Mesa Arts Center
1 East Main Street, MesaMesa Arts Center offers in-person classes in visual, performing, and literary arts. The center has an Arts in Service program featuring classes for veterans and service members, as well as workshops for military spouses. Fall offerings include printmaking with Ron Brimrose, stained glass with Troy Moody, welding with Matt Smith, and wheel-thrown pottery with Jesse Armstrong. You can even take classes in blacksmithing, calligraphy, and mixed-media collage.
Art by Koryn Woodward Wasson, who teaches virtual art classes for Phoenix Center for the Arts.
Lynn Trimble
Phoenix Center for the Arts
1202 North Third StreetPhoenix Center for the Arts offers in-person and virtual classes in two locations, including some taught in Spanish. The lineup includes visual, literary, and performing arts — as well as arts for change, which explores the intersection of art and social justice. They’ve even got some classes that are offered outdoors. Fall visual arts classes are being offered in several mediums, including ceramics, drawing and painting, glass, metal, photography, and printmaking. For virtual classes, your options include introduction to playwriting with Jessica Marie Fisher, introduction to watercolor with Koryn Woodward Wasson, color theory with Edna Dapo, and more.
Scottsdale Artists’ School
3720 North Marshall Way, ScottsdaleScottsdale Artists’ School offers in-person and virtual classes in several types of visual art, including drawing, painting, and sculpture. The fall lineup includes color mixing with Renee Palmer-Jones, expressive color in figure and still life with Henry Stinson, illustrated letters with Jane Barton, and water-based mediums with Antonio Masi. You can spend a week studying oil painting during Oil Painters of America week in October.
Shemer Art Center
5005 East Camelback RoadShemer Art Center offers in-person and virtual classes in several types of visual art, including bookmaking, ceramics, collage, drawing and painting, mixed media, and pottery. The fall lineup includes artist books with Ludmila Demich, colored pencil techniques with Elliott Everson, mixed media and collage with Sue Hunter, printmaking (silkscreen, intaglio, woodcut, and linoleum printing) with Larry Nisula, and urban sketching with John Erwin. In addition, Danielle Wood is teaching several intermediate and advanced ceramics classes this fall.
Sunshine Craft Co
700 West Campbell AvenueSunshine Craft Co offers in-person and virtual workshops for various crafts, including macrame, paint pouring, and printmaking. Owner Amy Guerrero posts a different schedule every month, and often includes additional offerings such as making brass himmeli wreaths and calligraphy. The studio also sells craft kits for those who prefer to get creative at home or in other settings. If you’re into macrame, you’ll have several great class choices including making small- or large-scale wall hangings. In some cases, workshops last more than a single session.
