Right now at the Kirk Newman Art School
Register online for classes and workshops for all ages. We love beginners and encourage scholarship applications (due the month before the new term)
About the Kirk Newman Art School
We are a community-based, non-degree art school offering:
- 300+ classes for over 3,000 students each year.
- Classes for ages 4 years through adults.
- 12-week fall and winter terms with weekly classes.
- Shorter courses in specialized subjects each term.
- 6-week spring term and 8-week summer term.
- Children's and Teen's spring and summer Art Camps.
- Scholarships for adults, teens, and children.
Learn about Kirk Newman and the history of the Art School
Classes are offered in photography, digital media, design, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, painting and drawing, printmaking, fiber, glass fusing, art appreciation, foreign languages and children's art.
School Facilities surpass most college and university art departments.
- Ceramics: Electric, gas, salt, and raku kilns plus two off-site, wood burning, anagama kilns
- Sculpture: Clay, metal welding, wood and bronze casting foundry
- Jewelry: Fabrication equipment, vacuum and centrifugal casting, sand blaster, rolling mills and kilns
- Printmaking: Intaglio, photo etching, woodblock, lithography and serigraphy
- Fibers: 20 floor looms, spinning wheels, equipment for felting and dyeing
- Photography: 12 enlargers, chemistry and systems for alternative processes
- Computer lab: 10+ state-of-the art Macintosh computers, Epson image and film scanners and archival printers
- Glass fusing: facilities for kiln-formed and kiln-fused glass
Faculty
View our faculty list to learn more about our teaching artists.
Certificate Program
Find information about the certificate program for adults and teens
Team Building
Learn about our team building workshops for business groups
Suggestions for a course of study
If you have any questions about which classes are appropriate for your level or which classes to take next, email the Registration Office or call (269) 349-7775, ext. 3101, for guidance.
Parking
AT THIS TIME please Park free at our Lovell Street Lot and enter through the Lovell Street Doors. On-street metered parking is free after 5 pm and on weekends.
Lockers
Small and large lockers are available for rental through the Registration Office.