For years, students at Maud Morgan Arts have created masterpieces using paintbrushes, pencils, lumps of clay, jars of printing ink and long sheets of soft paper. This winter, however, students will usher their artistic ideas into the world using computers, keyboards and 3D printers.

During a February vacation week workshop for 5th-8th graders, students will draft models with the visual software program Tinkercad, print objects in thermoplastic on a 3D printer, and evaluate and improve their designs. According to teachers Will Macfarlane and Katie Gradowski, the workshop includes “lots of space for experimenting, playing around and printing stuff to see how it works.”

For those who prefer classic art materials, Maud Morgan Arts still offers plenty of classes that send students home with their thumbs stained blue or clay under their fingernails. Many Winter Session classes build upon skills learned during the Fall Session. Returning students will enjoy taking their art to the next level with “Clay Play,” “Hammering and Sawing,” or “Manga, Anime and Narratives.”

The printmaking studio is particularly busy this winter with silkscreen classes for younger students, three different adult classes covering such topics as monotypes and relief printmaking, and two weekend workshops to help students realize their individual print projects under the guidance of master printers. This winter, whether students prefer printing in two dimensions or three, Maud Morgan Arts will provide the instruction and the tools; students need only supply imagination.

Online registration for Maud Morgan Arts winter classes and workshops begins December 1st with an early bird special offered until January 1, 2014.