Adult/child pair will learn about Ikebana, the Japanese art form that dates back over a thousand years, and then create and take home your own floral arrangement.

Visit the Japanese gallery to see art that celebrates nature and design your own clay platter based upon a floral pattern design.

Explore depicting weather related phenomena in landscape art working with pastels.

Develop your skills working with acrylic paint, including color mixing, use of value, layering and brushstroke.

See incredible American Indian masks that combine various animal characteristics. After gathering ideas, create a clay relief sculpture of your own mythical combination animal.

Visit museum galleries to learn how how artists have used techniques to create the illusion of space. Students will create both a drawing as well as a print using a foam plate process during the workshop.

Students will visit galleries and practice mixing colors and using the brush to create different paintings.

Create characters and a three-dimensional stage set to put on your own play! Visit the galleries to see art that tells a story with interesting people and memorable places.

Work with a variety of materials to create drawings, paintings and sculptures of our favorite furry friends.

Ages 9-13 | Work with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera and inks to explore the fundamentals of drawing, painting and printmaking.

Create characters and a three-dimensional stage set to put on your own play.

Ages 7-9 | Work with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera and inks to explore the fundamentals of drawing, painting and printmaking.

Visit the galleries to see artwork that will inspire you to develop original stories expressed through your own unique drawings, paintings and prints.

Explore a variety of hand-building processes to create forms in clay and experiment with various surface treatments.

Work with a variety of materials to create drawings, paintings and sculptures of our favorite furry friends.

Search in the galleries for all kinds of sculpture and create your own three-dimensional art.

Explore the museum galleries and the ABC’s of art together.

Search the galleries for make-believe creatures, places and people as inspiration to develop your own drawings.

Learn the basics of digital photography and explore how to capture great images.

Discover the mythical dragon in the Chinese and Japanese galleries.

Ages 6-8 | Search the galleries for make-believe creatures, places and people as inspiration to develop your own drawings.

Work with a variety of drawing media such as pen and ink, graphite and charcoal to make images that represent the fantastic and unreal.

Go on a hunt for make believe animals in the galleries and create an imaginary creature mask.

Think about “yet to be invented” machines and transform found objects into your own sculpture of an imaginary machine.

Visit the galleries to see and talk about Surrealism, a style of art influenced by dreams and the subconscious mind. Then create mono-prints that depict your own unusual combinations of an unreal “reality.”

Students will explore printmaking techniques and the art of traditional Chinese brushwork painting.

Listen to favorite books about color, line, shape, patterns and more in the galleries, then create art related to stories.

Use your imagination to draw, paint and sculpt “make-believe” creatures.

Create your own drawings, paintings and sculpture of amazing and make-believe worlds.

Come look at the most famous cats in the world and be inspired to draw your own in cartoons.

Work with paints, dyes and printmaking techniques to create patterns and designs on a variety of fabrics.

Use your imagination to draw, paint and sculpt “make-believe” creatures.

Work with paints, dyes and printmaking techniques to create patterns and designs on a variety of fabrics.

Time to experiment! Try making art that begins with something beyond your control and use your creativity and imagination to transform the “accident” into unique drawings, paintings and prints.

Take a look at art based on fantasy or fiction including the exhibition Expedition to the ChimaCloud.

See gorgeous and amazing patterns from around the globe and work with acrylic and tempera paints.

In conjunction with the featured exhibition 30 Americans, this mixed media workshop explores our individual history and layered identity, by combining process, material and concepts.

An amazing “outdoor classroom” awaits on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park.

Learn the basics of how to create 3D models using simple computer aided design (CAD) software.

Experiment with drawing and painting as you explore the Bloch Galleries of European Art. Studio processes will focus on working with color, light and mark-making using nature and landscape as the subject matter.

This class explores the techniques of painting and calligraphy.

Imagine what it would be like to fly! Take flight through the galleries to see all types of creatures with wings and create your own fantastic flying animal.

Search for mythical dragons in Chinese and Japanese art and design a three-dimensional dragon sculpture.

Visit the multi-media exhibition Expedition to the ChimaCloud, which tells the story of an alternative fantasy universe. Then create mixed-media drawings based on digital projections and fueled by your imagination.

Learn about Surrealism, play games invented by Surrealist artists and create your own drawings, paintings and sculpture about imaginary people, places, and things.

Jump-start your imagination and day-dreams and up pop funny fantasies to draw. Create funny characters by drawing eyes, ears and noses on basic shapes like pancakes, squares, snowflakes and clams!

Create mono-prints – or single, printed images – as you experiment with using an acetate sheet as the printing plate.

Visit the modern and contemporary galleries to see the museum’s collection of Surrealist landscape paintings full of mysterious, strange forms. Create your own vision of a dream-like mythical world using drawing, painting and collage.

See and learn about art in the galleries made for the afterlife and create a variety of drawings, paintings, sculpture and mixed-media artwork inspired by these tomb treasures.

Come imagine and create funny fantasy cartoons including your hand drawn and iStopMotion animations, iMovie voice over narrations and music.

Look for and learn all about lines and discover how you can use them in a variety of art processes.

Step into the whimsical world of Alexander Calder and design your own miniature three-dimensional circus.

Visit the museum galleries each day to locate all sorts of mythical beasts in art.

Dream up your own undersea world and create drawings, paintings and sculpture about it.

Visit the museum galleries each day to locate all sorts of mythical beasts in art.

For beginning and experienced painters alike, this watercolor class will develop your skills to paint water in all three of its forms.

Step into the whimsical world of Alexander Calder and design your own miniature three-dimensional circus.