Youth and Teen Classes
Flora in Winter February 25 – 28, 2021 Get a welcome taste of spring during WAM’s trademark floral event when the Museum is filled with fresh flower arrangements inspired by works of art and created by the area’s leading floral designers! For the safety of guests and staff alike, Flora programs—demonstrations, lectures, guided tours, and more—will be offered online this year. Program information will be available on our website after January 1, 2021. To comply with Massachusetts safety and capacity requirements due to COVID-19, Flora in Winter at the Worcester Art Museum will be a Member-only event for 2021. In addition, a virtual Flora in Winter will be offered online (free to Members and with fee to nonmembers). Flora in Winter is supported in part by the Spear Fund for Public Programs.
Studio Art Classes This fall, we are excited to offer a variety of youth and adult online programs! Taught through Zoom, classes, workshops, and lectures cover a variety of subjects and media. All classes are encrypted and secure. To view course offerings and register, visit portal.worcesterart.org/classes. Adult Classes Our fall lineup of online classes runs from September to December, and includes studio classes, art history, workshops, and more. A varied schedule allows students to sign up for both one-time workshops and 4-, 6-, or 8-week long classes. Offerings include the classics, Beginning Drawing, Pastel Drawing, and Creating a Series, among others; some recent online favorites, such as Serenity Art and the Basics of Painting in Acrylics and Oils; and exciting new additions like Color Mixing Workshop, Memoir Writing, and Art Critique Workshops. Visit portal.worcesterart.org/ classes for the full schedule.
Our fall schedule for Youth and Teen kicks off in September. We will offer classes for elementary, middle, and high school students, in a variety of subjects, mediums, and themes—topics include watercolor and acrylic painting, fantasy art, drawing the figure, and more! For the full schedule of Youth and Teen Classes, please visit portal.worcesterart.org/classes.
New! WAM Teen Council Do you know a teen who would like to be involved in building WAM programs? We’d love to meet them! As part of grant funding from the National Endowment of the Arts, we will develop online teen programs over the course of the fall—spearheaded in part by Worcester’s own teens! Reach out to us at teens@worcesterart.org to get involved in programs such as teen docents, paid internships, teen nights, and more! Class Scholarships Scholarships are available for online classes. Individuals with financial need who would like to apply for a scholarship may contact us at 508.793.4339.
New! We Are the Museum (WAM) Art Clubs! These weekly clubs—one for Elementary students (Grades 1 – 4) and one for Middle School Students (Grades 5 – 8)—aim to provide a fun, creative way to make new friends, try engaging projects, learn about art, and build artistic community. Each club “member” receives an art kit, a special discount on classes, and the chance to be in an exclusive Higgins Education Wing exhibition! You can learn more by visiting portal.worcesterart.org/classes.
Open Door Arts After a successful art education program made for ASPiRE! this past spring, WAM and Open Door Arts, MA are partnering to create accessible, live programming in both a wide-reaching webinar demonstration format and more intimate, small-group classes. These programs use WAM’s own extensive collection, works by ASPiRE! artists, and works by the wide variety of artists exhibited in the Open Door Galleries both in Boston and Worcester. Learn more about Open Door Arts programs at opendoorartsma.org
MASTeR SeRIeS 2020-2021 The Worcester Art Museum’s Master Series highlights selected works of art in galleries throughout the Museum. Each work is the focus of a Third Thursday art talk presented by a scholar in the field. During fall 2020 and winter 2021, this popular series will take place virtually! Free to Members, $10 nonmembers, $8 seniors, $5 students. Visit our online calendar at worcesteart.org for details and links to programs. Hosted by the WAM Members Council, the Master Series is presented with support from the Bernard G. and Louise B. Palitz Fund and the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund.
Thursday, November 19, 6pm Speaker: Diane Radycki, Ph.D., author of Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist, Yale University Press, 2013 Art Talk: WAM's recent acquisition of Modersohn-Becker's Three Boys Bathing by a Canal and Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Postman Roulin, currently on loan to WAM from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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