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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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Collage Making Workshop

Collage Making Workshop

Create a meaningful mixed-media collage with artist Kat Honey at Union Hotel’s 'Made at Union' series. For this session, we’ll be working with imagery from the Paris Collage Collective, an international collage community that publishes a new image weekly. It’s a creative experiment that connects our workshop to a global network of collage artists.

Block printmaking on tote bag and tea towel

Block printmaking on tote bag and tea towel

Celebrate this Mother's Day doing something fun, creative and relaxing with your mom or your mother figure! In this workshop you will learn how to carve a simple stamp on a linoleum block and we'll get to print your design on a tote bag and a tea towel. All materials including cotton tote bag and tea towel are provide.

Print Play: Figures and Animals - a monotype workshop

Print Play: Figures and Animals - a monotype workshop

Monotype in watercolour is a one-day workshop in which participants will learn, step by step, how to create a couple of monotype prints using watercolour on plexiglass. This unique technique allows students to bring the qualities of painting into printmaking. Participants will also receive guidance on composition, colour, and watercolour painting techniques.

Goodbye To The People I Used To Be

Goodbye To The People I Used To Be

A 4-hour immersive art experience of visualization, mirror work, and self-portraiture. Release who you've been. Make space for who's coming. Guided by Rage Flowers. Presented by Re-Work.

Queer Art Club: Draw A Drag Queen

Queer Art Club: Draw A Drag Queen

In this edition of Queer Art Club we will be learning how to figure draw with a drag performer, Seyoncé Knows, and with guidance from Sam Braithwaite!

Foil Embossing with Lahore Heritage Club x Sukoon Spacec

Foil Embossing with Lahore Heritage Club x Sukoon Spacec

Celebrate the visual language of Lahore’s historic streets and architectural ornamentation in this joyful foil embossing. Inspired by Lahore’s jaalis, ornamental arches, frescoed surfaces, mosque interiors, and garden motifs, this hands-on session invites participants to explore texture, pressure, and pattern through metallic foil and simple embossing tools.

Linocut Greeting Cards

Linocut Greeting Cards

Flycatcher Press

In this three-hour course we will introduce the fundamentals of designing and carving into soft linoleum for printing on the Vandercook Press. We will carve a small stamp block (2"x3") on soft-cut lino, and a larger design for printing on the printing press (4" x 5") to make a set of unique linocut cards for you to take home.

Motherless Day

Motherless Day

The Parentless Club

Motherless Day is the pity party you actually want to go to. A Toronto gathering for those without moms, with collaging, bracelet-making, and grounding activities, all alongside people who just get it.

Relief Printmaking (5 Weeks)

Relief Printmaking (5 Weeks)

The inPrint Collective

Join us at the inPrint Studio to learn the art of relief printmaking. During this 5 week class you will learn how to carve a linoleum block and print on our studio press. Students will first learn the basics and create a 1-layer print, then be challenged to create a 2-layer reduction print.

Bloom: A Spring Sketch Night

Bloom: A Spring Sketch Night

Drawn Together (by @meggu_makes)

Bloom: A sketching workshop exploring renewal and creative awakening. Inspired by spring’s fresh energy, this session uses playful mark-making and guided prompts to invite a moment of creative pause. 6:30pm-9pm. Materials included.

Introduction to Systemic Design

Introduction to Systemic Design

Complex challenges rarely live in one place; they span teams, touchpoints, and invisible connections. This session is a hands-on introduction to systemic design: an approach that combines systems thinking and design to help us better understand and work within complexity.

Subway Drawing: Learn to Sketch Commuters

Subway Drawing: Learn to Sketch Commuters

Gwartzman's Art Supplies

Learn to break down and quickly sketch a face from multiple angles, while going unnoticed on the TTC. All materials provided for this 2part workshop, as well as a free e-book full of tips & techniques! Pt 1: Instruction Pt 2: Subway trip

Mosaics 101

Mosaics 101

Dive into Mosaics with Alex of Dolomite Mosaics and get hands-on creating mosaic art at the historic Wychwood Barns! Mosaics 101 is the perfect hands-on workshop for anyone looking to dive into the colorful world of mosaic art. You'll learn to cut, piece, glue and grout your way to a stunning piece you'll take home.

Invisible Friends: AI Motion Design Day for Artists & Builders At Toronto Tech Week

Invisible Friends: AI Motion Design Day for Artists & Builders At Toronto Tech Week

JER Creative Lab

A hands on generative AI workshop and networking session for artists, designers, builders, and creative practitioners. The workshop introduces accessible approaches to creating design material with prompts and AI tools, supporting the development of images for social media, artwork, posters, and other creative projects.

16mm Direct Animation Workshop

16mm Direct Animation Workshop

Northern Contemporary

Join us for a one-of-a-kind workshop where you'll animate by hand on 16mm film to create your own short stop-motion piece! Participants will be taught an array of direct animation techniques to scratch, paint, draw, and destroy a film strip, and receive pieces of black, clear, and scrap film to create their own 15 second mini animation.

Drum Leaf Binding Workshop

Drum Leaf Binding Workshop

Big River Bindery

The Drum Leaf is a binding that uses only adhesive to connect the pages - no sewing. It opens flat and has flush edges, making it great for sketchbooks, journals, or artist books.

Graphic art with promarkers

Graphic art with promarkers

Dive into the vibrant world of illustration and graphic art with professional Promarkers! In this hands-on class, you’ll explore techniques to create bold, expressive artworks and learn how to blend, shade, and bring your ideas to life on paper.

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