Art & Design Workshops in Toronto

Discover art and design workshops happening in Toronto. Updated regularly with the latest hands-on classes and creative events for designers, artists, and curious beginners.
From linocut printmaking and screen printing to lettering, life drawing, and Figma prototyping, find your next workshop hosted by local studios and collectives across the city.
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COFFEE & CREATIVI-TEA; mini-zine making

COFFEE & CREATIVI-TEA; mini-zine making

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Eternal Remedy
Create together. No pressure. No rules. This is an open, collaborative zine-making session. We’ll begin with a gentle free-write prompt, then move into creating our own mini zines through collage, doodling, and writing.
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Screenprinting: Beyond the Basics - Three Session Course

Screenprinting: Beyond the Basics - Three Session Course

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Secret Planet
In this multi-day three session course participants will be taught a solid base of screenprinting approaches and techniques. Non-toxic and fully accessible approaches will be demonstrated in the first class, and photo emulsion screen shooting will be taught and the basics for file set up for halftone images and 2 layer printing.
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Spring Equinox Collage Circle

Spring Equinox Collage Circle

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c-suite creative
We're creating a space to slow down, get your hands busy, and tap into the creative energy that spring naturally brings. We'll cut, arrange, and play, making visual collages that reflect what we want to call in as the season unfolds.
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Intro to Silverpoint Drawing

Intro to Silverpoint Drawing

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Gwartzman's Art Supplies
Draw like the Old Masters! Guided by a professional artist, Alan Li, learn techniques for drawing with real silver. Experience this unique medium browning with age. All materials are included; beginners welcome.
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DrawingTO: Unleash your creativity

DrawingTO: Unleash your creativity

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DrawingTO
Drawing TO is a Toronto-based art collective co-founded by Brazilian artists Juliana Bandeira and Luiza Albertini. Their mission is to create inclusive, joyful spaces where people can tap into their creativity through playful drawing exercises and artistic exploration. All supplies are provided, and no prior art experience is needed.
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AI Lab: Rapid Prototyping with Figma Make

AI Lab: Rapid Prototyping with Figma Make

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Brainstation
Professional, in-person training to use AI responsibly and rapidly prototype design & product concepts. Learn to deliver beautiful, functional prototypes fast, and iterate with ease.
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Collage Night

Collage Night

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Issues Magazine Shop
Create, cut and paste pieces with a myriad of materials—from contemporary to vintage, and everything in between!—to create memory. Craft a blessing, build a vision board or remix a love poem for things to come. The experience is the joy! Invite your curiosity out on date, or bring a kid, parent, partner or pal: collage is for everyone.
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Open Studio

Open Studio

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Re-Work
Join us for Open Studio, a space to explore your creativity, connect with others, and simply create without judgment. Whether you want to doodle, colour, write, or just relax, this is your time to do what inspires you, alongside like-minded folks.
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Craftic Meetup & Swap at Mischief Makers

Craftic Meetup & Swap at Mischief Makers

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Craftic
Hiya crafty friends, the first Craftic meetup AND swap of the year is coming up! Let's hang out and make progress with our projects together. We're also hosting a swap during the meetup - you don't need to swap anything to attend!
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Drawn to Life: Physical Animation Workshop

Drawn to Life: Physical Animation Workshop

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Again Again
Learn the basics of physical animation and go home with your very own flipbook and thaumatrope! We'll start with an introduction to animation principles such as squashing and stretching, character design, and storyboarding. Then, we'll do a quick warm up making a thaumatrope, and then your very own flipbook.
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Lino Printing: Reductive Printmaking Workshop – Multi-Colour Prints

Lino Printing: Reductive Printmaking Workshop – Multi-Colour Prints

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PH1 Studios
Hands-on Toronto art workshop: explore reductive lino printing, carve and layer colours, and print a mini edition of original artwork. In this workshop, you’ll learn step-by-step how to plan your design, select colour palettes, and print multiples while mastering this advanced technique.
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Beginner Linocut printmaking workshop

Beginner Linocut printmaking workshop

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Centre of Social Innovation
A beginner friendly workshop which introduces you to the fun world of Linocut printmaking. In this workshop we will focus on the fundamentals linoleum blockprinting, from how to think about your design and transferring it to the linoleum block, to carving the block and creating a stamp, inking and finally printing it.
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Chinese Calligraphy Workshop 毛笔字体验活动

Chinese Calligraphy Workshop 毛笔字体验活动

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Chinese Calligraphy and Painting of Canada Association
Join us for a special Chinese Calligraphy Workshop, where participants will explore the beauty of traditional Chinese Join us for a welcoming Chinese Calligraphy Workshop and community gathering.
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Foil Embossing with Lahore Heritage Club x Sukoon Space

Foil Embossing with Lahore Heritage Club x Sukoon Space

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Sukoon
Inspired by Lahore’s jaalis, mosque interiors, and garden motifs, this hands-on session invites participants to explore texture, pressure, and pattern through metallic foil and simple embossing tools. Lahore’s visual culture serves as both reference and inspiration, reflecting traditions passed down through generations of South Asian art and design.
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Drawing the Costumed Model

Drawing the Costumed Model

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Gwartzman's Art Supplies
An informal, costumed life drawing session, the last Tuesday of each month. Join fellow creatives, practice techniques, experiment and relax. Each month will feature different costumed models. Doors will open 6:30pm.
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Figma Makeathon

Figma Makeathon

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New Systems
An evening of exploration, play, and building with unbounded creativity with like-minded individuals. ​​Why participate? ​​All levels welcome: no ego, just building together. ​​Mentorship: get direct feedback from people working in big tech. ​​Prizes: a small prize will be given to the first place winners!
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Reduction Linocut

Reduction Linocut

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Flycatcher Press
For intermediate and beginners to linocut or relief carving. In this 6-hour course you will develop your skills in designing, carving and printing relief prints. We will work on a two-colour linocut reduction print.
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F*** the Algorithm: authentic creation + marketing workshop

F*** the Algorithm: authentic creation + marketing workshop

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Sara Francis
For founders, creators, facilitators: share your voice and authentic self, build real community and promote your epic creations - without being owned by the algorithm. For the ones who don't want to be glued to social media or high screentime... but do want to share their gifts more.
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Vibrant Tomato: Acrylic Painting

Vibrant Tomato: Acrylic Painting

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Gwartzman's Art Supplies
Explore acrylic painting with a step-by-step project, presented by professional artist, Tori Smyth. Our topic this session? A vibrant tomato!
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Letterpress Club at Open Studio

Letterpress Club at Open Studio

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Open Studio
Letterpress Club is designed to remove barriers that prevent people from accessing the Vandercook press. Through this club, we will explore all the fun ways to play with letterpress and relief on this beautiful press while building an inclusive community.
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Beyond the Basics Succulent Centrepiece Workshop

Beyond the Basics Succulent Centrepiece Workshop

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Canadian Succulents
This hands-on workshop features the design and assembly of a succulent centrepiece arrangement in a large, modern ceramic planter. Dive deeper into styling principles, including colour harmony, texture combinations, and structural balance.
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Turning paper into fabric

Turning paper into fabric

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The Japanese Paper Place
Learn the secrets of Konnyaku in this full-day workshop where we’ll transform beautiful Japanese washi paper into fabric-like material and make a simple tsunobukuro style bag. We’ll also fill it with two hand-stitched journals!
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Silkscreen Workshop!

Silkscreen Workshop!

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Yasmine Louis
Learn the basics of silkscreen printing in a laid-back, fun atmosphere. These workshops are perfect for people who don't necessarily want to know every technical detail about screen printing, but have always wanted to print and make something in one class – and have tons of fun doing it. Wine, cheese and French music included!
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Sketching from Scratch

Sketching from Scratch

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Made by Emblem
This is an informal workshop — a chance to learn, hone or practice a new drawing technique each month. We'll have some music playing and a few snacks for the break. Each session, we'll focus on one drawing technique by reviewing some history, examples, and hands-on worksheets and still-life practice.
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Wood Type Wonders!

Wood Type Wonders!

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Flycatcher Press
Learn about the different ways to layer and ink wood type in this creative workshop meant for those who like to play with type! Using wood type from our collection and printing on our vintage sign press and vandercook press, you'll typeset and print a souvenir poster with your phrase and take home a few copies to share.
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Pooches & Pastels

Pooches & Pastels

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Toronto Dog Moms + CandyPress
Ever dreamed of turning your dog into a one-of-a-kind work of art? Now is your chance. Toronto Dog Moms is teaming up with Katika from Candy Press for a fun and creative night where you will draw your very own custom dog portrait using vibrant oil pastels.
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TFIG: Thank F*ck It's Glue! Roncy Collage Circle

TFIG: Thank F*ck It's Glue! Roncy Collage Circle

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c-suite creative
Overworked and uninspired? Join us for the creative escape you’ve been missing and your new favourite Friday night social. Zero experience needed. Zero judgment allowed. We've got all the supplies—you just bring yourself and whatever chaotic or zen energy you're working with that day. Let's make something weird and wonderful together.
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Linocut & Letterpress Posters

Linocut & Letterpress Posters

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Flycatcher Press
Mix pattern or imagery in linocut and vintage type and see what amazing design can be generated from these two relief processes. In this day-long course you'll learn about the history of wood and metal typesetting in letterpress printing and how to design and print a successful letterpress poster with both type and carved linoleum.
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