Calendar of Events

Fleisher’s new Common Space initiative gives local organizations and artist collectives ‘the keys’ to Fleisher’s historic Sanctuary to present culturally diverse, community-driven projects. Designed to support Philadelphia-area performance artists by...

Pumpkin carving returns to Fleisher’s Sanctuary for a festive celebration with friends, neighbors, and cool jack-o’-lanterns. Large pumpkins, tools, and artistic guidance to help you create your masterpiece will be...

Join Fleisher for the fifth annual HANDMADE, a creative holiday market featuring more than 30 of Philadelphia’s most exciting artists and makers. This year’s participating vendors were curated by designer,...

Please join us as Fleisher’s Common Space Initiative welcomes painter, composer, and songwriter Daniel de Jesús for a performance of new works from his contemporary operetta, The Ghost of Loralie...

It’s a weekend of love at Fleisher for people of all ages as Print Love-In returns for its 20th year! Join us to make your own valentines while exploring a...

Through the Common Space initiative, Fleisher is partnering with One Book, One Philadelphia, the signature program of the Free Library that promotes literacy, library usage, and civic dialogue by encouraging...

Join us Wednesday, April 1, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. as Fleisher launches its series of online learning and community building programs, Fleisher From a Distance. We’ll begin with an...

Please join us for another installment of Fleisher From a Distance, our series of online learning and community building programs. Discover the energy of alla prima painting, a traditional technique...

Please join us for another installment of Fleisher From a Distance, our series of online learning and community building programs. Take a tour of Kay Healy's studio, where her elaborate...

Please join us for another installment of Fleisher From a Distance, our series of online learning and community building programs. Curious about mosaic? Here is your chance to see the...

Join us for a figure drawing demonstration led by Fleisher faculty member Jotham Malavé Maldonado that will cover the basic relationship of proportion from the human figure. By simplifying the...

Join us for an exciting tour of faculty member Henry Bermudez's studio. You may have seen Henry's work at his recent solo show, Wilderness in Mind, at Taller Puertorriqueño before...

Join fiber artist and Fleisher faculty member Marie Elcin for an evening stitch meditation. Discover the calming practice of moving needle and thread and the joy of being part of...

Watch the magic happen and learn how teaching artist Maureen Duffy designs and creates engagement rings. Observe the step-by-step process and discuss design, materials, costs, and techniques. Maureen is a...

Join us for a studio visit with Fleisher faculty member Fran Gallun. Fran is a proud Fleisher lifer. She first came to classes while in high school and has continued...

Curious about botanical art? Join us for a brief introduction to the medium and a demonstration of how to illustrate a shitake mushroom led by teaching artist Margaret Saylor. We...

Experience the art of painting with the versatile and expressive medium of watercolor. This demonstration with longtime teaching artist Bernard Collins will focus on techniques in creating a watercolor portrait,...

Join us for a studio tour and conversation with teaching artist and board member Bill Brookover. Bill is a printmaker and photographer whose work is based in his training in...

Step into the world of abstract painting. Teaching artist Mostafa Darwish will be performing a live painting demonstration from a series that he is currently working on. The demonstration will...

Carefully listening to and observing birds is an act of meditation. In this webinar we will take a few deep breaths before looking at a variety of species and noticing...

This webinar will show the experimental qualities and immediacy of this one of a kind technique.  Have fun seeing the many different effects possible achieved with such simple, freeing and...

Experience teaching artist Paul DuSold's exciting approach to drawing a portrait. By working from a photograph, Paul will walk us through the entire process of achieving a likeness. Each step...

We don't know yet what life will look like after we emerge from our COVID-19 quarantine. Will it change the way we see or make art? This lecture reviews art...

Join Fleisher teaching artist Priscilla Bell as she explains techniques and methods of acrylic still life painting. Priscilla is a figurative painter who works primarily with acrylic paint. Her work...

Join us for an exciting studio tour with photographer and mixed media artist Debbie Lerman. Debbie graduated with a degree in English from Harvard in 1991, and worked as a...

Get an early peek at and an enjoy a reading of Grid Observer, the newest graphic novel by teaching artist Pat Aulisio. Pat will discuss his influences, the different techniques...

POSTPONED until Tuesday, June 9. If you have already registered for this event, you will be able to use the same link you received to join the demonstration online. Join...

POSTPONED until Thursday, June 11. If you have already registered for this event, you will be able to use the same link you received to join the demonstration online. Join...

We believe that everyone can draw! Drawing is a skill that can be learned and achieved through practice. Join us for this demonstration with Candy Alexandra González, who will lead...

Join us for a studio visit with longtime faculty member and sculptor Christopher Smith. Christopher was born in Detroit in 1958 and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. The Detroit...

Join Darryl Smith, one of our newest teaching artists, for a demonstration of the traditional silverpoint drawing technique. Darryl will discuss the history of silverpoint drawing, also known as metalpoint...

Meet one of Fleisher's newest instructors, Inga Kimberly Brown, in this exciting webinar that will explore the genre of self-portraiture through drawing. Inga will discuss her personal approach to drawing...

For the last four years, Ada Trillo has been using the practice of photography to document the immigration journey of folx along the U.S./Mexico border. Join Ada as the Leeway...

Explore the rich process of wax fabrication for jewelry and wearable art with Fleisher teaching artist Hratch Babikian. Hratch will discuss techniques, tools, and the process of carving a wax...

Want to learn more about abstract watercolor? Join teaching artist Amy Miller as she demonstrates several introductory techniques. Using bold patterns from her vintage clothing collection as a source of...

Discover the great printmaking treasures in the Free Library Print and Picture Collection. We will look at the robust collection of WPA posters and fine art prints that used screenprint...

During this webinar, Darryl Smith will introduce various ways artists strived to achieve excellence in representing the human body through the study of anatomy. He will also discuss the benefits...

Join us for a demonstration and a conversation about the medium, technique, and philosophy of Chinese brush painting and calligraphy with Josephine Tsai. We will discuss the basic brushwork, the...

Join us for an exciting studio tour of our long time teaching artist Paul DuSold, whose primary interests are still life, portraiture, and figures in landscape. Paul's paintings have been...

Discover teaching artist Doah Lee's approach to painting intuitively. We'll discuss materials, acrylic and oil paint, and several techniques and approaches for tapping into your intuition and working abstractly. Doah...

Join us for a visit with longtime faculty member and renowned artist James Dupree. Last year James took a visual art residency in the small village of Teotilan de Valle...

Join us for a painting demonstration of abstract figuration with teaching artist Martin Campos. We'll discuss the process of abstracting the realism of the figure, the composition and design elements...

Explore the art of sculpting in clay with our longtime teaching faculty member and prolific artist Darla Jackson. We'll discuss the fundamentals of working with clay as a medium, building...

Join us for a demonstration of monoprinting with Dianne Hricko. We'll discuss the process and materials Dianne uses in her own work and get a sneak peek of her studio...

Please join us for a spoken word and live painting performance with artist, poet, and Fleisher faculty member Bernard Collins. The performance will showcase works that explore several forms of...

Join in on this webinar to explore a variety of ways to turn wool into felt for sculpture and wearable items. Hanna will demonstrate needle felting for small-scale sculpture and...

Join us for a figure drawing demonstration with teaching artist Bernard Collins. We'll discuss Bernard's approach to drawing the figure, explore anatomical proportions, gesture, and achieving a likeness. Bring a...

Explore the fascinating world of color and paint mixing with teaching artist Lara Cantu-Hertzler. We'll delve into the properties of different colors, and discuss the color spectrum and a variety...

Want to improve your photos? Join our teaching artist Nicole Schwartz and learn a few tips for making beautiful photographs. We'll go over compositional rules, basic camera functions, and a...

Join Nicole Donnelly for Sculptural Papermaking Techniques. In this one-hour presentation, you will see how sheets of paper are made by hand and then can be transformed into 3-dimensional sculptures....

Following on the success of Fleisher From a Distance, a series of online learning and community building events that launched in the spring, Fleisher will roll out an additional series...

The art of street photography has a wonderful and deep history, with myriad successful practitioners. Join photographer and Fleisher darkroom instructor Rick Wright for a portfolio lecture on six such...

Fleisher's series of online events focused on the intersection of social activism and art continues with a Zoom talk and presentation with teaching artist Katie Kaplan. All events are open...

Únase a nosotros para una demostración de técnica básica de pintura al óleo con el artista Henry Bermudez. Discutiremos cómo preparar el lienzo para pintar al óleo con aplicación de...

Explore the rich medium of pastel drawing with artist and Fleisher faculty Katie Knoeringer. We'll discuss the specific attributes of pastels and best practices for working with the medium. We'll...

Join us for a discussion about the traditional practice of Nigerian and Ghanaian Pottery with teaching artist Robin Williams Turnage. We'll look at the history and traditional practice of handbuilding...

Take the first steps to painting the figure with teaching artist James Dupree. We'll look at a step by step approach to the art of figure painting with a live...

Join us for a demonstration of a very unique technique the artist Claes Gabriel uses to make his colorful and bold sculptural paintings. We'll learn his process in building a...

Come learn the intaglio print process of silk aquatint with teaching artist Elaine Erne. This process achieves the same rich and velvety surface as etched aquatint or mezzotint but without...

Join us for a conversation and demonstration of creating your own herbal remedies with community herbalist Martha O'Neill. This webinar is all about kitchen medicine and the herbal remedies that...

Philadelphia-based curator and cultural worker James Claiborne is joined by visual artist Dara Haskins for a conversation exploring Haskins' 2019 series of paintings, entitled Havana Time. This dialogue centers on...

The Print Center is a 105-year-old non-profit institution in Philadelphia dedicated to expanding the understanding of photography and printmaking as vital contemporary arts. Join Fleisher printmaking instructor Bill Brookover for...

Fleisher’s annual art and craft market, HANDMADE, is going virtual this year! In the spirit of social distancing, this year’s event will be focused on our online platform, which opens...

Please join us as artist and plant-lover Catzie Vilayphonh hosts a special zoom session on taking care of the house foliage that you are (re)quarantining with. Through slideshow presentations, memes,...

Explore the soft beauty of atmospheric landscape painting with Fleisher's teaching artist John Sevcik. John will show us some approaches to landscape painting he employs, using atmosphere, distance, and stress...

Explore the whimsical world of art environments, from the Watts Towers in Los Angeles to the Rock Garden in India to Philadelphia's own Magic Gardens. Learn about the characteristics of...

Join us for a demonstration with teaching artist Sasha Budayev of painting the figure in the manner of the Russian Academic School. Sasha will cover the conception of choice-making, one...

In this Zoom event, Fleisher student David Greene will discuss his journey as an artist through social activism. As a longtime activist and educator, David understands that art has the...

Video is a regular part of our lives and used by a wide variety of artists today. But, when did video art come on the scene? What was the difference...

Join us for a demonstration with mosaic artist and Fleisher teaching artist Claire Brill. Claire will demonstrate a way to make mosaic medallions including the base, and some of the...

During this interactive, cross-disciplinary event, learn about The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s current exhibition, Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s. Led by museum tour manager Katie Parry and University of Pennsylvania...

Pennsylvania Ballet Spread Your Wings Program celebrates the beauty of movement through a variety of artistic disciplines and experiences. Through community partnerships, including Fleisher Art Memorial, Spread Your Wings equips...

Learn how to screenprint on fabrics at home with Miriam Singer! Participants will be introduced to the steps in the screenprint process for printing on fabric using stencil-based screenprinting techniques....

In this Zoom Event, Kathryn Kelly will share with us her journey from Philadelphia artist, architect, woodworker, and former Fleisher student to Central Saint Martins in London, a mecca for...

Join us for part two of Derick Jones' demonstration of drawing the urban landscape. Brought to you by popular demand, Derick will continue where he left off last time and...