Where to practice creative hobbies Montpellier

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.

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.

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.