UGA Community Art School
The UGA Community Art School features courses for adult students seeking to learn new skills, hone techniques, and expand their artistic expression. Taught by UGA faculty, the classes maximize individual instruction and experiential learning in the legendary studios of the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Registration
Summer 2026 registration is live! Fall 2026 registration opens in May.
UGA staff, faculty, and students are eligible for a $25 discount.
Contact CommunityArtSchool@uga.edu for details or any other questions.
Classes
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Fall 2026
Class details and registration coming soon
- Drawing Other Humans: Life Drawing with Callia Alandete
- Hand Building Ceramics with Maria Dondero
- Still Life for a Better Life: Painting with Haley Indorato
Summer 2026 Session Class Details
Artwork by Sister Corita Kent.
Learning by Heart: Screen Printing with Sara Hess
Summer 2026, Tuesdays, 6 – 9pm
3 sessions. June 9, 16, 23
Inspired by renowned artist Sister Corita Kent’s approach to screen printing, “Learning by Heart” is a class that explores drawing, painting, and collage. Learn the fun, accessible art of screen printing, where you use stencils to push ink onto fabrics, paper, and more. Apply this kitchen sink printmaking approach to your home studio practice. Students will design a 5-layer screen print edition and produce a collection of monoprints (unique impressions). Join us!
Fabric design student working with Associate Professor Jennifer Crenshaw, Fall 2025. Photo courtesy of Ben Jacobstein, UGA Pandora yearbook.
The Mindful Cloth: Natural Textiles with Jennifer Crenshaw
Summer 2026, Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
7 weeks. June 2 – July 21; no class on June 30 (the week of the July 4th holiday).
The Mindful Cloth class will focus on foraging materials for natural dyeing, sourcing textiles, and stitching instructions to create meaningful, mindful cloth(s). Natural materials will be collected by foraging gardens and collecting materials from locally owned restaurants to learn how to extract pigments for dyeing. Textiles will be sourced through thrifting, student’s personal collections of fabrics and collecting from local designers. Textiles will be examined and discussed concerning material quality along with a discussion of the numerous types of embroidery threads to be used for the class projects. Students will create an embroidery sampler to learn various stitches; they will learn how to naturally dye their textiles and threads and how to construct meaningful compositions for the cloth(s) they will construct. There will be discussions about of the history of sewing and quilting circles and its importance in the modern world.
Mixed Media Jewelry: Turning Found and Natural Objects into Timeless Metal Jewelry with Larissa McPherson
Summer 2026, Saturdays, 9:30 am – 12:30pm
3 sessions. July 11, 18, 25
This three-day course provides instruction in learning to make jewelry that holds a found or natural object of your choice! From flowers to seashells to bottle caps, almost any object that you find can be combined with metal. Students will learn and use metalsmithing and different settings skills to create jewelry they can wear. Join us for fun, art, and metal! All materials are provided. Adult students of all levels welcome.
Fees & Registration
Ten-week sessions cost $450. Seven-week sessions cost $315. Three-session workshops cost $200. Adults of all ages welcome.
UGA staff, faculty, and students are eligible for a $25 discount. Contact CommunityArtSchool@uga.edu for details or any other questions.
Fees cover classes and supplies. Refund will be provided up until two weeks before the first day of class. Proceeds from the UGA Community Art School support the studio art program at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Please review our policies below before completing registration.
The UGA Community Art School will issue a refund, minus a $25 processing fee, for cancellations made at least fourteen (14) days before the course start date. No refunds (full or partial) will be issued after that date. All refund requests must be sent via email to CommunityArtSchool@uga.edu. If the class is canceled by the UGA Community Art School, we will refund the full enrollment fee.
Last updated: April 6, 2026