In–Person Workshop Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Instructor: Kathy Liu, PhD candidate | Aizenberg Biomineralization & Biomimetics Lab Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers This class is full. Please email Reservations to be added to the waitlist. In nature, brilliant colors appear in myriad places—along the surface of a bubble, on butterfly…
Drawing Plants and Flowers in Colored Pencil
Online Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Erica Beade Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers Explore the beauty and variety of plants using colored pencils. From quick monochrome sketches to richly layered color images, this online course will focus on a range of techniques for using colored pencils to capture flowers, leaves, fruits, and vegetables. Class…
Playing with Color
Online Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Rachel Mirus Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers Join us for an art-making exploration of how our perception of color influences how we make and appreciate art. Using color-focused art projects, we will learn about our own color vision and how our brains process visual information. Along the way,…
Implying Motion
Online Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Rachel Mirus Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers Impressionist painters and modern cartoonists alike have experimented with strategies to communicate movement based on how we perceive and interact with a dynamic world. In this workshop we’ll look at some of these examples and experiment with them through hands-on art…
Painting with Mushrooms
In–Person Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Rachel Mirus Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $40 members / $50 nonmembers You may have foraged, grown, or eaten mushrooms, but have you painted with them? Many mushrooms and lichens can be used to make inks in a spectrum of earthy colors. Rachel…
The Art and Science of Mushrooms
In–Person Workshop Instructors: Artist and Educator Erica Beade and Rachel Swenie, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $50 members / $60 nonmembers Learn about the science of mushrooms through observations of fungi, then try your hand at capturing…
All Creatures Small–A Papier Mâché Workshop
In–Person Workshop Instructor: Artist Gail Boyajian Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $175 members / $220 nonmembers Over five half-days, artist Gail Boyajian will guide you from start to finish as you build and paint a papier mâché animal using everyday materials. Inspired by the HMNH museum galleries, students will…
Landscape Sketching
Online Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Rachel Mirus Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers Landscapes are a wonderful subject for drawings, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this online workshop, we’ll discuss how to select a composition, create a sense…