Albany Art Room

We used to love this place. We've been customers (family w/several artsy kiddos) for more than 5 years. It's so disappointing that they've decided to enforce an arbitrary vaccine mandate. Which vaccines?! Flu? Covid? Unfortunately "Masking and proof of vaccination required" means we've taken our business elsewhere.

A wonderful space to explore art! Karen is a great coach and teacher. Ive taken many classes and just can’t get enough of the inspiration and encouragement. Highly recommend!

Great place to explore art with added bonus of encouraging the artist within. Have enjoyed taking classes.

Best place to take art classes in the area. I've taken classes in various good places but especially love the atmosphere and teachers in the Art Room. I have loved my pottery , mosaic making painting and abstract mixed media classes. Perfect combination of skillful teaching and relaxed supportive atmosphere

The Art Room is a great place for both kids and adults to explore their creativity. They offer classes, open studio hours, and do parties. If you're interested in pottery, wheels and everything you need can be found right there. Art supplies are also available for purchase.

I've seen friends take classes here (pottery) for a while and they've loved the classes! I am a local art teacher and started teaching art at a school that had not had visual art in the curriculum for several years. As a result, there weren't that many supplies and I was struggling with figuring out what I could do with a small budget. I posted, asking for help to the Albany community on the Albany Buy Nothing Group (on Facebook) that I am a part of. Karen graciously donated a LOT of art supplies to my art classroom!! I was blown away by her generosity. I packed up my car and she gave me things that weren't in use anymore and have come in handy in my classroom such as collage material, scrap fabric, tons of containers for paint water, crayons, and pencils, tempera paint, lots and lots of paper, and different odds and ends that you'd find around an art classroom. When I started my job, because of so many years without art, I walked into basically an empty classroom! It was so daunting, and Karen was so kind to me. The Albany Art Room really helped me hit the ground running for when the school year started. She donated crayons, aprons, and easels too! It really is so wonderful to make a connection with another artist and educator in the Albany area, and I think fondly of The Albany Art Room and Karen almost every few days when I use something in my classroom that she's given me. I am planning on taking some pottery classes at The Albany Art Room for fun, because I haven't been a student in an art class in a while. I am so excited to learn more about this space, the people, the classes, and the community it offers.

I absolutely love this place! The building for one has the ambiance of an artist dream. It's incredibly inspiring! They offer many types of artistry for adults and kids there. I'm taking pottery classes and im having such a great time learning. It's worth every penny and I'm looking forward to doing more with them.

Albany Art Room is INCREDIBLE. I took a beginners pottery class with Janine last fall and it did not disappoint. I felt I learned so much making the class more than worth the price. Since then I've held several monthly memberships that offer customers essentially unlimited studio time (during or after hours). During this time I was able to use their supplies to make gifts for family and friends. I've always been offered advice from friendly and knowledgeable staff when I need it. The spaces are always kept clean and I'm so glad that someone recommended this studio to me, such a gem!

Wow! What a gem of a place to have arts and crafts! I love the program here, and I wish I had found out about it much sooner. They offer a lot of classes, from small children to adults! The staff are all incredibly friendly, and they are very flexible in accommodating to your needs. I took a pottery class for three weeks, and I had a blast! It was incredibly fun, and the instructor was super awesome! I really loved it. I wish I had more time to work with the instructors, but my schedule did not allow. Love the friendly atmosphere, and I got to meet so many creative people while practicing during the open studio hours. I do wish they had longer hours so it was more convenient for me schedule, but I understand this was mainly fitted around school-going children. They have a lot of cool workshops for kids, and the instructors are all very amazing from the art that I see the kids produce. There are so many different things they offer! They also allow adults a lot of resources and space to exercise their own creative projects, which I think is excellent. Everything is pretty reasonable, too! I definitely I wish I had found this place sooner! Their mascot cat is also incredibly friendly, and I adore her!

We just had a birthday party for my daughter here. It was great! Karen (the owner) did a great job leading the kids through three little projects. All of the kids really had a lot of fun. Everyone left with big smiles. Hopefully, we'll be back again for some open studio time.

Our entire family, ages 5 to 42, loves the Albany Art Room. There are classes and creative spaces for children and adults. Karen maintains an open and supportive atmosphere for creating art. We were big fans of her Madison Ave space and are thrilled with her move to the New Scotland neighborhood. In good weather, we love biking or walking over from our home in Pine Hills.