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Art League of Long Island
Dix Hills, NY
The Island's workhorse community art school on Deer Park Road, teaching everything from watercolor and ceramics to jewelry and an honest-to-goodness Blacksmithing 101 where you forge hot steel. Nowhere else between Queens and the forks covers this much craft under one roof.
LOCAL TIP
The blacksmithing and jewelry workshops fill fastest each term, so register the week the seasonal catalog drops.