American Museum of Natural History: Un-Highlights Tour

The class is open to all levels and digital cameras (including smartphone). We will explore various rooms in the Museum of Natural History. There will be opportunities to capture animals, people, crystals and more! I will discuss how to think about composition, point of view and will answer any technical questions. Masks required. You will need to...

The class is open to all levels and digital cameras (including smartphone). We will explore the beautiful Metropolitan Museum of Art. There will be opportunities to capture people, art, architecture and more! We will discuss how to think about composition, point of view and will answer any technical questions. Notes: Masks required.  You...

Calling all creative kids and teens who are inspired by New York City and are excited to create ART in person! New York City is home to the world’s finest collections of fine art, design, history, architecture, parks and culture. In this inspiring, engaging and FUN fear-free summer “camp style” art adventure, let’s explore and express our inner-artists...

Calling all creative kids and teens who are inspired by New York City and are excited to create ART in person! New York City is home to the world’s finest collections of fine art, design, history, architecture, parks and culture. In this inspiring, engaging and FUN fear-free summer “camp style” art adventure, let’s explore and express our inner-artists...

Escape the every day and embrace your inner-artist in this inspiring drawing class.  Everyone can draw, including you! Enjoy the beauty and inspiration of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art as you: Receive tailor-made, encouraging one-on-one expert art instruction in drawing Are inspired by the MET museum’s life-size sculptures,...

This is a course designed to teach basic concepts and techniques to create an oil painting. In the first half of the Summer Session, we will have an overview of materials necessary to create an oil painting, the various methods of prepping your canvas, color theory and composition. At the start of the July Session, we will visit a local museum for...

Join us for a painting class as you relax in the Wooden Boat School on the historic Kingston Waterfront. Students will enjoy an afternoon of instruction and leave with a finished 11x14 acrylic on canvas painting of the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse. No experience is necessary and this class is open to anyone who wants to paint or is inspired by lighthouses....

Join us for a painting class as you relax in the Wooden Boat School on the historic Kingston Waterfront. Students will enjoy an afternoon of instruction and leave with a finished 11x14 acrylic on canvas painting of the Saugerties Lighthouse. No experience is necessary and this class is open to anyone who wants to paint or is inspired by lighthouses....

This workshop will include the materials and supplies to create a small cheese cutting board and a larger charcuterie board or cutting board made of different species of wood. This will be a two day workshop in which the first day will be picking out your wood, designing your pattern, squaring up the pieces and gluing them overnight. The next day...

Learn the American maritime art of scrimshaw—from start to finish. Explore a brief history of the craft and its place in Hudson River history, then learn to engrave into a bone-handled pocket knife to take home. Techniques will include preparing the surface for etching, developing a design to fit the space, engraving lines with a scribe, and sealing...

Join instructor Wayne Ford at the Hudson River Maritime Wooden Boat School to build your own Tool Tote. It will be built using dovetail joinery at the corners and finished to with your own details on the handle and ends. Wayne will walk you through the process of milling your pats to shape and cutting the dovetails. The joinery will be cut both by...

Develop your ability to draw and paint from observation, a skill essential to visual expression. Work in the studio, in museums, and throughout New York City to complete portraits, landscapes, and imaginative projects. Investigate line, value, form, color, and composition through structured assignments. Research, field trips, and visits from working...

Join us for an outdoor screening of the classic mid century rom-com Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.  Hepburn and Tracy play a research librarian at a New York television network and a visiting computer expert, respectively. They clash when Tracy tries to convert Hepburn's network to computers and to...

Join us for a screening of Man Push Cart (2005, 87 mins.), the acclaimed debut film of director Ramin Bahrani that follows the life of Ahmad, a once famous Pakistani rock star now working long hours in the streets of Manhattan selling coffee and bagels from his cart. Providing a "rare immigrant’s-eye view of a post-9/11 city suffused with subtle...

Kids will laugh, play, explore, and stay active all summer long during week-long day camps. Each week includes language lessons plus a variety of activities including cooking, art, music, yoga, and more, along the theme: the Tour de France. Your children will discover the regions along this summer’s Tour de France while the cyclists attempt to win...

Kids will laugh, play, explore, and stay active all summer long during week-long day camps. Each week includes language lessons plus a variety of activities including cooking, art, music, yoga, and more, along the theme: the Tour de France. Your children will discover the regions along this summer’s Tour de France while the cyclists attempt to win...

Kids will laugh, play, explore, and stay active all summer long during week-long day camps. Each week includes language lessons plus a variety of activities including cooking, art, music, yoga, and more, along the theme: the Tour de France. Your children will discover the regions along this summer’s Tour de France while the cyclists attempt to win...

Join us for this one day build of a live edge table. Live edge pieces are unique in that their construction does not take away from the wood's original shape and natural appearance. Each student will get to pick a flitch of locally harvested and kiln dried hard wood, then use draw knives, sanders, and other hand tools to remove any bark and smooth...

Build Your Own Skin-On-Frame F1 Kayak  Guest boatbuilding instructor Jon Richer will lead this course on building skin-on-frame kayaks. Students will build their project over the course of 6 days in the boat school shopStudents will start with assembly of the deck beams then steam bend all the ribs in place.  The frames and ribs will be...

The Studies in Ancient Gold program is a unique experience in research, mentorship and application. Our two-week intensive encourages individuals with jewelry, metalsmithing or small sculpture background to pursue this program as a way to strengthen their scholarship and develop new work while immersed in a vibrant community of peers and practiced...