Mid-week daytime
Mid-week daytime courses, classes, workshops and groups throughout the week
General Art options
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Art + Creativity Course
£360.00Monday morning 10-session terms
Art and Creativity course
Enjoy up to 30 weeks of dedicated focus on art and creativity. Grow self-confidence and flourish as an independent creative artist. This tutor-led Art and Creativity course offers extended and progressive learning for beginners to intermediate students. The course focuses on fundamental drawing skills, materials and creative techniques, and individual self-expression.The 30-week course is structured as a trilogy of independent 10-week courses. Flexible booking enables students to complete the course within either;
- 1-year: January enrolment: complete Spring Term 1; then Summer Term 2; then Autumn Term 3
- 2-years: April enrolment: complete Summer Term 2; then Spring Term 1; then Autumn Term 3
Students are encouraged to develop a contemporary personal approach to making art using a wide range of materials. Grow your skills, creative conviction, and artistic confidence.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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Weekly art class
£34.00Wednesday morning single-class
– min purchase: flexible mix of 4-class datesWeekly Art Class
A flexible art class with tutor support and guidance. A new creative art project is on offer every session, with inspiration and supportive teaching creating the perfect studio environment for beginner to intermediate students to thrive. This tutor-led weekly art class offers a leisurely, friendly, and relaxed approach to developing and exploring the use of drawing, painting and mixed-media materials.Alternatively, students have the option to follow their own agenda and interpret the projects in their own personal style – realism, semi or fully abstract.
The Weekly Art Class can become a regular feature of students’ creative calendar. Creative projects can be completed within a relaxed time-frame while students feel supported within a group of like-minded students. Develop skills and techniques and creative self-confidence.
Flexible mix + match booking
- Select any 4-class dates from the Weekly Art Class and the Begin Life Drawing classes.
- Plan your own timetable around your commitments and holidays – attend regularly or with breaks.
- Minimum purchase of 4-class dates.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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The Modern Masters
£218.00Thursday morning course 6-sessions
Modern Masters
This course is for everyone interested in discovering more about Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso, and how this knowledge can help revitalise their own drawings and paintings. Discover exactly why these famous artist’s radical ideas bravely heralded in the age of Modern Art.Sessions offer a blend of easily understood art theory with the majority of time focused on practical and creative drawing projects. Each project will teach students about the innovative and ground-breaking creativity of Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso. Learn why the ideas of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso made them famous and better understand how and why we make and think about art the way we do today.
Students will work on developing self-expressive drawings using different media that creatively interpret and explore the ideas of Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso.
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, intermediate
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Art group
£4.50Tuesday daytime peer-led group
Ancoats Visual Arts
Drawing, painting, mixed-media, craft. The AVA group aims to support the residents of Ancoats and Greater Manchester pursue their passion for creativity and community togetherness.
Everyone interested in arts + crafts is welcome to join. No previous experience is required. Members will enjoy peer-support from a friendly group of amateur artists.Book your place early as booking closes 1 day before session date.
Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners to experienced
Tuesday art group:
Afternoon sessions: 12 – 3pm -
Art-school Crit
£36.00Friday afternoon 1-session
Art-school Crit: a personal focus
Art school Crit sessions offer students the opportunity for personal 1:1 feedback. Experience the transformative power of Art-school Crits – have all your burning questions answered, learn how to get your creative cogs turning, and leave with a clear plan for what to do next.Perfect for everyone wanting to ask questions about their art, or simply how to get started. Find out the positives, and areas in need of more development. Art school crit sessions help to unlock your potential and identify your next steps to developing as an artist.
These supportive and positively-focused crit or ‘critique’ sessions are suitable for everyone who wants specific feedback to help them unlock the potential in their own drawing, painting and mixed-media artwork.
Starting out or been creating art for a while – it really doesn’t matter! Every artist needs supportive encouragement, feedback and focused guidance.
Suitable for: Adults, Absolute-beginners, Beginners, Improvers, Returners, Intermediate
Life drawing options
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Life Drawing Foundations
£218.00Thursday morning 6-session course
– includes model fees + all materialsLife Drawing Foundations
This fully tutor-led course teaches beginners and more experienced drawers innovative and creative life drawing techniques that will form the foundations to all future life, figure and portrait drawing.Experienced and supportive teaching guides students step-by-step through practical drawing exercises to master core life drawing techniques. Students will be introduced to ideas and concepts around perception and creativity, and learn an approach to drawing the figure that will enable them to draw with a new clarity of vision, improve accuracy, and self-expression.
Every session puts forward solutions to the struggles confronted by everyone who draws – be surprised and persuaded into new understandings of what it means to draw the human figure within dynamic 3-dimensional space.
The course interprets key ideas developed by internationally renowned artist and author Heather Spears in her book ‘The Creative Eye’ .
Suitable for: Adult, beginners, improvers, returners, intermediate
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Begin Life Drawing
£36.00Wednesday afternoon single-class
– min purchase: flexible mix of 4-class dates
– includes model fees + most materialsBegin Life Drawing
The absolute-beginners guide to life drawing. Perfect for those new to art and those just new to life drawing. This flexible mixed ability life drawing class is perfect for helping beginners take their first steps in drawing the figure as well as everyone starting to draw the human form for the first time.The tutor-led classes offer support and guidance every step of the way. Students will expand their life drawing knowledge and skills topic-by-topic to become creatively confident life drawers.
Attend the Begin Life Drawing classes for general tutored life drawing with a focus on a new topic each session. Classes can become a regular feature of students’ ongoing creative calendar.
Flexible mix + match booking
- Select any 4-class dates from the Begin Life Drawing classes and the Weekly Art Class.
- Plan your own timetable around your commitments and holidays – attend regularly or with breaks.
- Minimum purchase of 4-class dates.
Suitable for: Adult, absolute-beginners, beginners, improvers, returners
