FreeTeens & Adults | The Joslyn
Teen & Adult Workshops (New!)
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Oil Painting: Monet Landscape
Saturday, December 12; noon–4 pm
General Public: $68; Joslyn Members: $57.80
Learn to paint like Claude Monet by exploring Impressionist oil techniques in this intensive workshop. We will study color theory, loose brushwork, and ways artists capture light. Create vibrant landscapes and water scenes using broken color and thick paint layers.
Teaching Artist: Keegan Baker
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Ceramics: Botanical Inlay
Thursday, December 17; 5–8 pm
General Public: $51; Joslyn Members: $43.35
Elevate your pottery practice and expand your hand-building repertoire in this ceramic intensive workshop. Students will learn specialized surface design and forming methods, such as slab building, texture transfer, and mold forming, using natural elements to create a stunning, functional botanical tray.
Teaching Artist: Sarah Carter
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Figure Drawing: Belle Époque
Saturday, December 19; noon–4 pm
General Public: $68; Joslyn Members: $57.80
Working from a live costumed model, students will explore the figure through quick gesture studies and sustained poses. Inspired by late nineteenth-century Parisian life drawing and the lively atmosphere of cabarets and cafés, this workshop emphasizes expressive line, theatrical composition, and capturing movement over rigid perfection.
Teaching Artist: Keegan Baker
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Teen & Adult Series
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Drawing in the Galleries: Series 2
Sun: October 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8; 1–3:30 pm
General Public: $150; Joslyn Members: $127.50
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: Baylee Bennett
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Drawing in the Galleries: Series 3
Sun: November 15, 22, 29, December 6, 13; 1–3:30 pm
General Public: $150; Joslyn Members: $127.50
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: Baylee Bennett
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Neurographic Art
Wed: Oct 7, 14, 28, Nov 4, 11, 18; 10 am–noon (no class Oct 21)
General Public: $144; Joslyn Members: $122.40
Examine the connection between art, the senses, and well-being in this class inspired by research in the neuroscience of art. Each week, begin in the galleries with slow looking and discussion centered on one work of art and supported by a short reading or podcast. Then move to the studio for guided experiments with watercolor, pastel, air-dried clay, found objects, sound, gentle light, and written reflection. Through mindful looking, listening, creating, and conversation, students will discover how engaging with art can encourage empathy, social connection, cross-cultural understanding, and a deeper sense of meaning.
Teaching Artist: Jean Mason
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Handmade Paper
Sat: Oct 10, 17, 31, Nov 7, 14, 21; 1–3:30 pm (no class Oct 24)
General Public: $180; Joslyn Members: $153
Discover this unique art-making technique by beating recycled paper to a pulp and incorporating natural or found objects to make one-of-a-kind art papers. Use the colors and natural imagery of the Impressionists for inspiration as you learn to control your paper pulp to create landscapes and imagery by “painting” with paper.
Teaching Artist: Therese Straseski
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Painting on a Whim!
Thu: Oct 29, Nov 5, 12, 19, Dec 3; 6–8 pm (no class Nov 26)
General Public: $120; Joslyn Members: $102
Explore gesture drawing and alla prima painting techniques using graphite, ink, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic paint. Visits to the galleries will introduce artists who captured urban life and social settings, then we’ll head to The Cafe to sketch the people and scenery around us. Back in the studio, students will transform their immediate impressions into fully realized paintings and drawings.
Teaching Artist: Baylee Bennett
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Drawing: Rendering the Real
Fri: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20, Dec 4, 11; 10 am–noon (no class Nov 27)
General Public: $144; Joslyn Members: $122.40
This class will build upon basic drawing skills and teach more advanced rendering techniques through in-depth studies of concepts like perspective, composition, and shading. Students will refine their understanding of value, form, and space through direct observation of still-life arrangements and detailed feedback in class critiques. Paintings in the European galleries will guide us as we learn to draw realistic objects and spaces using graphite and charcoal.
Teaching Artist: Darrell Riche
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