Intensives

A multi-week deep dive focused on one medium, like drawing or ceramics. A growth experience unlike any other, designed to foster community as much as learning.

With a balance of hands-on learning, thoughtful critique, and shared meals, you’ll gain valuable technical expertise while engaging in meaningful conversations about creative living.

Whether you're looking to refine your craft or push beyond your comfort zone, this program is thoughtfully designed by a team of passionate, practicing artists and is unlike any other program…

Available Intensives

A Full Course of Drawing

A 4-week drawing journey

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Clay in
Practice

A 6-week ceramic journey

Enrollment scheduled to open March/April,

Sessions start in May.

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What is an Intensive?

Dive deeper and build confidence

Much of Drawing Room programming is about exploration and trying new things.

While Intensives are still open-level and beginner-friendly, we dig deeper and push ourselves to gain confidence, practice, and see improvement.

Intensives are great for when you know you’re really interested in pushing yourself in a particular area.

Beyond making: a creative life

Drawing Room is all about a commitment to living a creative life. We use Intensives as an opportunity to not only actively create, but also discuss the philosophy of creativity—exploring how we can weave the practices into our daily lives with intention and purpose.

Unique program design at a great value

Each Intensive was designed by a collaborating team of practicing artists, specifically for the Drawing Room community and ethos. We not only focus on learning new skills but about connecting with the group over food, drink, and conversation.

You get a great value by committing to a recurring program, but there is truly nothing else quite like them, either!!

Recurring schedule and accountability

Each Intensive spans 4-6 weeks, depending on the medium, and is made up of a group of around 16 people.

Build connections with the same group over the entire Intensive program, see each other grow, and hold yourself accountable to your commitments.

Drawing Room as your campus

Intensive enrollment includes the Membership Lite, plus 4 days of Art Library access. Show your digital membership card to pop by during any Open Hours. Use the space to continue practicing what you learned, meet up your group, or co-work!

Get 15% off everything else with the membership, too.

Workshop supplies

All materials and supplies needed for your workshops are provided on-site. Take home the pieces you create.

Utilize the Art Library on 4 days of your choosing, during any of your unlimited Open Hour visits with your digital membership card.

Why join an Intensive?

Be a part of something bigger

Drawing Room is all about learning and growing, with an emphasis on community-building. Participating is supporting our mission for strengthening community in NYC, and celebrating creativity in its many forms!

Get the best value

We’re able to provide the best value through our multi-session programs, so you know you’re getting the best deal! But discounts aside, you won’t be able to find anything else quite like this program!

Treat (and care for) yourself!

Creativity is self-care; being creative regularly can help you solve problems more openly and effectively, relieve stress and anxiety, and even improve cognitive function. A creative practice is an incredibly powerful tool to build for yourself.

How is an Intensive different from the Cohort Program?

Breadth vs Depth

The Cohort Program is all about breadth (exploring different things widely and being a beginner), while Intensives are about depth. They are great if you know you really love (or want to dive deeper and improve in) a particular medium. Intensives are a great way to push yourself to grow and meet others who also want to grow in the same way.

Schedule

The Cohort Program is a choose-your-own-schedule program that spans the course of 8 weeks. Intensives are slightly shorter, running between 4-6 weeks, and the dates are already set. For example, a Drawing Intensive may run each Tuesday evening for 4 weeks. We’ll see the exact same group of people each week, and the sessions flow from one to the next with continuity in both topics covered, projects, and conversation.

FAQs

Yes, of course! Please use the same exact email we have on file for your membership.
If you are already a member with a payment method on file:
Drawing Room Membership Lite:
- The Membership Lite is included in our cohort program, so you won’t be charged for renewal until the end of the cohort. You’ll be prorated for any days not covered by the cohort program; these will be added to the end of the cohort after Showcase Night.
- You retain all the benefits of the Membership Lite (like unlimited Open Hours, 15% discount, guest passes) from the day you sign up, through to the end of the cohort.
Drawing Room Membership:
- The same thing applies to you, except you retain the one guest pass per month with the Art Library, and even the two (additional) workshops per month. (You can take more workshops on top of the cohort, or use them for a friend to join you).
- Please note that you have to have paid for at least one month of this Membership tier before your cohort enrollment in order to qualify to retain your benefits.
- For example, if you signed up as a member on Dec 1, and the cohort runs Dec 16-March 2 (from Orientation to Showcase), you will retain Membership privileges until March 17th, which includes prorated days from your signup date. You’ll be scheduled and charged for renewal on March 17th.
- If you sign up for a cohort after that, you will remain on the same Membership tier until the second cohort is over, and prorated days added after that one is over.
- This means you can’t upgrade your membership from the Lite tier during your cohort.
- Note that this option gets you a discount – you’re effectively getting the regular Membership at the price of the Lite tier!
Please reach out to our team at info@nycdrawingroom.com to enroll.
If you aren’t able to make one of the dates, we will be able to share the lesson plan for the day with you and encourage you to complete the assignment so that you will be prepared for the discussions in the subsequent session.
Unlike the Cohort Program, each session builds on the last, so it’s important to try to make each one! There are currently no make-up days available due to the nature of our programming availability.
Yes! We offer interest-free payment plans via Klarna. Simply select that option on the payment page.
Intensive workshops are not open to the public and are exclusive to your group.
You can expect to see the familiar faces of your Intensive members in each of these classes, and you'll get first dibs and get to sign up for any future journeys at Drawing Room.
All enrollments are final. Please double check your calendar.
However, if you find you are unable to join us for the program for whatever reason after booking, you can let us know at least 7 days before the first session to get credits for a future program date. The credits cannot be individually transferred to events, they must be used in one go for the same program at a future date.
Absolutely!
There’s so much to learn each time you participate in an Intensive, and they’re open level, so you are encouraged to work with the instructors to push yourself.
Plus, each Intensive is a new opportunity to make new friends and share an experience with a tight knit group of people!
If after an Intensive (or two) you find you’re ready to explore other mediums or want to dive deep into another medium, you can explore our other journeys – you’ll get first dibs!
We’d recommend you take them one at a time! Each of our journeys are designed to be a comprehensive experience. While participating in multiple (Cohort Program AND an Intensive, for example) is not impossible, you may find yourself at Drawing Room a LOT!! Which, we’d love, but may be intense!
For context, through the Cohort Program you can expect to be at Drawing Room and average of 1-2 times per week, and the Intensive is an average of once per week.