FALL Session!
September 29-November 23
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Member Registration: August 25, 10 a.m.
Public Registration: September 2, 10 a.m.
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Throughout the year, expert Studio School instructors present classes and workshops in painting, drawing, printmaking and design for students of all levels. Students work with industry-standard equipment and materials, such as professional painting and drawing easels, lighting and an etching printmaking press.
Tuition for multi-week courses does not include materials. When signing up for a class, all students agree to abide by the policies set forth in the Student Handbook.
Interested in more than just 2-D? See our full class and workshop list here.
Eight-Week Class | Oil Painting
- Date 6-9 p.m., Mondays, Sept. 29 – Nov. 17
- Cost $255
- Location The Studio | Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Chris Brizzard
- Age Requirements 16+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
Sold out! Join the waitlist here.
This beginner-friendly oil painting class teaches skills of blocking-in, separating light from shadow, setting up proper value relationships, getting the light effect, color relationships and more.
Who knows, maybe after eight weeks you’ll build a scaffold in your living room and lie on your back for four years painting your ceiling?
• Download your syllabus and materials list here.
• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 1.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.
Eight-Week Class | Creative Drawing: Advanced
- Date 6-9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 1-Nov. 19
- Cost $225
- Location Main Building | Howard Family Charitable Foundation Studio 3
- Instructor / Presenter Isa Rodriguez
- Age Requirements 18+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
This is an advanced drawing class, previous drawing instruction such as Creative Drawing, Beginning Drawing, or equivalent is required.
Learn traditional drawing techniques with a fresh, contemporary approach. Hone your drawing skills while developing individual style. Create finished work and expand your portfolio.
• Download your syllabus and materials list here.
• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 3.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
Eight-Week Class | Watercolor: Pattern! Cool Textiles! in Gouache
- Date 6-8:30 p.m., Thursdays, Oct. 2- Dec. 4
- Cost $225
- Location Main Building | In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio 2
- Instructor / Presenter Whitney Batres
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
Beginners welcome!
Escape into color, pattern, and geometric forms! Work with artist Whitney Batres to learn the basics of traditional gouache and color theory while making paintings inspired by textile patterns! Learn to mix colors, compose color palettes and draft geometric compositions!
• Download your syllabus and materials list here.
• No class on October 30 and November 27
• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 11.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
Image, Whitney Batres
Eight-Week Class | Creative Drawing
- Date 6-9 p.m., Thursdays, Oct. 2- Nov. 20
- Cost $225
- Location Main Building | Howard Family Charitable Foundation Studio 3
- Instructor / Presenter Isa Rodriguez
- Age Requirements 18+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
No experience necessary! Join artist Isa Rodriguez to get unstuck and be more creative. There are as many ways to draw as there are people who want to draw. In this class, you’ll practice drawing techniques like gesture, contour, scribbling (yes, scribbling is drawing), tracing, collage, automatic drawing and other stuff.
What will you be drawing? What won’t you be drawing? Let’s have some fun.
• Download your syllabus and materials list here.
• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 4.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
Eight-Week Class | Practice Practice: How to Keep Creating
Calling all artists, creatives, people who want to make and people who are afraid to make! Stop worrying and start making!
Award-winning artists Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones will help you change your habits, find collaborators, avoid burnout, and enjoy creating again. This class brings together a community of brilliant, weird, funny, insightful artists who will support you through the highs and lows of building a creative practice that fits YOU.
What is Practice Practice?
Practice Practice is a community-based project that helps creative people build balanced, resilient practices so that they can keep making their art. The project was co-founded by artist/educators Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones, and has received grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation and OVAC. They are inaugural Artists in Residence at Studio School in 2025.
• Students will purchase the Practice Practice: How To Keep Creating ($30) workbook on the first day. Venmo, Paypal, cash, and credit cards are accepted.
• Download your syllabus and materials list here.
• If one class is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is December 6.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
