In this workshop, participants will explore the history, making, and sharing of zines. Zines are self-published booklets that share ideas, art, poetry, comics, and resources without the barrier of high costs or professional publishers. Zines come in many shapes and sizes, with the most common style being an 8-page booklet made from a single piece of 8.5×11-inch paper. This workshop aims to provide participants with techniques to: fold and make zines out of paper; generate ideas to fill the pages; develop a short story narrative; and make copies to share with their friends and community. At the end of the workshop, participants will make a portfolio to store their zines, and an extra copy of one of their zines to put in the Little Free Library outside PCA&M!

Designed for artists of all levels who want to enhance their linework and illustration skills. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to use a lightbox to refine pencil sketches and confidently ink over them with various tools and techniques. We’ll cover line weight, texture, and creating depth. Whether you’re into comics, illustration, or just love clean, bold artwork, this class will leave you with a finished inked piece and the skills to keep creating on your own.

In this one-time class, we will dive into the exciting realm of conceptualizing creature designs through drawing. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or simply have a love for imaginative creatures, this workshop will ignite your creativity and expand your artistic horizons. Over the course of the session, we will guide you through techniques for brainstorming ideas, sketching thumbnail concepts, and refining your creature designs. We will delve into elements such as eerie anatomy, haunting proportions, and visual storytelling to bring your creatures to life.

Get creative and self-expressive in our One-Night Digital Zine-Making Workshop for beginners! You’ll learn how to design and assemble your very own zine using digital tools—perfect for sharing your art, writing, photography, or ideas in a unique, DIY format. We’ll cover basic layout design, image and text integration, and how to format your zine for print.

This is a drawing and media course that will help students begin to explore the basic mechanics and techniques of traditional 2-d animation such as storyboarding, character development and the principles of animation. In this short workshop, students will create a variety of animated exercises and clips using programs like StopMotion Studio, Adobe Animate and Flipaclip. Students will learn a history of animation through lectures and screenings. And we will also explore and discuss examples of 2-d animation in contemporary media, art and experimental animation as well.

In this class, students will learn about one of the simplest photographic structures: pinhole cameras! Students will learn how pinhole photography operates and then experiment with constructing their own pinhole cameras. This course will also cover basic black and white printing processes to create finalized pinhole prints.

A next step in basketry workshops for students who already have completed Intro to Basketweaving, or have some basic basketweaving experience, and would like to build their skills in classic flat-reed basketry. This comprehensive workshop will focus on learning how to design your own variation of an extra-large handled market basket, determine the materials you will need, measure and cut the materials, dye your materials, weave a solid base in your basket, and create a chain or zipper pattern and angled sides using traditional weaving techniques. At the end of this four-week class, you will not only walk away with an incredibly useful and beautiful market basket you can use every day, but the skills to design and weave traditional flat reed basketry on your own.

In this workshop, students will explore handbuilding ceramic techniques by making catch all trays for a variety of functional uses. Students can take the lead and make a piece that best fits their lifestyle, since these catch-all trays are suitable for anything: for storing jewelry and trinkets, organizing board game pieces, or easily accessing spices while cooking.

Create a cozy space from clay for your resident frogs, toads or fairies! In this workshop, you’ll learn how to roll out slab, apply texture, build the house structure, and then decorating it with your own designs!

Feeling like you still need more time after class has ended to get the perfect image prints? In this workshop extension of Intro to B&W Photography, students from the winter term Intro to B&W Photography classes will have time to continue processing film and printing images in the darkroom under the guidance of instructor, Changgeon Keum. Spend the day in the photo lab continuing your darkroom photography education and building the confidence needed to progress to our Intermediate-level black and white photography class. We hope to see you there!

This class is not available for online registration so we can verify your status as a winter-term student. Please give us a call at 412-361-0455 to sign up!