MUSEUM SCHOOL - 2026 FALL CLASSES
Make the Museum your fall classroom! Art classes for ages 3–14. Class Groups: Ages 3-6, 6–9, 9–12, and 11–14. Get ready for a fall full of creativity, color, and imagination. Each week brings new projects, new materials, and new ways to explore art inspired by exhibitions and the world around us!
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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
Child and Young Adult Classes (Ages 3 - 14)
Class registration will be available Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Nature, Art and the Places We Love (Ages 9-12)
September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21; Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
In this nature-inspired class, students will explore The Woods Before Sunrise through collages, sculptures, and mixed-media projects that connect art with the world around them. They will explore the featured artists and experiment with natural materials, following their creativity into the magical time of the woods before sunrise. Limit: 14 students. Instructor: Remy Sinegal
Fee: $75.00
Journeys and Joy Rides (Ages 6-9)
September 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23; Fridays, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Inspired by The Woods Before Sunrise, The Other Route 66, and students' own memories of New Mexico, this class invites young artists to turn personal stories and local places into imaginative projects. Students will create a Luis Tapia-inspired windshield, a printed landscape inspired by Karsten Creightney, and a 3-D mixed-media storefront inspired by Paula Wilson. Limit: 14 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $75.00
Portraits, Places and Costumes (Ages 11-14)
September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24; Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Inspired by Paula Wilson's work in The Woods Before Sunrise, historical photographs, Route 66 fashion, and students' own costume ideas, this class invites students to create playful portraits, masks, props, printed banners, and costume-inspired pieces. Each project gives students room to experiment with character, place, memory, and personal style. Limit: 14 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $75.00
Exploring Together: Stories, Art, and the Places We Love (Ages 3-6 with an adult caregiver)
October 1, 8, 15, 22; Thursdays, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Young children and their caregivers will explore art, nature, and community together through mixed media, printmaking, and sculpture. Inspired by Common Ground and The Woods Before Sunrise: Environment and Place in New Mexico's Black Contemporary, participants will look closely at artwork, share stories, and make art about the places they love while celebrating curiosity, creativity, belonging, and care for the world around them. Limit: 7 students and their caregivers. Instructors: Gigi Yu and Ceinwen Carrejo
Fee: $70.00
A Ticket Back in Time (Ages 9-12)
October 28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 9; Wednesdays, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Step into the spirit of the State Fair in this fun, hands-on class inspired by the museum's Fun at the State Fair! exhibition. Students will explore the history of the New Mexico State Fair while creating vintage-inspired artwork, trying watercolor and photography, and building small fair attractions of their own. Limit: 14 students. Instructor: Remy Sinegal
Fee: $75.00
Nature's Traces: Exploring Lines, Textures, and Color Together (Ages 3-6 with an adult caregiver)
October 29, November 5, 12, 19; Thursdays, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
What colors, textures, and patterns can we discover in the natural world? Inspired by work in the museum's collections and the local environment, toddlers and their caregivers will create handmade inks from natural pigments and explore the expressive possibilities of leaves, sticks, stones, and other organic materials. Through open-ended exploration and shared discovery, participants will experiment with line, texture, and color while investigating how artists transform elements from nature into creative expression. Limit: 7 students and their caregivers. Instructor: Shelly Korte
Fee: $70.00
Road Trips, Rides and Neon! (Ages 6-9)
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11; Fridays, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Students will take a creative trip through New Mexico's roadside history in this class inspired by Fun at the State Fair, The Other Route 66, and Fred Harvey's Route 66. Students will build a playful miniature Route 66 with recycled-material rides, wire-and-foil neon-style signs, and cardboard landmarks. Limit: 14 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $75.00
Memories and Miniatures (Ages 11-14)
October 31, November 7, 14, 21, December 5, 12; Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Inspired by the museum's historical exhibitions, students will create miniature Route 66 buildings using shrink plastic, clay, metal, and wire. They will also design a moveable State Fair ride, bringing memory, place, and imagination together in a small-scale world. Limit: 14 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $75.00
Adult Classes (ages 18 and above)
Coiled Creations for Adults (for all skill levels-no experience necessary)
August 1, 8, 15, 22; Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Baskets have been created in cultures around the world for centuries to carry food, plants, and even children. Many basket-making traditions are based on coiling techniques that provide the structure and stability of each vessel. In this four-session class, participants will learn a variety of coiling techniques using mixed media materials. Students will create unique vessels by using yarn, laundry cord, recycled bags, faux flowers, beads, and other embellishments in their work. All supplies are provided; however, participants are encouraged to bring materials from home that they would like to incorporate into their creations. Limited to 12 adults. Instructor: Shandiin Sunrise
Fee: $100
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.
Landis Pulido is an artist, educator, and healing justice practitioner who believes in co-creating a learning environment which strives to meet each community member where they are. Through the lens of Popular Education, she works towards co-creating an inclusive and safe environment. She believes in bringing in the breath, movement and healing into the arts and creative space to invite wholeness and imagination.
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 attributes her diverse creative talents and disciplines to the strong foundation provided by her parents, Pearl Sunrise and the late Bill Sunrise. She is Diné (Navajo) and Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo). Sunrise is a filmmaker, educator, photographer, multimedia installation artist, performance artist, actress, activist, producer, director, organizer, and a fifth-generation Diné traditional weaver. She works as an independent contractor in Native media, education, and community organizing. Sunrise is the founder of Make It Beautiful Designs (@MakeItBeautifulDesigns), an Indigenous design company. She believes that sharing her creative process through film, mixed media, and weaving with youth serves as a powerful form of insight, communication, cultural connection, and healing.
Teen Corner | Ages Up To 17 | Free
Get Inspired. Get Creative.
Make art anywhere at any time! Teen Corner is a resource for teen artists offered by Albuquerque Museum. Expand your art making abilities or try something entirely new. Browse video lessons that explore a variety of techniques, artist designed color pages, and creative exercises to keep your mind active.
Details subject to change.