June 17-20; 9-11:30 am
Little ones will take a trip to 19th-century Paris to see painting by Monet and Cezanne. They’ll create impressionistic still lifes and landscapes, use pastels to draw ballerinas and musicians, and get a taste of café life by sampling French treats.

Instructor: Therese Straseski

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 17-21; 9 am-noon

Campers will examine paintings in the galleries and strengthen their own painting skills while creating artworks using watercolor, tempera, and acrylic.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

An engaging tour of current exhibitions for moms, dads, and caregivers. Crying babies welcome. MORE DETAILS

Joslyn Art Museum features distinguished paintings by Titian, Veronese, El Greco, and Claude Lorrain, as well works by noted Spanish and Dutch artists. The Museum is noted for the strength of its nineteenth-century European collection, which includes exceptional examples of Academic paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Ernest Meissonier, as well as Impressionist masterworks by Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. Joslyn is also home to one of two plaster versions of Edgar Degas' famed sculpture, Little Dancer, Fourteen Years Old. 

Tours meet in Atrium

June 17-21; 1-4 pm

Campers will examine paintings in the galleries and strengthen their own painting skills while creating artworks using watercolor, tempera, and acrylic.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 17-21; 1:30-4:30 pm

Strengthen your drawing skills! We will draw inside and outside the Museum as you learn to accurately render proportion, perspective, mass, and value, using media including pencil, charcoal, and pen and ink.

Instructor: Tana Quincy

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 17-20; 9-11:30 am
Little ones will take a trip to 19th-century Paris to see painting by Monet and Cezanne. They’ll create impressionistic still lifes and landscapes, use pastels to draw ballerinas and musicians, and get a taste of café life by sampling French treats.

Instructor: Therese Straseski

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 17-21; 9 am-noon

Campers will examine paintings in the galleries and strengthen their own painting skills while creating artworks using watercolor, tempera, and acrylic.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

Third Thursday Art Encounters offers docent-guided tours of Joslyn's collections and special exhibitions on the third Thursday of each month, beginning at 10:30 am.
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June 17-21; 1-4 pm

Campers will examine paintings in the galleries and strengthen their own painting skills while creating artworks using watercolor, tempera, and acrylic.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 17-21; 1:30-4:30 pm

Strengthen your drawing skills! We will draw inside and outside the Museum as you learn to accurately render proportion, perspective, mass, and value, using media including pencil, charcoal, and pen and ink.

Instructor: Tana Quincy

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

Thursdays: June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 11, 18; 6-8 pm
This class will introduce basic drawing concepts and techniques to new students and hone the skills of experienced artists. Students will experiment with a variety of drawing tools, including graphite and charcoal, while learning to render proportion, value, and perspective.

Instructor: Julie Schram

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all teen & adult classes and learn how to register.

Thursdays: June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 11, 18; 6-8 pm
Use the exhibition Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color as a guide to learn the fundamentals of color theory. Create studies with pastels and watercolor to better understand the visual and emotional influence color yields within a work of art.

Instructor: Ron Sykes

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all teen & adult classes and learn how to register.

June 17-21; 9 am-noon

Campers will examine paintings in the galleries and strengthen their own painting skills while creating artworks using watercolor, tempera, and acrylic.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

Drop by with your preschooler to see artworks in the galleries and to do a simple art-making activity. Art Adventures is a great way for young artists to have their first Museum experiences - with a grown-up by their side - before coming to art classes on their own. Art Adventures is a drop-in program; no registration is required.
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June 17-21; 1-4 pm

Campers will examine paintings in the galleries and strengthen their own painting skills while creating artworks using watercolor, tempera, and acrylic.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 17-21; 1:30-4:30 pm

Strengthen your drawing skills! We will draw inside and outside the Museum as you learn to accurately render proportion, perspective, mass, and value, using media including pencil, charcoal, and pen and ink.

Instructor: Tana Quincy

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

Saturdays: June 22, 29, July 6, 13, July 20; 9:30 am-12:30 pm
Learn the basics of plein air oil painting. Gain confidence in Joslyn’s studio and gardens, then caravan to sites in the Old Market and Heartland of America Park to paint impressionistic compositions of city life. The first three sessions will meet at Joslyn; the final two will meet off-site.

Instructor: TBD

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all teen & adult classes and learn how to register.

Join Joslyn staff for simple art activities. You'll never know what you'll find. MORE DETAILS

Saturdays: June 15, 22, 29; 10-11:30 am
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

Registration is required.  Click here to see all kids art classes and learn how to register.

Enjoy a Guided Tour of this vibrant exhibition that traces the most significant developments in French painting that shaped the direction of modern art for more than a century. Renoir to Chagall "Paris and the Allure of Colors" showcases 55 masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Dixon Gallery and Garden in Memphis, Tennessee. The exhibition explores how Paris emerged as the center of the art world in the nineteenth century, attracting and inspiring the greatest painters of the ear, including the well-known leaders of French Impressionism – Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. 

Tours meet in Atrium

Enjoy a Guided Tour of this vibrant exhibition that traces the most significant developments in French painting that shaped the direction of modern art for more than a century. Renoir to Chagall "Paris and the Allure of Colors" showcases 55 masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Dixon Gallery and Garden in Memphis, Tennessee. The exhibition explores how Paris emerged as the center of the art world in the nineteenth century, attracting and inspiring the greatest painters of the ear, including the well-known leaders of French Impressionism – Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. 

Tours meet in Atrium

Saturdays: June 8, 15, 22, 29; 1-3 pm
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

Registration is required.  Click here to see all kids art classes and learn how to register.

Mark your calendar for the next Family Fun Day featuring the exhibition Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color
Sunday, June 23; 1-4pm

Discover how Impressionist artists were inspire by Japanese culture, try your hand at "plein air" painting, and capture the movements of ballerinas as they warm up their feet! Don't forget to catch performances by Ballet Nebraska (1:45pm, 2:45pm) and sample special gelato and sorbetto flavors inspired by the exhibition!

We've got a full day planned... see you there!
You can download the FFD flier here.
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Sundays: June 9, 16, 23, 30; 1-3:30 pm
Learn the basics of action photography. Capture images of Ballet Nebraska dancers in motion while learning framing and lighting fundamentals. The first session will be held at Joslyn to see an exhibition with paintings of dancers; all other sessions will begin at Joslyn then move to offsite locations including a dance studio, Hot Shops Art Center, and Heartland of America Park.

Instructor: Jim Ferguson

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all teen & adult classes and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 9 am-noon

It takes practice to draw like an artist! Strengthen your skills and learn to draw with accuracy and self-expression by completing exercises and creating artworks using a variety of drawing tools including charcoal, pastel, pencil, and more.

Instructor: Carey Hernandez

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 9 am-noon

We’ll imagine we’re hanging out in 19^th-century Parisian cafés and parks by spending time in the special exhibition Renoir to Chagall. In the studio, we will create artworks in the style of Gauguin, Degas, Cezanne, and many others, while we learn about life as an artist during that exciting time.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 1-4 pm

We’ll imagine we’re hanging out in 19^th-century Parisian cafés and parks by spending time in the special exhibition Renoir to Chagall. In the studio, we will create artworks in the style of Gauguin, Degas, Cezanne, and many others, while we learn about life as an artist during that exciting time.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 1-4 pm

Kids will roam the galleries and gardens to see how sculptors use different kinds of materials and techniques and to get ideas before they build, carve, mold, and model their own three-dimensional works of art.

Instructor: Therese Straseski

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 1:30-4:30 pm

This camp will teach the basics of oil painting. Learn to use a brush, palette knife, and layers of color to create accurate painting studies. Camp meets at Creighton University’s painting studio.

Instructor: Tana Quincy

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 9 am-noon

It takes practice to draw like an artist! Strengthen your skills and learn to draw with accuracy and self-expression by completing exercises and creating artworks using a variety of drawing tools including charcoal, pastel, pencil, and more.

Instructor: Carey Hernandez

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 9 am-noon

We’ll imagine we’re hanging out in 19^th-century Parisian cafés and parks by spending time in the special exhibition Renoir to Chagall. In the studio, we will create artworks in the style of Gauguin, Degas, Cezanne, and many others, while we learn about life as an artist during that exciting time.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 1-4 pm

We’ll imagine we’re hanging out in 19^th-century Parisian cafés and parks by spending time in the special exhibition Renoir to Chagall. In the studio, we will create artworks in the style of Gauguin, Degas, Cezanne, and many others, while we learn about life as an artist during that exciting time.

Instructor: Stephanie Carlson-Pruch

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 1-4 pm

Kids will roam the galleries and gardens to see how sculptors use different kinds of materials and techniques and to get ideas before they build, carve, mold, and model their own three-dimensional works of art.

Instructor: Therese Straseski

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.

June 24-28; 1:30-4:30 pm

This camp will teach the basics of oil painting. Learn to use a brush, palette knife, and layers of color to create accurate painting studies. Camp meets at Creighton University’s painting studio.

Instructor: Tana Quincy

Advanced registration is required.  Click here to see all Art Camps and learn how to register.