Registration Opens for Summer Art Classes at the Brooklyn Museum

In the Brooklyn Museum's Gallery/Studio Program, students ages six to adult develop art skills through studying the Museum's collections and exhibitions and experimenting with materials and creative techniques in hands-on classes. Summer classes include instruction in drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. Highlights include digital photography classes for teens and adults; a painting course (ages 6-7) called Blue and Beyond; a silkscreen class for teens; and the Green Thumb class (ages 8-10), which focuses on landscapes and will feature field trips to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Also new for the August semester are courses in comic art and living art. In the latter course, participants observe nature by growing their own plants and then create sculptures related to organic life. Each Gallery/Studio class has eight two-hour sessions. Summer classes are offered on Wednesdays and Fridays for four weeks in July or August, and on Saturdays for eight weekends July through August. No experience is required. Early registration is encouraged, since classes fill up quickly. Priority goes to registrations received before June 19.

To obtain class schedules and scholarship, work/study, and registration forms, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org/education/gallery-studio/gallery-studio.php, contact the Education Division at (718) 501-6230, or check out www.facebook.com/makingartatthebrooklynmuseum. Registration forms and payment in full must be received by June 19 for the July and weekend terms and by July 22 for the August term.

Artwork by spring semester Gallery/Studio Program students will be on view in the Education Gallery on the first floor from June 4 to August 12.

The Gallery/Studio Program is generously supported by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, The Hearst Foundation Inc., the Samuel and Rae Eckman Charitable Foundation, and Astoria Federal Savings. Public support for these programs is also provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Brooklyn Delegation to the New York State Legislature.

Major support for these activities is also provided by the Museum's Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation education endowments, and by Con Edison.
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