Adult Studio Classes

Unlock Your Creativity with Adult Studio Classes

4-6 week courses in creative writing, art appreciation, and all visual art media.

Adult

Art Enhances Health

In partnership with Novant Health Zimmer Cancer Institute, CAM offers FREE six-week classes to cancer patients and survivors. Based on research showing that art can positively impact brain function and well-being, these sessions aim to provide relaxation, emotional expression, and relief from pain and anxiety. Teaching artist Donna Moore and expressive arts therapist Lorraine Perry lead classes in art making and expressive writing. These classes include gallery visits and mindful meditation.

Date/Time:

Mondays, November 2nd – December 7th, 1-3pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

Free: Registration Required

Instructor:

Donna Moore & Lorraine Perry

Supplies:

Adult

Figure Drawing 101 – full, please call to join waitlist

Would you like to be more comfortable drawing people? This class will help you with proportions, shading, and taking time to concentrate on what makes a good figure or portrait painting. Come get comfortable learning figure drawing.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, December 1st – 15th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member $136 / Not-yet-member $170

Instructor:

Jeri Greenberg

Supplies:

Adult

POP Your Paintings With Contrasting and Complementary Colors!

Bring your imagination to the studio and you will see how exciting a painting can be using only contrasting and complementary colors. Together we will study the color wheel and implement some fun color combinations, such as blue with orangey-yellow or red with some greenish shades. Let's play and get loose with color!

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, December 2nd – 16th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member $136 / Not-yet-member $170

Instructor:

Jeri Greenberg

Supplies:

Adult

Linocut Printmaking: Intro and Beyond

Explore the relief printmaking method of Linocut to create striking images. This class is perfect for both the beginner and students with some experience. Learn the basics of planning and carving your design into a linoleum block. Then learn proper inking and printing techniques. Explore printing in black ink to create bold images and play with creative ways to print in color including reduction linocut. Tap into your creativity and see what you can create! Please come to first class with an image.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, December 3rd – 17th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member $100 / Not-yet-member $125

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult

Spontaneous Printmaking

Explore simplified direct techniques celebrating the immediacy and surprise elements of printmaking! Each week will touch on a new way of monoprinting with gel plates and streamline stamp pads, plus playful brayer printing (image). Excellent opportunity to make unique and personal gifts, cards, and wrapping paper.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, December 3rd-17th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member $136 / Not-yet-member $170

Instructor:

Donna Moore

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Clay & Memory: Vessels That Tell a Story

Each week students create a vessel or object connected to a memory, place, person, food, tradition or experience. Projects may include memory vessels, story jars, a personal altar/object, relief tile, or a lidded container. Skills: pinch, coil, slab, texture, sculptural construction, surface decoration.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, January 12th – February 16th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Anne McCombie-Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Drawing Inspired by Nature – Winter Greens and Early Blooms

Use nature as inspiration to create beautiful drawings! Improve your drawing abilities through close observation, capturing the unique shapes, details, and beauty of winter greens and early blooms. Focusing on unique characteristics of individual plants, learn techniques to enhance drawings by adding texture and creating depth. Topics covered include achieving accurate proportions, drawing in perspective, and rendering value to create volume. Some previous drawing experience suggested but not required.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, January 12th – February 9th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $212 / Not-yet-member: $265

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult Workshop

The Art of Words: North Carolina Storytellers Edition

From Thomas Wolfe to Rhiannon Giddens, Carl Sandburg to Clyde Edgerton, David Sedaris, Maya Angelou, Timothy B. Tyson, Nicholas Sparks and more, North Carolina has been home to many great writers. In this 6-week writing class we will read and discuss North Carolinian writers’ works, using them as inspiration for our own weekly word experiments, paralleling and dialoguing with the Echoes of Us: North Carolina Storykeepers exhibit.

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, January 13th – February 17th, 2-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $148 / Not-yet-member: $185

Instructor:

Shawna Kenney

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Clay & the Garden

Using plants, flowers, seeds, insects, and garden structures, students will create pieces inspired by the natural beauty around us. Students will tour the grounds of Cameron Art Museum as well as bring inspiration from their home gardens and nature. Projects may include botanical relief tiles, seed pods, garden bells, sculptural flowers, leaf-impressed vessels, and garden sculptures.

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, January 13th – February 17th, 6-9pm

Skill Level:

Adult and Youth

Admission:

CAM Member: $240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Anne McCombie-Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Intuitive Painting

Intuitive painting is for ANYONE! From the newcomer who has never picked up a paint brush to the professional artist who has a creative block. This class does not teach techniques or methods, but how to play and find joy in your art. It is about being free with no pre-conceived ideas! Allow yourself to explore color, be creative, and find your inner being. Each class begins with a meditation practice. Come free your imagination and your soul!

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, January 13th – February 17th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Carolyn Faulkner

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Figurative Expression

Bring expressive energy to your Life Drawing Studio practice! Capture form and character of live models through gesture, contour, modelled drawing, and mark-making exercises. Combining tradition with experimentation to include scale and color. Based on the classic method of study by Kimon Nicolaides, "The way to learn to draw is by drawing". Returning and new students encouraged!

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, January 13th – February 3rd, 1:30-4:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Donna Moore

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Pastels I and II – All Together

Bring all your pastels and charcoals and experiment! Using different brands of papers and pastels, students will work at their own pace while learning from one another, and of course the instructor. Class will start with demos and exercises to loosen up and then work on still life drawings, interiors, and figure.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 14th – February 4th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Jeri Greenberg

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Intermediate Portrait Painting

An intermediate-level portrait class focusing on accurate feature drawing and placement within the head as a whole. Working from photographs, you'll produce a convincing and emotive portrait painting. Students will create value studies and learn to mix colors precisely. We'll also study brush and edge work. We'll also have a great deal of fun along the way!

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 14th – February 11th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Intermediate

Admission:

CAM Member: $212 / Not-yet-member: $265

Instructor:

Sheri Farley

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Fun with Pottery

A clay class where fun is the main ingredient! This class brings all level students together to learn, grow, and share ideas. Together we’ll explore the possibilities of clay. Make what you want! This can include hand building techniques such as pinch pots, coil pots, and the very popular slab pots, as well as extruded forms, throwing double walled pieces, throwing off the hump, agate ware chattering, slip trailing, and relief tiles sculptures.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 14th – February 18th, 6-9pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Renato Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Workshop

Experimental Poetry Drafting & Revision

Join Jules Miller in a generative poetry workshop that pushes the boundaries of language. Using Dadaist, absurdist, and experimental poetic techniques, come together to draft new work, revise existing work, and share what you create using techniques like cut-up, black-out, and more! Each class will be dedicated to thoroughly experimenting with and sharing the outcome of one kind of drafting/revision technique.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, January 26th - February 16th, 1:30-3:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $104 / Not-yet-member: $130

Instructor:

Jules Miller

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Exploring Techniques in Oil Painting

We will be exploring different ways to use oil paints including palette knife, washes, drips, splatters, subtractive painting, dry brush, wet into wet, etc.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, January 26th – March 2nd, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Intermediate

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Todd Carignan

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Drypoint Printmaking: Intro and Beyond

Drypoint is a printmaking method in which a drawing is scratched directly into a printing plate using a pointed tool. This class will cover both printing in black ink and techniques to enhance prints by adding color. From start to finish, learn the basics of plate making, inking, and printing. Both hand coloring and color printing “à la poupée” will be explored. À la Poupée refers to applying different color ink to one plate and printing all the colors at once to create a multi-colored print.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 28th – February 18th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Beginning Drawing

Learn the foundation of good drawing: where to start, how to measure, and how to see lights, shadows, and values.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, February 11th – March 18th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Beginner

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Todd Carignan

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Travel Memories on Canvas

In this course you’ll learn painting techniques to transform your travel memories into timeless works of art. We will explore how to capture light, color, and depth while creating dynamic compositions. This is a chance to relive your favorite travel memories as you refine your painting skills.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, February 16th – March 16th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $212 / Not-yet-member: $265

Instructor:

Evin Bryson

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Punch Up The Color In Your Life Drawings

Add dynamic intensity and spunk to figure drawings with the impact of color. Emphasis on value study and structural color fields – not realistic rendering. Experiment with paper prep, creating a variety of surfaces and palettes. (student image: Sherman Hayes)

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, February 17th – March 10th, 1:30-4:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Donna Moore

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Colored Pencil Drawing: Flowers Mimicking Birds

This class caters to beginners and those looking to refine their pencil techniques. Students learn blending, layering, and shading techniques to create shadows and highlights. As well as how to arrange elements within a drawing to have a balanced and harmonious composition. Burnishing, hatching, crosshatching, and stippling will also be introduced to students.

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, February 24th – March 31st, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Carolyn Faulkner

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Expressive Architecture in Pen and Ink

Learn how to capture your favorite architectural subjects in traditional pen and ink from rough sketches to finished drawings. Start with exercises to develop skills. Learn hatching techniques to create depth and texture. Experiment with different pen strokes, and incorporate ink washes to depict areas of shadow. We’ll create dynamic sketches then advance to more refined drawings. Once learned, these techniques can be applied to any subject.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, February 25th – March 18th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Date/Time:

Thursdays, April 8th – May 13th, 6-9pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Renato Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Portraits with Personality

This course will cover the basics of painting and portraiture while adding personality with unique backgrounds and narrative elements. Learn essential tips for composition, color mixing, layering, and brushwork while creating unique portraits that are meaningful to you.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, April 22nd – May 13th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Evin Bryson

Supplies:

Adult Studio

In and Out of the Garden: Playful Botanical Sketchbooks

Use the grounds around CAM to connect with nature capturing it in a botanical sketchbook. We’ll spend time outside sketching and recording our observations, focusing on details of flowers, plants and their habitat. Back in the studio we’ll explore ways to add color playing with different materials. Learn ways to document your subject, add notes and botanical terminology, experiment with different page layouts, and learn to color match in the field. Weather permitting one class will meet at The Arboretum.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, April 27th – May 18th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult

AM Life Drawing

Work with professional nude models, following a self-guided format studying the human form - in your medium of choice. A basic understanding of technique and tools is suggested. Purchase punch cards through the Museum School office to be used in morning or evening classes during the Fall or Winter sessions. Single, drop-in tuition can be reserved online or paid upon arrival. Ongoing weekly.
Mondays, September 14th-December 14th, 9:30am-12pm
*Click on Show Individual Dates to select each class session

Date/Time:

Mondays, September 14th-December 14th, 9:30am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$20 CAM MEMBERS, $25 not yet member

Instructor:

Donna Moore

Supplies:

Adult

PM Life Drawing

Work with professional nude models, following a self-guided format studying the human form - in your medium of choice. A basic understanding of technique and tools is suggested.
Single, drop-in tuition can be reserved online or paid upon arrival. Click on Show Individual Events. Ongoing, Biweekly, Wednesdays, September 9th-December 16th, 6:30-9pm (with break on November 18th)

**Purchase punch cards through the Museum School office to be used in morning or evening classes during the Winter and Spring sessions.

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, September 9th-December 16th, 6:30-9pm (with break on November 18th), bimonthly

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$20 CAM Members, $25 Not-Yet-Member

Instructor:

Taylor Klauk

Supplies:

Adult Workshop

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 14th – February 11th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Intermediate

Admission:

CAM Member: $212 / Not-yet-member: $265

Instructor:

Sheri Farley

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Fun with Pottery

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 14th – February 18th, 6-9pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Renato Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Workshop

Experimental Poetry Drafting & Revision

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, January 26th - February 16th, 1:30-3:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $104 / Not-yet-member: $130

Instructor:

Jules Miller

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Exploring Techniques in Oil Painting

We will be exploring different ways to use oil paints including palette knife, washes, drips, splatters, subtractive painting, dry brush, wet into wet, etc.

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, January 26th – March 2nd, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Intermediate

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Todd Carignan

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Drypoint Printmaking: Intro and Beyond

Date/Time:

Thursdays, January 28th – February 18th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Beginning Drawing

Learn the foundation of good drawing: where to start, how to measure, and how to see lights, shadows, and values.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, February 11th – March 18th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Beginner

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Todd Carignan

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Travel Memories on Canvas

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, February 16th – March 16th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $212 / Not-yet-member: $265

Instructor:

Evin Bryson

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Punch Up The Color In Your Life Drawings

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, February 17th – March 10th, 1:30-4:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Donna Moore

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Colored Pencil Drawing: Flowers Mimicking Birds

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, February 24th – March 31st, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Carolyn Faulkner

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Expressive Architecture in Pen and Ink

Date/Time:

Thursdays, February 25th – March 18th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Fun with Pottery

Date/Time:

Thursdays, February 25th – April 1st, 6-9pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Renato Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Workshop

Writing the Southern Wild: Nature, Place, and Preservation

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, March 2-30th, 9am-11am with a break on March 16th

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $104 / Not-yet-member: $130

Instructor:

Rhonda Waterhouse

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Painting the Abstract Landscape

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, March 9th – 30th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Kari Feuer

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Painting Flowers & Botanicals

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, March 23rd – April 20th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $212 / Not-yet-member: $265

Instructor:

Evin Bryson

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Illustrated Botanical Journals

Date/Time:

Thursdays, March 25th – April 15th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Painting People in Watercolor

This class tackles figures in landscapes, clothing, portraits, hands, etc. We will be working from both photographs and life.

Date/Time:

Thursdays, March 25th – April 29th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: Intermediate

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Todd Carignan

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Still Life Painting

Date/Time:

Thursdays, March 25th – April 29th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Sheri Farley

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Make a Clay Animal

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, March 31st – May 5th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Rob Diseker

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Picture Book Illustration: The Art of Storytelling

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, April 6th – May 11th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Jane Smith

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Explore Fauvism: Paint with Bold, Unnatural Colors

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, April 7th – May 12th, 9am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $248 / Not-yet-member: $310

Instructor:

Carolyn Faulkner

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Fun with Pottery

Date/Time:

Thursdays, April 8th – May 13th, 6-9pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$240 / Not-yet-member: $300

Instructor:

Renato Abbate

Supplies:

Adult Studio

Portraits with Personality

Date/Time:

Thursdays, April 22nd – May 13th, 6-8:30pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $172 / Not-yet-member: $215

Instructor:

Evin Bryson

Supplies:

Adult Studio

In and Out of the Garden: Playful Botanical Sketchbooks

Date/Time:

Tuesdays, April 27th – May 18th, 1-4pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

CAM Member: $184 / Not-yet-member: $230

Instructor:

Antoinette Vogt

Supplies:

Adult

AM Life Drawing

Date/Time:

Mondays, September 14th-December 14th, 9:30am-12pm

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$20 CAM MEMBERS, $25 not yet member

Instructor:

Donna Moore

Supplies:

Adult

PM Life Drawing

Work with professional nude models, following a self-guided format studying the human form - in your medium of choice. A basic understanding of technique and tools is suggested.
Single, drop-in tuition can be reserved online or paid upon arrival. Click on Show Individual Events. Ongoing, Biweekly, Wednesdays, September 9th-December 16th, 6:30-9pm (with break on November 18th)

**Purchase punch cards through the Museum School office to be used in morning or evening classes during the Winter and Spring sessions.

Date/Time:

Wednesdays, September 9th-December 16th, 6:30-9pm (with break on November 18th), bimonthly

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

$20 CAM Members, $25 Not-Yet-Member

Instructor:

Taylor Klauk

Supplies:

Adult Workshop

Love Poetry Workshop

Date/Time:

Skill Level:

Adult: All Levels

Admission:

Instructor:

Jules Miller

Supplies:

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