Programming information for Schools can be found at the bottom of this page.
Studio classes and workshops for all ages and all skill levels are offered year-round, with a special emphasis on children's classes during the summer and March Break, and classes for adults on weekends and evenings. Creative thinking and problem solving are crucial to success in all areas of life; the art gallery provides a pleasant, accepting location to develop and practice these skills.
Registration for all of our art classes and workshops is now online. If you need any help registering or would like to pay in person, stop by the Gallery* or the Peach King Centre and staff would be happy to help set up an account or register you for a program. Gallery members should contact the Gallery before paying to receive their membership discount.
* Please note: during the summer months the Gallery is unable to process debit cards; we can manually enter credit card information. The Peach King Centre is set up for both debit and credit payments year-round.
- Children's Saturday classes
- Children's Afterschool classes
- Children's Spark-Art workshops and PA Days
- Free events for kids
- Adult Art courses
- Adult One-day workshops
- Free events for adults
Saturday classes for kids
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Art Explorers for Ages 5-12 |
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Fall Session: Winter Session: Times: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Fee: $90 per session Draw, Sculpt, Print and Paint with imagination and new skills. Discover how to build creative ideas into masterpieces. This program explores thinking, planning big ideas and making unique work. This is an excellent beginner to intermediate level program. New projects each session. |
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Drawing Box Club for ages 9-14 |
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Fall Session: Winter Session: Times: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Fee: $90 per session This is a fundamental drawing session, with each series building on new skill sets. Learn about techniques for various dry drawing media. It’s everything you wanted to know, but didn’t know to ask. Young people can expand ideas while making engaging exploratory projects. Bring your how-to-draw wish lists! |
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Comic Book Art with Keith Grachow for Ages 10+ |
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Visual Storytelling: Dates: Saturdays October 5 - November 9 (no class Oct. 19) Time: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $88 Take this journey of developing a character to be used in a visual storytelling medium like comic books. Over 5 weeks, students will learn the process of drawing your very own character & developing ideas for it to come alive in a 2-5 page story ready for printing! Just imagine the possibilities! |
Afterschool classes for kids
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Creator Studios for Ages 5-9 |
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Fall session 1: Fall session 2: Winter Session: Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. Fee: $75 per session Draw, Paint, Sculpt and Craft creator projects. These classes are fun opportunities to make and take art that will build confidence and expand curiosity and critical thinking. Make room for the masterpieces! |
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Master Art Makers for Ages 9-14 |
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Fall Session 1: Fall Session 2: Winter Session: Time: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Fee: $75 Build skills, and learn techniques in sculpting with clays or plaster and sketching with dry and wet media. Make and take something new each week! Projects change each week and session to keep you growing as an artist. |
Spark-Art Workshops and PA days for kids
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PA Day Makers for Ages 5-12 |
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Date: Friday November 15 Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am Fee: $5 Join the Magical Creators in this hour of art and craft fun! Explore and experiment with SALT painting and mixed media YUMMY art - come out to make bold, colourful work that looks delicious!
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Fee: $5 Join the Magical Creators in this hour of art and craft fun! Explore and experiment optical illusions. Let’s make Cartoon monster spinners and anti-gravity alien gobblers! |
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Character Designing Workshop with Keith Grachow for Ages 10+ |
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Date: Saturday September 7 Time: 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Fee: $20 Get to the drawing board with Keith and learn the key elements of character design. Advance a character you already have made, or start from scratch and build with tips and strategies from a professional graphic artist! |
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Holiday Elf Workshop for Ages 6-12 |
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Date: Saturday December 14 Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Fee: $20 Time to get Holly Jolly Crafty at this make and take event that explore the magic of the holidays. Make ornaments, gifts and a 3-D card! |
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Drawing the Details from Animal Worlds for Ages 9-14 |
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Date: Saturday January 18 Time: 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Fee: $20 Its an afternoon of exploring how to make artistic marks of illusion in your drawings- like shiny, hairy, scaly, smooth and other surfaces. Sketch real and imagined animals using the tools and tricks artists use to build dimension, texture and style. Includes a take-home tips booklet! |
FREE events for Kids
| September 13 Early Release Day for Ages 5-13 |
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Back to School Art Attack Date: September 13 Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Join in the creativity at this FREE art drop-in. Explore a small project at one of the art and craft tables in the Studio classroom. Connect and see if you want to join our Art Clubs or Spark-Art after you try your hands with the make and take. Guardians must sign in guests and stay in the building. |
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Culture Days - Zen of Colouring for ALL AGES |
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Date: Saturday September 28 Time: 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. All ages are invited to explore creative colouring and relaxation with mini-break projects for calming and clearing the mind, during this free Culture Days event! |
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Boo! Halloween Bash |
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Date: Monday October 28 Time: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Location: GPAG Studio Boo!! Come out for Halloween fun! Wear your costume and join us for a movie, a treat and create your own Trick or Treat bag of jokes, monsters, ghosts and riddles! Please register at the library desk. This is a Grimsby Public Art Gallery and Library partnered program. |
One day workshops for adults
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Acrylic Foundations for Beginners Workshop |
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Instructor: Sandra Iafrate Date: Sunday, October 27 Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (1/2 hr break for lunch) Fee: $73 ($60 + $13 material fee) Sandra Iafrate is a Golden acrylics artist educator offering this new fall workshop. Learn to paint with the easy-to-use medium of acrylic paint during this fun and encouraging workshop. Participants will learn the basics of colour mixing, brush technique and composition. You will create a small still life based on your newly learned skills. Sandra will be offering next-step acrylic programs this winter - watch for details! |
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Mixed Media Collage Expressions Workshop |
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Instructor: Sandra Iafrate Date: Sunday November 3 Time: 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Fee: $58 ($45 + $13 material fee) Sandra Iafrate is a Golden acrylics artist educator offering this new fall workshop. Join this fun and exciting workshop to create mixed media collage artworks that includes paint, drawing mediums, papers, fabric and found objects. Learn the steps to create a good composition and a unique mixed media artwork. A fun way to create! |
Art classes for adults
| Expressions in Watercolours Beginner to Intermediate level |
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Instructor: Flora Hutterer Fall Session 1: Fall Session 2: Winter Session: Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Fee: $82 per session Expand your watercolour skills and technical knowledge. These guided watercolour classes are full of essential information on fundamentals to help you develop your personal style. Flora provides personalized instructional interaction, demos and theory to keep beginners and more advanced students practicing and expanding their skills. |
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Still Life Drawing - Creative Foundations |
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Instructor: Sandra Mercuri Dates: Thursdays September 26 - October 24 Time: 6-8 pm Fee: $105 Learn how to control proportion, values scales, mark-making, lighting and shading. Build on composition theory while developing your style! Sandra will help you relax with sketching and exploring your creativity. Develop a solid foundation for your art. |
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Costume Life Drawing Open Studio (for 16+ yrs) |
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No Instructor, Model provided Dates: Thursdays November 7 - December 5 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Fee: $75 Practice seeing and improve your drawing skills, or refine your style and learn from others in this open studio setting. GPAG coordinated clothed models will mix up short and long poses for gestures, figure and portrait sketching. Materials not provided, please bring your own. Oil paints are not allowed in the Studio. Must be 16+ yrs. |
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Life Drawing Open Studio (for 18+ years) |
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No Instructor, Model provided Fall Session 1: Fall Session 2: Winter Session: Time: 1-3 pm Fee: $75 The Open Studio format allows each artist/student to determine their own needs; quick studies, gestures and extended poses. The practice of life drawing stretches your style and artistic expression. Bring your own materials or contact the gallery for a suggested list. Oil paints are not allowed in the Studio. Must be 18 + yrs. |
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Armchair Art History with Ken Gordon, BFA, B.Ed |
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The Evolution of Art: from Prehistoric to Contemporary Times Dates: Wednesdays October 2 - November 27 (no class Oct. 16) Time: 7-8 pm Fee: $50 Enjoy an art tour through time with Ken. Discover why and how art styles and methods changed over the years during this 8-week lecture/slide presentation held in the gallery. Art provides a visual history and symbolic language that inspires rich conversations, creative and innovative thinking. Join this relaxing, no-homework presentation series that will broaden your knowledge about Western Art from Ancient to Contemporary times. Join in, then sit back, relax and learn about the evolution of art. |
Free events for Adults
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Culture Days - Zen of Colouring for ALL AGES |
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Date: Saturday September 28 Time: 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. All ages are invited to explore creative colouring and relaxation with mini-break projects for calming and clearing the mind, during this free Culture Days event! |
School Programming
Many schools are regular visitors to the gallery, coming for exhibition tours, skill-based workshops or combinations of both. We have numerous curriculum-based programs to offer and make a special effort to work with the educators in our community to adjust our programs to the needs of individual classes. Outreach programs are also available; an experienced artist instructor can teach many techniques in your classroom. Special outreach workshops that are designed to work with our Art in the Schools program of mini-exhibitions are also available.
Download a PDF version of our Elementary Education Guide or contact the Gallery if you require a copy in a different format, would like to know about Secondary Education programming options or if you would like to inquire about booking a visit.
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