UGA Community Art School
The UGA Community Art School features courses for adult students seeking to learn new skills, hone techniques, and expand their artistic expression. Taught by UGA faculty, the classes maximize individual instruction and experiential learning in the legendary studios of the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Spring 2026 Registration is open!
Spring 2026 registration is live! Sign up for our open courses here. Summer session registration to be announced in spring.
Contact CommunityArtSchool@uga.edu with any questions.
Classes
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Spring 2026 Open Class
3-part workshop on Saturday mornings: February 14, 21 & 28
- Tile Decoration with Maria Dondero
Register here by February 13
*Contact CommunityArtSchool@uga.edu for $75 UGA staff, faculty and student discount code.
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Summer 2026 Class
7 weeks. June 2 – July 21; no class on June 30 (the week of the July 4th holiday). Final course details subject to change.
- The Mindful Cloth: Natural Textiles with Jennifer Crenshaw
Stay tuned for official registration announcement!
Spring 2026 Session Open Classes
Tile Decoration with Maria Dondero
Spring 2026, Saturdays, 9 am – noon
3 sessions. February 14, 21, 28
*Contact CommunityArtSchool@uga.edu for $75 UGA staff, faculty and student discount code.
Design, paint, and glaze one-of-a-kind ceramic tiles with local ceramics artist and Dodd instructor Maria Dondero. Explore slips, underglazes, sgraffito, stamping and glazing clay tiles under expert guidance. Students will create and take home 9-12 unique tiles by the final session. Participants of all art backgrounds welcome.
Summer 2026 Session Classes
Fabric design student working with Associate Professor Jennifer Crenshaw, Fall 2025. Photo courtesy of Ben Jacobstein, UGA Pandora yearbook.
The Mindful Cloth: Natural Textiles with Jennifer Crenshaw
Summer 2026, Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
7 weeks. June 2 – July 21; no class on June 30 (the week of the July 4th holiday). Final course details subject to change.
Registration opens soon!
The Mindful Cloth class will focus on foraging materials for natural dyeing, sourcing textiles, and stitching instructions to create meaningful, mindful cloth(s). Natural materials will be collected by foraging gardens and collecting materials from locally owned restaurants to learn how to extract pigments for dyeing. Textiles will be sourced through thrifting, student’s personal collections of fabrics and collecting from local designers. Textiles will be examined and discussed concerning material quality along with a discussion of the numerous types of embroidery threads to be used for the class projects. Students will create an embroidery sampler to learn various stitches; they will learn how to naturally dye their textiles and threads and how to construct meaningful compositions for the cloth(s) they will construct. There will be discussions about of the history of sewing and quilting circles and its importance in the modern world.
Fees & Registration
Ten-week sessions cost $450. Seven-week sessions cost $315. Three-session workshops cost $200. Adults of all ages welcome.
Fees cover classes and supplies. Refund will be provided up until two weeks before the first day of class. Proceeds from the UGA Community Art School support the studio art program at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Please review our policies below before completing registration.
The UGA Community Art School will issue a refund, minus a $25 processing fee, for cancellations made at least fourteen (14) days before the course start date. No refunds (full or partial) will be issued after that date. All refund requests must be sent via email to communityartschool@uga.edu. If the class is canceled by the UGA Community Art School, we will refund the full enrollment fee.
Last updated: February 18, 2026