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Zoo-eum
Saturdays: January 25, February 1, 8; 10-11:30 am
Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $35
This class is now full. Click here to be added to the waiting list.
Just like a zoo, art museums like Joslyn are full of animals- but we
don’t have to feed our animals. Students in this class will trek the
galleries to find animal sculptures and paintings before creating artsy
critters of their own in the studio.
Instructor: CaSandra Johnson
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Think Greek
Saturdays: March 22, 29, April 5: 10-11:30 AM
Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $35
Introduce your child to the world of ancient Greece with this class that
will combine unique art-making experiences with visits to a special
exhibition of Greek artifacts. Students will design a mosaic and create a
papier-mache example of red- and black-figure pottery.
Instructor: Carey Hernandez
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Create with Clay
Saturdays: April 19, 26, May 3; 10-11:30 AM
Joslyn Members: $30; General Public: $35
Students will get their hands dirty in this class that will present
basic clay techniques. Kids will compare various approaches to clay by
looking at Asian, Greek, and American Indian ceramics in the galleries
and designing clay animals, tiles, and more in the studio.
Instructor: CaSandra Johnson
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Drawing with Skill
Saturdays: January 18, 25, February 1,8,15,22; 10 AM - noon
Joslyn Members: $60; General Public: $70
This class is now full. Click here to be added to the waiting list.
Take your drawing ability beyond the doodle and learn to draw like an
artist. Through a variety of exercises and a chance to draw from a
costumed model you will learn to render value and create the illusion of
perspective like artists in the gallery.
Instructor: Courtney Mimick
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Mythical Sculptures
Saturdays: January 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22; 1-3 pm
Joslyn Members: $60; General Public: $70
This class is now full. Click here to be added to the waiting list.
Get ready for a special exhibtion featuring the likes of Poseidon and
Triton by creating a three-dimensional artwork of your favorite
mythical character. We will learn to make a wire armature and use
plaster and papier-mache to create a figure with life and movement.
Instructor: Bonnie Consentino
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Making Money
Saturdays: March 1, 8, 15, 22; 10 am - noon
Joslyn Members: $40; General Public: $50
You’ll see dollar signs in this class all about the art of money. Coins in a special exhibition of ancient artifacts will inspire us to design a mold and mint coins of our own. We will look at American dollars and print bills with our faces and make a clay coin bank to store our riches.
Instructor: Andy Smith
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It's Greek to Me
Saturdays: March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, April 5; 1-3 pm
Joslyn Members: $60; General Public $70
Learn all about ancient Greek art in this class that will teach
mosaics, sculpture, and painting. Objects in the Poseidon exhibition
will guide us as we paint heroic portraits, design clay fish, and use
colored stones to make a mosaic stepping stone.
Instructor: Carey Hernandez
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Clay Vessels
Saturdays: March 29, April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3; 10 am-noon
Joslyn Members: $65; General Public $75
Make pots as they did thousands of years ago in this class that will
teach basic hand-building techniques and provide a chance to experience
throwing clay on the wheel. An exhibition of antiquities will guide us
as we learn to construct functional clay forms and use red and black
slip to design patterns and heroic narratives. You will have an
opportunity to help fire the pots in a true wood-burning kiln in the
Museum’s sculpture garden.
Instructor: Iggy Sumnik
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Painting on the Floor
Saturdays: April 12, 19, 26, May 3; 1-3 pm
Joslyn Members: $40 General Public: $50
Artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Jackson Pollock took their
canvases off the easel and worked on the floor to create new approaches
to painting. Try your hand at drip painting like Jackson Pollock, pour
your paint like Helen Frankenthaler, and invent a few new
on-the-floor-painting techniques of your own.
Instructor: Therese Straseski
Therese Straseski has taught art classes at Joslyn Art museum for children and adults for motr than ten years. Drawing on her love of color and texture, Therese creates using a wide range of media, including paper making, painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and textiles. Therese received her BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
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