Location: Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Education Classroom (First Floor) Instructor: Brioch Ochoa, Multidisciplinary Artist Fees: $30 members / $35 nonmembers per person. Includes museum admission and materials. Participants are encouraged to come early or stay late to explore the museum. This session is offered twice, in the morning or afternoon. Join…
Day of the Dead Workshop: Making Papier-Mâché Skeletons
Location: Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Education Classroom (First Floor) Instructor: Brioch Ochoa, Multidisciplinary Artist Fees: $30 members / $35 nonmembers per person. Includes museum admission and materials. Participants are encouraged to come early or stay late to explore the museum. This session is offered twice, in the morning or afternoon. Join…
Drawing the Unseen
In–Person Workshop Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $50 members / $60 nonmembers Bizarre and spectacular creatures hide in plain sight all around us because they are too small to see without magnification. In this class we will go on a micro-safari, hunting down these hidden microorganisms…
The Art and Science of Insects
In–Person Workshop Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Instructors: Erica Beade and Crystal Maier Price: $50 members / $60 nonmembers Learn about the science of insects through close observation of museum specimens, then try your hand at capturing them with pencil and paper. Artist and educator Erica Beade will introduce techniques…
Animal Decoration
Online Workshop Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Many animal bodies are adorned with spots and stripes, patterns that look different but are mathematically similar. We will look at how these body decorations are created, how they are similar and different, and how simple observational drawing strategies can help us better appreciate…
The Maker’s Palette: Upcycled Art Materials
In–Person Workshop Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $50 members / $60 nonmembers Before the modern art-supply store, artists found and made materials from their everyday lives and immediate environments. In this class, we will channel that same ingenuity by collecting, experimenting, and upcycling our own art…
Sketching & Mindfulness
Online Workshop Instructor: Erica Beade Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Join us for this two-hour online workshop where we’ll explore how sketching can be a practice for deepening mindful awareness of our surroundings, and how mindful awareness can enrich our sketching practice by helping us quiet inner voices. Using natural objects as our subject…
Growing Beauty: How Growth in Nature Creates Spirals and Fractals
Online Workshop Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Familiar natural shapes, like spirals or the branching of plants, recur in fascinating and beautiful diversity, and are often the result of simple patterns for growth. We will use observational drawing to explore a few of the many kinds of spirals, branching patterns, and…