Complete Coursebook

At Cultivate, our adult art programs are thoughtfully designed to guide you through a progressive learning journey, allowing you to deepen your artistic skills and explore new creative avenues.

Level A (Beginner) classes provide a solid foundation, introducing essential techniques across various mediums like drawing, painting, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, and comics. These courses are perfect for those starting their artistic journey or looking to refresh their skills.

Level B (Intermediate) classes build on that foundation, helping you refine your techniques and explore more complex concepts. These courses are designed to challenge you, encouraging creative exploration and personal expression.

Level C (Advanced) classes push your boundaries further, focusing on mastery and specialization in your chosen medium. Here, you’ll dive deep into advanced techniques, conceptual development, and personal style, making these classes ideal for artists looking to refine their craft to a professional level.

Impact for Participants: This structured progression ensures that you grow confidently and continuously in your artistic practice. Each level is designed to build upon the last, offering new challenges and learning opportunities that align with your evolving skills and creative ambitions.

For Students and Enthusiasts: Whether you’re pursuing art as a hobby or a professional path, our courses are tailored to support your artistic development, helping you achieve your goals and express your unique creative voice.

Our Creativity Series is purposefully designed for any level, whether you identify as a maker, hobbyist, or professional artist.  These are designed to jumpstart, inspire, and generate new ideas to support your art practice.  These courses are outside the progressive scale as they invite all! 

Generative Studio: Unleashing Creativity Through Prompts
- A dynamic course where students explore creativity through a series of prompts designed to challenge conventional approaches, pushing boundaries in both concept and execution.

Conceptual Frameworks: Prompt-Based Artistic Exploration
- Engage in a process-oriented course focused on generating work through structured prompts that explore the intersection of ideas, materials, and form, encouraging deep conceptual thinking.

Process and Play: Generative Strategies for Art Making
- This class emphasizes the importance of play and experimentation in the creative process, using generative prompts to inspire unexpected outcomes and new directions in artistic practice.

Narrative Constructs: Prompt-Driven Storytelling in Art
- A course that combines generative prompts with narrative structures, encouraging artists to create visually compelling stories that resonate on both personal and universal levels.

Material Imagination: Generative Art Practices Across Mediums
- Explore how materials can drive the creative process, using prompts to generate new ideas and artistic expressions across various media, from traditional to digital.

Prompt-Based Praxis: Exploring Artistic Identities Through Generative Work
- Focus on self-exploration and identity in art, using prompts as a tool to delve into personal themes and develop a distinctive artistic voice.

Level A (Beginner)

Drawing:
- Charcoal Drawing for Beginners
- Introduction to Drawing Fundamentals
- Starting from Scratch: Learn to Draw
- Portrait Drawing Techniques
- Sketching from Observation
- Exploring Anatomy in Art
- Understanding Perspective and Composition
- Exploring Cross-Hatching and Shading
- Art Materials Survey

Painting:
- Introduction to Painting
- Introduction to Watercolor
- Introduction to Oil Painting
- Starting from Scratch: Learn to Paint
- Watercolor Painting Fundamentals
- Color Mixing and Harmony in Painting
- Painting Expressive Landscapes

Sculpture:
- Introduction to 3D Sculpting
- Clay Sculpture Techniques

Fiber Arts:
- Introduction to Fiber Arts and Textile Techniques

Photography:
- Starting from Scratch: Introduction to Photography
- Introduction to Photography and Visual Storytelling

Comics and Graphic Novels:
- Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels

Level B (Intermediate)

Drawing:
- Intermediate Drawing Techniques
- Advanced Portraiture and Expression
- Dynamic Figure Drawing
- Inking Mastery and Line Variation
- Still Life Drawing: Composition and Light

Painting:
- Intermediate Oil Painting
- Mastering Watercolor Techniques
- Realism and Hyperrealism in Painting
- Painting Expressive Landscapes
- Contemporary Pop Art Painting

Sculpture:
- Intermediate Mixed Media Sculpture
- Traditional and Contemporary Weaving
- Exploring Fiber Sculpture and 3D Forms

Fiber Arts:
- Creating Fiber Art Installations
- Dyeing and Surface Design in Textile Art

Photography:
- Advanced Editing and Post-Processing Techniques
- Landscape and Nature Photography

Comics and Graphic Novels:
- Character Design for Comics and Graphic Novels
- Comic Book Storytelling and Sequential Art

Level C (Advanced)

Drawing:
- Illustrating Realistic Scenes
- Exploring Surrealism in Drawing
- Graphic Novel Storyboarding
- Cultural Influences in Illustration

Painting:
- Advanced Painting Techniques: Vibrant Landscapes
- Exploring Abstraction in Oil
- Exploring Minimalism in Painting
- Narrative and Symbolism in Art
- Dynamic Landscapes: Capturing Nature with Acrylics

Sculpture:
- Large-Scale Sculpture Creation
- Environmental Sculpture Explorations
- Abstract Expression in Sculpture
- Sculpture in Cultural Context

Fiber Arts:
- Fiber Art as Personal Expression
- Creating Fiber Art Installations

Photography:
- Photography as Personal Exploration and Expression
- Photography and Cultural Perspectives

Comics and Graphic Novels:
- Advanced Comics for Adults
- Developing Unique Art Styles in Comics and Graphic Novels
- Advanced Panel Layouts and Composition in Comics
- Exploring Themes and Symbolism in Graphic Storytelling