

Day and evening hours available.

$4hr member / $6hr non-member

PLEASE CALL AHEAD!!!


 

*Basic Photography [or equivalent knowledge] is a pre-requisite for all photography workshops, except Intro to Digital Photography, Pinhole Photography and Cyanotypes.

 

**Basic Adobe Photoshop is a pre-requisite for all digital workshops,

except Intro to Digital Photography, GoLive, InDesign, and Macromedia Flash.


 

 

College credit available for many CEPA workshops.  For information, please contact

Empire State College at 716-853-7700, or visit their website: http://www.esc.edu/.

 

For full workshop descriptions, please visit our website: http://www.cepagallery.com

 

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Creative Craft Center

SUNY Buffalo South Campus
(716) 829-3536
http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/student-unions/craftcen.shtml 

Classes for children and adults include photography, stained glass, pottery, ceramics, embroidery, jewelry, drawing, sewing and watercolor.

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Cone Five Pottery

105 Elmwood Avenue (between North and Allen)
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716)  332-0486 or (716) 332-2480

Classes, taught by Greg Link, include Introduction to Pottery. 

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Estudio

16 Evans Street
Buffalo, NY 14221
(716) 634-5634
www.g-glorioso.com     

Estudio holds classes for all-ages in multi-media, furniture painting and watercolor.  They also sponsor an annual summer arts camp for kids.

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Hamburg Centennial Art Center

Little Red Schoolhouse Gallery
3185 Amsdell Road
Hamburg, NY 14075
(716) 649-3592

The Hamburg Centennial Art Center offers drawing and other studio classes.

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Hyatt's All Things Creative

8565 Main Street
Clarence, NY 14221
716) 632-0001

910 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
(716) 884-8900

www.hyatts.com

Hyatt's holds a variety of art classes at their Clarence and Main Street locations for children and adults.  They also offer a summer art camp for children and art birthday parties.

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J.A. Mach Studio

90 Peter Street
Buffalo, NY 14207
(716) 830-6471
JAMArt4u@aol.com

Classes in drawing, painting, life drawing and open studios.

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Jamestown Community College Kid's College (Jamestown, Dunkirk & Olean)

Jamestown Community College
Academic Hall
312 N. Barry Street
Olean, NY 14760
(716)  665-5220, ext. 2409
www.sunyjcc.edu/jamestown/con_ed/courstoc.html

Jamestown Community College offers a  2-week Kid's College Camp every summer, including classes in arts and literature. Classes are offered in Jamestown, Dunkirk and Olean.

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Koenig Art Studio

1412 Hertel Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14216
(716)  832-1016 
 

Koenig Art Studio offers painting workshops.

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Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes

138 Locust Street
Buffalo, NY 14204
(716) 852-4562
www.buffnet.net/~locustst/

Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes offers free painting, drawing, clay and photography workshops for children and adults.

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Market Street Galleries and Studios

247 Market Street
Lockport, NY 14094
(716)  870-1129
 

The Market Street Galleries and Studios offer visual arts workshops for beginner and advanced art students.

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Niagara Pumphouse (Niagara-on-the-Lake)

247 Ricardo Street
P.O. Box 676
Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario LOS 1J0
(905) 468-5455
www.pumphouse.on.ca

The Niagara Pumphouse offers classes for children and adults, including painting, photography, drawing, watercolor and clay.

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Niagara Arts & Cultural Center

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center
Pine Avenue & Portage Road
Niagara Falls, NY 14301
(716) 282-7530
www.naccarts.net 

This new art center in Niagara Falls offers drawing, painting and sculpture classes for adults and children.

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Partners in Art

83 Webster Street
North Tonawanda, NY 14120
(716) 692-2141

Partners in Art offers charcoal, pastel, oil, watercolor, portrait, landscape, acrylic and color pencil classes for adults.

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Patrick Sean Daley Gallery

16 Webster Street
North Tonawanda, NY 14120
(716) 694-0246

Patrick Sean Daley offers drawing classes for adults and art classes for children and teens.

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Rodman Hall Arts Centre (St. Catherine's)

109 St. Paul Crescent
St. Catherine's, Ontario L2S 1M3
(905) 684-2925

Rodman Hall offers summer art classes for children in various mediums.

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Visual Studies Workshop

31 Prince Street
Rochester, NY 14607
(585)442-8676
www.vsw.org 

The Visual Studies Workshop offers classes in photography, artists' books, digital imaging, film/video and special seminars.

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Johnnie B. Wiley Sports Pavilion

1100 Jefferson Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14208
(716) 881-3266

The Johnnie B. Wiley Sports Pavilion holds a summer art camp for children ages 8-12.

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