Classes

How class pricing works

If you came here looking for a scholarship application, you are in the right place. We replaced it with something simpler.

Choose your rate at checkoutNo application neededKids' and adults' classes
On pricing

Our classes use self-selected pricing. At checkout you choose your rate. Standard Cost is our regular tuition. Neighborly Rate is lower, for when a reduced price helps you take part. Pay it Forward Price is higher, and the difference helps cover the lower rates across everything we teach, including kids' classes and summer camps. No application and no explanation needed. We trust you to choose what is right for you.

The rates

Neighborly Rate$51

For when a lower price is what lets you come. Pick it and nobody asks why.

Standard Cost$60

Our regular tuition, and what most people pay.

Pay it Forward Price$72

For when you can pay more. The extra helps cover someone else's lower rate.

Shown for a class with a $60 standard cost. Every class lists its own rates and prices at checkout.

The steps

1

Pick a class. Find it on the adult or kids' class page and open it to register.

2

Choose your rate. Checkout lists every rate the class offers, side by side. Pick one and pay.

3

Go to class. There is nothing to submit and no one to wait on. Any rate works right up until registration closes.

What it covers

Every class we teach, kids' and adults', offers at least these three rates. Drop-ins, punch passes, and memberships have a single set price.

A few fall classes opened for sign-up on Sawyer, our previous registration system, before the switch. They finish there, and on Sawyer the lower rate is the code SUPPORTED at checkout.

How we afford it

The gap between the Standard Cost and the lower rates is real money, and someone covers it: people who choose Pay it Forward, people who give to LAC, and local businesses that contribute to our Youth Scholarship Fund, which also funds summer camp seats and studio time for kids. Businesses that want to learn more can reach us at director@landerartcenter.com.

Four children seated at a long table working on art projects
A student blows bubble glaze onto her piece while the instructor gives a thumbs up
Three finished ceramic cups with leaf designs beside a large teapot

The old application

We read those essays and decided we never wanted to ask a kid to write one again.

For years, help with tuition meant an application. It asked for a family's income bracket, their household size, and their employer's name, and it asked the student to write an essay about why the class mattered to them, all due a week before the first session. The application is gone. If you choose a lower rate, nobody is notified and your teacher never knows.

Find your class

Every class on the schedule lets you choose your rate.

Adult classes Kids' classes
The annual fundOne gift, or one that repeats, going wherever it is needed most. Youth Scholarship FundThe fund that covers the gap between the rates. Sponsor an eventPut your business in front of the county at Art in the Afternoon. Give a gift cardClasses, memberships and studio time, for someone who makes things.