Where to practice creative hobbies Hérault

For a dozen, Atelier Couture members design clothes while exchanging their know-how. It is this association that dresses her majesty Carnival and participants in the parade. Throughout the year you can learn to carry out dresses, jackets, pajamas, curtains, furniture coatings.

Gaspard Brasier, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, has opened Les Ateliers Léonard just 10 minutes from the center of Montpellier. His Faubourg-Boutonnet studio is the ideal place to start or perfect your drawing and painting skills. From art classes to comics and painting, her aim is to enable her students - from 20 months, teenagers and adults - to find pleasure and freedom in artistic creation. The program also includes lectures on art history, manga and fashion design.

From Monday to Wednesday, he proposes to a public of young and less young courses to learn how to express his creativity by all possible media and imaginable. The association periodically organises courses for modelling and sculpture, classes of calligraphy and pointillism. On site, next to an audiovisual library, which allows you to learn more about the history of modern and contemporary art and artistic practices, a permanent gallery presents exhibitions.

Auralithe was created more than ten years ago with the aim of promoting art in all its forms through the creation and dissemination of performances, animation and pedagogy, in France and abroad. And more specifically: live the drawing and sculpture according to live models through workshops, internships and exhibitions. Drawing and sculpture, closely related disciplines, are addressed successively during a session: when a sculpture is completed, the next session is devoted to drawing, to deepen certain concepts. This association now has about beginner or confirmed members. They meet several times a week at two steps from the Boulevard du Jeu-de-Paume to tackle different kinds of sculptures: bas-relief, high relief and ronde. The workshops are moderated by Eric Chatalin, a sculptor trained at Charles Auffret in Reims, and then in the Decorative Arts of Paris. On a Sunday a month, Auralithe offers a 6-hour internship, with a living model, to deepen the techniques discussed.

This former, refurbished garage houses the works of three passionate artists, together with the same desire: share their art. Isabelle Marsala - painter -, Bocaj - painter - and Raymond Salvaje - photographer-publisher - are the masters of the places. For ten years, they have created, shared and spread art in all its forms. More than just a workshop, the Garage Workshop also houses a publishing house, «The belly and the eye», a house of record production and art books, and an exhibition room. It opens every month to the public for relaxation, presentations of artists from all walks of life, books of books or musical and even theatre interventions with the complicity of the La Vista theatre.

Since its creation in 1997, the Association has pursued its objective: to be an area of meetings and work for artists, to contribute to the development of the young contemporary creation on Montpellier. Visual artists benefit from a host structure allowing them to give free rein to their creation, enrich and find the means adapted to their achievements. The work workshops are fully customizable according to the projects, which facilitates exhibitions. The Aperto association lends its walls to six events a year, events as diverse as classic personal exhibitions or collective exhibitions of several weeks, strange "48 h" or crazy "Facades". The principle of "48 h" is to propose to visual artists to invest the exhibition space for two days. The "Facades" are light and ephemeral events designed by artists for the facade and windows of the association, a way of putting art on the street.

At the bend of an alley, we notice the beautiful workshop of Céramique de Thau. As you pass the door, you discover the work of the ceramist François Thirion. This pottery workshop plunges us into the universe of the Thau basin, its colors, its landscapes, its shapes and its animals. Shades of blue-green tinged with sand and ochre, his stoneware creations are inspired by his environment. François Thirion also runs workshops for beginners and advanced users of stoneware. Young and old alike can learn all the steps involved in creating a piece.

Founded in 1872 by Gustave FAYET, the Société des Beaux-Arts remains Béziers' leading fine arts association. It offers workshops in drawing, painting, watercolor, mixed media, photography and street art. Modeling and stone sculpture enthusiasts can also learn or improve their skills at the Maison Cordier. A veritable breeding ground for talent, every two years the association organizes the Salon International d'Arts Plastiques, in collaboration with the town. It's a not-to-be-missed event for art lovers of all levels.

The school is generally open to adults for courses in drawing, painting, modeling and sculpture. Every Wednesday, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Béziers offers art classes for children aged 9 to 14. Children can try their hand at painting, collage, pastel and sculpture... Themed workshops are held over one or two days during the school vacations. With ceramics workshops, even adults can express their creative spirit.

In their back-shop Florence and Michel organise creative courses, the patchwork in mind. It's crazy what can be achieved with small squares of cloth. So try the Christmas balls, your loved ones will be snowed.

In 1967, Dominique Imbert decided to install his workshop in Rape-le-Fort. Drawn by the work of the metal he forges, forge. This is where he draws his first chimney for his personal use. He reproduces it for some enthusiastic people and that's how Focus begins. Far from the photographs of the classic chimney, the true modern steel boxes, each model is a real work of art. An address not to be missed for lovers of design and contemporary creations.

This slightly offbeat association of visual artists offers fabrication workshops based on the plastic arts and artistic recycling. Object theater shows are also created, as well as scenery and set design. Objectology workshops enable participants to make objects from recycled materials. Part of a sustainable development approach, these unusual creative workshops combine DIY, assembly and detour of objects and materials. Other workshops introduce the practice of object theater, in various forms, including a playful analog video device!

Since 2013, L'Atelier de Mo in Montpellier has cultivated the artistic fulfillment of its members - children, teenagers and adults - in a friendly, caring atmosphere. The workshop, which became an association in 2019, has taken on a new dimension with three permanent teachers. Members, aged 5 to 89, decide together what activities they wish to take part in: classes, Saturday and vacation workshops, group exhibitions. Nearly 200 participants a year benefit from an environment conducive to exploring their talents in drawing, painting and other media. L'Atelier de Mo demonstrates that art has no age limit.