Artist Peter Zokosky leads participants at a past Getty Drawing Hour
The J. Paul Getty Museum offers a wide range of courses and demonstrations at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

Programs at the Getty Center focus on European art from the Middle Ages to today; programs at the Getty Villa explore the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.

We offer a range of gallery courses, studio courses, culinary workshops, handling sessions and artist demonstrations and projects throughout the year.

Event Highlights


All upcoming courses and demonstrations are listed on our event calendar. Featured upcoming events:

At the Getty Center


Inventing Landscape
Fridays, April 20, May 11, and June 29, 2012,
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Museum Sketching Gallery, East Pavilion/Museum Galleries

Explore the evolution of landscape as an essential subject for painters and photographers, and the development of a modern vision in this three-part course. Join Museum educators Tuyet Bach and Jennifer Li to consider the process and the meaning of painted and photographic landscapes. Complements the exhibition In Focus: Picturing Landscape.

Learn more about this course and get tickets.

At the Getty Villa


Handling Session:
Gem Carving Techniques

Saturdays and Sundays through August 26, 2012;
Getty Villa, Reading Room

Explore the ancient art of gem engraving in this drop-in handling session. Touch and look closely at replicas of gems on display in the Museum's collection as well as the range of materials and tools in an ancient engraver's tool kit. These include drill bits with tips the size of a grain of sand and carving materials like diamond dust and olive oil.

Learn more about this program.