92nd Street Y Classes, New York

Develop your ability to create painterly portraits that highlight the model’s features and personality by learning anatomy, proportion, and color-mixing. Lessons and demonstrations will be conducted in oil and acrylic. Students will work in a painting medium of their choice and through careful observation of one pose sustained over the course...

First-time parenthood can feel overwhelming—we’re here to help! 92Y Parenting Center director Sally Tannen welcomes new moms, dads, and babies to gather for weekly meet-ups full of sharing, advice, and the support every new parent needs. Bring your baby and join Sally Tannen, director of 92Y’s Parenting Center, for a weekly get-together where...

Gouache is an opaque watercolor-the perfect medium for travel! Work from still life and landscape to build gouache paintings first with transparent then opaque layers. Learn about materials, techniques, color temperature, composition and drawing with paint. For the Supply List, please CLICK HERE An access link will be emailed to you after purchase....

Work from live models via online video conferencing to develop expressive and dimensional drawings. Begin in graphite and move to colored pencils to create expressive drawings while honing your skills in understanding the proportions of human face. Supply List Color Pencils: Recommended Brand: Premier Prismacolor Colors: Tuscan...

This online course will provide students with a forum to show and discuss their studio work for technical and conceptual feedback. These critiques will be supplemented through presentations and discussions on historical artists’ images, customized to hue with the work presented by the students. In a typical class, students will present work for...

Discover the creative, expressive art of collage. Highly accomplished artists lead these fascinating classes where you will create unique works of art. Using a wide range of unique and interesting materials, you’ll incorporate texture, color, shape, pattern into unique works of art. You’ll explore composition, looking at balance, shapes and experimenting...

In the beginning of the 20th century, brilliant female jewelers like Suzanne Belperron, Jeanne Touissant, and Julie Munson were overshadowed by the famous jewelry houses that employed them (think Boivin, Cartier, and Tiffany & Co.). While these jewelers shaped the taste of women everywhere and created unforgettable and groundbreaking designs that...

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. _______________________ Dive into anatomy and discover how to render realistic figures and portraits. Use graphite, charcoal, or your other favorite drawing medium to create lively drawings while honing your skills in...

Explore abstraction in watercolor. Develop your watercolor skills, discover new ways to use watercolor’s unique qualities to move from concept to completion and take your work in fascinating new directions. For Supply List, please CLICK HERE

You may not be able to actually visit Italy right now, but you can enjoy a virtual tour with 92Y’s resident food historian and Italy expert, Francine Segan. Italy is a country with 20 different regions, each with its own very different food traditions, culture and customs. Discover the regional differences in Italian wines, liqueurs, cocktails,...

In a staggered learning format, new students explore the fundamentals of 2-D design, while returning students explore advanced projects such as designing a rug, creating a brand identity, and designing a sacred space such as a church or synagogue. The principles of 2-D design: balance, emphasis, movement, pattern, repetition, proportion, rhythm,...

Using at-home props and your imagination, students will create a series of landscapes and draw or paint their invented world, a. a bucolic landscape; b. a nighttime landscape; c. an urban or fantasy landscape. Students can use a variety of materials from the most basic (pen or pencil and pad) to markers, watercolor etc., even collage. The assignments...

Through a series of easy to follow, step-by-step instructions and carefully structured assignments and practical projects, we’ll create a series of abstract paintings and drawings together. We will explore how to use traditions and contemporary approaches to create a more effective and memorable experience for the viewer while also embracing the...

Revel in spring colors as you explore varied approaches to composing and painting spring flowers in watercolor, from wet-on-wet techniques, to dry brush and layered methods. An access link will be emailed to you after purchase.

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.  If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. ______________ Join us each Friday for a virtual vacation to some of...