For Adults:
Wednesday Watercolor
Spring Glass Workshop
Virtual: Watercolor • Virtual: Intermediate/Advanced Pastels
Intro to Digital Photography
Cell Phone Photography Workshop
Nature Walk Photography • Open Studio
For Children > Teens
Illustration for Youth • Ad
Drawing
Creativity Lab • Ceramics for Kids
Youth Ceramics
Valentines Day Kits (for families)
Guest Artist Workshops
Intensive workshops give artists the chance to learn a new skill or enhance their practice. While creating one can easily immerse themselves in endless sources of inspiration. Our guest artists are all skilled in their craft and teaching skills. Come and create together and enjoy an artist's retreat!
Abstracting Nature II: Let’s Get Starting Finishing with Pat Dews
March 25-27, 1-4pm CDT
$250/person
Starts are fun, finishes more difficult. In this follow up virtual workshop, students will focus on finishing paintings and design. Learn with Pat, as she discusses the possibilities for each of her many starts. Watch her totally change a painting using acrylic paints, add more inks or water colors to a start or end up cropping. The workshop will be intense and informative, but not boring! You will leave with renewed vigor and ways to finish your starts.
Papermaking: In the Field with Andrea Peterson
May 21-23, Fri. 2-4pm, Sat & Sun 9am-3pm, $265, 3days, Ages 18+
Join us for this papermaking adventure of creating paper from plants that surround you. From farming by-product to locally wild gathered plants, understand the process of turning plant cellulose into fine sheets of paper. Participate in a community field hike around Art Barn on Friday 2-4pm where we will identify and harvest plant species and follow-up with processing plant material on Saturday and making sheets of paper on Sunday.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.
Registration is limited in order to keep our students safe and healthy.
Art Barn takes everyone's health and safety seriously and we have measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 which include extra cleaning/disinfecting procedures, screening, social distancing and face covering requirements. We are committed to providing a safe environment for our students, visitors, volunteers and staff.
EXHIBITS & EVENTS
"Sunflower" by Judy Davis (pastel) during All Levels All Media with Suzie Rosso on Thursdays 10:00-noon.
Student Exhibition | January 22 - March 12
Students who attended classes and workshops in the last 2 years were invited to participate. The exhibition provides an opportuntity to highlight the skills of our students, but also the value of our educational art programs. The exhibition also provides a forum for individuals to share their work with other students and the public. Media will include 2-D and 3-D works and will be on display during gallery hours on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10:00am to 4:00pm and Saturdays from 10:00am to 2:00pm.
ABOUT ART BARN SCHOOL OF ART
Art Barn School of Art, housed in a century old renovated barn, is dedicated to fostering the love of art for artists of all ages and abilities in its unique 69-acre environment in Porter County, IN. The Art Barn offers a full range of art education classes for children and adults and is a venue for performing arts and weddings. In the Spring, the Art Barn walls fill floor to ceiling for the annual juried art exhibition (with a 27-year history). In September Art Barn hosts its annual outdoor Art Blitz which engages visitors in art-making, demonstrations and fun for the whole family.
