Cohort Program
An 8-week multi-media cohort experience. Go on a learning journey with new friends!
Remember the feeling of starting a new semester? A season of learning, growing, and stretching outside of your comfort zone?
Meet your BFFs, pick your classes, see each other regularly, then show-and-tell and sign yearbooks! Come experience the cohort program at Drawing Room.
Cohort Programs are now enrolling….
This season, we go foraging.
We put our creative knowledge into practice, seeking out rare ingredients, making magic and admiring the wonders of our surroundings.
Choose your own schedule of 8 workshops taking place weeknights and weekends from Sept 8/9 to Nov 10/11. First five registrants receive a free guest workshop pass.
First Five
Limited to 5 signups.
Includes a complimentary guest workshop ticket - bring a friend to any session. Catalog announced shortly.
$790
or 4 payments of $205
Early Bird
Through August 19th at 10am · or until spots filled
Get first dibs on all workshop selections once catalog goes live.
$790
or 4 payments of $205
Night Owl
Join after priority signup closes. Popular sessions may already be full.
$890
or 4 payments of $230
Upcoming seasons of Journeys
Can’t make it for a Journey this season but want to join us for an upcoming one? Plan ahead, get first dibs, and secure your spot!
What’s included in a cohort
Skill-building workshops
Select 8 workshops over the course of the cohort program, to fit your schedule and interests, including clay, drawing, painting, writing, textiles, and more! Learn new skills and mediums from our professional artist instructors. Events are thoughtfully distributed across weeknights and weekends.
A shared but flexible schedule
Each cohort runs for about two months and brings together a group of 15–25 like-minded people. It’s flexible—you choose 8 workshops that fit your schedule, no need to commit to the same day each week.
We also anchor the experience with Orientation, a few member-only gatherings, and a final Showcase, so you still feel like you're on a shared journey.
Intentional gatherings and connection
Each cohort season includes an orientation, showcase night, and group project events!
Each cohort gets a private group chat. Connect with your group, share inspiration, ideas, and plan get-togethers.
Drawing Room as your campus
Cohort enrollment includes a Creative Flow Membership, giving you access to the Art Library and Open Hours. Just show your digital member card to drop by anytime the space is open—whether to keep practicing, co-work, or connect with friends.
Get 15% off everything else with the membership, too.
Workshop materials and supplies
All materials and supplies needed for your workshops are provided on-site and you take home the pieces you create.
At Orientation you’ll receive a Drawing Room tote, sketchbook and paint your very own ceramic name tag to wear each time you come to class!
Office Hours with Instructors
Starting Fall 2026
Cohort members and alumni have the ability to schedule time with Instructors to receive additional support, access to class equipment, and ask questions as you work on independent projects during Open Hours.
Our Workshop Catalog
At Drawing Room we believe a creative practice can include a variety of different mediums, philosophies, and approaches.
Pick 8 workshops from any of the below to fit your schedule and interests. Many workshops and events may feature different projects, depending on the cohort theme, and are likely available on more than one date. We are always developing new workshops in different mediums…like recently added workshops for bookbinding, felting, and weaving.
All workshops and events take place Sat/Sun morning or Mon/Tues/Wed evening, and we do our best to distribute them so that each event type happens on a weeknight/weekend at least once!
Sample Workshops
Orientation Night
Meet your cohort, paint your ceramic nametags, and write and seal your intentions for the season.
If you are not able to join us for orientation, no problem! You can simply submit your enrollments virtually.
Showcase Night
Bring and show off any works you made during the cohort program over snacks and cake. Mingle with your cohort and instructors. Plus-ones always welcome to join in on the celebration!
Casual Gatherings
We host casual member gatherings throughout the season, plus an exclusive Cohort Program group project that offer opportunities to collaborate, mingle, and meet outside of workshop settings.
Why join the Cohort Progam at Drawing Room?
Learn new skills
Experiment with and try new mediums! Deepen skills in mediums you’ve tried. Stretch your creative brain. Become your best creative self this year.
Be a part of something bigger
Our Cohort Program is all about learning and growing, with an emphasis on community-building. Participating is supporting our mission for strengthening community in NYC, and celebrating creativity in its many forms!
Structure & accountability
Need a little accountability? Join the cohort for that extra push! Doing things with other people who have the same goals is always more fun.
Get the best value
Because you’re buying in bulk, you know you’re getting the best deal! Not only are you getting the steepest discounts, but the cohort program structure offers so much more, too!
Treat (and care for) yourself!
Creativity is self-care; being creative regularly can help you solve problems more openly and effectively, relieve stress and anxiety, and even improve cognitive function. The only downside is having too much fun!
“I originally signed up for the Cohort Program because I was interested in trying out a lot of the different workshops, but it ended up being SO much more than that!
The program is thoughtfully designed to foster meaningful connections and I've met so many lovely people who I know I'll be staying in touch with. I'm so so grateful that I signed up for this program and I definitely plan on joining another Cohort in the future!”
KellyAnne Tang, Journey Alumna
Our Instructors
Drawing Room instructors are passionate, practicing artists who love sharing their skills and ideas to build a more creative, connected world. They each have distinct styles and ways of teaching, and work together to design and instruct our Journeys.
Aubrey (she/her) teaches workshops, intensives, and leads the ceramics team at Drawing Room! She makes pots with playfully illustrated faces and feelings.
Aubrey Aiese
Rachel Herron
Rachel Herron (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator whose workshops blend storytelling, play, and creative exploration.
Ivy teaches ceramics workshops and intensives. She’s inspired by the natural world around her.
Ivy Weinglass
Angie Hewitt
Angie (she/her) is an artist and printmaker whose work is rooted in process, repetition, and experimentation.
Jia Sung (she/her) is an artist and educator whose practice centers marginalized stories through a narrative-driven approach shaped by her immigrant experience.
Luisa Mantelli
Luisa Mantelli (she/her) is a textile artist whose crochet, weaving, embroidery, and natural dyeing translate themes of migration, memory, and transformation.
Jia Sung
Ray Hwang (he/him) is a an artist whose layered, abstracted personal‑history work explores themes of family, home, and intercultural tension.
Ray Hwang
“Drawing Room is a very special place, and the Cohort Program truly took me through a journey of transformation.
The instructors and Open Hours staff were supportive and went above and beyond. They were vulnerable, shared their life experiences, and were interested in me as a person, not just a student. My creativity practice skyrocketed in two months. I had been stagnant and not inspired. I am more energized and excited not just in my art but in other aspects of my life.”
Sam S.
Ready to enroll for the Cohort Program Drawing Room?
Whether you have an active creative practice or you want to tap back into your creative energy and don’t know where to start, our cohort program is for you.
Learning new things and trying new creative mediums is like learning a new language – a new way to express yourself in the world and connect with other humans…plus a new way to get off our screens and get lost in a meditative flow.
We believe that creativity is an amazing common thread by which to build connection. So, all Drawing Room experiences are designed with community-building at their core, focused on deepening connections within the community through our shared love of – or curiosity for – creativity in its infinite forms.
Take a leap and come experience the magic of Drawing Room in 2025!
Enrollment closes at 11:59pm the day before each Cohort’s Orientation Night, OR when all available slots are filled. Cohorts sell out - don’t wait!
Join the mailing list!
Want to be the first to know about an upcoming season of this Journey? Join this mailing list and we’ll send you an email before everyone else so you get first dibs.
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FAQs
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While they weren’t necessarily designed for this, plenty of members have done so before! Our team can help you make sure your sessions don’t overlap :-) Just shoot us an email at info@nycdrawingroom.com and we’ll help you get set up!
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Yes, of course!
If you are already a member with a payment method on file, please use the same exact email we have on file for your membership.
Since the Creative Flow Membership is included for all Journey participants, you’ll be prorated for any days not covered by the journey, and these days will be added back at the end of the journey. This means you will not be charged again until you’ve used all the days you’ve paid for last, before signing up for a journey. (Don’t worry, we do the math for you).
Please reach out to our team at info@nycdrawingroom.com with any questions, or for help enrolling
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Our Back to School series is designed to be flexible so you can book classes according to your schedule. We have a series of classes with dates and times listed, and you will choose which you'd like to attend.
We know emergencies happen, so we accommodate one class reschedule from your original schedule booking made during orientation. Reschedule requests must be made no fewer than 24 hours prior to the event start time. Sorry, no exceptions!
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That's ok! For Orientation Night, we'll have you select your classes virtually and send us your selections.
Orientation Night is also a chance for you to meet the rest of your cohort, but we'll have plenty of other opportunities to mingle and meet your classmates :-)
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Yes! We offer interest-free payment plans via Klarna. Simply select that option on the payment page.
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All the workshops and events are also open to the public, but you're getting an unbeatable, exclusive deal when it comes to price and cohort programming. You can expect to see the familiar faces of your cohort classmates in each of these classes, and you'll get first dibs and get to sign up together before its opened up to public registration.
As a part of this series, we are also hosting several activities throughout the semester that are exclusive to the cohort members, including the Orientation Night, Showcase Night, BYO Dinner Party, coffee meets, private discord channel, etc.
We want this to feel like you are growing through a creative learning journey, together!
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All enrollments are final. However, if you find you are unable to join us for the progra for whatever reason after booking, you can let us know at least 7 days before Orientation Night to get credits towards the Drawing Room membership that will allow you to utilize our space and workshops in a flexible manner over a longer period of time.
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Absolutely!
There’s so much variation and novelty from cohort to cohort. This is by design – our various themes and related projects offer so many new, fun, and intentional ways to explore. We’re always developing new projects.
Plus, each cohort is a new opportunity to make new friends and share an experience with a tight knit group of people!
If after a cohort experience (or two) you find you’re ready to dive deep into a single medium, we’ve got you covered, too. We’re currently building intensives for many of our existing workshops. Stay tuned!