All Adult Courses

portfolio

Portfolio Preparation, Online

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
winter color theory

Intensive, Color Theory for Designers

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM * 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM * 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
intro to drawing

Intensive, Introduction to Drawing

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM * 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM * 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
graphic design

Intensive, Introduction to Graphic Design

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM * 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM * 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
sewing fundamentals

Intensive, Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM * 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM * 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
fashion intensive

Intensive, Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM * 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM * 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
sketch up

Intensive, SketchUp for Interiors, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM * 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM * 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Sunday on La Grande Jatte painting

Art Survey at the Art Institute of Chicago: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

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2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
colorful blocks of color created in illustrator create a playful visual field

Digital Design: Adobe Illustrator

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
an intricately embellished bodice colorful with ribbons

Patternmaking and Construction: Above the Waist

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
a student pins her orange and yellow fabric to a dress form

Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday
santa in flip flops runs while reindeer look on. Someone is holding a bottle in the foreground. black and white.

The Artist and the Sketchbook, Online

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday
a sculptural installation, architectural elements draped in earth tone fabrics, evocative of a deconstructed home, dare I say, apocalyptic?

Who Pays for All of This?: Art Collecting and Patronage for the Past, Present, and Future

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11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Saturday
a teacher at the school of the art institute speaks with his hands as he instructs a student in the fundamentals of drawing

Introduction to Drawing

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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
hands draw rudimentary shapes in charcoal

Introduction to Drawing

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10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sunday
a complimentary colored painting of purples and yellows of a suburban office building

Introduction to Oil Painting

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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
a woman thoughtfully applies watercolor paint to bristol paper at the school of the art institute of chicago

Introduction to Watercolor Painting

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10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sunday
a beautiful sampling of different kind of stitches student's learn in sewing fundamentals at the school of the art institute of chicago

Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals

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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
a teacher demonstrates to students how to assemble a chapbook

Artists' Books and Zines

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
an interior rendering of a cafe

Digital Drawing: Interior Design

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
a kooky lady with pink hair feeds her fabric through a sewing machine at the school of the art institute of chicago

Fashion Medium: Embroidery, Embellishments, and Sewn Elements, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
a person plays air guitar on a broom in front of his police and david bowie records

Introduction to Digital Photography

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
a triptych of arrangements of eucalyptus leaves in different spiral configurations

Introduction to Graphic Design

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
a black and white graphic comic that plays with panels composition to tell a story

Children's Book Illustration

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
a woman holds a charming handmade book that is colored in soft orange tones

Digital Design: Adobe InDesign, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
a piece inspired by lichtenstein's pop art shows a woman saying, "ask your father" primarily blue and yellows with red dotted in

Digital Drawing and Illustration

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
a detail and a wide view of a futuristic fashion illustration for someone who wants to look fierce while battling the robots in space

Fashion Illustration

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
a hand woven pattern of fabric still attached to its loom

Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
a rendering of a residential yard in malibu with a view of the ocean and a pool

Introduction to Interior Design, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
a fashion illustration of a woman wearing a long red skirt in various positions

Sewing Techniques: Below the Belt

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
repeating images of in various gradients are patterned together in a way that is reminiscent to the magic eye books from the 90s

Color Theory for Designers

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
black and white graphic comic with four panels arched at the top like you are looking through a window at a woman in various stages through time

Comics and Graphic Novels

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
a black and white screenprint of a plant silouetted against a window

Expanded Printmaking

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
a rendering of a mid-century modern kitchen

Interior Design Studio: Kitchen and Baths, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
a black and white spotted cow looks directly at the painter with a pasture in the background

Painting Studio: Multi-level

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
an auburn haired girl sits against a cupboard looking down at something

Painting: Color and Light

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
a portrait of a black man on brown paper drawn with charcoal and conte crayon

Portrait Drawing

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
People standing inside an art gallery looking at art

Contemporary Art in Chicago

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Thursday
a woman shares her graphic designs with her instructor for feedback at the school of the art institute of chicago

Creating Visual Language: Designing Symbols, Icons, Logos, and Infographics, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
an architecturally styled drawing that is fantastical in its precision

Design Matters

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
an architectural rendering of a bathroom with a woman looking on, reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings

Introduction to Interior Design

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
a star accordion book bound with red thread, a person moving inside the pages

The Art of Creative Writing: Short Forms of Fiction and Poetry

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
The front facade of the Art Institute museum with fall trees in front

Art Survey at the Art Institute of Chicago: Modernism and Beyond

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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Friday
Looking up at the front facade of an art museum, with flags hanging down

Art History from the Ground Up, Online

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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sunday
two women discuss their work to get to the heart of what the artist is trying to say in their curated portfolio at the school of the art institute of chicago

Portfolio Preparation, Online

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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
photoshop

Digital Design: Adobe Photoshop

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
Illustrator rendering of a kitchen

Digital Drawing: Objects + Space

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
Image of albums and a guitar

Introduction to Digital Photography

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
Figure drawing of a woman

Introduction to Figure Drawing

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
class is full! get on the waitlist

Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
woman sewing on a sewing machine

Fashion Design

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
intro to architecture

Introduction to Architecture

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
Hands drawing shapes with charcoal

Introduction to Drawing

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
intro to illustration

Introduction to Illustration

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
Rendering of a woman standing in a bathroom space

Introduction to Interior Design, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
Two women painting in a studio classroom

Water-Based Painting

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
Students at a table looking at computers with an instructor behind them

Brand Identity Systems, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
class is full! get on the waitlist

Color Theory for Designers

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
color theory

Color Theory for Designers, Online

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
class is full! get on the waitlist

Experimental Printmaking

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
Rendering of a woman standing in a bathroom space

Introduction to Interior Design

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
A painting of a cow

Painting: Materials and Methods

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
an overhead view of students looking at artwork near a staircase

Studying Art History at the AIC: An Overview

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2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday
design matters

Design Matters

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
Painting of a museum gallery

Introduction to Oil Painting

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
This course is full! Get on the waitlist.

Sewing Techniques: Above the Waist

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
People standing around a table looking at displayed books

The Art of Creative Writing

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte painting

Art Survey at the Art Institute of Chicago: Impressionism and Post Impressionism

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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Friday
art history ancient to premodern

Art Survey at the Art Institute of Chicago: Ancient to PreModern

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2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
class is full! get on the waitlist!

Contemporary Art in Chicago

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11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Saturday
contemporary watercolor

Contemporary Watercolor, Online

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
below the belt

Patternmaking and Construction: Below the Belt

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday
class is full! get on the waitlist

Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
sketchbook

The Artist and the Sketchbook

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday
Hands drawing shapes with charcoal

Introduction to Drawing

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10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Sunday
Painting of a museum gallery

Introduction to Oil Painting

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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday