Triangle ArtWorks strives to include as many schools and classes in as many creative disciplines as possible, and, obviously, this list in far from complete. If you are involved in an organization or business that offers some form of creative class, please send the relevant information to our email. Thanks for helping us keep this list as complete and up to date as possible!
Triangle ArtWorks provides these class listings as a convenience and makes NO endorsement or recommendation regarding any of the businesses or organizations listed. Be sure to review their websites and other sources independently before you patronize them.
Wake County
Abrakadoodle – An international arts education company, Abrakadoodle offers multicultural, mixed media art education camps, classes, parties and events for children 20 months – 12 years of age throughout Central NC. We teach children about artistic techniques from around the world, contemporary and master artists while providing students with a vocabulary to talk about and appreciate art. We are offering summer camps (mixed media, drawing & clay) for children (3-5 years & 6-12 years) at several locations in the Triangle area this summer, namely Durham Academy, Cary Academy, Chapel Hill Community Center and Mebane Arts & Community Center. Our proprietary curriculum EXCEEDS the National Standards for the Visual Arts and state standards. For the most up-to-date listing of our classes, camps and events, visit our Website or call 336-270-6307.
Artspace – Educating the public about art and artists is at the core of the Artspace mission. For this reason, Artspace is an important partner in the region’s educational system. Artspace challenges students through award-winning and innovative programs, for kids, youth and adults, including a vibrant summer program. 201 East Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601, 919-821-2787, Email, Website.
The Art Academy Live – A new concept: Online art classes from live instructors. Website.
Arts Classes at Town of Cary Arts Centers -The Town of Cary offers a wide array of classes in the visual arts, including ceramics; oil, acrylic and watercolor painting; fiber arts; jewelry and more. Classes feature parent/child experiences for toddlers and general classes for all ages. Specialty classes include those on history and heritage, plus a week-long clown camp and a month long youth video camp where students learn the ins and outs of documentary film-making. Much more can be found through the Town of Cary’s program brochure published three times a year. Contacts: Robbie Stone at Jordan Hall Arts Center (Email, 919-469-4069); Kris Carmichael at Page-Walker Arts & History Center, (Email, 919-460-4963); Mail: P.O. Box 8005, Cary, NC 27512, Website.
Carter Building Art Center -A new dedicated teaching space for exploring the arts with classes for adults and children. See live painting demonstrations throughout the building and meet the artists. The Art Center is a thriving community of more than 75 artists. Select studios are open Thursday thru Saturday from and all are open for the First Friday Artwalk. TheFirst Friday event is family fun and free to the public. See the Website for more information on studios and classes: Website. 20 Glenwood Avenue Studio 4, Raleigh, NC. 27603, Email, 919.928.5279.
Laranjillzart Studio – “Enlightened art instruction”- Art classes for children ages 4 and up. Summer camps. Open Studio and instruction for adults.Principals: Lara Visser and Jillian Goldberg, 131 Maldon Drive Cary NC 27513 Visits by appointment only, 919-637-1675, Website, Email.
NCSU Craft Center – The Crafts Center at NC State University functions as an art school specializing in crafts. Classes are offered each semester in various craft media such as pottery, sculpture, photography, woodworking, fiber arts, lapidary, glass, jewelry, metals and more. Classes are offered for all skill levels from beginner to advanced. Campus Box 7320, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, Website.
Pullen Arts Center – Pullen Arts Center offers a variety of classes for children, teens, and adults in drawing and painting, fiber arts, glass, jewelry-making, pottery, and printmaking. We offer classes for beginners and for experienced artists and craftspeople year-round. Join our creative environment. Hours of Operation: Monday – Thursday: 9am – 10pm, Friday: 9am – 1pm, Saturday: 10am – 3pm, Sunday: 1pm – 5pm, Email, Website
Sertoma Arts Center – 1400 West Millbrook Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612, Jill Brown, Director, 919-420-2329, Email, Website. Hours: M-TH 9:00am – 10:00pm, F 9:00am – 1:00pm, Sa 10:00am – 3:00pm, Sun 1:00pm – 5:00pm.
Chapel Hill/Carrboro
ArtsCenter – ArtSchool at The ArtsCenter is Orange County’s most comprehensive non-profit resource for continuing education in the arts on a non-degree, community basis. Opportunities abound for students of all ages – toddlers to seniors – to try their hand at a variety of artistic media or to increase their skills in intermediate/advanced classes. ArtSchool serves as a resource for many of the area’s professional artists, who experience teaching as a way of sharing their expertise, while keeping their own work continually challenged. Fall, Winter/Spring and Summer sessions are scheduled annually. 300-G E. Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510, 919.929.2787, Email, Website.
Clayton
Eye of the Eagle Arts Center – Offers classes for kids and adults, as well as “arts nights” for adults and families. 131 E 1st Street (Off Main), Clayton, NC 27520-2440, Email, Website.
Wake Forest
Sunflowers – Offers art classes for children and paint party classes for adults. 214 East Jones Avenue, Wake Forest, N.C. 27587.(919-570-0765), Email, Website.
Liberty Arts, Inc.- Liberty Arts, Inc. is a nonprofit educational sculpture studio and art casting facility located in downtown Durham’s Central Park District serving North Carolina and the Southeast region. Liberty Arts’ mission is to Transform the Triangle through Art by encouraging and supporting the creation, promotion and placement of sculpture in public and private spaces. Liberty Arts offers public bronze pouring demonstrations, sculpture-related classes for the community, affordable short-term studio space and instruction for artists, and is available for commissioned works. Email, 919-682-2673, 538, Foster Street, Durham, NC 27701, Website.
Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art – Based on an atelier school concept, RICA is committed to maintaining an affordable, high quality art education for all who wish to engage in the process of making art, contact: Mia Yoon, info@ricanc.com, 424 S. Dawson Street, Raleigh, NC 27604\1, (919)800-0208, Website.
Photographer’s Education & Resource Center - PERC provides practical education in digital photography and related software applications through online webinars, field workshops and classroom instruction at our Raleigh, NC facility and other Triangle area venues. PERC offers a Digital Photography Certification program for professional and semi-pro photographers and non-certificate instruction for amateurs. PERC also rents studio space and provides a multimedia Resource Center for photographers in the Triangle area of North Carolina. PERC can be reached at 919.926.7500, or via Email.
Community Music School - The school provides an opportunity for children from low-income families, ages 6-18, to receive individualized instruction and guidance from area professionals and instructors in most orchestral instruments in addition to piano and guitar. Each half-hour lesson costs the student only one dollar. Whenever possible and when a need exists, the school also provides and repairs instruments for the students to use free of charge for the duration of their enrollment. 919.832.0900, Email, Website.
Girls Rock NC - Girls Rock NC is a nonprofit organization that runs programs that encourage girls to be confident, creative members of their communities. Girls make bands, have workshops in teamwork, body confidence, zine-making, DIY clothing, recording, Tech Talk, songwriting and more, and are supported as they speak up and share their experiences as girls. We’re part of the international Girls Rock Camp Alliance, helping each other stay true to our mission–empowering girls! Close to 1,500 girls around the globe will have the rock camp experience in 2011–and we also have a women’s ‘Rock Camp’ to raise money so more girls can attend camp through scholarship funds. P.O. Box 3431, Durham, NC 27702, Email, Website.
Burning Coal Theatre Company – Burning Coal is a small professional theatre located in downtown Raleigh at the historic Murphey School auditorium. We offer Summer Theatre Conservatories for both middle and high school students each summer, as well as adult classes in playwriting, advanced playwriting, understanding Shakespeare and Acting (Uta Hagen approach) throughout the year. 224 Polk Street, Raleigh NC 27604; (919) 834-4001; Email; Website.
North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre – North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre is a non-profit, community-based performing arts center, created to enrich the cultural life of the North Raleigh community. We provide a creative outlet for all ages and openly invite community involvement. Along with providing instruction in the performing arts, we seek to promote the traditions and values of the theatre and to produce quality entertainment in a community-oriented atmosphere. We offer classes for all age ranges as well as summer camps and track-out camps. 7713 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh, NC 27615-4805; (919) 866-0228; Email; Website.
Raleigh Little Theatre – Raleigh Little Theatre is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to enrich, educate, and entertain our community by providing a superior theatre experience. Raleigh Little Theatre is a community theatre that produces 11 full productions annually and maintains a comprehensive youth and adult theatre education programs. 301 Pogue St, Raleigh, NC 27607-7267; (919) 821-3111; Email; Website.
Walltown Children’s Theater – Durham residents Joseph Henderson and Cynthia Penn founded Walltown Children’s Theatre to serve as a “Door of hope and place of opportunity for all children”. Walltown presents touring performances in schools and other venues, as well as classes, camps, after-school programs. 1225 Berkeley Street, Durham, North Carolina, 27705, 919-286-4545, Email, Website.
Young People’s Performing Company – YPPC provides classes, workshops and performance opportunities in the dramatic arts for children and teens from kindergarten through high school. Since 1985 YPPC has been granted class, rehearsal and performance space in the Durham Arts Council building at 120 Morris St., downtown Durham. Email, Website.
American Dance Projekt- ADP is a dance studio located in Raleigh’s Downtown Area. We are committed to equipping our students with the skills they need to reach their professional goals while developing their creativity, self expression, and passion for the arts. 1653 Old Louisburg Road, Raleigh, NC 27604; (919) 835-0341; Email, Website; .
City Ballet -City Ballet is a dance school offering training in ballet, pointe, modern, character, jazz, hip hop and tap to all levels of students. City Ballet’s goals are to nurture a love of movement, music and performance while training dancers through a structured syllabus that builds their technical expertise and their physical strength, All ballet students are trained following the Cecchetti method, an internationally recognized method of classical ballet instruction. Students have two performing opportunities: a full-length, professionally staged Nutcracker, and a professionally staged spring show. Candy Fuller, 7440-17 Six Forks Rd., Raleigh, NC 27615; 919-844-9799; Email, Website
Duke University Dance Program: -Dance at Duke encourages the total union of our physical, intellectual, and expressive capabilities. The student dancer develops skills of perception, analysis and expression that benefit many fields of endeavor beyond the dance world. The Program in Dance provides a wide choice of classes for everyone from the highly trained dance technician to the absolute beginner. Beyond the three main areas of emphasis in ballet, modern, and African dance, other courses including jazz, swing dance, floor-barre, tap, Flamenco and classical Indian dance are offered on a rotating schedule. Extensive full credit courses include areas of study in history, choreography, kinesiology, world dance cultures and dance writing. Website; 107 Bivins Building Box 90686, Durham, NC 27708; (919) 660.3354; Email.
Triangle Dance Studio – The studio is known throughout the dance community for its wonderful dance space and because of its variety of dances taught by some of the areas best dance teachers. Triangle Dance Studio makes it space available to all who need space to practice dance or teach dance classes or any other program deemed as educational or of interest to our creative community. 2603 S Miami Blvd, Durham, NC, 27703, (919) 274-3265, Email, Website.
Arts Together – Arts Together is Raleigh’s only non-profit multi-arts school. Arts Together offers a rich blend of classes in art, dance, drama, voice, Pilates and yoga for ages 3 through 18 and adults. Arts Together offers a daily preschool designed around the arts as the basis for kindergarten readiness. As Raleigh’s community school for the arts, Arts Together also has the distinction of nurturing the only area dance program focusing its curriculum around modern dance, with offerings for preschoolers through dance professionals. 114 St. Mary’s St. Raleigh, NC 27605, Phone: (919) 828-1713, Email, Website.
Chatham Arts - The Chatham Arts Council, offers Summer Youth Arts Camps and classes in improv acting, dance, art history, painting, drawing, screen printing, voice, book illustration and publishing. They also offer artist residencies in Chatham Public Schools and a Youth Documentary Filmmaking Program at SAGE Academy. PO Box 418, Pittsboro, NC 27312, 919-542-0394, Website.
Durham Arts Council School – The Durham Arts Council School is a vibrant community education program for visual, performing and literary arts which provides over 700 courses each year to more than 3,400 adults, teens and children in drawing and painting, dance, clay, sculpture, theatre, photography, digital arts, writing, fiber arts and more. DAC offers intersession and summer camps and intensives for K-12, individual music lessons for all ages, and ballet classes in a partnership with Triangle Youth Ballet. DAC offers special classes in a partnership with Triangle Youth Ballet and provides a multitude of opportunities for students outside the classroom. Four sessions are offered per year. Catalogue and registration are online at: Website. For more information call 919-560-ARTS.
Hayti Heritage Center - The St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, Inc. (SJHF), founded in 1975, is an African American cultural and educational institution deeply rooted in the historic Hayti community of Durham, North Carolina. SJHF is dedicated to advancing cultural understanding through diverse programs that examine the experiences of Americans of African descent – locally, nationally and globally. Among other things, the Hayti Center offers classes and youth programs in various creative disciplines, as well as a venue for dance, music and other performances. Contact: V. Dianne Pledger, President & CEO; 804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27701; 919-683-1709, Email; Website.