"Finally, It's Friday" Art Workshops

Every Friday, the Bronx River Art Center is offering three-hour art workshops, running from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Workshops are $15 per session and are open to everyone age 7 and above; with the exception of the Figure Drawing workshops, which are $20 and adults only.

This evening, join us for our monthly Figure Drawing class with Douglass Guy. This workshop will seek to improve students' abilities to keenly observe the anatomy of the human figure and represent it on the page. The focus will be on recognizing gestures and rendering forms and their relationships, building them up through the use of line and shape and, eventually, light and shadow. The workshop is designed to cater to the needs of beginning, intermediate, and advanced students as individual attention is given to each student's progress. It is recommended that you bring a binder or folder to carry your work home.

Register for Friday Art Workshops

Weekly Art Classes
(Full descriptions available at www.bronxriverart.org/education)

Registration is now open for BRAC's Spring Art Classes! Our spring semester will run for 10 weeks from April 8th to June 24th, offering both weekly two-hour art classes and three-hour art workshops for children, teens, and adults.

SNAP Recipients Can Use "Snap10" To Get An Extra $10 Off Classes
*$50 materials fee for Adult Ceramics and all Pottery tickets due to rising supply and firing costs

Spotlight On These Fantastic Classes

Cartooning
Wednesdays (4pm to 6pm)
Youth

This class focuses on learning about the structures of manga / anime characters using shapes and anatomy for movement. Students will focus on the creation of chibi-style caricatures, develop pacing, setting up scenes using panels, working with depth, and the use of lighting and shadow techniques. Students will work on developing their own manga and anime characters to tell their own stories.

Cartooning is taught by Greg Maldonado, a Bronx born and based artist. Having studied art and comics at the School of Visual Arts, Joe Kubert School, and the Arts Students League, his published credits include short stories in "Create, Destroy, Repeat: A Comics Anthology of Rebirth and Redemption", "Shock-a-Rama", and "The Shaolin Nun." He was also part of the inaugural class of DC Comics' The Milestone Initiative.

Painting
Thursdays (4pm to 6pm)
All ages

This class is an introduction to the skills and techniques for working in painting. It will guide students through their preliminary painting experience. Students will learn to work with multiple paint mediums (including acrylic and watercolor) and be introduced to the basic concepts of painting exploring color, form, and composition.

Painting is taught by Jonathan Berry. Jon is a New York-based artist primarily focused on public works utilizing aerosol paint, exploring the concrete and abstract relationships between letters since 1983. A MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Berry has participated in festivals from Tahiti and Denmark to the streets of Hong Kong. In 2019, he painted his largest work to date (approximately 120x40 meters) as an invited artist for Rust Magic; a mural festival in Edmonton, CA bringing international artists together to paint large scale works across the city.

Register for Weekday Afternoon and Evening Classes

Covid-19 Protocols:

Vaccination is strongly recommended. If student is sick, must take a Covid test before attending class. If positive, cannot return for five days and must wear mask for ten.

Please ask us if you need tests, we have them available.

We appreciate your continued vigilance and cooperation.