Adult Art Classes
T.W. Wood Gallery offers inspiring classes for adults looking to expand their artistic skills in a supportive environment. From portrait drawing and life painting to printmaking and color theory, our classes welcome all levels—whether you’re just beginning or refining your technique—providing hands-on guidance and creative exploration.
Join anytime! Drop-in adult classes are $15 per session (cash or check). No registration needed.
Directions to Adult Education Classroom: Our gallery is located at 46 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT. You may park in the lot behind our building. Enter the building on Monsignor Crosby Ave. Just beyond the stairs on the left are double doors. Go through the doors (lights are motion sensors), and your classroom will be the second door on the right.
Portrait Drawing and Painting
Mondays 10:00am – 12:00pm
Drop-in — no registration is required. $15 fee in cash or check for each session.
Join us on Monday mornings for a Drop-In Portraiture Class.
This class offers a welcoming environment for artists of all levels to experiment with portrait drawing and painting with a live model. No registration is required. $15 fee in cash for each session.
Materials: Students are responsible for bringing their own materials—whether drawing, painting, or other mediums. If you’re using oil paints, odorless turps are required.
Life Drawing and Painting
Thursdays 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Drop-in — no registration is required. $15 fee in cash or check for each session.
Discover color and creativity each month with Sabrina Fadial—hands-on workshops in gouache, watercolor, pencil, or collage, open to all levels.
Materials: Students are responsible for bringing their own materials—whether drawing, painting, or other mediums. If you’re using oil paints, odorless turps are required.
Understanding Color
First Tuesday of each month 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Drop-in — no registration is required. $15 fee in cash or check for each session.
Discover color and creativity each month with Sabrina Fadial—hands-on workshops in gouache, watercolor, pencil, or collage, open to all levels.
Materials: Students are responsible for bringing their own materials—whether drawing, painting, or other mediums. If you’re using oil paints, odorless turps are required.
Mend over Madness
Saturdays 10:00am – 12:00pm 11/8/2025, and 12/13/25
Drop-in — no registration is required. $15 fee in cash or check for each session.
Chances are you remember exactly where you bought your favorite clothing items. They bring back memories too. This is what makes it so hard to part with them, right? But you don’t have to! Instead of giving or throwing them away, come to our drop-in workshop for feedback, and creative solutions. You will learn how to repair and repurpose. Replace a zipper, hem your pants. Machines and most notions are provided. The workshop will be hosted by local teacher Nikki Matheson who has spent many years working in costumes and stagewear, and a lot of helping friends.
Materials: Students are responsible for bringing their own materials.
Instructor: Nikki Matheson attended university in NY and France, she apprenticed to a costume designer in NYC from whom she learned to make outfits for TV commercials, theater, and finally stage wear for clients such as Mick Jagger, Cher, C & W artists, and even Andy Warhol. Now living in Montpelier, and teaching French, Matheson has also been working on theater productions for Norwich University, and various high schools in Vermont.
Printmaking Drop-In
Saturdays 10:00am – 12:00pm 10/18/2025, 11/15/2025, and 12/20/25
Drop-in — no registration is required. $15 fee in cash or check for each session.
$20 to use ink, paper and basic supplies that are available.
Materials: Students are responsible for bringing their own materials, for monotypes, intaglio, and relief printmaking. There is a limited supply of paper, ink, and materials for monotypes and dry point engraving in the studio for an additional $5 cash fee. Oil and alcohol are available for clean-up.
Instructor: Phillip Robertson is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Vermont since 1994. Robertson teaches art history, drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Community College of Vermont and Vermont State University-Johnson Campus.