Family Art Workshops

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All ages will enjoy our family art projects. Work on a new project each week. Try your hand working with a variety of art mediums — all materials supplied. Child and grown-up friendly! 

June 3

Pride Stickers

The Albuquerque Museum is Proud to be in community with such amazing artists of all ages (including you!) and stand in solidarity with GLBTQ+ community. Come celebrate Pride with us by learning a fun new way to make stickers using markers, colored pencils, contact paper and parchment paper. The possibilities are endless!

June 10

Modernist Suncatchers

Take inspiration from Albuquerque’s own modernist plexiglass artist, Hilda Appel Volkin, by making your own suncatcher using clear plastic, tissue paper, popsicle sticks and glue. Then go home and enjoy it in your window 310 days out of the year (or however many sunny days are in your town)!

June 17

Mixed-Media Maps

Inspired by Jaune Quick-To-See's "Memory Maps" we will create collaged mixed-media pieces that explore our relationships to story, land, place, and creatures. Be sure to check out her work in Common Ground (Gallery 4), she is a local heroine and is the first Native American to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (April 19 - Aug 13, 2023).

June 24

Oil Pastel Landscapes

Come create dreamy summer landscapes on wood with oil pastel, inspired by Barbara Latham’s Talpa (1940, oil on canvas) on view in Common Ground, Gallery 4.

Meet Your Instructors.

Harley Kirschner is a mixed media artist and art instructor. He has a passion for mixed media, incorporating many different techniques into each object he makes. Although his roots are in collage and painting, he has been exploring place-based art for over a decade with students and has created permanent installations on his own. This is where his passion for garden art comes in. In addition to creating magical worlds, Harley has a passion for textiles and is always exploring new techniques to enliven fabric.

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 interest - 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.

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