MassArt Professional and Continuing Education

06/10/2026

Join artist Elizabeth Donsky for 100 Drawings: an immersive studio experience designed to strengthen your drawing practice through experimentation, volume, and momentum. Working at a pace of 20 drawings per day, students will move through observation, imagination, collage, painting media, monotypes, and mixed media approaches in a process that feels more like a visual marathon than a traditional drawing class.

Elizabeth is no stranger to rigorous creative practice. Image 4 features her installation Animal Vegetable Mineral — a project created for a NYC Garment District storefront in which she produced a new drawing installation each day across nine days, allowing each environment to evolve through color, repetition, space, and transformation.

Elizabeth’s work explores how drawings can reshape a space architecturally, visually, and conceptually — and that same spirit of curiosity and sustained making carries into her teaching.
With a career spanning site-specific installations and teaching appointments at RISD, Brown, Hofstra, and Drexel, Elizabeth invites students to embrace process, trust experimentation, and discover what happens when they simply keep making.
100 drawings. Endless possibilities.

Offered through MassArt New England. Register at the link in our bio !

Image 1: ARTEMESIA VULGARIS
Image 2: THOUSAND THINGS
Image 3: UNTITLED (DRAWING)
Image 4: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE MINERAL
Image 5: EN PLEIN AIR
Image 6: AUSPICIOUS FLOWERS (AFTER CHEN SHU)
Image 7: STUDY, FIG
Image 8: STUDIES ON THE PROPERTIES OF WATER (AFTER MA YUAN)
Image 9: MONOTYPE ON HANJI SOONJI
Image 10: STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE

View more at elizabethdonsky.com

06/09/2026

Excited to be included in Brennan Cole's article, “MA Schools Keeping Handmade Arts and Creative Workshops Alive.” 🎨
We believe creative growth happens through making, experimenting, and learning alongside others. It’s very rewarding to see the value of hands-on arts education highlighted in this conversation.
Read the full article here:
https://familyvacationsus.com/massachusetts-schools-keeping-handmade-arts-and-creative-workshops-alive/?utm_source=mati&fbclid=IwY2xjawSRvTRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFNQUFuRUpGZmhqd3hWVW9Wc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHorlYUioSClUTTLb53B_smIzbTyJUgEDHiM2952GjdjEE5Wl2f6jXFtK-HjA_aem_L8VnX1upY6iO-oHR8wxaZQ

Discover the best creative schools in Massachusetts this spring and see how they keep handmade arts and creative workshops alive and well.

06/04/2026

Step into the landscape this summer and embrace the thrilling challenge of painting directly from observation with Elizabeth O'Reilly. Learn to capture shifting light, vibrant color, and the energy of a place as it unfolds before you.

Through demonstrations, one-on-one instruction, and group critiques, you'll build confidence working in oil, acrylic, or watercolor as you develop stronger composition, color, and observational skills.

O’Reilly brings decades of experience as an instructor, with residencies in Ireland, Wyoming, and Illinois, and awards including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Charles G. Shaw Award for Painting.

Experience the magic of painting in the moment as clouds shift, shadows move, and colors change before your eyes. It's a rewarding challenge, and one of the most exciting ways to grow as an artist.

Register today at the link in bio

06/01/2026

Sometimes the most meaningful part of an education is the people you meet along the way ❤️

On the very first day of MassArt’s Fashion Design Certificate, Sarah shared her passion of working in costume design. Sabra immediately crossed the room to introduce herself, and the two quickly became collaborators, supporters, and close friends.

Two years later, they’re graduating with far more than technical skills in fashion design. They’re leaving with a creative partnership, a community, and someone who understands and supports their ambitions every step of the way. ✨

At MassArt Professional and Continuing Education, students come to grow creatively and discover a community that continues long after the classroom.

HUGE congratulations to these two. You did it!!!

images:
1. Sarah Lima and Sabra George at MassArt Commencement
2. Design by Sabra George
3. Sabra George
4. Sarah Lima, killing it on set
5. Design by Sarah Lima

05/26/2026

Elevate your Craft this fall and learn from a designer and educator deeply connected to the world of contemporary furniture and craft.

MassArt’s Furniture Design Certificate Program Director Annie Meyer is a Boston-based studio woodworker whose work has been exhibited at institutions including Fuller Craft Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Wasserman Projects, and more. With experience teaching at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, North Bennet Street School, and SMFA at Tufts (in addition to MassArt) Annie brings both professional expertise and a passion for hands-on learning to the studio.

Annie loves watching students ideas come to fruition, adding, “Students love the rare chance to step away from screen-based work and reconnect with making physical, meaningful objects by hand, while joining a creative community that continues long after graduation.”

Whether you’re new to furniture making or building toward a career in design, this program offers the opportunity to develop advanced skills, create meaningful work, and join a supportive community of makers.

Apply for MassArt’s Furniture Design Certificate: https://massart.edu/program/furniture-design/certificate/

05/18/2026

Check out our summer art classes!
From weekend workshops to weekly courses and intensive residencies, there’s something for every schedule and every skill level.

Join us in the studio : ) register for classes here: https://pce.massart.edu/catalog/summer-2026/categories/

05/15/2026

Bring your designs to life. Graduate with a portfolio of finished work along with the skills and community to support your creative practice or career transition.

05/14/2026

In The Mark and Beyond: Painting, A Doorway to Possibility, artists Tim Hawkesworth and Lala Zeitlyn guide participants through an immersive exploration of painting and drawing as a pathway to creativity, perception, and personal vision. Through individual guidance, conversation, and experimentation, students discover how the handmade mark can become a powerful form of communication rooted in lived experience.
Register today at:
https://pce.massart.edu/.../subject/massart-new-england/

05/13/2026

In The Mark and Beyond: Painting, A Doorway to Possibility, artists Tim Hawkesworth and Lala Zeitlyn guide participants through an immersive exploration of painting and drawing as a pathway to creativity, perception, and personal vision. Through individual guidance, conversation, and experimentation, students discover how the handmade mark can become a powerful form of communication rooted in lived experience.

Register today at:
https://pce.massart.edu/catalog/summer-2026/subject/massart-new-england/

05/08/2026

Explore embroidery as a form of drawing in this hands-on workshop with artist Joetta Maue. Using vintage, found, or new textiles, you’ll experiment with stitches, applique, contour drawing, hatching, color, texture, and composition — translating traditional drawing techniques into thread and cloth.

Learn techniques from beginner to advanced while creating rich and intentional works of art in a supportive studio environment.

Come make with us this summer 🧵 register at
https://pce.massart.edu/section/drawing-with-thread-3/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mane