Upcoming Events
Instructor Spotlight
Mike Barett Kolasinski is our ever popular Pastel Painting instructor at OPAL! Read more about his practice and his class in this months Instructor Spotlight.
SPRING classes in the Studio!
Our 5-week studio sessions run year-round, back-to-back. Those in the know make sure they sign up for a class to get lots of personal attention from our award-winning professional artist instructors.
SPRING 2 session is live on our site and you can sign up now to make sure you get your spot.
Instructor Spotlight
Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez is one of our newest instructors at OPAL! Read more about his practice and his class in this months Instructor Spotlight.
Instructor Spotlight
Julie Sulzen has been teaching at OPAL as our resident oil painting instructor for the past 3 years.
We are very fortunate to have Julie teaching with us and creating a community of oil painters along the way.
Workshop Drop
Here is the latest lineup of workshops scheduled at OPAL. Check out the details and sign up early as these are one-time offerings.
Instructor Spotlight
Jess Howard has been teaching drawing at OPAL for 15 years this January! And we’re all the better for it!
Figure Drawing
Sundays 10am - 1pm & Thursdays 9am - noon
There are now two figure sessions per week for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Sketches by Christopher Heron
Newsletters
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Oak Park Art League presents new group exhibit ‘UnderConstruction’, Wednesday Journal
Review: Abandoned Spaces Come to Life at the Oak Park Art League
News: Oak Park Art League receives pandemic relief grant from Landmarks Illinois
Review: The Oak Park Art League’s New Exhibit Is All About Entanglements Pioneer Press
‘The power of art’: Oak Park exhibit shares journeys of breast cancer survivors