MMFA - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Designing in Glass

Make your own stained glass window in this informative class for beginning and intermediate students. Learn the basic techniques of designing glass patterns, cutting, grinding, and soldering glass. Students with prior experience will learn to design their own ideas. Sign up early, as the class is limited to 8 students, to allow for individual instruction. All glass working tools and most materials are provided.

Instructor: Gloria Simons

Time: 6 to 8:30 P.M.

Thursdays: August 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7

Cost: $140 members/ $185 non-members for the 7-week series

  The Museum offers free docent-led tours of temporary exhibitions every Sunday at 1 P.M.

Nurture your child’s creativity with these fun introductions to drawing and painting. Young artists will explore a different basic element of art (line, shape, texture, color, space, and form) and drawing or painting medium during each class. Sign up for one class or the whole series!

Instructor: TBA

Time: 1:15 to 2:15 P.M.

Tuesdays:

            July 6, 27; August 10, 24; September 7, 21

Cost: $10 members/$15 non-members for each class

          $50 members/$80 non-members for the series of 6 classes

Designing in Glass

Make your own stained glass window in this informative class for beginning and intermediate students. Learn the basic techniques of designing glass patterns, cutting, grinding, and soldering glass. Students with prior experience will learn to design their own ideas. Sign up early, as the class is limited to 8 students, to allow for individual instruction. All glass working tools and most materials are provided.

Instructor: Gloria Simons

Time: 6 to 8:30 P.M.

Thursdays: August 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7

Cost: $140 members/ $185 non-members for the 7-week series

Still Life Painting Workshop

Don’t miss the opportunity to work with a nationally known artist/teacher in this three-day intensive workshop! JoAnn Williams Walker has taught workshops across the southeastern region and is represented in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina galleries. Her informative workshop will include demonstrations, color mixing exercises, and painting instruction for all levels. Sign up early for this popular workshop, as class size is limited to 12 students.

Friday through Sunday, September 10 to 12

 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. each day

Cost: $400 members/$450 non-members

  The Museum offers free docent-led tours of temporary exhibitions every Sunday at 1 P.M.

This program for young children and their families connects storybook illustrations to art in the Museum’s galleries.

Instructors: Staff and docents

Time: 10:30 to 11 AM

Wednesdays:

            July 14           

August 18

September 15

Cost: FREE

Students explore a different art technique, element of art or principle of design, based on art in the Museum in this weekly class. A wide variety of art media will be explored during the series of 13 classes, such as oil and chalk pastels; acrylic, tempera, watercolor and fabric paint; clay, wire and plaster. All supplies are provided. Class size is limited to 16 students.

Instructors: Donna Pickens and Education Staff

Time: 3:45 to 4:45 P.M.

Wednesdays: September15, 22, 29; October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17;

                        December 1, 8, 15

Cost: $156 members/$216 non-members for the series of 13 classes

After School Art II (ages 10 to 14)

More advanced art techniques and principles of design will be explored in this weekly class for upper elementary and junior high students. Studying paintings, prints, and sculptures in the Museum by well-known artists, students will learn to improve their own two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. Lessons include a variety of art materials and techniques: sculpting with clay, carving plaster; painting with acrylics, gouache and watercolors; drawing with charcoal, graphite, ink, oil and chalk pastels; monotype and silk-screen printmaking. Class size is limited to 10 students.

Instructors: Donna Pickens and Education Staff

Time: 4 to 5 P.M.

Thursdays: September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18;

            December 2, 9, 16

Cost: $156 members/$216 non-members for the series of 13 classes

Adults (ages 14 to 101!)

Designing in Glass

Make your own stained glass window in this informative class for beginning and intermediate students. Learn the basic techniques of designing glass patterns, cutting, grinding, and soldering glass. Students with prior experience will learn to design their own ideas. Sign up early, as the class is limited to 8 students, to allow for individual instruction. All glass working tools and most materials are provided.

Instructor: Gloria Simons

Time: 6 to 8:30 P.M.

Thursdays: August 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7

Cost: $140 members/ $185 non-members for the 7-week series

  The Museum offers free docent-led tours of temporary exhibitions every Sunday at 1 P.M.

In these 2 informative afternoon sessions students will study famous still life paintings in the Museum galleries, learn to mix dark and light values of colors, and draw and paint their own “masterpiece.”

Instructor: Jennifer Chestnut

Time: 1 to 4 P.M.

Sundays: September 19, 26

Cost: $60 members/$120 non-members for the series

Nurture your child’s creativity with these fun introductions to drawing and painting. Young artists will explore a different basic element of art (line, shape, texture, color, space, and form) and drawing or painting medium during each class. Sign up for one class or the whole series!

Instructor: TBA

Time: 1:15 to 2:15 P.M.

Tuesdays:

            July 6, 27; August 10, 24; September 7, 21

Cost: $10 members/$15 non-members for each class

          $50 members/$80 non-members for the series of 6 classes

Students explore a different art technique, element of art or principle of design, based on art in the Museum in this weekly class. A wide variety of art media will be explored during the series of 13 classes, such as oil and chalk pastels; acrylic, tempera, watercolor and fabric paint; clay, wire and plaster. All supplies are provided. Class size is limited to 16 students.

Instructors: Donna Pickens and Education Staff

Time: 3:45 to 4:45 P.M.

Wednesdays: September15, 22, 29; October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17;

                        December 1, 8, 15

Cost: $156 members/$216 non-members for the series of 13 classes

After School Art II (ages 10 to 14)

More advanced art techniques and principles of design will be explored in this weekly class for upper elementary and junior high students. Studying paintings, prints, and sculptures in the Museum by well-known artists, students will learn to improve their own two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. Lessons include a variety of art materials and techniques: sculpting with clay, carving plaster; painting with acrylics, gouache and watercolors; drawing with charcoal, graphite, ink, oil and chalk pastels; monotype and silk-screen printmaking. Class size is limited to 10 students.

Instructors: Donna Pickens and Education Staff

Time: 4 to 5 P.M.

Thursdays: September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18;

            December 2, 9, 16

Cost: $156 members/$216 non-members for the series of 13 classes

Adults (ages 14 to 101!)

Designing in Glass

Make your own stained glass window in this informative class for beginning and intermediate students. Learn the basic techniques of designing glass patterns, cutting, grinding, and soldering glass. Students with prior experience will learn to design their own ideas. Sign up early, as the class is limited to 8 students, to allow for individual instruction. All glass working tools and most materials are provided.

Instructor: Gloria Simons

Time: 6 to 8:30 P.M.

Thursdays: August 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7

Cost: $140 members/ $185 non-members for the 7-week series

  The Museum offers free docent-led tours of temporary exhibitions every Sunday at 1 P.M.

Sundays: 1 to 3 P.M.

July 25, August 22, September 26, 2010 – Still Life Watercolors – Objects of Wonder: Four Centuries of Still Life from the Norton Museum of Art.

Bring the entire family to these special Sunday afternoons, when the art cart is rolled into the Rotunda of the Museum for an art activity, related to one of the exhibitions in the galleries. Guided mini-tours are also included. Most art cart activities last about half an hour. This FREE program is appropriate for most ages. Children under the age of 10 years MUST be accompanied by an adult.

In these 2 informative afternoon sessions students will study famous still life paintings in the Museum galleries, learn to mix dark and light values of colors, and draw and paint their own “masterpiece.”

Instructor: Jennifer Chestnut

Time: 1 to 4 P.M.

Sundays: September 19, 26

Cost: $60 members/$120 non-members for the series

Sunday Afternoon Jazz Jams

Enjoy the Museum and a little jazz on a Sunday afternoon

Location: Cafe M

Time: 2 to 4 P.M.

When: Last Sunday of the Month (9/26, 10/31, 11/28)

Seating Limited: 40

No Charge

Cafe M will have desserts, coffee, and wine for purchase

Students explore a different art technique, element of art or principle of design, based on art in the Museum in this weekly class. A wide variety of art media will be explored during the series of 13 classes, such as oil and chalk pastels; acrylic, tempera, watercolor and fabric paint; clay, wire and plaster. All supplies are provided. Class size is limited to 16 students.

Instructors: Donna Pickens and Education Staff

Time: 3:45 to 4:45 P.M.

Wednesdays: September15, 22, 29; October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17;

                        December 1, 8, 15

Cost: $156 members/$216 non-members for the series of 13 classes

After School Art II (ages 10 to 14)

More advanced art techniques and principles of design will be explored in this weekly class for upper elementary and junior high students. Studying paintings, prints, and sculptures in the Museum by well-known artists, students will learn to improve their own two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. Lessons include a variety of art materials and techniques: sculpting with clay, carving plaster; painting with acrylics, gouache and watercolors; drawing with charcoal, graphite, ink, oil and chalk pastels; monotype and silk-screen printmaking. Class size is limited to 10 students.

Instructors: Donna Pickens and Education Staff

Time: 4 to 5 P.M.

Thursdays: September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18;

            December 2, 9, 16

Cost: $156 members/$216 non-members for the series of 13 classes

Adults (ages 14 to 101!)

Designing in Glass

Make your own stained glass window in this informative class for beginning and intermediate students. Learn the basic techniques of designing glass patterns, cutting, grinding, and soldering glass. Students with prior experience will learn to design their own ideas. Sign up early, as the class is limited to 8 students, to allow for individual instruction. All glass working tools and most materials are provided.

Instructor: Gloria Simons

Time: 6 to 8:30 P.M.

Thursdays: August 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7

Cost: $140 members/ $185 non-members for the 7-week series