classes & workshops

Powerhouse Arts is joining the Red Hook Art Project for the launch of their exhibition I Am Not Broken, honoring Juneteenth and celebrating Black excellence, community, resilience, and strength. With support from Powerhouse Arts staff, participants will be guided through button-making and creative self-portrait activities that encourage expressions of identity, culture, and community pride.

Explorevarious mosaic techniques through hands-on making and learn about the historyand evolution of mosaic art.

Discover different techniques within the Youbaresist-dyeing art of adirẹ, traditionally using indigo dye and cassava paste ormelted wax.

Crafternoons are a series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages. Each month, we’ll roll up our sleeves and dive into fun, hands-on animal creations inspired by our first major public exhibition, The Ark.

In two sessions, experiment with thetraditional art of marbling and then create expressive collages using themarbled designs.

Inspired by jazz music, this workshop exploreshow fragmentation, reassembly, and reconstruction can generate abstractcompositions from the personal archive.

In celebration of Powerhouse Arts’ first major public exhibition, The Ark, come by the Old Stone House to create pocket-sized animal sculptures inspired by the critters found at J.J. Byrne Playground, Old Stone House, and Washington Park! With support from Powerhouse Arts staff, participants are invited to sculpt, craft, and experiment as they bring caterpillars, ladybugs, and other tiny creatures to life.

This class will provide tools to printmakers–or any artists with some print experience– in preparing digital files forprint previews and color separations, primarily working in Adobe Photoshop.

Using watercolor to create an observationalillustration of a live model, experiment with shapes, structures, lines andcolors in brush work.

Discover conceptual and physical forms ofunfolding, spinning, and expanding through zine and book-making, working withauto-ethnographic journaling, photography, or drawing.

Discover ways to combine collage, oftenfree-form and intuitive, with comic making, often plotted and organized, innew, surprising ways that inform one another.

Crafternoons are a series of free, drop-in art workshops for families, kids, and neighbors of all ages. Each month, we’ll roll up our sleeves and dive into fun, hands-on animal creations inspired by our first major public exhibition, The Ark.

Strengthen the connection between observationand gesture in live model figure drawing, through this session led and guidedby an instructor.

In celebration of Powerhouse Arts’ first major public exhibition, The Ark, we invite our neighbors to join us at the NYCHA Gowanus Houses picnic area along Hoyt St. to create animal puppets! Using repurposed materials and everyday objects, participants will explore how to design and animate expressive puppets through hands-on making and play.

Explore the rich possibilities of alternativephotographic printing using organic materials such as green tea, coffee, and wine.