Section I:
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 6-8 years, beginners & up
Monday - Friday, June 10-14
9:00 - 10:00 am
$45 members; $55 non-members

Section II:
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 9-teen, beginners & up
Monday - Friday, June 10-14
10:00 - 11:00 am
$45 members; $55 non-members

Students will hand build clay heads with sculpted objects (dreams and thoughts) attached to the top.

All supplies are included with children’s classes, unless otherwise noted.

The class term begins June 10.

Students will make various thrown bowls and cups with emphasis on inventive surfaces. Students must have had a previous class in clay at the RMAC.

Students will create a mixed media painting related to the concepts and history of Surrealism. Limp watches, floating ears and upside down trees bring an extraordinary world to life.

Look at the world around you. Everything in this world is designed, from what you choose to wear in the morning, to your Facebook page. Join us for a week of art and architecture as we design and assemble a model of our future home.

Students will investigate clay modeling as we design and actualize fantastic clay creatures. Let your imagination run wild!

Students will make various thrown bowls and cups with emphasis on inventive surfaces. Students must have had a previous class in clay at the RMAC.

Students will build a spellbinding 3D construction.

Instructor: Anna Edwards
Age: Adult, beginners & up
Tuesdays for 8 weeks
June 13-August 8
(class will not meet on July 4)
7:00 - 10:00 pm
$90 members; $115 non-members

Whether new or experienced with clay, we will explore intensive skill building in areas of weakness. Learn when to touch your project and when to leave it alone. Instruction will be tailored to the individual needs of each student.

Depicting the human form is one of the most exciting and challenging aspects of drawing practice. Using a variety of approaches, this introductory course will focus on the human form using both the live model and other sources. Students will leave this class with an understanding of gesture, proportion, anatomy and most importantly, dynamic, natural representations of the human body. This course is ideal for both those with no drawing experience and those who want to brush up their skills. When models are employed, students will be asked to split the fee evenly.

Students will learn to mix tints, tones and shades while gaining skill in creating a value structure for a painting. There will be an emphasis on the importance of preparing the palette as well as correct choice of brushes. Using these tools, we will mold a color effect based on the book Creative Color by Faber Birren. Supply list available upon registration.

Join us for our continuing nine-month program of gallery experiences and hands-on art activities for students in grades 3 – 12 on the second Saturday of the month.
To register a student for an upcoming session, please call the Museum at 575-624-6744, ext. 22. Space is limited. This program is sponsored by the Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation.

Make contact microphones, record sound loops using tape recorders, and create a collaborative sound environment. This is the perfect workshop for aspiring experimental musicians.

 

Students will be introduced to a variety of jewelry crafting techniques to achieve their desired look using a torch and a wide variety of tools and small machines. They can expect to create a minimum of two copper enameled pieces.

Participants will expand skills learned in the Basic Enameling to make more intricate, self- designed work. A variety of shapes, a wider palette of colors, and an assortment of tools will be used to shape, design, and embellish enameled pieces. Participants can expect to go home with a self- made, finished bracelet. Students must have had a previous class in enameling at RMAC.

Combine engineering with art as you build your own kinetic sculptures. Students will learn about basic actuators (motors, linear actuators, hand cranks) as well as mechanisms (levers, cams, pulleys), then construct artful simple machines with no practical purpose.

The ceramic work of Miranda Howe reveals her fascination with the cadence of fluid repetition and rhythms often associated geological elements, decorative ornamentation, and architectural components. And, as a counterpoint to the lyrical flow found in such elements, she incorporates fissures, the fault lines and fractures that often disrupt the calm as a harbinger of change.

In anticipation of you and your pets taking to the stage, now is the time to begin designing your garb for this wonderfully whacky program kicks off with the pets taking the runway at 10 a.m. and human entries go on stage to strut their cosmic designs at 3:00 p.m. There is no registration fee and cash awards will be presented.
Pets must be registered by 9:00 a.m. and humans by 1:00 p.m. on the day of the event. To pre-register, call the Museum at 575-624-6744, extension 10.

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Lecture and Reception: Ven Voisey: Unfinished Animal
Multi-disciplinary artist Ven Voisey takes his inspiration from the human animal’s desire to create. However, his overreaching interest in communication – the possibility or impossibility of translation – is across cultural barriers, species, time and technology. Voisey will discuss the works constructed for this exhibition and how they may be employed as tools to evoke questions, straddling the division that separates the absurd and mundane from what is valued and sacred or the profane or useless.