I booked a fluid art session for my date and our instructor was Allie who was incredible. She was…read morevery chill and made our experience amazing. My date enjoyed the whole experience - easy and effortless and we had a good laughs with other fellow participants. I highly recommend this for a date activity.

Came here for a girls weekend. Had a lot of fun with the art, the people were so nice and the art…read moreturned out great. They were so helpful when we had to ship our art pieces once they dried and delivery was smooth. One suggestion: we paid for their best PPE. I am a tall girl but not THAT tall. The poncho was not long enough to cover the top of the lower leg and shoe covers. I had a pair of pants get ruined by the bright acrylic paint that hit me right at the exposed inch of pant leg and I had to then wear those pants to a nicer dinner... little embarrassing. They should definitely consider adding an option of a longer version of the poncho. Tall people beware!

I used to be an Artist-in-Residence with Snow City Arts Foundation for about 3 years. I can't begin…read moreto share the inspirational stories that came with teaching hospitalized children and their families art. The organization employs professional artists with backgrounds in various disciplines who have experience working with children. Artists specialized in music, painting, poetry, mixed-media, video production, puppetry, fabric, printmaking and short story writing. Each year, the organization holds a posh gallery night and invites the patients and their families to mingle with the public and speak about their art. It's not too often that many of these children get an opportunity to share their experiences with large audiences. The organization offers patients and families the opportunity to forget being at a hospital and to enjoy creating art with professional artists to guide them. Overall, a great organization that places emphasis on the individual and helps find the artist in every child.

I love what the Snow City Arts Foundation is doing. I interviewed the Director and two Artists in…read moreResidence at Lurie Children's Hospital. http://youtu.be/cZslFbnUQSw

A place for learning to respect all art forms and get creative with all subject matters; a fun way…read moreto expand your mind with the arts.

Spudnik is a co-op that allows creatives and such to use their equipment in the studio for their…read moreown personal pursuits. They have letterpress, screen printing equipment, lithography, and more at your disposal. A membership with Spudnik gains you access to all of this and there are different levels based on what you want to use the studio for (basic and volunteer for more casual artists and keyholder for those who, say, make a living off of their art). If you're new to all of this they also lead classes and workshops for outside groups as well, including classes on screen printing, zine making, lithography, risography, letterpress, photoshop and more. I had a great time here designing and screen printing t-shirts with my colleagues last week. Tara and the other Spudnik folks were so fantastic, walking us through the process of creating the image (we did a collaborative drawing but you can also use their computers to create something digitally) then taking us through the steps of screen printing. I had done some INCREDIBLY DIY screen printing years ago so it was great to see how it's done in a proper setting with a dark room and all that good stuff. She told us all about the different screen gauges, the emulsion process, and more. So fun and educational! A super cool space that I wish I had known about when I lived in Chicago. I would have definitely joined and exercised my creativity, no doubt.

Loved my experience at Spudnik! We rented out the place for a team bonding screen printing…read moreexperience and had a blast! As others have mentioned, this is a space for creatives to play. While there are studios for individual artists that are in-house, there are letterpress and screen printing machines as well as workshops that are offered to the general public. Our group made a screenprinting design, where we collaborated on a drawing between the 12 of us and the wonderful staff helped us make T-Shirts with the original screenprint that we created! It was a fun, involved process and the staff at Spudnik made it easy, seamless and stress-free. If you're looking for a fun experience or just looking to get more connected to the creative community in Chicago, check out Spudnik!

I took a class here a few months ago, and I have to say that this studio has the nicest people. It…read morereally is a friendly community that encourages you to explore your creative ideas. The instructors are wonderful and super great teachers. They are very attentive and will help you execute your pottery. The only reason I stopped going to the studio is that it is really hard to get to for me by public transportation but there is plenty of street parking if you have a car. The studio is more economical, and that's reflected in the price you pay for the class (less bougie than some other studios but wayyyyyy most cost-effective). They are also wonderful because they have a makeup class if you miss yours. Overall highly recommend! If you were interested though you should call or email to hold your spot - the waitlist is a few months.

At the behest of my friend, I finally decided to take pottery classes at Creative Claythings. I was…read morehesitant at first due to my only experience with clay being back in junior high, but came out at the end with pieces of pottery that I was quite proud of making. Big thanks to the teacher Christine for answering my questions regarding technique with intricate details.

Nice neighborhood, one block from bus stop. Private school with locked doors, so have to use the…read moreintercom system (at each door) to get in.

When you're a student the office is on top of you to get to school to help to be there for students…read moreand parents. BUT when you graduate-- nothing but crickets. No call backs. No assistance. Nothing but attitude from the main office staff. Glad to know alumni ain't worth anything except money because they sure call to ask for it.

After completing the Studio program, I can say I highly recommend this class. It's definitely for…read morethose who are ready to work hard and are in it for the long haul. This class slowly delivers their method which gives you great structure for prep and gives you tools to focus before an audition/performance. The way it slowly unfolds definitely is intentional and allows you to really hone your process and helps to try to avoid common pitfalls. I especially appreciated this program already having a lot of acting training - getting some new tools (while being familiar with some things) and more structure for my process. However, I talked to newer actors who loved starting with this program too and complained of other schools not actually teaching students how to act but rather just getting notes on specific scenes done in class. What you learn in this class can be applied to every audition/performance scenario. Every teacher I had (4 total including subs) were generous, kind and still pushed you hard. They also did a good job of giving fair feedback that both encouraged what was working and helped you fix things that needed to be worked on. I found the teachers to have no ego and there to be no favoritism which is something I found annoying in some previous LA acting classes. All in all, if you have the time, energy and curiosity to commit to it, this class will help you grow immensely and hone your artistic voice.

This place has a certain way of teaching that necessarily isn't going to connect with everyone…read more Although sure it could work for you, 8/5 times I'd say it won't. Also this studio comes off as prestigious, they make you retake the class if the teacher thinks you aren't good enough to be in the second or third level. Acting isn't something that is able to be graded in a traditional learning model, it's art, art is up to anyone's own interpretation. If you truly want to make this place a safe place to evolve and practice the craft of acting, I recommend taking a strong look into fixing this 'grading' scale and actually be more hands on with the students and improve on what they are good at instead of throwing them into the deep end of something they have no idea of how to portray and then bury them for it. To me this form of retaking courses comes off as sort of a scam business model, each course is close to $500, hold at least 2 kids back and make them retake the class and now they paid $1000 to take the same class again. I've taken classes around the city and this model certainly seemed low class. This establishment has nice bathrooms though.

Great place, had some wonderful clay figure classes and are trying to recover from Covid…read more Joseph

Potential students beware! I paid for a 3 week blacksmith course with this school. The transaction…read morewas done though a site called Sawyer. Once the first day came to go to class, I arrived to a completely empty place. I stood at the door waiting to enter but no one ever came. After almost 1 hour of standing in single digit weather, non-stop ringing the door bell and calling the provided number 23 times, I gave up. After dealing with Sawyer's customer service, I was told me that no refund could be provided and to continue trying to reach out to the unresponsive school. Please save your money and avoid this scam of a school like the plague.