Wednesdays: November 13, 20, December 4, 11, 18; 6–8 pm (no class on November 27) 
Learn to create an entire painting using only a few primary colors! Students will explore color mixing, underpainting, and glazing to build their skills and learn faster, easier painting methods. Gallery visits to American and European artworks will inform our choices throughout the creative process.
Teaching Artist: Josh Audiss
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Acrylic Painting: Mastering a Limited Color Palette

Fridays: November 15, 22, December 6, 13, 20; 10 am–noon (no class November 29) 
Gaining inspiration from master paintings in the European collection, explore figure-ground relationships to create a sense of depth in your artwork. Students will use mixed media and collage techniques to build an abstracted composition with a subject and background using layered, decorated papers.
Teaching Artist: Erin Blayney
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Mixed Media Collage

Wednesdays: January 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12; 6–8 pm 
Joslyn Members: $122.40; General Public: $144
Incorporating hand-building techniques, such as coiling, slumping, and slab work, this class will put the FUN back into functional! Students will explore The Joslyn’s robust collection of functional pottery from around the globe as they learn to design cups, mugs, bowls, trinket dishes, and serving plates to use at home. Artwork will be glazed and fired in the kiln using food-safe materials. eaching
Teaching Artist: Harrison Cook
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Functional Ceramics 

Fridays: January 10, 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14; 10 am–noon 
Joslyn Members: $122.40; General Public: $144
Artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel address issues of identity and personal narrative through their use of expressive color, pattern, and symbolism. This class will explore portraiture and the many ways artists express emotion and identity using contemporary oil painting techniques.
Teaching Artist: Cassidy Coalson
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Oil Painting: Expressive Portraits

Series 1 &#8211; Sundays: January 12, 19, 26, February 2, 9; 1–3:30 pm
Joslyn Members:$127.50; General Public: $150
Build your skills while drawing directly from art in the galleries. We’ll focus on understanding light, value, and proportions while making compositional studies from individual artworks in the collection. Great for sketchbook skill building!
Teaching Artist: Laura Nothern
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Drawing in the Galleries: Series 1 

Series 2 &#8211; Sundays: February 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23; 1–3:30 pm
Joslyn Members: $127.50; General Public: $150
Build your skills while drawing directly from art in the galleries. We’ll focus on understanding light, value, and proportions while making compositional studies from individual artworks in the collection. Great for sketchbook skill building!
Teaching Artist: Laura Nothern
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Drawing in the Galleries: Series 2

Series 3 &#8211; Sundays: April 6, 13, 27, May 4, 11: 1–3:30 pm (no class on April 20) 
Joslyn Members: $127.50; General Public: $150
Build your skills while drawing directly from art in the galleries. We’ll focus on understanding light, value, and proportions while making compositional studies from individual artworks in the collection. Great for sketchbook skill building!
Teaching Artist: Laura Nothern
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Drawing in the Galleries: Series 3 

Saturdays: Feb 8, 15, 22, Mar 1, 8; 1–3:30 pm
Joslyn Members: $127.50; General Public: $150
Learn the old-world technique of fresco, a type of mural painting executed upon freshly laid (wet) lime plaster, which has been employed since antiquity. Students in this class will grind natural pigments and paint them on plaster primed tiles, carrying on the techniques of the old masters.
Teaching Artist: Matthew Jones
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Fresco 

Wednesdays: Feb 19, 26, Mar 5, 12, 19, 26; 6–8 pm
Joslyn Members: $136; General Public: $160
This class will teach foundational figure drawing skills, while also giving students a chance to experiment with color and style. We will spend three classes drawing from a live, clothed model, then spend three classes using our drawings to create something new using mixed media techniques. Traditional figures in the European galleries, along with stylistic figurative work in the contemporary galleries, will inspire our choices as we work.
Teaching Artists: Josh and Shelby Audiss
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Contemporary Figure Drawing 

Fridays: Feb 21, 28, Mar 7, 14, 21, 28; 10 am–noon 
Joslyn Members: $122.40; General Public: $144
Take your watercolor painting to the next level in this class that will explore natural and human-made environments and the people that inhabit them. Students will visit the exhibition All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955, to get ideas for landscapes and cityscapes they will paint in the studio. Learn compositional hacks and masking techniques to render lively scenes with value and texture.
Teaching Artist: Telagio Baptista
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Watercolor: All Aboard! 

Saturdays: Mar 29, Apr 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3; 1–3 pm
Joslyn Members: $122.40; General Public: $144
A maquette is a small preliminary model, or sketch, for a larger sculpture. They are also used by animators to bring their drawings to life and visualize how a character might look in 3D. This class will walk you through making a maquette using wood block bases, wire armature, aluminum foil, and clay. We’ll learn about gesture and universal design principles as we sculpt expressive characters in-the-round.
Teaching Artist: Ben Fleischman
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Character Maquettes

Wednesdays: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7; 6–8 pm
Joslyn Members: $122.40; General Public: $144
Gaining inspiration from landscapes in The Joslyn’s collection and the exhibition All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955, this class will introduce students to landscape painting techniques and styles. Students will learn to blend colors, apply a variety of brush strokes, and incorporate elements of atmospheric perspective as they create stylistic landscapes using acrylic.
Teaching Artist: Baylee Bennett
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Acrylic Landscapes

Fridays: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2; 10 am–noon 
Joslyn Members: $102; General Public: $120
Take time to reflect and do some inner exploration using mindful art journaling. This method allows us to map out our physical and emotional landscapes using mixed media techniques. It&#8217;s a special way to understand your feelings better, especially the ones that are hard to put into words. After gaining inspiration from the Schrager Collection, we’ll use mindfulness exercises in the studio to create journal pages to keep to ourselves or share with others.
Teaching Artist: Priscilla Mingus
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Visual Journaling 

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