Nov 11, 2018 - SOLD OUT Girl Scouts discover jewelry from ancient to modern times in the galleries and make their own pendant necklace.

Nov. 11 class is SOLD OUT Girl Scouts explore the galleries looking at jewelry design from ancient to modern times. Using simple circuitry, they add LED lights to their jewelry creation.

Members (Family level & above) enroll Nov. 19-Dec. 2 See decorative serving ware in our Napoleon exhibition then design your own clay platter.

March 31, 2019 - SOLD OUT Girl Scouts tour the galleries discovering various painting techniques and styles and then create a painting of their own.

SOLD OUT Girl Scouts enjoy sketching in the galleries as they explore various works of art and then create their own drawing.

Visit the galleries to see all sorts of dogs in painting and sculpture and create a teapot in clay representing everyone’s “best friend."

Young children explore art concepts by working with paint, collage and clay. Students should feel comfortable attending class without a parent or guardian.

Students experiment with a variety of art making processes as they investigate nature.

Students create paintings, drawings, clay forms and mixed-media art that has a connection to Ancient Egypt, Greece and China.

Students create three-dimensional forms in a variety of materials.

Students will sketch from art in galleries with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera and more to explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting.

Learn about color mixing and theory, brushstroke, composition, depicting space or distance and finding expressive qualities in your painting.

Draw weekly from art in the galleries and develop your skills at looking closely and translating what you see onto the page in your own unique way.

Develop skills at modeling three-dimensional figures and explore ways to combine clay with other materials, such as wood and wire, to create sculpture.

Sketch from art in our galleries and then develop your drawings into printed images.

Students experiment with a variety of art making processes as they investigate nature.

Students will sketch from art in galleries with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera and more to explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting.

Students create paintings, drawings, clay forms and mixed-media art that has a connection to Ancient Egypt, Greece and China.

March 31, 2019 - SOLD OUT Girl Scouts tour the galleries discovering various painting techniques and styles and then create a painting of their own.

SOLD OUT Explore clay works of art in the galleries and the ways in which they were created.

This watercolor class will give you direction and encouragement for painting buildings as well as textural qualities to enrich their composition.

Learn the history behind Ikebana as well as basic techniques. All materials are provided and the arrangement you create is yours to take home.

Registration closed: SOLD OUT Discover some of the work happening behind-the-scenes at the Nelson-Atkins

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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Explore depicting weather related phenomena in landscape art working with pastels.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Develop your skills working with acrylic paint, including color mixing, use of value, layering and brushstroke.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. See incredible American Indian masks that combine various animal characteristics. After gathering ideas, create a clay relief sculpture of your own mythical combination animal.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Students will visit galleries and practice mixing colors and using the brush to create different paintings.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Work with a variety of materials to create drawings, paintings and sculptures of our favorite furry friends.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Ages 9-13 | Work with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera and inks to explore the fundamentals of drawing, painting and printmaking.

Members (Family level & above) enroll January 21-February 3 Create characters and a three-dimensional stage set to put on your own play.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Ages 7-9 | Work with graphite, charcoal, watercolor, tempera and inks to explore the fundamentals of drawing, painting and printmaking.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Visit the galleries to see artwork that will inspire you to develop original stories expressed through your own unique drawings, paintings and prints.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Explore a variety of hand-building processes to create forms in clay and experiment with various surface treatments.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Work with a variety of materials to create drawings, paintings and sculptures of our favorite furry friends.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Search in the galleries for all kinds of sculpture and create your own three-dimensional art.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Explore the museum galleries and the ABC’s of art together.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Search the galleries for make-believe creatures, places and people as inspiration to develop your own drawings.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Learn the basics of digital photography and explore how to capture great images.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Discover the mythical dragon in the Chinese and Japanese galleries.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Ages 6-8 | Search the galleries for make-believe creatures, places and people as inspiration to develop your own drawings.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Work with a variety of drawing media such as pen and ink, graphite and charcoal to make images that represent the fantastic and unreal.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Go on a hunt for make believe animals in the galleries and create an imaginary creature mask.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Think about “yet to be invented” machines and transform found objects into your own sculpture of an imaginary machine.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.”

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Students will explore printmaking techniques and the art of traditional Chinese brushwork painting.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Listen to favorite books about color, line, shape, patterns and more in the galleries, then create art related to stories.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Use your imagination to draw, paint and sculpt “make-believe” creatures.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Create your own drawings, paintings and sculpture of amazing and make-believe worlds.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Come look at the most famous cats in the world and be inspired to draw your own in cartoons.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Work with paints, dyes and printmaking techniques to create patterns and designs on a variety of fabrics.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Use your imagination to draw, paint and sculpt “make-believe” creatures.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Work with paints, dyes and printmaking techniques to create patterns and designs on a variety of fabrics.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Take a look at art based on fantasy or fiction including the exhibition Expedition to the ChimaCloud.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. See gorgeous and amazing patterns from around the globe and work with acrylic and tempera paints.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. An amazing “outdoor classroom” awaits on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Learn the basics of how to create 3D models using simple computer aided design (CAD) software.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. This class explores the techniques of painting and calligraphy.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Search for mythical dragons in Chinese and Japanese art and design a three-dimensional dragon sculpture.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Learn about Surrealism, play games invented by Surrealist artists and create your own drawings, paintings and sculpture about imaginary people, places, and things.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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!

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Create mono-prints – or single, printed images – as you experiment with using an acetate sheet as the printing plate.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. 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.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Come imagine and create funny fantasy cartoons including your hand drawn and iStopMotion animations, iMovie voice over narrations and music.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Look for and learn all about lines and discover how you can use them in a variety of art processes.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Step into the whimsical world of Alexander Calder and design your own miniature three-dimensional circus.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Visit the museum galleries each day to locate all sorts of mythical beasts in art.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Dream up your own undersea world and create drawings, paintings and sculpture about it.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Visit the museum galleries each day to locate all sorts of mythical beasts in art.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. For beginning and experienced painters alike, this watercolor class will develop your skills to paint water in all three of its forms.

Members (Family level & above) enroll February 11-24. Step into the whimsical world of Alexander Calder and design your own miniature three-dimensional circus.