Tuition-based private academy for traditional training in painting, drawing and sculpture
• Ongoing workshop series for amateur, intermediate and professional artists
• Saturday morning children’s art classes
• A public educational museum displaying works by the early California artists and their European and Asian influences, including the Pasadena Arroyo Painters. The museum will also feature a collection of contemporary masters.
A research and archival art library, open to the public, and designed specifically for the benefit of artists and scholars.
• A lecture hall to be used by the Academy as well as for the public.
• Beaux Arts Café and Student Gallery
• Headquarters for the California Art Club, est. 1909

Shuqiao Zhou CAC Signature Member Village Market

Master Artist Workshops are already in progress, taught by nationally recognized artists.

The Master Artist Workshops offered by CAAM are for amateur, intermediate and professional artists, and begin with an orientation meeting and welcome gathering with a light breakfast on Monday morning at the home of California Art Club President, Peter Adams and California Art Club Newsletter Editor, Elaine Adams. The workshop then runs for a week, and concludes with an informal critique session and dinner on the final evening.

Class sizes are small (16 students maximum), offering students five days of intimate work time with the master artist. Cost varies depending on the workshop. Click here to see our workshop listings.

W. Jason Situ CAC Signature Member Tujunga Canyon Evening

Past workshops have been conducted by Scott Burdick, a nationally recognized artist from North Carolina who conducted a figure painting course in the Pasadena area where he taught from a live model in a studio environment; Ralph Oberg, a well known plein-air and wildlife artist from Colorado whose course in the Pasadena area focused on landscape painting en plein air; and Steve Huston, who conducted a figure drawing course in the intimacy of his local, Pasadena-area studio.

Future CAAM workshops will be conducted by artists Glenn Vilppu (drawing), Junn Roca (plein air painting), Ken Auster (urban landscape painting), Peter Adams (plein air landscapes), William Hook (plein air landscapes), Joseph Paquet (plein air landscapes), Nelson Shanks (figure painting), Matt Smith (plein air landscapes), and others. The schedule continues to be developed.