Intensives
A multi-week deep dive focused on one medium, like drawing or ceramics. A growth experience unlike any other, designed to foster community as much as learning.
With a balance of hands-on learning, thoughtful critique, and shared meals, you’ll gain valuable technical expertise while engaging in meaningful conversations about creative living.
Whether you're looking to refine your craft or push beyond your comfort zone, this program is thoughtfully designed by a team of passionate, practicing artists and is unlike any other program…
Enroll in an Intensive
“Print Lab”
An 8-week printmaking journey
“Embroidery Studio”
An 8-session journey into embroidery as a creative practice.
“Objects of Light”
An 8-week ceramics journey of building and wiring functioning lamps & luminaries
“Duos: Morning Brew”
A 2-day slab ceramics journey of building a 2-piece coffee pourover or tea strainer set.
“Everyday Rituals”
An 8-week ceramics journey reimagining everyday objects
“Through the Looking-Glass”
An 8-week drawing journey
“Clay in Practice”
An 8-week ceramics journey
“Alchemy of Paint”
An 8-week painting journey
“Writers’ Room”
An 8-week, beginner-friendly writing journey
What is an Intensive?
Dive deeper and build confidence
While Intensives are still open-level and beginner-friendly, we dig deeper and push ourselves to gain confidence, practice, and see improvement.
Intensives are great for when you know you’re really interested in pushing yourself in a particular area. It’s an opportunity to actively create and discuss the philosophy of creativity—exploring how we can weave the practices into our daily lives with intention and purpose.
Unique program design at a great value
Each Intensive was designed specifically for the Drawing Room community and ethos. We focus on learning new skills while also connecting with the group over food, drink, and conversation.
You get a great value by committing to a recurring program, but there is truly nothing else quite like them, either!
Recurring schedule and accountability
Intensives are recurring on the same day for 8 weeks, made up of the same group of up to 16 people.
Build connections with your classmates over the entire Intensive program, see each other grow, and hold yourself accountable to your commitments.
Drawing Room as your campus
Intensive enrollment includes the 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.
Depending on the intensive, you’ll also receive storage space or take-home kits to work on your projects between sessions!
Office Hours with Instructors
Starting Fall 2026
Intensive students 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.
Why join an Intensive?
Be a part of something bigger
Drawing Room 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!
Get the best value
We’re able to provide the best value through our multi-session programs, so you know you’re getting the best deal! But discounts aside, you won’t be able to find anything else quite like this program!
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. A creative practice is an incredibly powerful tool to build for yourself.
How is an Intensive different from the Cohort Program?
Breadth vs Depth
The Cohort Program is all about breadth (exploring different things widely and being a beginner), while Intensives are about depth. They are great if you know you really love (or want to dive deeper and improve in) a particular medium. Intensives are a great way to push yourself to grow and meet others who also want to grow in the same way.
Schedule
The Cohort Program is a choose-your-own-schedule program that spans the course of 8 weeks. Intensives run the same length, but the dates are already set. For example, the ceramics Intensive may run each Wednesday evening. We’ll see the exact same group of people each week, and the sessions flow from one to the next with continuity in both topics covered, projects, and conversation.
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FAQs
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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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If you aren’t able to make one of the dates, we will be able to share the lesson plan for the day with you and encourage you to complete the assignment so that you will be prepared for the discussions in the subsequent session.
Unlike the Cohort Program, each session builds on the last, so it’s important to try to make each one! There are currently no make-up days available due to the nature of our programming availability.
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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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Intensive workshops are not open to the public and are exclusive to your group.
You can expect to see the familiar faces of your Intensive members in each of these classes, and you'll get first dibs and get to sign up for any future journeys at Drawing Room.
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All enrollments are final. Please double check your calendar.
However, if you find you are unable to join us for the program for whatever reason after booking, you can let us know at least 7 days before the first session to get credits for a future program date. The credits cannot be individually transferred to events, they must be used in one go for the same program at a future date.
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Absolutely!
There’s so much to learn each time you participate in an Intensive, and they’re open level, so you are encouraged to work with the instructors to push yourself.
Plus, each Intensive is a new opportunity to make new friends and share an experience with a tight knit group of people!
If after an Intensive (or two) you find you’re ready to explore other mediums or want to dive deep into another medium, you can explore our other journeys – you’ll get first dibs!
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We’d recommend you take them one at a time! Each of our journeys are designed to be a comprehensive experience. While participating in multiple (Cohort Program AND an Intensive, for example) is not impossible, you may find yourself at Drawing Room a LOT!! Which, we’d love, but may be intense!
For context, through the Cohort Program you can expect to be at Drawing Room and average of 1-2 times per week, and the Intensive is an average of once per week.
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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! tion