Where We Teach
Art Be You is a small painting school led by artist and teacher Bartosz Beda. Some of our teaching happens in one room, our studio in Richardson, Texas. The rest happens wherever we are invited: senior communities, company offices, and university classrooms across Texas and the states around it.
This page explains where we teach and how each kind of teaching works. If you live near the studio, the evening classes are the simple place to start. If you organize activities for a community, a company, or a school, the workshops travel to you.
Painting Classes at the Richardson Studio
Our weekly classes meet at the studio in Richardson, in the middle of the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. Students drive in from Dallas, Plano, Garland, Allen, and the other cities around us, most of them in under half an hour.
There are two evening courses. The acrylic painting course meets on Tuesday evenings and works on canvas, with still life, landscape, and the students’ own subjects. The watercolor course meets on Thursday evenings and works on paper, from first washes to finished paintings.
Groups stay small, usually four to six students. That size matters. The teacher sees every painting at every stage and can correct a problem while it is still easy to fix. All materials are included, so students arrive with nothing and leave with work in progress.
Most students are adults who painted years ago or always meant to start. Some are complete beginners. The classes run in short sessions through the year, and current dates and enrollment live on the class pages, not here, because they change from session to session.
Start with the art classes overview, or go straight to the acrylic painting course and the watercolor painting course.
Workshops We Bring to You
The second half of Art Be You travels. Bartosz brings the paints, brushes, canvases, and printed instructions, sets up in your room, and cleans up afterward. A standard workshop runs about ninety minutes, and everyone leaves with a finished painting.
Senior community workshops are built for residents of independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities. Canvases arrive with the drawing already sketched, so residents spend their time painting instead of worrying about drawing. Bartosz teaches these workshops regularly in the Dallas area and travels for communities further away.
Corporate team events are painting sessions for workplaces. A team of up to thirty people paints together for ninety minutes, with setup and cleanup handled by the teacher. Companies book them for holiday parties, appreciation events, and plain team building. Details are on the art workshops page.
University workshops are longer sessions for art students, usually focused on painting the figure and skin tones in acrylic. They run two to three hours and are booked through art departments. Universities outside Texas are welcome; for schools more than two hours from Dallas, the school covers lodging.
The Dallas Fort Worth Area
The studio classes serve the whole metroplex, and the city pages below describe what we offer residents of each community, along with the museums, galleries, and art life of that city. Richardson comes first, because it is home. Then Dallas, Plano, Garland, and Allen, and the rest of the metroplex after them, one city at a time.
Richardson. Dallas. Plano. Garland. Allen. McKinney. Frisco. Irving. Carrollton. Addison. Farmers Branch. University Park. Highland Park. Rowlett. Wylie. Sachse. Murphy. Rockwall. Mesquite. Coppell. Lewisville. The Colony. Little Elm. Prosper. Fort Worth. Arlington. Grand Prairie. Denton. Flower Mound. Southlake. Grapevine. Keller. Mansfield. Euless. Bedford. Hurst. Colleyville. DeSoto. Duncanville. Cedar Hill. Burleson. Midlothian. Waxahachie.
Across Texas
Beyond the metroplex, Art Be You travels for workshops. Senior communities and companies book single visits, and universities book student workshops, in cities across the state: Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Waco, Tyler, College Station, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Corpus Christi, Beaumont, San Angelo, Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo, El Paso, and the smaller college towns, San Marcos, Huntsville, Nacogdoches, Stephenville, Commerce, Prairie View, Alpine, Kingsville, and Canyon.
Two of these places carry real history with us. In San Angelo, Bartosz held a fellowship and painted portraits of local residents as a community project. In Brownsville, his paintings entered a museum collection after a solo exhibition. Pages for the Texas cities are being added on the same schedule as the metroplex pages.
Neighboring States
University workshops and traveling workshops also reach the states around Texas. In Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman, Stillwater, Edmond, Broken Arrow, Lawton, Durant, Weatherford, Tahlequah, Shawnee, Enid, and Ardmore. In New Mexico: Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Portales, Socorro, Silver City, Clovis, Hobbs, Roswell, and Farmington. In Arkansas: Little Rock, Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Conway, and Fort Smith. In Louisiana: Shreveport, Bossier City, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Lafayette. In Missouri: St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia, St. Joseph, Joplin, Cape Girardeau, Kirksville, Warrensburg, and Maryville.
For these states the offer is the traveling one. We do not have studios there, and these pages will never pretend otherwise. A university or a community in Oklahoma City or Santa Fe books a workshop, and the workshop comes to them.
Not Sure Which Fits You
If you want to learn painting week by week, the studio classes are the answer, and the art classes overview explains both courses. If you want to give the experience to someone else, a gift art class covers a full session and the person receiving it chooses the class that fits their schedule.
If you run activities for a senior community, manage a team at a company, or teach at a university, start at the art workshops page and then contact us with your city and your group size. We answer with dates we can travel and what the visit includes.
You can also follow the studio on Instagram and Facebook, where class paintings and workshop visits are posted as they happen.