Tampa Museum of Art

Ceramics Continued Study
2026-02-15 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-01 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-08 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-22 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-29 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-12 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-19 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Classes Available | Jan 11, 18, 25, Feb 8, 15, Mar 1, 8, 22, 29, Apr 12, 19
Ages 16+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Ceramics Continued Study is a space for students to enhance their learning experience with instructor assistance and guiding knowledge. Sign up for a single class to continue working and add the finishing touches on projects you’ve started in one of our other classes. Sign up for multiple classes to choose your own adventure in hand-building or wheel thrown ceramics. Work with your instructor to plan out your projects and make them a reality. Some experience with clay is recommended.
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included. Clay available for purchase separately in studio.
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Studio 55 | Ceramics Continued Study
2026-02-17 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-24 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-10 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-24 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-31 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-14 10:00 - 13:00
Classes Available | Jan 13, 20, 27, Feb 10, 17, 24, Mar 10, 24, 31, Apr 14, 21, 28
Ages 55+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Ceramics Continued Study is a space for students to enhance their learning experience with instructor assistance and guiding knowledge. Sign up for a single class to continue working and add the finishing touches on projects you’ve started in one of our other classes. Sign up for multiple classes to choose your own adventure in hand-building or wheel thrown ceramics. Work with your instructor to plan out your projects and make them a reality. Some experience with clay is recommended.
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included. Clay available for purchase separately in studio.
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Studio 55 | Printmaking
2026-02-18 13:00 - 16:00 | Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL, 33602, United States
Classes Available | Feb 18-Apr 8 (8 classes *No class Mar 18)
Ages 55+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Printmaking is an artistic process for creating images by transferring them from one source onto another. This class will help develop technical skills in various printmaking methods, design and composition, and the vocabulary for critique. Students will explore and practice printmaking techniques that include Linocut, intaglio and collagraph.
Learn to think visually with inspirations from the exhibitions of Charles Atlas: Kiss the Day Goodbye and Purvis Young: Redux while turning your own experiences and ideas into a series of reproducible prints.
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Remix | Life & Death in the Ancient World
2026-02-19 18:00 - 21:00
Ages 18+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Remix is a series of make-and-take art workshops for adults inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions with a new project every month. Workshops are designed to be enjoyed by participants of any skill level, and all materials are provided. This month’s project will be inspired by the Life & Death in the Ancient World Introduction to the Antiquities Collection exhibition.
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Glazing Party
2026-02-22 10:00 - 13:00
Classes Available | Feb 22, Apr 26
Ages 16+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
For past and currently enrolled ceramics students. Sign up for glazing party to put those finishing touches on your ceramic work.
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included.
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Figure Drawing Study
2026-02-24 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-24 18:00 - 21:00
Classes Available | Jan 27, Feb 24, Mar 24, Apr 21
Ages 18+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Work in your drawing and painting media of choice or explore new ones. In these three-hour instructor-guided single-session classes, students will learn the fundamentals and expand their 2D knowledge while creating images from life. Learn the basics and grow your techniques with tailored instruction and live model sessions.
*Drawing materials provided. These classes do have live Nude Models.
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Studio 55 | Ceramics | March
2026-03-07 10:00 - 13:00
Class Dates | Mar 7 – Apr 25 (6 classes *No class Mar 21)
Ages 55+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Use clay to build, mold, and sculpt three-dimensional works using coil building, slab building, and other hand-building techniques. All experience levels are welcome; beginners and up.
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included. Clay available for purchase separately in studio.
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Encaustic Monotype Basics
2026-03-09 10:00 - 16:00
Monday Mar 9 – Tuesday Mar 10 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (2 classes)
Ages 18+ | Beginner Level
In this specialized class students will learn the process of encaustic monotype printing and manipulation to those prints using a heated hot box. Monotype with a hot box involves creating an encaustic print on a heated hot box which was invented by Paula Roland. The artist applies and manipulates molten wax on the heated surface with tools, then transfers the image to paper. This can be a one-of-kind print or can have layers added to create ghost prints.
*Basic encaustic experience required.
*All Equipment provided!
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Teen Digital Studio
2026-03-11 16:15 - 17:00, 2026-04-08 16:15 - 17:30
Classes Available | Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8
Ages 12-17 | Beginner Level
Gain access to a quiet and creative space to explore digital drawing with Procreate! With input from the instructor, you can create your own art, comics, anime characters, and much more!
*All programs and equipment are provided!
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Thursday Ceramics
2026-03-12 18:00 - 21:00
Thursdays | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Classes Available | Jan 15-Mar 5 (7 classes), Mar 12-April 30 (7 classes *No class Mar 19)
Ages 18+ | Beginner-Intermediate
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Work with clay on the potters’ wheel and learn how to hand-build. Beginners start with a hand-building project to get acquainted with the clay and then jump into learning how to create their next ceramic adventure. Intermediate students can dive right into getting dirty and take inspiration from instructor-led projects. All experience levels are welcome!
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included. Clay available for purchase separately in studio.

Thursday Ceramics
2026-03-12 18:00 - 21:00
Classes Available | Jan 15-Feb 26 (7 classes) OR Mar 12-April 30 (7 classes *No class Mar 19)
Ages 18+ | Beginner-Intermediate
Work with clay on the potters’ wheel and learn how to hand-build. Beginners start with a hand-building project to get acquainted with the clay and then jump into learning how to create their next ceramic adventure. Intermediate students can dive right into getting dirty and take inspiration from instructor-led projects. All experience levels are welcome!
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included. Clay available for purchase separately in studio.
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Studio 55 | Jewelry Sampler
2026-03-15 13:00 - 16:00
Sundays | 1:00 – 4:00 PM Class Dates | Mar 15– 29 (3 classes)
Ages 55+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
In this series, discover three distinct jewelry-making techniques, drawing inspiration from exhibitions that include Life and Death in Antiquity and the Etruscans: A Mysterious Italian People. Students will create mosaic pendants, transform artwork and photos into necklaces, and learn metal texturing and stamping. Each session will guide you in creating your own unique, wearable pieces of art!
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Tuesday Ceramics
2026-03-24 18:00 - 21:00
Classes Available | Jan 13 – Feb 17 (6 Classes), Mar 24 – Apr 28 (6 Classes)
Ages 18+ | Beginner Level
This course introduces students to the essential skills of creating with clay in a calm and welcoming studio setting. You will learn the full clay-to-ceramic process through hand-building and basic wheel-throwing techniques. Along the way, you’ll explore form, texture, surface design, and glazing. Designed for both beginners and returning students, this class offers a space to develop meaningful, hands-on skills and a deeper understanding of the craft.
*Firing costs, essential tools, and glazes included. Clay available for purchase separately in studio.
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Remix | Charles Atlas: Kiss the Day Goodbye
2026-03-26 18:00 - 21:00
Ages 18+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Remix is a series of make-and-take art workshops for adults inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions with a new project every month. Workshops are designed to be enjoyed by participants of any skill level and all materials are provided. This month’s project, inspired by Charles Atlas: Kiss the Day Goodbye, will be a video art project, including time to record and edit your videos to take home!
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Portrait Painting
2026-03-29 13:00 - 16:00
Sundays, Mar 29-Apr 26 | 1:00–4:00 PM (4 classes)
Ages 18+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Learn the fundamentals of Portrait Painting and grow your painting techniques with tailored instruction and live model sessions.
*Drawing materials provided. These classes do have live Nude Models.
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Animation Workshop
2026-03-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL, 33602, United States
Classes Available | Mar 31 – Apr 28 (5 Classes)
Ages 12+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level
Learn digital art fundamentals and create illustrations, paintings, and animations based on the Tampa Museum of Art’s on-view artwork. Draw Animals, People, Scenery and Cartoon/Manga/Anime in the Tech Lab students to create amazing DIGITAL ART!
*All programs and equipment are provided!
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Encaustics: Wonderous Waxy Textures
2026-04-13 10:00 - 16:00
Monday Apr 13 – Tuesday 14 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (2 classes)
Ages 18+ | Beginner Level
Come join the fun as we take a 2 day deep-dive into the world of encaustic texture! Accretion is an encaustic technique that blurs the lines between 2D and 3D artwork, allowing the artist to create beautiful sculptural surface enhancements or break boundaries with full-on three-dimensional work.
*All equipment and supplies included!
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