Museum School - Winter/Spring Art Classes 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 Winter/Spring Art Classes 2025

Class registration will be available December 3

 

Animals in Our Lives: Storytelling Through Mixed-Media (Ages 3-6 with an adult caregiver)

January 9, 16, 23, 30; Thursdays from 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

What animals ignite your imagination? In this workshop, children and their caregivers will explore their mythical and lived experiences with animals through a variety of creative processes. Inspired by Vivarium: Exploring Intersections of Art, Storytelling, and Resilience of the Living World, participants will create a collection of stories and spaces using sculptural and mixed-media techniques to express their imagined animal scenarios in colorful living environments. Limit: 7 students and their caregiver. 

Fee: $70.00

 

Mythology and Storytelling (Ages 9-12)

January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19; Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Taking inspiration from the Vivarium exhibition and the ancient and contemporary stories which inspired its works, students will create illustrative works including a short, hardcover, illustrated book, a story jar with a clay character and lots of bug stickers! Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Beautiful Baubles and More! (Ages 6-9)

January 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21; Fridays from 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

We are taking inspiration from our permanent collection, Broken Boxes and the Museum Store to create wearable works of art including painted and printed silk scarves, musical necklaces and found object jewelry. Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Vivarium (Ages 11-14)

January 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22; Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

The exhibition, Vivarium (meaning life contained), is the inspiration for this class, where we will create animal and story themed art including a clay animal bust, origami garlands, Shrinky Dinks and paper mâché animals. Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Looking Closely with Photography and Printmaking (Ages 3-6 with an adult caregiver)

February 6, 13, 20, 27; Thursdays from 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

What can be discovered about yourself by taking pictures and making prints? In this workshop, we will combine conventional and experimental printmaking and photographic techniques to capture the essence of our inner and outer worlds. Inspired by Everything is Good: All the Worlds a Stage & Where the Sidewalk Ends participants will develop a portfolio of textures, impressions, and images that explore the art of looking closely at who we are and our place in the world. Limit: 7 students and their caregiver. 

Fee: $70.00

 

Border Doors and More! (Ages 9-12)

February 26, March 5, 12, 26, April 2, 9 (No Class March 19 - Spring Break); Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

What is a door? A portal, a passage, a threshold that can be opened to take one from here to there or a barrier to keep us in or others out. In this class we will focus on the exhibition Puertas fronterizas/ Border Doors and the cultural significance of door ornamentation throughout the world’s history, including wood carving, metal embossing, mosaic, clay and color. Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Arts Thrive in Albuquerque (Ages 6-9)

February 28, March 7, 14, 28, April 4, 11 (No Class March 21 - Spring Break); Fridays from 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

This class will take inspiration from contemporary local artists in the juried exhibition, Arts Thrive. We will work with a wide variety of media including clay, paint and collage. We will also have visits from local artists and learn more about their practices! Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Albuquerque Art Now (Ages 11-14)

March 1, 8, 15, 29, April 5, 12 (No class March 22 - Spring Break); Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Inspired by the contemporary local artists in the juried exhibition, Arts Thrive, the Museum Store, local artists in Old Town as well as your instructors, who are artists themselves, this class will offer a diverse range of 2-D and 3-D projects including oil pastel, fur, feathers and scales on wood, miniature oil painting insects on glass, and copper and found object jewelry! Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

I See Myself in Expansive Landscapes (Ages 3-6 with an adult caregiver)

March 6, 13, 27, April 3 (No class March 20 - Spring Break); Thursdays from 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

How can the relationship of self and the environment be explored in the making of multilayered landscapes? In this workshop, young children and their caregivers will play with a variety of techniques and materials, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage. We will study imagery in the Everything is Good: All the Worlds a Stage & Where the Sidewalk Ends exhibit and the permanent collection, looking at how artists place themselves and others within landscape-based narratives. Limit: 7 students and their caregiver. 

Fee: $70.00

 

Light, Space, and the Shape of Time (Ages 9-12)

April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21; Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

Taking inspiration from the Light and Space movement that took shape in Southern California in the early 1960s we will create miniature buildings and installations using acrylic sheets and alcohol ink, neon pop art paintings, and glow in the dark garlands. Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Light and Space in The Garden (Ages 6-9)

April 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23; Fridays from 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

This class will take inspiration from two, seemingly polar opposite exhibitions; Light, Space, and the Shape of Time and The Garden. We will spend a good amount of time outside creating solar prints and tracing shadows as well as creating art for outside such as sculptures you can plant and unconventional acrylic and wood birdhouses! Limit: 14 students. *Note: please send your child with sunblock, sun hat and a water bottle.

Fee: $75.00

 

Bound by Art (Ages 11-14)

April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24; Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Knowledge, art and self-expression are for everyone! Taking inspiration from Open to All: Special Collections Library at 100, which highlights the importance of libraries as central to community as well as Focus on Youth, a juried exhibition of young Albuquerque artists, we will create a hardcover book, art made from books, take polaroid photos and make several solar prints on various surfaces including a beautiful silk scarf or T-Shirt! Limit: 14 students.

Fee: $75.00

 

Instructor Bios

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 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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