Build On Your Knowledge & Learn a New Skill!
Creative Arts
- Shelter in Place Crafts: ARTica Studios is offering 4 easy art projects students still on campus can do!
- MoMA Online Courses: The museum of modern art in new york (MoMA) has launched a series of free online art courses. During each course, students will be able to hear directly from curators, artists and designers, and take a closer look at the works featured in MoMA’s collection and exhibitions.
- Coco Bee Art Watercolor Classes: Coco Bee’s youtube channel features watercolor tutorials, paintings and many other videos centering watercoloring as a meditative art practice.
- Crockd Pottery Kits: Get your hands dirty with this home-delivered DIY pottery kit. The kits provide a chance to learn pottery in your own space, at your own pace.
- Quarantine Coloring Book: The Quarantine Coloring Book is a collection of 100% free downloadable coloring pages. A new page will be released every day for the foreseeable future and hopes it brings everyone some joy and, perhaps, a bit of relief from the current state of affairs in the world.
- Scribd: Scribd is offering a free 30 day trial to access millions of books and ebooks. Check out their coloring book selection.
Dance + Music
- STEEZY Studio: Whether you’re a beginner who’s just starting out or an advanced dancer looking for in-depth training, consider your dance goals now within reach.
- CLI Studios: CLI Studios began streaming a series of free live dance classes for the global dance community. Classes begin every day at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern.
- Fender: The iconic guitar company Fender is offering three months of free online music lessons to the first 1 million subscribers in hopes of inspiring people to self-quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Skoove: With more than 1 million users today, we make interactive apps to learn piano and guitar. Users learn how to play instruments step by step, receive real-time feedback and can play some of yesterday and today’s most popular songs.
Food + Drink
- Bombay Sapphire: The iconic gin brand is launching “Create From Home”, a partnership with multiple platforms and other brands to bring mixology, art, and multimedia classes online. Bombay Sapphire has teamed up with Skillshare to offer select complimentary classes for three months, and Society6 to bring “Drink and Draw” classes.
- Make Me a Cocktail: Their website asks you for a running list of all the alcohol, mixers, and potential cocktail ingredients you already have at home. From there, it uses a bit of computer programming magic to pair your particular combination of available ingredients with at least one of the 3,500-plus cocktail recipes in its database.
- #BakersClub: To power up your home baking, tune in to Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi’s #BakersClub, which she hosts every day at 2p.m. from her home in New York City. Tosi provides the shopping list, a playlist, and the recipe in advance, so all you have to do is open up your Instagram and start prepping.
- Cooking Through Coronavirus: Bon Appetit has compiled a guide full of recipes, tips and more. In this uncertain time, there’s one thing we know for sure: cooking is one way we can bring some order—and importantly, a sense of pleasure—into our lives. Whether you’ve got a glut of time on your hands or barely enough hours in the day to throw together lunch, have a pantry full of beans that you don’t know what to do with or a freezer ready to fill, they’ve got you covered.
Mind + Body
- Peloton: Peloton is offering a free 90-day trial of its at-home fitness app as more gyms close their doors amid the widening coronavirus pandemic. No bike needed!
- CorePower Yoga: The country’s largest yoga studio chain is giving everyone free access to a collection of online classes while its 200 locations are closed.
- Daily Burn: Daily Burn is currently extending its 30-day free trial to 60 days. Stream thousands of yoga, barre, Pilates, cardio, strength training, specialized sessions and high intensity workouts over your smart TV or laptop.
- Headspace: For healthcare professionals on the frontlines in the U. S., Headspace, a mental wellbeing app, is offering its Premium service for free. For the general public, Headspace launched “Weathering The Storm” with free meditations, sleep, and movement exercises.
- YMCA: The YMCA announced 60 free online exercise classes and youth programs to support the health and well-being of the community. Among the classes offered are a boot camp, barre, yoga, weightlifting, boxing, Tai Chi and more.
Special Interest
- Adam Lazar’s Sewing Classes: The instructor of ARTica’s sewing Mini Workshops has created some at home sewing tutorials. Watch him teach you to sew a pillow here, and a fabric basket here.
- Rosetta Stone: This leading language learning app is offering free access for the next three months to students.
- Masterclass: The popular learning program is currently doing a buy one, share one annual membership promotion, but only for a limited time. This means you can snag two all-access passes for $180 (50% off the regular cost of $360), granting you a year-long subscription to a wealth of courses taught by successful athletes, actors, scientists, mixologists, and way more.
- Brit + Co: With so much time on our hands, why not learn how to decorate a cake, paint plants and succulents, or upping our photography skills? The entire online catalog of Brit + Co’s creative classes is now $10/month.
- Northwestern MOOCs: Northwestern offers all of its massive open online courses (MOOCs) at no cost to its students, alumni, faculty, and staff. You can earn a Course Certificate and access all Northwestern MOOC content on Coursera free of charge. To enroll in a Northwestern course and activate the special free Course Certificate offer, please follow the enrollment steps listed HERE.