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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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Storytelling Through Beadwork

Toronto Public Library

Uncover the hidden symbols and intricate meanings found in beadwork in this interactive talk with Cree-Métis artist, Marissa Magneson. Marissa will explore beadwork as a form of storytelling and expression, revealing layers of history, identity, culture, and spirituality.

Zine Machine (4wks)

Zine Machine (4wks)

Do you have a personal story you want to share? An illustrated essay about your pet? A comic about your favourite food? Zine Machine will take you from concept to distribution in 4 weeks of studio time with exercises and guidance to help you self-publish your zine.

Small Things: Making Inks

Small Things: Making Inks

Labraotory for Artistic Intelligence

Come experiment with making inks crafted from found and natural materials. Play with different ink recipes and explore how the colours flow on the page. Follow your own curiosity, and see where these handmade inks take you!

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour: An Immersive Experience

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour: An Immersive Experience

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Join Scott Stevenson, Brand Ambassador and Art Educator for DANIEL SMITH Artists’ Materials, for an engaging and informative watercolour workshop designed for artists of all skill levels.

Craft Cafe: Make friends, Make crafts

Craft Cafe: Make friends, Make crafts

Craft Cafe is a casual, social evening where you can choose one craft to try, similar to ordering from a menu. We’ll provide all materials and tools. Just show up ready to create. Mingle, learn from fellow crafters, and maybe leave with a new skill or a new friend.

Summer 2026 in Ephemera: A Junk Journaling Zine Workshop

Summer 2026 in Ephemera: A Junk Journaling Zine Workshop

Toronto Zine Library

Letters, notes, ticket stubs, receipts and the like: we look at these small objects and see life reflected in them. They mark time. Collecting ephemera is a way to hold onto moments; it is an act of documentation. So come on down to the Tranzac with your mementos of summer and let’s create our second annual time capsule zine together.

Costumed Life Drawing

Costumed Life Drawing

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Join us Tuesday evenings for uninstructed costumed life drawing, in a relaxed and supportive environment.

Silkscreen Workshop!

Silkscreen Workshop!

Join our Silkscreen Workshop where you'll 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. Sip on wine and nibble on cheese while you work!

Hand Drawn and Painted Patterns

Hand Drawn and Painted Patterns

In a time where we often hand this type of design over to computers and paint bucket fills, it feels extra special to slow down and create intricate things by hand, letting the little imperfections live as a sign a human was here. Explore motifs, find colour combinations that speak to you, and hone your painting skills.

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

Queer Art Club: Screen Printing

Queer Art Club: Screen Printing

Queer Art Club Toronto

Learn the basics of DIY screen printing and create your very own screen using an embroidery hoop in this edition of Queer Art Club! In this workshop you'll learn how to prepare a simple design, build your screen, create a stencil, and use it to make your own print. You'll then put your new skills into practice by printing your design onto a T-shirt or tote.

Block-printing workshop

Block-printing workshop

Hot Pizza Studio

Come play with pattern, colour, & cloth in this fun, hands-on block-printing workshop for adults led by Sarah Aranha. You’ll learn how to design a simple image, carve your own printing block, ink it up, & print repeat patterns onto fabric.

Line Etching on Copper (4 weeks)

Line Etching on Copper (4 weeks)

In this 4-week workshop, participants will be introduced etching on copper to create expressive images using linework and cross-hatching. Working with copper plates and acid-resistant grounds, participants will create images with crisp, fine lines. This class is ideal for anyone who enjoys drawing with fine lines and building tone using cross-hatching.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Toronto Art Club

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

Sunset Plein Air Picnic *Fall Edition*

Sunset Plein Air Picnic Fall Edition

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

For this round of our relaxing plein air picnic, we'll be sipping hot tea and painting fall colours. Learn how to build a scene in changing light, how to handle your materials for on-the-go painting, and receive live feedback.

Watermedia Workshop

Watermedia Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

A hands-on workshop for artists of all levels and experience from beginner to professional. Experiment different materials: Holbein Watercolor, Gouache, Acrylic Gouache, Watercolor Mediums, and more.

Screenprinting: A Posterization Approach (4 weeks)

Screenprinting: A Posterization Approach (4 weeks)

In this 4-week workshop, participants will learn screenprinting via posterization, where continuous tone is split into multiple regions. You'll be introduced to various techniques to create transparency films that will be exposed onto a silkscreen. You'll also learn two different techniques for posterization, one digital with Photoshop and one analog.

Petals in Motion: a stop motion animation workshop

Petals in Motion: a stop motion animation workshop

Through a meditative and mindful approach, this workshop focuses on natural materials like leaves, flowers, stems etc. to create unique stop motion animations.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Drawing with Felt & Thread

Drawing with Felt & Thread

You'll learn how to prepare wool roving for felting, various embroidery stitches that lend well to a drawing approach, and ways to add details and embellishments for textured 3D pieces. All materials are included and you will leave with the tools you need to keep felting!

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

Printmaking Workshop: Heritage-Inspired Linocut Printing at Black Creek

This beginner-friendly printmaking workshop will walk you through the process of carving your own stamp block and hand printing. Join the Toronto Art Club by PH1 Studios for a unique printmaking workshop in Toronto where art, history, and craftsmanship come together.

From Walnut to Ink: A Traditional Drawing Workshop

From Walnut to Ink: A Traditional Drawing Workshop

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Create elegant botanical drawings with rich, handmade Black Walnut Ink. You'll learn to draw a beautiful autumn leaf using a traditional dip pen and nib—a timeless technique reminiscent of the warm, expressive sketches of Leonardo da Vinci.

Creative Zine Structures

Creative Zine Structures

Big River Bindery

Get creative with alternative structures and materials for self-publishing! Experiment with content and bindings, found materials and found poetry. Learn how to make map folds, flexagons, and more, then explore unique ways to fill them.

Illustrated Recipes

Illustrated Recipes

Hot Pizza Studio

Join Sarah Aranha, artist extraordinaire, in this workshop focused on food! Using watercolour and mixed-media (think coloured pencils and collage), we’ll learn to paint our favourite recipes on gorgeous paper, which you’ll take home to cherish (and cook with!).

Printmaking on Japanese Paper

Printmaking on Japanese Paper

Learn a variety of printmaking techniques that can be done in a home studio. You will learn how to create prints using water wash up ink and water-soluble media. Learn to make relief prints, monotype and experimental techniques.

Collage Night

Collage Night

Issues Magazine Shop

Join Alanna Chelmick at Issues Magazine Shop for an evening of collage-making. No experience necessary. All supplies provided.

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Life Drawing in Toronto: The Conté Club

Toronto Art Club

Looking for life drawing in Toronto? Join our self-led figure drawing sessions at 401 Richmond. All skill levels welcome. Come join Erik Mohr (Creative Director) for a relaxed evening filled with mark-making. Sessions are welcome to all levels, and attendees should provide their own materials.

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