• IN-Person Classes at the Computer Lab, Narrowsburg Union
• Online Classes on ZOOM
• 2025 CALENDAR OF CLASSES (More To Be Announced)
In-Person Workshops at Narrowsburg Union
Artist Bootcamp: Digitizing Your Skill Set
JANUARY, 2025
Saturdays, 11am-2pm
Class Duration: 3 Hours
Fee: $110.00
Required for Class: Laptop or iPad
Skills Developed:
Career Visualization, Digital Production Processes, Digital Specifications, Planning/Scheduling, Creative Writing, Videography, Photography, Project Communications, Budgeting, Social Media Promotions, Google Advertising
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This introduction course is designed to empower Artists with a practical view of the economic future for the arts. We will review the opportunities and challenges artists have before them in a digital economy, and teach them some of the digital skills and production processes needed to help them compete.
Digitizing your skill set will boost your artistic output, speed up your workflow, and help get you to economically sustainability. We will teach you general marketing concepts, how to harness your talent with discipline, and provide you with entrepreneurial guidance to help you plan out your life as a working artist.
This class includes an overview of the “Tools of the Trade”, familiarizing you with the Computers, Devices, Software, Apps, and the Digital Workflows required to manage a career in the Arts. You will come away knowing how to produce your own marketing and advertising materials, and how to promote and sell your own products and services.
During this course, students will develop a Career Map to help them visualize their professional path. This process will help define sustainable options for your career, identify career path tangents, and help you focus on the steps needed to actualize your career plan.
This class covers GENERAL TOPICS and is great for older Working Artists who are jumpstarting their careers, and is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for Young Artists, as this class will become the first serious step of a multi-decade journey as an Artist.
In-Person Workshops at Narrowsburg Union
Digital Marketing and Advertising
JANUARY, 2025
Saturdays, 2pm-3:30pm
Class Duration: 90 min
Fee: $60.00
Required for Class: Laptop or iPad
Skills Developed:
Advertising Creative Development (creating good Ads), File Specifications, Project Management (on several digital platforms, Media Planning and Accounting, Budgeting, Self Promotion
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Successful Artists need to do more than Create. They need to promote themselves well, and often. Having a thorough understanding of the services needed to do so, will help you save money and maintain complete control of the presentation of yourself and your work.
Marketing is essentially an over-arching strategy of approaching your customers across all of the possible interactions you can plan out. Advertising is one of the main tactics for reaching those targeted customers. (The arrow you shoot from your bow!) These two disciplines of commerce, and the services that spin off of them are all digitized now. You’ll need to know how to use them to your advantage if you want a successful career as an Artist.
Using platforms like META gives you access to advertising on Facebook and Instagram, and is an important foundation for reaching thousands of potential customers. Creating videos and publishing them on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and on your own website(s) is another way to expand your audience and gain customers. Juggling all of this takes practice, but this course will help you understand how to do ALL of this yourself OR how to manage others performing these services for you.
This course will give you an overview of the systems that deliver ads, how to set up and manage accounts on these platforms, how to create and manage an Ad Media budget, the process for developing ads, and how to measure the results of your efforts.
In-Person Workshops at Narrowsburg Union
Website Design and Production
JANUARY, 2025
Saturdays, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Class Duration: 90 min
Fee: $60.00
Required for Class: Laptop or iPad
Skills Developed:
Procreate or Adobe Photoshop (or similar image editing app), Career Visualization, Project Management, AI as a Production Tool, Creative Writing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Communications, Budgeting
Additional Fee:
$20 to host student website on GoDaddy for 1 year.
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This course showcases the easiest processes for developing websites on a variety of web-hosting platforms. We will teach you the basics of “SEO” Marketing (Search Engine Optimization), how websites are found on search engines like Google and Bing, and what you can do yourself to make your own website show up on the search engines.
Students will learn how to build websites – with no coding skills required – on several website-building platforms like WordPress, WIX and Shopify. During the course, students will develop and publish a website for themselves to display their own artistic products and services.
You will learn several strategies for professional success in the field of Website Development within the larger economic-system of the Tri-State region (NY, NJ, CT). We will emphasize the importance of professional networking within creative and business communities locally, nationally and globally, and how to incorporate this practice for your own business’ success.
Online Classes on ZOOM
Drawing and Painting with the iPad
JANUARY, 2025
Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm
Class Duration: 90 min
Fee: $50.00
Required for Class:
iPad (v9 or higher),
Apple Pencil (or similar)
Skills Developed:
The Basic of Drawing and Painting on an iPad, File Specifications, Sharing/Sending your work, Printing your work, Animating your work
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This course will give Working Artists a new comfort level for using digital devices in the artistic process. The iPad offers a a number of ways to speed up your creative workflow.
This class has students using an iPad as a sketch pad, and uses a familiar, traditional approach to developing basic drawing skills. To get started, students will learn the basics of drawing shapes, tones and shading using the APP “Procreate” on the Apple iPad with the Apple Pencil. Students will be drawing still-lifes, portraits, landscapes and figurative studies to connect their traditional drawing knowledge with this new way of drawing.
Students will prepare color studies as a planning exercise for their next traditional work of art. However, the digital artworks students create in class will be very high-resolution images that students can print on the large scale printer here at the computer lab at the Narrowsburg Union. (Additional fees apply for printing costs.)
The Apple iPad device is required for this class along with an Apple Pencil or a similar third-party apple pencil. Students can purchase refurbished iPads for under $300 on many online stores these days. Contact us if you have any questions about purchasing an iPad.
Online Classes on ZOOM
Motion Graphics and Hand-Drawn Animation
JANUARY, 2025
Thursdays, 8:30pm-10:00pm
Class Duration: 90 min
Fee: $50.00
Required for Class: Laptop or
iPad (v9 or higher),
Apple Pencil (or similar)
Skills Developed:
Career Visualization, Project Management, Animation Production Techniques, Self Promotion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, iPad/Procreate/Dreams, Adobe Audition
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Students will learn the basics of professional Motion Graphics and Hand-Drawn Animation using Procreate’s “Dreams”, the new animation production APP that can be a powerful addition to a Graphic Designer’s skill set. This APP can produce professional-grade animations for clients looking for advertising and marketing media for Social Media, Cable TV and YouTube.
Whether it’s a background, a character design, or the visual concept of a prop to hand to 3D modelers, the industry relies on Artists to visualize these elements at the beginning of the production. Drawing and Painting on the iPad is the easiest first step to getting started, and Procreate’s “Dreams” is the new animation production APP that can jumpstart your career as a professional animator with affordable hardware and software that can produce animations at large, theater-screen resolutions.
We will review best practices and file specifications for delivering professional quality images and video files to clients in the fields of Publishing, Advertising, Marketing, for the Web and Cable Television. We will review the current market trends and avenues of revenue for Graphic Designers and Animators, and preview the platforms used by Design and Animation professionals to promote their portfolio of works.
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Illustration and Graphic Design
March, 2025
Days, Times to be announced
Class Duration: 3 Hours
Fee: $110.00
Required for Class: Laptop or
iPad (v9 or higher),
Apple Pencil (or similar)
Skills Developed:
Career Visualization, Project Management, Illustration and Graphic Design Production Techniques, Self Promotion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
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This class teaches the basics of professional Graphic Design and Illustration. Students will develop logos and promotional materials for concept businesses, allowing them to understand the application of creative thinking towards a business’ agenda. We will review best practices and file specifications for delivering professional quality images to be used for printing. We will also focus on specifications for web-based presentations.
Students will get an overview of how illustration and graphic design professionals interact with businesses in the fields of Publishing, Advertising, Marketing, Websites and Cable Television. We will review the current market trends and avenues of revenue for Graphic Designers and illustrators, and preview the platforms used by Design and Animation professionals to promote their portfolio of works.
There is a large-scale printer on the premises, with affordable rates for prints, and students will be able to print their artworks for display and/or framing during the course.
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Digital Videography & Photography
March, 2025
Days, Times to be announced
Class Duration: 3 Hours
Fee: $110.00
Required for Class: Laptop or iPad,
Smartphone and/or Digital Camera
Skills Developed:
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Career Visualization, Project Management, Production Team Management, Budgeting, Equipment and Lighting, Self Promotion
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This is an introductory class and students will learn the basics of professional Videography and Photography. We will review best practices for starting a photography or videography business, file specifications for delivering professional quality images and video files to clients in a New York gallery, a commercial job an Advertising Agency, or for licensing to Stock image/video libraries. We will review the current market trends for Photographers and Videographers, and preview the platforms used by professionals to promote their portfolio of works.
We will dive into the details of running a business as a Professional Videographer and Photographer, including the challenges of the business, the associated costs and expenses, and the revenue from selling the rights and usage licenses to Stock Media companies. We will focus on product photography and videography for our in-class workshop.
You will learn several strategies for success within the larger economic-system of the Tri-State region (NY, NJ, CT) and the importance of professional networking within creative and business communities locally, nationally and globally.