Week of January 20 - January 26 2013

This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.

This non-darkroom course is designed for beginners who want to learn how to use their digital or film-based camera as a creative tool. The goal is to gain skill in technical aspects of photography so that they can concentrate on composing beautiful images.

Learn to use tiles as a unique canvas to create hand-painted and glazed works of art nouveau for your home.

Learn the fundamentals of knitting, including casting on, basic knit and purl stitches, increasing, decreasing, and binding off. Students learn by practice, and may start a knitting project during class.

Ages 6-11.

A Discovery Theater original production celebrating the young heroes of the civil right's movement.

This intermediate-level course focuses on translating good black-and-white negatives into fine archival prints, suitable for exhibition.

Ages 6-11.

A Discovery Theater original production celebrating the young heroes of the civil right's movement.

The elegance of hand-lettered calligraphy is unmatched by machine. This class gives students a chance to learn the basics of this graceful and stylish art in a relaxed and supportive setting.

Holding a well-made hand-bound book is a rare and rewarding experience, especially when you have made it yourself. In this course, learn how to produce a beginning-level Coptic structure with extremely beautiful and satisfying results.

Beginning students as well as experienced painters explore basic watercolor techniques and learn new approaches to painting through classroom demonstration, discussion, and experimentation.

A century ago, German scholar Ernst Herzfeld was the first to stand in the ruins of ancient Persepolis, Samarra, and other lost cities and document their significance. Alexander Nagel, who curates Herzfeld’s archives at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, uses rare photos and diaries to retrace his voyages into the past.

Mingle at the Museum: Sensuous curls of calligraphy cover surfaces and bodies in Lalla Essaydi’s visual world—a place where traditional depictions of Muslim women are challenged and redefined. Experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of Morocco as you take a private view of the artist’s stunning exhibition at the African Art Museum.

This darkroom-focused class is geared for photographers with basic darkroom skills and beyond, who are interested in taking their work to the next level. Students benefit from small-group lectures, individual instruction, and independent work to gain confidence in a specific area.

Through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on experimentation, students enhance their experience of color as they learn about the color wheel, the Munsell color chart, and the attributes of value, chroma, and hue.

The most sculptural of all printmaking techniques, woodblock printing and linocut printing are ideal for creating bold images made up of patterns and textures. This eight-session course is an introduction to the relief print, from techniques of design and transfer through cutting and printing the block. Students design and produce their own editions, using nontoxic materials and employing both one-color and two-color techniques.

An economy desperate for a jolt…feuding cabinet members...clashing viewpoints on state and federal roles. Sound familiar? Get ready for some interactive time travelling to hear Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson debate critical issues that faced the early republic—and then choose the winner.

Join an instructor and other knitters to start a project, get help on a project-in-progress, and learn tips to improve your knitting skills. There is no set curriculum; instead, students themselves decide what techniques they would like to learn about and practice.

Painting is as much about how you think as it is the process of putting colors on canvas. This beginning-level class introduces you to composition, color and value management, and the process of visual selection. You experiment with these concepts by painting a series of still-life set-ups.

Popular theory on right side brain activity holds that the right brain is primarily responsible for the intuitive understanding of visual and spatial relationships. Designed to improve the way people see and record objects on paper, this class provides a set of visual exercises to help build the ability to draw.

This darkroom-focused class is geared for photographers with basic darkroom skills and beyond, who are interested in taking their work to the next level. Students benefit from small-group lectures, individual instruction, and independent work to gain confidence in a specific area.

Through an examination of the distinctive architectural, artistic, and cultural influences preserved in Kyoto, curator Robert Mintz travels through the centuries to spotlight the elements that give this city its character and vibrancy.

Working from models, though creative exercises and experimentation with pastel techniques, students learn to achieve the brilliant and subtle effects characteristic of drawing landscapes with pastels.

This darkroom-focused class is geared for photographers with basic darkroom skills and beyond, who are interested in taking their work to the next level. Students benefit from small-group lectures, individual instruction, and independent work to gain confidence in a specific area.

This darkroom-focused class is geared for photographers with basic darkroom skills and beyond, who are interested in taking their work to the next level. Students benefit from small-group lectures, individual instruction, and independent work to gain confidence in a specific area.