Adult Classes

Tuition: $285. Materials: $50

All levels welcome. Explore the potter's wheel in this challenging, but fun class. Instructor Sarah McGuignan will demonstrate all of the basic steps needed to create your own functional vessels on the pottery wheel. Wedging, centering, and throwing small forms will all be covered, as well as handle-making and simple decorative techniques for personalizing your work. Intermediate and advanced level students will continue building their skills while exploring more challenging techniques and troubleshooting.

Tuition: $350. Materials: $50

All levels welcome. Explore the potter's wheel in this challenging, but fun, class. Instructor Jacob Butler will demonstrate all of the basics steps needed to create your own functional vessels on the pottery wheel. Wedging, centering, and throwing small forms will all be covered, as well as handle-making and simple decorative techniques for personalizing your work. Intermediate and advanced level students will continue building their skills while exploring more challenging techniques and troubleshooting.

Tuition $285. Materials $50.

Explore the potter's wheel in this challenging, but fun, class. instructor, Taylor Cullen, will demonstrate all of the basics steps needed to create your own functional vessels on the pottery wheel. Wedging, centering, and throwing small forms will all be covered, as well as handle-making and simple decorative techniques for personalizing your work. Intermediate and advanced levels students will continue building their skills while exploring more challenging techniques and troubleshooting.

Tuition: $285. Materials: $50

Tuition: $375

SHANE MCCLATCHEY is an emerging artist working, exhibiting, and teaching in Southern California. Inspired by surfing, diving, and lifeguarding, Shane’s paintings search out a balance between curiosity and vulnerability, internal and external realities, ocean and land. These fleeting boundaries echo in his studio practice, as he negotiates form and shape in positive and negative space. Shane received both his BFA and MFA in Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design, where he was mentored by contemporary figurative master painters such as F. Scott Hess and John Brosio. Shane teaches Figure Drawing at Citrus College and California School of the Arts. He is represented by Main Street Gallery in Manasquan, New Jersey.

Tuition: $200

Tuition: $330

BARBARA CAPIZZO has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. Her passion led her to pursue a degree from the Women’s College of Georgia with a double major in Psychology and Art Education. From there, Barbara went on to attend Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, where she studied Interior Design, and eventually received her Masters in Education degree from the American International College in Massachusetts. Barbara’s roots with the AAN run deep as she has been an artist member since the 60’s, served on the board, and even as president. She still refers to art as her anchor as well as escape, and spends the winters back in Florida brushing up on her own art with a variety of workshops with talented instructors. 

Tuition: $240

Tuition: $100

ALL LEVELS WELCOME.

MATERIALS NOT INCLUDED

NICCI AGUIAR is an illustrator from Nantucket whose passion for cartoons, animation, and comic books led her to study Sequential Art at Savannah College of Art and Design. After graduating from SCAD in 2016, Nicci moved back home where she continued to create her illustrations and began teaching Comics, Illustration, and Digital Art at the Artists Association of Nantucket.  

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.

ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund. We appreciate the opportunity to promote our programming and fill your place. 

ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors. 

FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.

Tuition: $600

ELIZABETH CONGDON is a painterly realist who earned her BA in Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied classical realism in Florence at Studio Cecil-Graves. She is a longtime AAN artist member, known for her floral still lifes and landscapes oil paintings. In Rhode Island, Congdon co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center and produced a documentary film on a site-specific Nutcracker Ballet.  Recently, Congdon graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design’s MFA Program with honors and was awarded the teaching fellowship.  Congdon is represented by Robert Foster Fine Art Gallery, and currently serves as AAN’s Director of Adult Programming.

Tuition: $120

ERIKA CHRISTENSEN SCULLY is a portrait and landscape artist who lives and works in New York City and Nantucket. She earned her BA in studio art from William Smith College and Diploma in Portraiture from Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London. The sprawling and diverse mosaic of eclectic energy of city life, and her travels throughout Europe strongly influence her creativity, as well as the emotions and personalities that lie within the human form. Christensen is also an AAN artist member and teacher, and dedicated volunteer at Sing for Hope, and various centers throughout the greater New York area.

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.

ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund. We appreciate the opportunity to promote our programming and fill your place. 

ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors. 

FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.

Tuition: $750

JOSEPH MCGURL is an award winning, nationally acclaimed artist who is a revered member of the Plein Air Painters of America, Guild of Boston Artists, Copley Society, American Society of Marine Artists. He evolved his unique approach to painting working with his muralist father James McGurl, earning his BFA at Massachusetts College of Art, and studying art abroad with Robert Cormier. He explores the nature of reality not only by focusing on light, form, space, and color, but through the lens of modern physics and spiritual reverence of the natural world. Eschewing photo references, Joseph develops deep personal meaning in his work through plein air observation, imagination, and memory. McGurl is represented by Cavalier Gallery in Nantucket, MA and Greenwich, CT, and numerous galleries across the country.

Tuition: $240

ALL LEVELS WELCOME. 

MATERIALS NOT INCLUDED

Cancellation and Refund Policy:

PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.

ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund. We appreciate the opportunity to promote our programming and fill your place. 

ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors. 

FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.

Tuition: $140

ALL LEVELS WELCOME.

MATERIALS NOT INCLUDED.

ELIZABETH CONGDON is a painterly realist who earned her BA in Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied classical realism in Florence at Studio Cecil-Graves. She is a longtime AAN artist member, known for her floral still lifes and landscapes oil paintings. In Rhode Island, Congdon co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center and produced a documentary film on a site-specific Nutcracker Ballet.  Recently, Congdon graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design’s MFA Program with honors and was awarded the teaching fellowship.  Congdon is represented by Robert Foster Fine Art Gallery, and currently serves as AAN’s Director of Adult Programming. www.elizabethcongdonart.com

Tuition: $325

Materials not provided.

Tuition: $750

MARIO A. ROBINSON is watercolorist, pastel artist and oil painter who is a member of the National Arts Club, Salmagundi Club, and Pastel Society of America. His work has been featured in many prestigious arts magazines, including the cover of American Artist magazine. While earning his BFA at Pratt Institute, Mario studied classical techniques, becoming an avid student of realism. However, his own sensibility of realism is distinctly defined by Americans Wyeth, Homer, and Eakins. With a timeless, universal aesthetic Mario depicts simple day to day moments of solitude and reflection. Among his numerous awards and accolades, Mario was chosen to paint a portrait of one of the Charleston Church Shooting victims. Wided collected painter, award winning artist, Youtube demo-er, and workshop teacher, Mario is also the author of Lessons in Realistic Watercolor, distributed by Penguin Random House, Winsor Newton Ambassador.

Tuition: $750

Tuition: $330 

The palette knife can be a key to unlock your creative freedom and embrace spontaneity. Susan will start each class with a demonstration to show basic handling techniques and share a few tricks. She teaches the joys and challenges of using the palette knife to create textures, transparent glazes, and rich patinas. Students will paint working exclusively with the knife, receiving individual instruction and guidance with an eye to developing their own expertise and style.

Tuition: $450

10 am - 12 pm Group Talk, Mediation, Discussion, Guidance

 1 - 3 pm One-on-One with Bernd 

BERND HAUSSMANN is a German-born abstract artist, now living as a US resident in the north shore of Boston and western Maine. Haussmann’s work is internationally exhibited, and hangs in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections around the world. He has also taught at several American universities and colleges, and teaches mindfulness workshops in Iceland, Germany, and the US. From 2012 to 2015, Haussmann engaged with scientists in a non-verbal dialogue, "Dialogues" as artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He embraces his audience with environmental inclusionary, interactive projects and collaborations. Presently, Haussman is leading workshops from his home in Maine, where he where he also works with his wife Anne on a 450-acre nature project.