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! 

September 28: Timeless Looks

Take on a new look in this project inspired by fashions from the past in the Museum’s permanent art and history exhibitions. Instructor Remy Sinegal will guide us in drawing a figure and creating the outfit using some of the many decorative fabrics we have to offer.

October 5: Map of Me

Make visual maps of our inner selves inspired by the “Original Fragment of the Lost Girls Treasure Map” by Amaryllis R. Flowers in the “Broken Boxes” exhibition. Instructor Shelly Korte will guide us in using watercolor, collage, and mixed media to enhance layers of our maps with whimsy and wonder.

October 12: Puertas fronterizas de papel / Paper Border Doors

This workshop is inspired by Puertas fronterizas / Border Doors, an exhibition of mixed media doors created by students from Sandia Preparatory School. The doors illustrate the stories of the people they met along the US/Mexico border and reflect on major themes of immigration. Check out the amazing work these young artists made in the exhibit and then come make your own doors or scenes with Instructor Harley Kirschner using paper, cloth and embellishments.

October 19: Paper Marigold Garlands

Marigolds are an important flower for Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations, memorializing ancestors and relatives who have passed on. Marigolds are believed to attract the spirits of loved ones due to their vibrant color, strong fragrance, and resemblance to the sun. Instructor Harley Kirschner will guide us in making paper marigolds using coffee filters, wire, tape, markers, and paint for the Museum’s altar honoring migrants who have passed away along their journey in conjunction with Puertas fronterizas / Border Doors. Take some home for those you want to remember.

October 26: Let's Banner Together!

Create banners expressing your passions and convictions, inspired Kate DeCiccio’s atrium installation “Blooming Abolition,” part of the “Broken Boxes” exhibition. In this workshop Instructor Remy Sinegal will guide us in using fabric, embroidery, and markers to craft banners conveying what you love, care about, and would like to protect.

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.

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.

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