Digital, Literary & Visual Arts

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Digital, Literary & Visual Arts

Are you a beginner or just want to practice your skills? We offer a variety of courses in visual, digital, literary and performing arts for ages 4 to adult. Entry level programming provides an introduction to the arts with professionally-instructed courses and industry-best practices. If you're inspired to take your learning to the next level, more advanced classes are offered.

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Digital Photography

We offer a wide range of photography classes for children, teens and adults. Classes are offered for beginners as well as thematic classes for the more advanced photographer. See below for a listing of our classes:

Point and Shoot Digital Photography

Digital Photography (13 - 17)

Digital Photography Level 1 (Adult)

Digital Photography Level 2 (Adult)

Digital Photography: Nature Photography

Photography Field Trip

Digital Photo Editing

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Digital Arts and Design

Classes are offered for all skill levels in digital arts, web and app design. We offer affordable classes using free open source software that will enable you to create amazing digital art projects. See below for a listing of our classes:

App Design

Mobile Movie Makers

Stop Motion Animation

Graphic Design

Create Your Own Website

Blogging for Beginners

Website Design for Beginners

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Creative Writing

Unleash your creativity through writing. If you've got a great idea for a story, want to share your thoughts and opinions in a blog or want to learn how to write lyrics for a song, there is a class for you. See below for a listing of our classes:

Creative Writing

Scriptwriting for Stage and Screen

Blogging for Beginners

Writing Children's Books

Painting

If you are a beginner and have always wanted to try your hand at watercolours or if you have a young aspiring artist in your household, we have a class that fits. See below for a listing of our classes:

Creative Arts Club

Water Marbling Art - Ebru

Painting with Acrylics

Painting

Learn to Paint

Drawing

Learning to draw is one of the key fundamentals of creating artwork. Learn to draw or build on your skills in one of our drawing classes for children and adults. See below for a listing of our classes:

Cartooning Japanese Anime

Learn to Draw

Drawing and Sketching

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Clay

Discover how rewarding it is to work with clay. Create your own works of hand built pottery and learn about the tools and techniques of ceramics. See below for a listing of our classes:

Clay Creations

Clay Sculpture

Clay to Ceramics

Sewing

Have you ever wanted to learn to sew? We offer classes for children and adults that will help you learn hand and machine sewing techniques to create a finished project. See below for a listing of our classes:

Learn to Sew (10 - 15)

Sewing Basics (Adult)

Sewing Basics Level 2 (Adult)

For more information Contact:

Culture Division

culture.operations@mississauga.ca