Your Summer
Practice

Beyond the
Canvas

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This summer, most of the work happens outside the studio.

Drawing at the ROM. Plein air painting at Evergreen Brick Works. The city is our artistic studio this summer.

For those who prefer to work from home, virtual and hybrid options are running alongside in our program. Same instructors, same level of instruction.

There is one course worth noting: Inside the Exhibition walks you through what happens after the work is made; curation, framing, installation and the opportunity to exhibition in Nuit Blanche 2026. It’s the course most programs don’t offer.

Courses run from single-day workshops to four-week intensives. Scroll down to find what fits and inspires!

  • Artist painting an expressive botanical composition on paper using gloved hands and ink
    Virtual
    Art of the Moment: Contemporary Painting - Intensive
    Thursdays, July 9, 16, 23, 30 (4 weeks)
    7 - 9:30pm
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    $245 +HST
  • Gallery visitor looking up at a large vibrant mixed-media painting on a white gallery wall — Avenue Road Arts School Inside the Exhibition course
    Virtual
    Inside the Exhibition: Curating and Exhibiting in Nuit Blanche 2026
    Wednesdays, July 29 - August 26 (4 weeks)
    7 - 9:30pm
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    $625 +HST
  • Bronze sculpture with a decorative ceramic globe for a head standing outside the Gardiner Museum entrance — Avenue Road Arts School Floral Motif at the ROM course
    In person
    Drawing the Collection: Form and Texture at the Gardiner Museum
    Wednesday, August 5
    10am - 12:30pm
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    $175 +HST
  • Exterior image of Spadina museum - Avenue Road Arts School Art Sketching the Garden and Orchard
    In person
    Sketching the Garden and Orchard: Ink and Watercolour at the Spadina Museum
    Thursday August 27
    11am - 2pm
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    $195+HST
  • Large canvases laid flat on a studio floor with artists painting expressive works from nature reference photos using long-handled brushes — Avenue Road Arts School Painting BIG from Nature course
    In person
    Painting BIG from Nature: Large-Scale Abstract Painting
    Saturday & Sunday, July 4 & 5
    10am - 1pm
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    $345 +HST
  • ARAS students paint plein air - Avenue road arts school rural city
    In person
    Rural City: Painting en Plein Air at Evergreen Brick Works
    Wednesday, July 22
    10am - 4pm
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    $295 +HST
  • Artist applying thick impasto paint to a small canvas with a palette knife in a studio setting
    Virtual
    Nature in Abstraction
    Thursdays, July 2, 16, 23, 30 (4 weeks)
    10am - 12pm
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    $265 +HST
  • Artist painting a colourful floral bouquet in a spiral sketchbook
    In person
    Drawing from Antiquity: Floral Motifs at the ROM
    Tuesday, July 14
    11am - 1:30pm
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    $185 +HST
  • Artist with her sketch book in hand and her laptop open - Avenue Road Arts School Art Collective Sketchbook
    Virtual
    The Collective Sketchbook: Virtual Open Studio & Community
    Wednesdays, July 8, 15, 22, 29 (4 weeks)
    9:30am - 11:30am
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    $205+HST