Museum School - Summer Art Camp 2025 Schedule

Albuquerque Museum seeks to enhance children's artistic and cultural development through year-round classes and workshops in art and history. Classes for all ages from preschool to seniors are offered at nominal fees so that they are available to all.

• Museum members receive a 10 percent discount
• No multi child discounts available.
• No registration by telephone is accepted.
• Due to food allergies, no eating will be allowed in the classroom.
• If your child needs accommodations to participate in the class, please let us know at least two (2) weeks in advance.
• Refunds are available if requested at least two (2) weeks before the start date of class

 

MUSEUM SCHOOL SUMMER ART CAMP 2025

Child and Young Adult Classes (ages 3 - 14)

Class registration will be available April 1

Magical Mythical Art _ AM (Ages 6-9)

June 2-6, Monday-Friday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Join this summer fun class where we will read about a new myth from a new place each day of the week. Our class will revolve around telling stories and creating paintings, paper mache, and sculpture based on the stories we read and even making up our own mythical tales! Come listen to these stories and get inspired to write your own and create something fantastically new! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Remy Sinegal

Fee: $125

Magical Mythical Art _ PM (Ages 6-9)

June 2-6, Monday-Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Join this summer fun class where we will read about a new myth from a new place each day of the week. Our class will revolve around telling stories and creating paintings, paper mache, and sculpture based on the stories we read and even making up our own mythical tales! Come listen to these stories and get inspired to write your own and create something fantastically new! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Remy Sinegal

Fee: $125

What Happens in the Shadows _ AM (Ages 3-6 and a caregiver)

June 10-13, Tuesday-Friday from 10-11:30 a.m.

How do light and shadows inspire imaginative landscapes and storylines? In this class, young children and their caregivers will embark on a creative journey using everyday materials, including our own bodies, to explore, manipulate, and transform various light sources and shadows. Throughout the week, we will examine the interplay of light and shadow through hands-on experiments. Participants will play with a variety of surfaces and materials while creating different atmospheres and narratives inspired by our sense of wonder and curiosity. Limited to 6 students and their caregiver. Instructors: Gigi Yu and Shelly Korte

Fee: $75

What Happens in the Shadows _ PM (Ages 3-6 and a caregiver)

June 10-13, Tuesday-Friday from 1:00-2:30 p.m.

How do light and shadows inspire imaginative landscapes and storylines? In this class, young children and their caregivers will embark on a creative journey using everyday materials, including our own bodies, to explore, manipulate, and transform various light sources and shadows. Throughout the week, we will examine the interplay of light and shadow through hands-on experiments. Participants will play with a variety of surfaces and materials while creating different atmospheres and narratives inspired by our sense of wonder and curiosity. Limited to 6 students and their caregiver. Instructors: Gigi Yu and Shelly Korte

Fee: $75

Abstracting the Shape of Time _ AM  (Ages 6-9)

June 16-20, Monday-Friday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

This class will take inspiration from exhibitions Abstracting Nature and Light, Space and The Shape of Time, creating works informed by color and shape out of a wide variety of materials including wood, acrylic sheets, found objects and clay! We will create paintings and collages out of transparent paper materials and neon paint! Over the week we are here our classroom will turn into a fabulous installation and commence with an interactive opening! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner

Fee: $125

Abstracting the Shape of Time _ PM (Ages 6-9)

June 16-20, Monday-Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

This class will take inspiration from exhibitions Abstracting Nature and Light, Space and The Shape of Time, creating works informed by color and shape out of a wide variety of materials including wood, acrylic sheets, found objects and clay! We will create paintings and collages out of transparent paper materials and neon paint! Over the week we are here our classroom will turn into a fabulous installation and commence with an interactive opening! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner

Fee: $125

Identity and Printmaking _ AM (Ages 9-12)

June 23-27 Monday-Friday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Based on the photography exhibit Good in Everything, students will explore their identity in this printmaking workshop. Through symbolic and literal representations of their sense of self, students will develop a portfolio of works that will help them put into words who they are and how they want to expand their definition of being. After experimenting with collagraphs, reduction relief prints, and monotypes, students will choose a desired printmaking technique to create one final artwork. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Arline Murray

Fee: $125

Identity and Printmaking _ PM (Ages 9-12)

June 23-27, Monday-Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Based on the photography exhibit Good in Everything, students will explore their identity in this printmaking workshop. Through symbolic and literal representations of their sense of self, students will develop a portfolio of works that will help them put into words who they are and how they want to expand their definition of being. After experimenting with collagraphs, reduction relief prints, and monotypes, students will choose a desired printmaking technique to create one final artwork. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Arline Murray

Fee: $125

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Building a Toolbox with Natural Materials _ AM (Ages 6-9)

July 7-11, Monday-Friday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

In this experimental course, students will create a toolbox of materials with natural sources. From exploring the foundations of abstract art to wandering the exhibit Abstracting Nature, students will create one artwork with each natural material. At the end of the week, final works will be created with any choice of materials. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Arline Murray

Fee: $125

Building a Toolbox with Natural Materials _ PM (Ages 6-9)

July 7-11, Monday-Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

In this experimental course, students will create a toolbox of materials with natural sources. From exploring the foundations of abstract art to wandering the exhibit Abstracting Nature, students will create one artwork with each natural material. At the end of the week, final works will be created with any choice of materials. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Arline Murray

Fee: $125

Multi Textural Woven Projects _ AM (Ages 9-12)

July 14-18, Monday-Friday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

What do you get when you combine corn husks, recycled packing strips, snap shots from a smart phone & a Haiku? A creative journey with Ms. Sunrise! As a Native textile artist & media creator she will teach you many ways to communicate with your hands! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Shandiin Sunrise

Fee: $125

Multi Textural Woven Projects _ PM (Ages 9-12)

July 14-18, Monday-Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

What do you get when you combine corn husks, recycled packing strips, snap shots from a smart phone & a Haiku? A creative journey with Ms. Sunrise! As a Native textile artist & media creator she will teach you many ways to communicate with your hands! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Shandiin Sunrise

Fee: $125

 In Decay We Trust _ AM (Ages 11-14)

July 21-25, Monday-Friday from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

This found object and collage class will focus on creating modern day relics, which can take the form of jewelry, sculpture or 2-D work. Taking inspiration from works in Abstracting Nature and Only in Albuquerque students will explore a wide variety of media including metal, wood and cardboard supports as well as aging techniques including tea, coffee and ink stains. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner

Fee: $125

In Decay We Trust_ PM (Ages 11-14)

July 21-25, Monday-Friday from 1:00-3:00 p.m.  

This found object and collage class will focus on creating modern day relics, which can take the form of jewelry, sculpture or 2-D work. Taking inspiration from works in Abstracting Nature and Only in Albuquerque students will explore a wide variety of media including metal, wood and cardboard supports as well as aging techniques including tea, coffee and ink stains. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner

Fee: $125

Adult Class

Art Exploration for Adults (Ages 18 and above)

June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 12, 19, Saturdays, 9:30 am-11:30 am

Are you an artist looking to connect with other artists? Have you always wanted to learn oil painting or oil pastel? Are you a complete beginner or a well-seasoned artist? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this is the class for you. Each week we will give a brief demo of a new media (including oil painting on glass - or your choice of support, oil pastel on wood, foil leaf, painting with paint markers on anything you can think of, acrylic painting using mediums and watercolor on wood. While we will demonstrate and offer projects to complete, students are welcome and encouraged to bring your own inspirations and/ or works to complete! All supplies included. Limited to 12 students. Instructors: Harley Kirschner & Remy Sinegal

Fee: $150

Instructor Bios

Arline Murray holds a BFA from Pratt Institute in Art & Design Education and has taught Art for twelve years in New York, Massachusetts, Texas, and New Mexico. Arline has taught in a variety of public, charter and private schools, ranging from grades K-12 and is currently teaching Art at Alvarado Elementary School in Albuquerque.

Gigi Schroeder Yu, PhD, is an assistant professor in art education in the art department at the University of New Mexico. She has over 20 years of experience teaching art with young children to adults in community settings, museums, and public-school classrooms. The early learning programs of Reggio Emilia, Italy and their deep respect for children's artistic languages inspire her creative work and research. Gigi's work with young children inspires her to see her own artistic practices in new ways.

Harley Kirschner (He/They) is a mixed media artist and lead instructor at the Albuquerque Museum School. When not actively instructing young students, he is passionately delving into his own creative works which toe the line between art nouveau fairy tales, robotic technologies and discarded relics. While he learned various art methods on his own, Kirschner's recent BFA from the University of New Mexico gave him a deeper understanding of how to navigate the artworld as well as how to create works he could previously only imagine.

Michelle (Shelly) Korte is a multimedia artist-painting, drawing, sculpting, collaging, writing, printmaking, and performing. She is fascinated by the ways in which ecology, industry and ceremony intersect - defining the role of humans as animals, consumers, and healers. As a curious traveler and investigator, Shelly has taught and shown her work around the world for over 20 years. As an educator, she also allows art to be a conduit of self-inquiry, expression, and problem solving. She has lived in the Manzano Mountains of Tijeras, NM with her young son since 2014 where she has been growing a creative, communal arts and healing space.

Remy Sinegal was born in California, coming to the University of New Mexico for college where she received a Bachelors in Art with a minor in Medieval Studies. She is a poet and illustrator, using a variety of media such as pencils, paints, pastels, sculpture and digital media. History both true and fictional inspire the themes of her work. Inspired by multicultural mythology, folklore, as well as modern influences like animated media, wildlife and how everyone's personal experiences shape the world around them. Believing that there is magic in embracing the mundanity of life she tries to create something exceptional and fun every time she picks up a pencil. The art of storytelling to pass on cultural superstitions inspires her to write, and illustrate her own fantastical tales, which she hopes to bring to life one day through graphic novels or animation.

Shandíín Sunrise learned all the aspects of creating through both her parents, Pearl & the late Bill Sunrise. She is Diné (Navajo) & Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo). Sunrise is a filmmaker, educator, photographer, multi-media installation artist, performance art, actress, activist, producer, director, organizer and a 5th generation Diné traditional weaver. She is an Independent Contractor in Native media, organizing & education. Her Indigenous Design Company is called Make It Beautiful Designs(@MakeItBeautifulDesigns). Shandíín believes by sharing her creative process through film, mixed media & weaving techniques to the youth is a form of insight, communication and healing.

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