The Practice Year
A membership at Drawing Room
A year of making, with a second home to practice, build, and gather.
The membership for when you’re committed to living your fullest, creative life.
Twelve months, three Journeys, and a Creative Flow membership that never switches off in between. The best way to invest in time for yourself. Make the commitment to yourself to create and connect with your people.
What’s in The Practice Year
Your pick of three Journeys, guaranteed.
Get first dibs on the Journeys of your pick. One per season, whenever they fit your life. Choose from our rotating options.
Twelve months of Creative Flow Membership.
No pausing or awkward gaps. Unlimited Gatherings, Open Hours, and Art Library at both studios, six days a week, for the whole year. 6 workshops through the membership through the year, on top of Journeys.
Two guest passes every month.
Twenty four across the year, Art Library included. Bring the friend who keeps saying they want to try. Drawing Room is yours to share.
Easy monthly payments instead of 2-week installments
Spread out your journey payments over the entire year instead of installments over 6 weeks. Start your Practice Year membership at any time.
Pay monthly over 12 months
One charge per month, same date, all year.
$275/mo
$3,300 total
(Save $420 off retail)
Pay the year upfront
Done in one. Nothing to think about for the rest of the year.
$250/mo
$3,000 total
(Save $720 off retail)
We offer a regular rotation of Journeys each season (which include our Cohort Program and Intensives) so you have plenty to both rely on and choose from. You’ll get first dibs to select your three out of five seasons through the year, via a seasonal selection form you’ll receive before anyone else. Want more? You get an exclusive price (15% off) on any additional Journeys.
All seasons include the Cohort Program at each location. Intensive mediums rotate by season and location. We’re also always developing new and exciting programming for you to explore!
Choose from a rotating selection of Journeys
Cohort Program
Choose 8 workshops over 8 weeks! Build a flexible schedule of mediums like clay, drawing, painting, writing, fiber arts, and more. Great for seasons where you might have some weeks of travel, etc. Learn more about Cohort Program. Available at both locations every season.
Painting
Learn the fundamentals of paint, and try your hand at figure painting, painting en plein air, and more with Alchemy of Paint.
Printmaking
Learn various printmaking techniques. Experiment with woodcut, relief, monoprint, drypoint, and more in Print Lab! Or, print and bind your own editions of art books with The Limited Edition!
Writing
Dive into the fundamentals of creative writing. Explore and experience a writers’ room where we collaborate and ideate together. Or work towards that final draft and finish that piece you’ve been thinking about.
Drawing
Learn the fundamentals of drawing! Learn and build a fundamental sketchbooking practice you can take with you anywhere with Through the Looking-Glass, or dive into fundamentals of drawing with an emphasis on life drawing.
Textiles
Fall in love with the tactile, meditative, and portable world of textiles. Dive deep into a textile medium like embroidery, crochet, and more!
Lean into the year’s rhythm
Seasons at Drawing Room are inspired by how we move through the year as adults. At times we reach for periods of growth and expansion, followed by stretches of rest, practice, and iteration. We celebrate milestones as we go, to mark the passing of time together, and see how far we’ve come. Everything we do is inspired by our season’s theme.
New Year
(Late Jan - March)
We make new commitments with our fresh slate.
Spring
(April - early June)
We thaw, we wake, and we get into the swing of the year. The possibilities are endless.
Summer
(Mid-June - mid-Aug)
We’re out in the world making waves and collecting inspiration and soaking up the city.
Fall
(Sept-early Nov)
Crisp sweater weather calls for back to school routines and planners. We prepare and we lock in.
Winter
(Mid-Nov - mid-Jan)
During the coldest and darkest days, we gather around the fire together.
Drawing Room Nights
At the end of each season, we wrap up with a celebration open to members, friends, and the public. All the season’s intensive participants are invited to showcase their work at this event, alongside exciting open mic literary and musical performances!
Weekly Member Gatherings
Weekly meetups designed to get you into a rhythm. Carve out time for yourself and meet up with your fellow members in low-stakes settings.
Sunday Practice
Sundays, 4-6:30pm at Midtown
The week’s prompt is revealed. Make in any medium. Bring your sketchbook and a friend!
Office Hours
Thursdays 6-9pm at Williamsburg;
Saturdays 1-4pm at Midtown, active during Journey seasons
Connect with a Drawing Room instructor for extra guidance and keep your practice going!
Cowork Corner
Thursdays 10am-1pm at Midtown
Light breakfast bar, then we’ll break and chat at lunchtime!
Other Gatherings for reading, writing. D&D, collage, murder mysteries, figure drawing, movie nights and more happen regularly!
Commit to your most creative life at Drawing Room
Learn new skills
Experiment with a wide range of mediums you’ve never tried before! Or, deepen the skills you already have in a medium you haven’t touched in a while. Exercise your creative brain and become your best creative self this year!
With intentionally designed and updated workshops each season, there’s always something new to try here!
Meet new friends
Meet new friends who share a passion for creativity while trying something new together. Doing things with other people who have the same goals is always more fun.
Participating is also supporting our mission to strengthen community in NYC and celebrate creativity in its many forms!
Make it a routine
Need a little accountability? The Cohort Program will give you the extra push you need to start your practice!
Instructors, classmates, and a space to practice everything you’re learning provide the perfect structure. With a wide selection of workshops, each week, you can build a creative practice that works with your schedule.
Treat yourself!
Creativity is self-care. Being creative regularly can help you solve problems more openly and effectively, relieve stress and anxiety, and improve cognitive function.
The only downside is having too much fun!
FAQs
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You’ll get first dibs on all Journeys, and you’ll just email us back with your choice. We’ll enroll you on the same or next day so you’ll always get into. the Journey you want, before it sells out!
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Both our Intensives and our Cohort Program are Journeys. So your three can be any mix: three intensives, three cohort seasons, or a combination. Whatever you pick, each one is an 8 week commitment with the same group of people.
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Plenty. This winter we're running seven intensives plus the Cohort Program at both locations, and most seasons look similar. You'll find our core mediums every season (drawing, ceramics, printmaking, painting, and writing), with textiles rotating between things like embroidery and crochet. Summer runs a little lighter than the rest of the year.
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It starts on the day you sign up, and valid for 365 days after that.
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No, we’ve already built in an extra month in case life gets busy. The goal of this membership is to keep you accountable to a year of creativity and commitment to your practice and community.
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Because this membership is a commitment to 12 months, the price. and monthly payments are only possible through this commitment. You’ll sign a contract at enrollment.
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Yes. Email us any time and we'll settle up the remaining balance in one payment.
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You get six at the start of your year on top of your Journeys, and they're good any time during it.
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Easy, and there's no limit on how often. Just let us know at least fifteen days before it starts and your credit moves to the next season at no charge. Inside fifteen days we can't fill the seat, so at that point it counts as taken.
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Reach out as soon as you know. If something got in the way we can often extend you by a season, case by case. Otherwise unused Journeys expire at the end of your year.
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No. It ends on your end date and we'll be in touch before then about what's next. The decision is yours.
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Yes. Practice Year members get 15% off any additional Journeys, so $756 instead of $890. Your three included Journeys are guaranteed and always get priority enrollment. Additional ones are booked when general enrollment opens, subject to availability, so there's always room for someone new to find us.
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