Thursdays, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM  
Instructor: Steve Nocella  
Fifteen-Week Extended Studio Course (45 Hours)  
Note: No class during Spring Break, March 2 – 8. 

PAFA’s Extended Studio Courses offer fifteen-weeks of comprehensive instruction taught by PAFA's core faculty for an immersive fine arts experience. PAFA's selection of Continuing Education traditional-length and short courses will be coming soon! 

This class introduces students to sculpture. It provides a point of departure by defining a sculpture as being a three-dimensional complex comprised of medium, subject matter, form, and content. The class focuses on the integration of these comprising principles, but more importantly, how process informs and changes their interrelationship and ultimately integrates them. Students will be given assignments that stipulate one or more of the comprising principles and are asked to create those remaining. They will be taught skills for a variety of mediums such as modeling, carving, and constructing, as well as skills for creative and critical thinking such as divergent thinking, convergent thinking, and inferential thinking. Course Modality: in-person. 

Image: Steve Nocella 

Register by: January 2  
Materials will be addressed via PAFA’s Canvas online platform (if applicable) or on the first day of class. 
Please review the CE Winter/Spring Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies  
Notes: Extended Studio Courses are not eligible for PAFA membership or promotional discounts. A minimum 10% fee applies to withdrawals, including same-day – students are advised to confirm their schedules before registering. 

Fridays 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM 
Instructor: Tony Rosati 
Fifteen-Week Extended Studio Course (90 Hours) 
Note: No class during Spring Break, March 2 – 8. 

PAFA’s Extended Studio Courses offer fifteen-weeks of comprehensive instruction taught by PAFA's core faculty for an immersive fine arts experience. See our regular CE traditional-length and short courses for additional options. 

This course places the world’s major art movements in their cultural contexts, analyzing relationships between art, religion, culture, geography, and global pathways.  The course also explores issues in the world of art today, identifies themes and iconography used in art, and introduces stylistic analysis. Course Modality: in-person. 

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Register by: January 2 
Materials will be addressed via PAFA’s Canvas online platform (if applicable) or on the first day of class. 
Please review the CE Winter/Spring Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies 
Notes: Extended Studio Courses are not eligible for PAFA membership or promotional discounts. A minimum 10% fee applies to withdrawals, including same-day – students are advised to confirm their schedules before registering. 

Fridays, 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM*  
Instructor: Peter Van Dyck  
Fifteen-Week Extended Studio Course (45 – 90 Hours)  
Note: No class during Spring Break, March 2 – 8. 

PAFA’s Extended Studio Courses offer fifteen-weeks of comprehensive instruction taught by PAFA's core faculty for an immersive fine arts experience. PAFA's selection of Continuing Education traditional-length and short courses will be coming soon! 

This class is an opportunity for the student to develop three complex works of escalating ambition. As has often been said, “all art comes from other art” in the sense that artmaking is a culture in continuous negotiation with present needs and precedent. Students will develop a small group of imaginative peers from the labyrinth of painting history to consult and debate in the development of three works. The resulting pictures may include the production of studies, copies, collages, and any other kind of visual fodder to develop ambitious compositions that will explore the overlapping terrains of abstraction and figuration. What is meant here is that Piero, de Stael, Gorky, Ingres, Mary Cassatt, and Kerry James Marshall are fraternal and in solidarity about the demands of painting. Course Modality: in-person. 

*Optional: This course is also available for full-day attendance (morning, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m., and afternoon, 1 - 4 p.m.) for $2,800. Select length with tuition adjustment during checkout. 

Image: Peter Van Dyck 

Register by: January 2  
Materials will be addressed via PAFA’s Canvas online platform (if applicable) or on the first day of class. 
Please review CE Winter/Spring Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies  
Notes: Extended Studio Courses are not eligible for PAFA membership or promotional discounts. A minimum 10% fee applies to withdrawals, including same-day – students are advised to confirm their schedules before registering. 

Lockers are available for CE students enrolled within the current semester. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. In advance of your course start date, the CE office will send you an email with the locker number and combination. Please do not replace the assigned lock with a personal lock. Report any problems with the lock combination or items left in the locker to the CE office at continuinged@pafa.edu. 

Locker fees are non-refundable except in the event of CE-issued course cancellations.

Lockers are available for use only for the duration of the course(s) in which you are enrolled. Your locker reservation is available starting on your first day of class. Items cannot be stored in advance unless special accommodation is needed and arranged with permission through the CE office.

Lockers must be emptied promptly after your last day of class, even if you plan to enroll for the following semester. This is a Security requirement. Please plan accordingly for removal of items and transportation arrangements. PAFA is not responsible for items left after May 8, after which date they may be discarded.

After emptying your locker, please lock the door.

Lockers are available for CE students enrolled within the current semester. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. In advance of your course start date, the CE office will send you an email with the locker number and combination. Please do not replace the assigned lock with a personal lock. Report any problems with the lock combination or items left in the locker to the CE office at continuinged@pafa.edu. 

Locker fees are non-refundable except in the event of CE-issued course cancellations.

Lockers are available for use only for the duration of the course(s) in which you are enrolled. Your locker reservation is available starting on your first day of class. Items cannot be stored in advance unless special accommodation is needed and arranged with permission through the CE office.

Lockers must be emptied promptly after your last day of class, even if you plan to enroll for the following semester. This is a Security requirement. Please plan accordingly for removal of items and transportation arrangements. PAFA is not responsible for items left after May 8, after which date they may be discarded.

After emptying your locker, please lock the door.

Lockers are available for CE students enrolled within the current semester. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. In advance of your course start date, the CE office will send you an email with the locker number and combination. Please do not replace the assigned lock with a personal lock. Report any problems with the lock combination or items left in the locker to the CE office at continuinged@pafa.edu. 

Locker fees are non-refundable except in the event of CE-issued course cancellations.

Lockers are available for use only for the duration of the course(s) in which you are enrolled. Your locker reservation is available starting on your first day of class. Items cannot be stored in advance unless special accommodation is needed and arranged with permission through the CE office.

Lockers must be emptied promptly after your last day of class, even if you plan to enroll for the following semester. This is a Security requirement. Please plan accordingly for removal of items and transportation arrangements. PAFA is not responsible for items left after May 8, after which date they may be discarded.

After emptying your locker, please lock the door.

Tuesdays, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 
Instructor: John Horn 
Twelve-Week Course (36 Hours) 
Note: No class during Spring Break, March 2 - 8.

Strengthen and hone your foundational drawing skills through a series of one- and two-day projects. Topics of concern will be design, structure of space, perspective, and light and shade. Subjects will include interior space, single objects and still life arrangements, and the life model. All levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. Tuition includes a $25 models fee.

Image: John Horn

Register by: January 13 
Materials List - Coming Soon  
Please review CE's Winter/Spring 2026 Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies, prior to registering.

Open Studio Access (15-Week Rental): Mondays - Fridays, 7 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. 

Class Meetings/Trips/Critiques:  Select Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. or variable for critiques/trips.  See dates below.

Instructor/Lead Critic: Roger Chavez

Taking the leap to start or cultivate an art-making practice in a private studio space can be both exciting and daunting. Learn how to create work and stay motivated on your own terms in this unique combination studio-rental and instruction/critique course! Tuition for this fifteen-week program will confer an individual private studio space in PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, as well as bi-monthly meetings (approximately every two weeks) for critiques, exploratory trips to museums/galleries, archives visits, and drawing sessions led by artist-instructor/critic Roger Chavez, accompanied by visiting critics for select weeks.

Studios for this program are approximately 9 x 16 feet (144 sq. ft.), white-walled, with easel and stool provided (students are responsible for additional furniture or equipment needs). Studios are individual, interior-building spaces (not located along PAFA’s windowed exterior walls) on classroom floors, with private, lockable doors.

This program is perfect for artists wanting to jumpstart or advance their personal practice, for students considering application to a studio-centered certificate or degree program, or for anyone lacking a home studio and seeking a space to pursue their work -- with the motivation and encouragement that come from being part of an artistic community! Participants will benefit from prior art-making experience and the ability to work independently.

Meeting Dates on Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (may be subject to change for scheduling adjustments):

• January 28 - Intro/Orientation (attendance required)
• February 11 - TBA
• February 25 - Critique (Roger Chavez)
• March 11 - TBA
• March 25 - Critique (Visiting Critic 1, TBA)
• April 15 - TBA
• April 29 - Final Group Critique (Roger Chavez & Visiting Critic 2, TBA)

Notes:

• Registration requires an additional $200 studio deposit that is refundable upon satisfactory return of the studio to its original condition at the end of the program. Students must agree to and sign PAFA’s studio agreement form.
  
  
• No scholarships or membership/promotional discounts are available for this program. Membership discounts apply to regular CE courses only; special programs are not eligible for tuition deductions. 
  
  
• Students may work in their media of choice within PAFA's safety/clean-air guidelines (see materials list).  Access to print and sculpture shop facilities is not included in tuition:  Students must be enrolled in in-person CE printmaking or sculpture classes, or registered/approved for a PAFA Shop Membership, for access to the pertinent shop facilities and abide by shop rules and access hours.

Image: Instructor Roger Chavez in studio.

Registration Deadline: Rolling, on a space-available basis. Space is limited. Late registration available.

Materials List (PAFA-Approved Materials - Coming Soon) 

CE Winter/Spring 2025 CE Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies.  *Please note: A minimum 10% fee applies to cancellations any time after registration, including same day, to cover third-party processing charges.  Please check your schedule before registering.

By enrolling in the CE Taking the Leap Studio Rental Program, you agree to abide by PAFA's Procedures and Policies.