Open seven days a week, the Academy is geared to offer opportunities to individuals of all ages and abilities. All classes and workshops are taught by highly regarded professionals.

Courses are taught in the following areas: art history, baking, basketry, cooking, crochet, drawing, flower arranging, photography, glazing, painting, home decorating and improvement, jewelry, knitting, leather, patterning-design, pottery handbuilding, pottery throwing, glass painting, sculpture in various media including clay, papier mache, found objects and iron work, sewing and stained glass. All classes are hands-on. Instruction is supplemented with slide presentations, discussion, critique of work and personal attention.

Visitors to the school will find students enjoying a variety of classes in a friendly, convivial atmosphere, a mini gallery exhibiting work of the artists who instruct at the school, as well as a small art supply store.

The Academy of Artisans' commitment to quality instruction is surpassed only by their philosophy for their students, that through creativity comes confidence.