Explore the vibrant and expressive world of abstract art! Led by teaching artist Andres Salazar at the Santa Paula Art Museum’s Cole Creativity Center, this 3-part course introduces students to the artists, movements, and techniques that have shaped abstract art.

Each week, students will explore a different abstract art movement and experiment with its defining techniques using a variety of media, including paint, markers, pastels, and more. Through hands-on projects, students will develop their artistic skills, discover new approaches to creative expression, and create original abstract artworks of their own. Students will be encouraged to complete two to five projects per session.

This three-day course will be taught on three consecutive Wednesdays: December 2, December 9, and December 16, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

This class is for ages 16 and over. The cost of this course is $120 per person. All skill levels are welcome and all materials are provided. Preregistration is required and space is limited. The course will be held inside the Cole Creativity Center located at 123 N 10th St, Santa Paula, CA. Free parking is available directly behind the building and students may enter through the front or back door.

Questions? Please call the Museum at (805) 525-5554 ext. 104 or email creativity@santapaulaartmuseum.org.

About Our Teaching Artist:

Andres has been a traveler his whole life, always searching for the story, the adventure and capturing that with visual art. He has been a painter for many years at his current residence at the WAV (The Working Artists of Ventura) artist studio lofts in Ventura, CA. After formal art training in Fresno and Santa Barbara, CA, he began his career working in the graphic novel industry working as an artist assistant for Howard Chaykin. Following that he published a number of graphic novels and children’s books. Using those skills of draftsmanship and illustration, he incorporates that into his fine art painting. Continuing the theme of finding stories, he has written and directed some short films as well as the feature documentary Small Town Quirky. He has given many presentations on art at conferences, has a YouTube channel about visual mediums The Art of Comics and teaches art and visual language at some of the art associations and school district in Ventura County.

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