Workshops

Online Course: Cosmograms & Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling

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Join Gray Area for a 10-week online class on Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender this summer.

  • Register here
  • Every Saturday, July 11 – September 12, 2026
  • 10 AM – 1 PM PT | 1 PM – 4 PM ET
  • $1500 for Live Online Access
  • $750 for Audit Access (weekly recording access, released after each session)

What objects, places, and figures make up your world? In this 10-week online intensive, you’ll learn 3D modeling in Blender while building a personal cosmogram, an interactive 3D scene that gathers and expresses your own worldview. You’ll use photogrammetry to turn photos of objects and people into 3D models, model and texture additional objects in Blender, and animate your models using AI assistance in Mixamo. Finally, you’ll assemble your world in New Art City or Unity to share it online.

Each week balances technical skill-building with creative development, culminating in a final project that is equal parts artwork and personal statement. A guest practitioner working in decolonial XR, Mayowa Tomori, will join the course to deepen our understanding of 3D scanning as a tool for research, preservation, and self-representation.

This course is for artists, designers, and technologists who want to learn Blender from the ground up while making something that genuinely matters to them. No prior 3D experience required.

About the Instructor

Claudia Miranda is a designer, artist, and educator working with interactive 3D environments, digital collage, and photogrammetry. Her work treats digital space as a site for memory, ritual, and self-portraiture. Her environments are ambient and exploratory rather than persuasive. She is interested in what interactivity can surface that images and video cannot. She has worked with clients including the New York Times, Apple, and Google, and has held a fellowship at Mozilla XR Studio and a creative residency at SFMOMA. She is an alumna and exhibiting artist at Gray Area San Francisco, and an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation.

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