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LEARN THROUGH ART & BUILDING

Creative skills are best learned by doing, alongside people who actually practise them.

UAC Lab brings working artists, makers and 
creative professionals into the classroom to teach what they know through hands-on courses and workshops. Learn Muralism, Printmaking, Photography, Filmmaking, Painting, Book Arts and more in spaces built for experimentation.

Come curious. Leave with something you know how to do.

Printmaking, Zines & Book Arts

Matt Francis

GO PUBLISH YOURSELF!!!
Sat, Oct. 24 | 2 hours | 1–3 pm
$95.00
Melody Maloney

Alternative Processing: Cyanotype
Sat, Nov. 7 | 6 hours | 10 am–4 pm
$245.00
Kessya Gregory

Carve & Print: How-To One-Colour Linocut
Sat, Oct. 24 | 4 hours | 1–5 pm
$120.00
Trevor Pearson

Digital to Physical: Fine Art Printing
Tue, Nov. 17 | 4 hours | 1–5 pm
$225.00

Painting & Fibre Art

Kina Forney

Brush Up: Intro to Acrylic Painting
Sat, Nov. 21 | 3 hours | 1–4 pm
$175.00
Brit Campbell

Working with Fibre: Punch Needle
Dates Coming Soon
$465.00
Brit Campbell

Working with Fibre: Macrame (Intensive)
Sat, Oct. 24 | 4 hours | 1–5 pm
$300.00
Julianne McNamee

Painting on wood: Algonquin-Inspired Landscape Painting
Sat, Nov. 14 | 3 hours | 3–6 pm
$175.00

Drawing, Illustration & Character Design

VisualGZAS

Obsessions: Who Said Fish Can't Dance?
Tue, Nov. 17 | 3 weeks | 7–9 pm
$225.00

Street Art

Deks

Intro to Graffiti & Street Art
Sun, Nov. 8 | 6 weeks | 5–6:30 pm
$545.00
larkhino5

First Can: Intro to Aerosol & Stencils
Dates coming soon
$265.00

Photography & Image Making

Tom Radford

Astrophotography for Beginners
Sat, Nov. 14 | 4 hours | 5–9 pm
$85.00
Jason Machinski

Your Phone Is a Camera
Sun, Nov. 22 | 4 hours | 1–5 pm
$95.00

Mixed Media & Creative Exploration

New
Debqi

Trash to Treasure: Kindle Your Creativity
Wed, Nov. 11 | 4 weeks | 6–9 pm
$425.00
New
Debqi

Wax Poetic: A Batik Intensive
Sat–Sun, Nov. 14–15 | 2 days | 9 am–5 pm
$520.00
New
Mixed Results

Live and Let Dye: A Tie-Dye Workshop
Thu, Nov. 19 | 4 hours | 6–10 pm
$250.00

Animation

Brennan Bova

Saturday Morning Animation History: The Birth Of Animation (1900s–1930s)
Sat, Nov. 7 | 2 hours | 9–11 am
$45.00
Spencer Moreland

Put on a Show with Your Friends!
Dates Coming Soon
$45.00
Brennan Bova

Analog Animation: Flipbook Zines & Morphing
Sat, Nov. 21 | 4 hours | 6–10 pm
$95.00
Brennan Bova

Analog Animation: Clay Stop-Motion
Sun, Nov. 15 | 4 hours | 1–5 pm
$195.00

Film, Video & Performance

Petr Maur

MAKE YOUR OWN FRICKKING MUSIC VIDEO!!
Dates Coming Soon
$630.00

Games, Storytelling & Worldbuilding

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Andrew Pomfret

Roll With It: Build Your Own Homebrew D&D Campaign
Sat, Nov. 7 | 4 hours | 6–10 pm
$130.00

Creative Business for Artists & Makers

Malovey

Own Your Work: Build Your Artist Website
Date Coming Soon
$110.00

Learn By Doing

No endless lectures or theory for theory’s sake. Our courses are built around making, trying, troubleshooting and learning through the work itself. 

You’ll get direct guidance from your instructor, time to practise and room to figure out what works for you.

Artist Led Courses

Our instructors are Active Artists, Makers and Creative Professionals bringing real experience into every class. 

They teach the techniques, tools and lessons they actually use in their own practice, without the gatekeeping.

Build Something

A new skill. A finished piece. A creative practice. Confidence. Connections with people who care about the same weirdly specific things you do. 

That’s the other half of UAC Lab: Learning through Art & Building.

About The Collective

2026 © Urban Art Collective

The Urban Art Collective is a group of Urban Visual Artists in Ottawa, Ontario. Our goal is to make art accessible to everyone and help support local Artists.

Locations:
Gallery & Event Space:
1088 Somerset St. W. Ottawa, ON K1Y 3C7

Art Hub:
50 Bayswater Ave. Ottawa ON K1Y 2E9

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