The Drawing Studio - Artists' Cooperative providing student centered art instruction

The Drawing Studio offers a wide range of classes and workshops in a variety of formats and locations to meet the needs of busy adults. The Drawing Studio offers no degree programs or grades. People continue to study at TDS because of the value they receive working with our skilled teaching artists. To read an article about the design of our curriculum, click here. To read about developing a personal course of study, click here.

Changes in the Newsletter: The Drawing Studio receives many requests to plan and publish its course schedule as far in advance as possible.

The Schedule of Courses for the coming year is published in late summer and an Update is available in early winter.

All TDS open studio sessions are held at The Drawing Studio, 33 S 6th Avenue. Each session is $10. No reservations are required.

Sunday morning, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, general studies* (No 12/25 or 1/1)
Monday morning, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, general studies*
Tuesday evening, 6 – 9 PM, one long pose, costumed (No 12/20 or 12/27)
Thursday evening, 6 – 9 PM, general studies* (No 12/22, 12/29, or 1/19)
Saturday morning, 9 AM – Noon, one long pose, nude (No 12/24 or 1/28)

* “General studies” include short and long poses (2 min. to 1 hr.), usually nude.

Note: We sometimes must cancel Open Studio sessions to accommodate special events and/or ongoing classes.
Visit our link to Rebecca Olson’s Open Sketch page for the most up-to-date info about model scheduling.

Open Studio Monitors
Rebecca Olson, Carolyn Gibbs, Paul Mohr, Tom Bielejec, Kurt Anderson, Reid Silvern, Pete McCray, Betty Counseller, Steven Judy

Some Notes about Course Listings and Registration:

1. “Sections” indicate offerings of the same class that might differ only in dates, location, instructor, etc. “Parts” indicates classes with different, often sequential, content. We often offer the option to register for individual parts as a convenience to students. We also offer a deep discount for registering for an entire sequence at the same time. This discount is designed as a “perk” for a substantial time and financial commitment upfront.

2. In the newsletter, courses are organized first by experience/skill level and then by start date. We deliberately do not organize by medium to encourage students to experiment and focus on developing visual skills through working in a variety of media.

3. If you are browsing and/or enrolling on-line, don’t forget to select “bundles” in the initial search settings if you are looking for discounted groupings of parts or sections.

4. We cap on-line registration at 75% of the enrollment limit to prevent confusion if more people than the course can accommodate try to sign up on line. If on-line registration has reached this capacity, you will receive a message when you try to enroll on-line that you must enroll via phone, email, or in person.

5. Please familiarize yourself with our refund and credit policy, found on the back page of the newsletter, on the website, and in the on-line registration. While we make exceptions to this policy in the case of certain medical and family emergencies, we do not as a general rule prorate class fees based on the number of classes you can attend.