Visual Arts

Our Visual Arts courses range from Drawing for Absolute Beginners, Basic Collage, Introduction to Watercolors, Acrylic Painting, Portraiture Drawing, and Drawing at The Metropolitan Museum.

 

Basic Collage
Basic Collage Classes nyc collage for beginners

Basic Collage provides non-experienced students with techniques to approach and explore the medium. Students learn about the basic elements of art.

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Collage to Painting Workshop
The Mechanics of Typographic Space

Students will employ the abstract medium of collage as a means of sketching and as a springboard for ideas in painting.

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Drawing for Absolute Beginners
Drawing for Beginners class nyc

Never taken a drawing class before? Feel rusty or simply lack confidence? This course is designed for you. Beginning with a simple contour, you will use line to discover a variety of shapes, from the still life to the figure.

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Drawing into Painting Workshop
Drawing for Beginners class nyc

This class is designed for students who enjoy observational drawing but are new to or struggle with the transition into painting.

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Experimental Drawing
Collage to Painting Workshop nyc collage classes

Open to students of all levels, this course is designed for students who enjoy working intuitively and wish to use drawing to jumpstart their creativity.The goal of this four week course is to work expressively, try new things and embrace the playful side of art-making.

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Introduction to Color Theory: A Workshop
Introduction to Color Theory: A Workshop in New York

The course considers theory and science of color perception from Renaissance painters, 18th century through the impressionists and significant contributions of Bauhaus theorists.

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Painting with Water-Based Media
Introduction to Painting with Water-Based Media: Watercolor, Acrylic, and Gouache Workshop

This six-day workshop enables student of all levels who love to paint an opportunity to become familiar with the three most popular water media

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Portraiture Workshop
Introduction to Color Theory: A Workshop in New York

Creating a lifelike, expressive portrait is a major challenge even for the most experienced artist, from emotion to gesture to getting a likeness.

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Watercolor and Abstraction
Introduction to Color Theory: A Workshop in New York

Discover the history and various motivations for abstract image making. For the beginner, it serves as a superb introduction to the often elusive medium of watercolor.

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Watercolor Landscape Workshop
Introduction to Color Theory: A Workshop in New York

This course is the perfect preparation class for those who would like to capture the landscape in watercolor.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.