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Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can offer a powerful way to experience art. Join Mary Hall Surface, the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s popular Writing Salon, for five online workshops that explore essential elements of writing and styles through close looking, word-sketching, and imaginative response to prompts. This writing session is inspired by Japanese American artist Kenjiro Nomura’s The Farm.
Ages 3 to 7. Join a celebration of African Diaspora culture filled with puppetry, drumming, and storytelling.
Learn to understand color and simple techniques that help you use watercolor. This fun guided practice explains the methods used to arrange and paint still-life artworks. The culmination of the four sessions is a finished painting of a snowy day with your personal flair.
Step into winter wonderlands as you begin your watercolor journey by coming to understand color and trying simple techniques that help you use this magical art material. Prepare yourself for success with the correct supplies in combination with fun guided practice that explains the methods used to paint landscapes.
Discover a variety of methods for making and using image transfers and expanding your creative horizons with photo alteration. Both techniques offer new dimensions and interest to your artwork.
As part of the most visible household in the nation, china used in the White House offers a comprehensive overview of the changing styles, tastes, and modes of entertaining across almost 250 years of American history. Philadelphia Museum of Art curator David Barquist explores the history of the porcelain tableware chosen by American presidents and their families for public and private dining. He also looks at the changes over time in the ceramics available to Americans. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
From our country’s birth, slavery was a point of contention. But despite the divisiveness of the issue, a full-scale abolitionist movement did not get underway until the 1830s. African Americans were at the forefront, but except for Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, their contributions are not widely known today. Kelly Hancock of the American Civil War Museum examines several lesser-known key activists and their efforts to end of slavery and achieve equality under the law.
