Creating with Pastels (Ages 8-11)

Explore Mia’s collection of pastel artworks, then learn the techniques to create your own. Experiment with portraits, landscapes, and still lifes using oil and water-based pastels. Led by instructor Graci Horne.

Mia’s youth classes provide fun and challenging hands on art experiences that are enriched and inspired by works of art in the museum’s collection and special exhibitions. Led by experienced art instructors, museum classes offer young people a global view of art history, as well as fascinating insights into artists, techniques, and styles. In the galleries, students spend time learning directly from masterpieces. In the studio, students develop basic art skills, experiment with an array of artistic mediums, and gain confidence through exercises that foster self expression. Creative problem-solving and art-making activities are integrated into each class. Selected artworks by students are displayed in the Community Commons Gallery in the fall.

Click here to register for this class. Registration closes July 10.

 

About the instructor:

Hapistinna (female given name; Dakota for third-born girl) Graci Horne was born and raised in Mnisota (Minnesota). Her bands are the Sisseton Whapeton Dakota people and Hunkpapa Lakota and Dakota people. She is a mixed-media artist—acrylic paint, ink, watercolor—and also creates works in photography, film, and poetry. Horne holds a degree in museum studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Her specialty is curation, exhibition planning, and instructing art-making workshops for people ages 2 to 100 years.