Kids Classes - Ages 5-12
Saturday Classes
Joslyn art classes for children ages 5-12 are held on Saturday mornings and afternoons and are led by experienced artists and art educators. Each course includes visits to the Museum’s galleries as an essential component of the art-making experience. Students in Saturday classes are exposed to art-making materials, techniques, and concepts that are unique to Joslyn Art Museum. Advance registration is required and all materials are provided.

Scroll this page for details about upcoming classes for children ages 5-12.

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Art School
Art School is a 24-week visual arts program that meets after school for 1st-9th grade students.
For more information about Art School, please click here.

Home School Art School
A 24-week, day-time, art school program is available for home school students, grade 1-9.
For more information about Home School Art School, please click here.


Art Class Gift Certificate

Want to give an art class as a gift? Click here to purchase an Art Class Gift Certificate.  Or call our Studio Programs Assistant @ 402.661.3846.




All This Art is Making Me Hungry
Saturdays: April 13, 20, 27; 10-11:30 am
Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $33

This class is closed.

Cooking with Henry and Elliebelly
is a children’s book, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino, about a brother and sister who love to cook. Our ideas will start to simmer while looking at illustrations of Henry and Elliebelly’s cooking adventures and other tasty artworks in the galleries. We’ll really get cooking in the studio where we will create fruit and vegetable still lifes, pretzel sculptures, and learn about color mixing as we decorate cookies.    

Instructor: CaSandra Johnson


Get to Know Joslyn
Saturdays: June 15, 22, 29; 10-11:30 am
Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $33



Young artists will see some of Joslyn’s most well-known artworks and they’ll create their own in the style of the colorful Chihuly sculptures, Jackson Pollock drip painting, and more.

Instructor: CaSandra Johnson


Great Impressions
Saturdays: July 13, 20, 27; 10-11:30 am

Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $33



You’ll be impressed with the pastel drawings, pointillism paintings, and colorful still lifes your child will create inspired by painters like Monet, Cezanne, Degas, and Seurat.

Instructor: Therese Straseski


The Lorax & Friends
Saturdays: August 10, 17, 24; 10-11:30 am
Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $33



Sketches and illustrations from The Lorax will inspire kids’ own whimsical paintings and sculptures of crazy animals and characters like those in our favorite Dr. Seuss stories.

Instructor: Carey Hernandez


 


Canvas Painting: Impressionism & Beyond
Saturdays: June 8, 15, 22, 29; 1-3 pm
Joslyn Members: $40 per series; General Public: $44 per series



Guided by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the galleries, students will learn basic painting techniques and create their own finished painting on canvas.

Instructor: TBD




Seuss-like Sculptures
Saturdays: August 10, 17, 24, 31; 1-3 pm

Joslyn Members: $40 per series; General Public: $44 per series



Dr. Seuss drew wonderfully absurd illustrations and he brought his imaginative creatures to life in the form of sculpture. Students will see drawings from The Lorax and create whimsical papier-mache characters.

Instructor: Bonnie Cosentino