PAFA Alumni

Ready to make art, build skills, and work with your hands? Explore our Winter/Spring 2026 Continuing Education offerings—featuring in-person studio courses, weekend workshops, and skill-building art classes for adult learners. Limited spots still available.

Check out these classes starting soon:
› Ceramic Sculpture with Matthew Courtney | Hands-on clay sculpture using pinching, coil-building, slab construction, surface treatments, and ceramic firing techniques.
🔗 https://buff.ly/NBX1GmH

› Wood Studio with John Greig | Learn woodworking fundamentals including cutting, milling, joinery, lamination, and safe tool use while developing your own artistic voice.
🔗 https://buff.ly/SaYTOuV

› Color Woodcut Printmaking with Rebecca Gilbert | Create bold, layered color prints using reduction and multi-block woodcut printmaking—from carving to final editioning.
🔗 https://buff.ly/uAU6Q9H

Still room in these classes:

› Terracotta Figure Sculpture with Morgan Dummitt | Sculpt the human figure from a live model with a focus on gesture, anatomy, proportion, and classical form.
🔗 https://buff.ly/U4a1Bor

› Oil/Acrylic Painting: Abstracting the Real with Frederic Kaplan | Transform observed reality into expressive, symbolic paintings through color, composition, and energetic mark-making.
🔗 https://buff.ly/XjhFF7k

› Portrait in Pencil Weekend Workshop with RA Friedman | A focused weekend workshop covering likeness, structure, proportion, and tonal portrait drawing.
🔗 https://buff.ly/C79rcNN

Browse the full catalog to discover short and long classes, weekend workshops, in-person and online options, beginner through advanced levels in a variety of formats.

🔗 https://buff.ly/mJYUoyE

Space is limited in many of these classes—register soon.

Open Studio Night at PAFA, February 6, 2026, 5-8 PM | Experience PAFA’s most anticipated night of the year—Open Studio Night—with behind-the-scenes access to student studios and works in progress across painting, sculpture, printmaking, and more!

🔗https://buff.ly/OFPOZU7

📸 Madison Greiner in her studio

On Saturday, PAFA students went on a field trip to Lancaster! 🍂

First stop was .lancaster to talk with owners Matt Chapman (MFA ‘15) and Nicole Duquette who shared about their artistic and professional journeys and how they came to their thriving space and growing community in the heart of downtown. We learned about the power of community and connection through art and what makes Curio the gem that it is.

We then visited esteemed, longstanding faculty member Dan Miller’s studio. A prolific printmaker and sculptor, Dan gave us a special, inside look into his home and work space, sharing stories about his influences, his process, and the Academy. Between stacks of prints, piles of wood scraps, walls of trinkets and postcards, Dan’s legacy and devotion to his practice was awe-inspiring.

Matt, Nicole, and Dan - thank you for welcoming us into such meaningful, personal, and creative spaces where magic truly happens. ✨🙏