Create a Drawing & Painting Class for your Home-school Group

The Attleboro Arts Museum offers an art class designed for home-schoolers based on the work of famous artists, art from around the world, and basic drawing and painting techniques.  Please contact the Museum School to create a class for your home-school group, 508.222.2644 x10.

Costs per student:  $95 member, $105 non-member (materials included).  Class will run for 6 weeks and can be scheduled at a convenient time for participants.  A minimum number of students is required.

Adult Workshops: Mosaics and Oil Painting

For more information or to register call 508.222.2644  x10

• NEW IN NOVEMBER! Modern Mosaics w/ Mosaic Artist, Billie Klegraefe.Two-day workshop:  Sat, Nov 13 & 20, 1–5pm.  Learn the ‘nitty-gritty’ of contemporary mosaic techniques by experimenting with tiles, mirror and glass.  All levels (teachers, artists and novices) will take home a finished piece.  Costs:  $40 mem, $50 non-mem (materials included).

• NEW IN DECEMBER! Oil Painting Demo: The ‘Wipe Off’ Technique w/ Painter Christina Beecher. One-day workshop:  Sat, Dec 4th, 2:30-4:30pm.  This technique can be used to “start” a painting or as a way to paint monochromatic landscapes on many surfaces.  Costs: $18 mem, $22 non-mem.

Download a workshop registration form

2010 Fall Art Class Schedule for Children, Teens and Adults

Register today by calling 508-222-2644  x10.

Fall courses at the W. Charles Thompson Museum School will run from October – November 2010.  Space is limited for these creative experiences!

Download an art class registration form

Children’s Classes:  Sat., Oct. 9 – Nov. 20, 2010  (No class Sat., Nov. 6th)

Costs:  (6 weeks):  $85 member, $95 non-member; $10 materials.

• NEW! AGES 5-8 Sketchn’ Kids: Adventures in Drawing, 9-10:30am.  Discover your own creativity while drawing in both color and black & white.  New drawing experiences for returning students.

• NEW! AGES 5-8 Colorful Painting, 9-10:30am.  Students will investigate basic painting techniques.  Explore color, value, how to make a brushstroke – and even learn about classic artists.

• NEW! AGES 9-14 Drawing Foundations:  Bare Bones, 10:45-12:15pm. Explore the “bare bones” of drawing such as line, gesture, value & perspective.  Work from life and from your imagination.

• NEW! AGES 9-14 Paint Studio, 10:45-12:15pm.  Learn professional techniques and the expressive qualities of painting, with a focus on composition, value, volume, color theory and painterly processes.

Children’s One-Day Workshops

• NEW! AGES 9-14 Imaginative Sketch w/ Farnaz Mobayyen, Nov 20th, 3:30-5:30pm.  An exciting  crash-course in drawing where you will work from life and your imagination. Open to all levels. Costs: $25 members, $30 non-members (materials included)

• NEW! AGES 5-8 w/ Adult(s) Family Art Studio w/ Abby Rovaldi, Dec 11th, 11-12pm.  Create art as a family!  After seeing depictions of families by famous artists, participants will use assorted materials to create their own family masterpiece.  Costs:  $15 mem, $20 non-mem (materials included)

Youth/Teen Workshops (ages 10-17)

• NEW! Art of Animation w/ Illustrator Adam Cristaldi. Sat, Oct. 9-30 from1-3pm. Explore movement, characters, emotion and story.  Review illustration and animation principles – and come away with the beginning of a short cartoon. OPTIONAL Enrichment Opportunity:  Oct. 16th, 3-4:30 pm.  Stay on for an enrichment session with illustrator Cathren Housley immediately following your 2nd animation class for a deeper experience. (Enroll for “Enrichment” while signing up for Animation).  Costs:  Art of Animation (4 wks) $80 mem, $90 non-mem, $15 materials.  Optional Enrichment – $15 m, $20 nm

• NEW! Funky Fashions w/ Mikala Cash. Sat, Nov 13th from 1-4pm.  A one-day workshop covering fresh styles, trends and design elements. Explore different hand-sewing techniques to create top-of-the-line belts and more.  No previous drawing/sewing experience necessary – a great workshop for both girls and boys interested in fashion!  Costs:  $28 mem, $34 non-mem (materials included).

Children & Teen Ceramics:  Sat, Oct. 9 – 30, 2010  (No class Sat., Nov. 6th)

• NEW! AGES 5-8: Clay Creations, 9-10:30am.  Construct fall themed creations by using clay hand-building techniques.  Costs:  (4 weeks) $70 member, $80 non-member; $25 materials.

• NEW! AGES 9-15: Clayworks: Monster Mash, 11-1pm. Use hand-building techniques to create clay creatures such as living tree vases & dragons. Costs: (4 wks): $80 mem, $90 non-mem; $25 materials.

Adult Art Classes: 6 wks, Oct. 4 – Nov. 18 (No class Mon, 10/11 or Thu, 11/11)

• NEW! Mugs, Cups & Vessels:  Ceramics w/ Marcey Buchakjian-Tweedy, Mon, 6-9pm. Create your own mugs, vases & bowls.  All levels. Begins 10/4. Costs: $115 mem $130 non-mem; $45 materials.

• NEW! Expressive Watercolors w/ Ben Macomber, Thurs, 9:30am-12:30pm.  Begins 10/7. All levels welcome in this illuminating class.  Costs:  $115 member, $130 non-member; $15 materials.

• NEW! Charcoal Drawing w/ Lisa Granata, Mon, 7-10pm. Improve your drawing skills while working in achromatic values.  Demos on techniques for pencil, charcoal and ink wash.  All levels welcome.  Students provide their own materials.  Begins 10/4. Costs:  $115 member, $130 non-member

• NEW! Painting:  Color Essentials w/ Lisa Granata, Fri, 7-10pm.   Work from still lifes, create thumbnails, use and explore color fundamentals, value and contrast emphasizing a key subject/object.  All levels welcome.  Students provide their own materials.  Begins 10/8.  Costs:  $115 mem, $130 non-mem.

Adult Workshops

• NEW IN NOVEMBER! Modern Mosaics w/ Mosaic Artist, Billie Klegraefe.Two-day workshop:  Sat, Nov 13 & 20, 1–5pm.  Learn the ‘nitty-gritty’ of contemporary mosaic techniques by experimenting with tiles, mirror and glass.  All levels (teachers, artists and novices) will take home a finished piece.  Costs:  $40 mem, $50 non-mem (materials included).

• NEW IN DECEMBER! Oil Painting Demo:  The ‘Wipe Off’ Technique w/ Painter Christina Beecher. One-day workshop:  Sat, Dec 4th, 2:30-4:30pm.  This technique can be used to “start” a painting or as a way to paint monochromatic landscapes on many surfaces.  Costs: $18 mem, $22 non-mem.

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ADULTS: Drop in Life Drawing Studio

The AAM’s Drop-In Life Drawing Studio will resume Wed, Oct 13th from 7 – 10pm.  $10 for members; $15 for non-memb.  Limited to students 18 years and older.

The Studio will follow the Museum School schedule and run from Oct 13 thru Nov 17, 2010.  It will start up again in 2011 with the launch of the Museum’s winter classes.

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