Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day Live!
Get free general admission for up to two people in advance at smithsonianmag.com/museumday, featuring storytime activities led by Carrie Heflin of the National Museum of American History.
Culture & Cocktails: Gingerbread, Magic, and Merriment
Shake up your museum experience with an eclectic mix of culinary treats and cultural entertainment! Escape into a sugary and magical world while enjoying festive cocktails, holiday entertainment, planetarium shows and the lights of the Quadrangle Green.
Culture & Cocktails: Oktoberfest – The Art of the Brew
Shake up your museum experience with an eclectic mix of culinary treats and cultural entertainment! Our popular annual beer tasting and homebrew competition.
Sculpting a Portrait in Clay
Working with a female model we'll use hollow sculpting techniques to make a life size portrait in clay. Part of the class will study the basic anatomy and structure of…
Painting Birds in Watercolor
Tackle the challenging, but rewarding genre of rendering birds in watercolors. Some of the specific areas we’ll focus on include texture, feathers, reflective surfaces like eyes and beaks, and underlying…
Painting Flowers in Watercolor
Flowers are a perfect subject for watercolors – this transparent medium is ideal for capturing the translucency of petals and leaves. Explore the use of wet-in-wet, edge control and color…
Introduction to Watercolors
Explore the challenges and opportunities of transparent watercolors: graded washes, controlling edges, masking, etc. We’ll paint a still life, exploring wet-in-wet, splatter and other texture effects in the background, moving…
Intro to Pastels Workshop
A versatile medium for both the beginner and intermediate, pastels emit an intensity of color unchallenged by any other medium. Students will be guided from start to finish, establishing proportion…
Expressive Acrylic Painting & Collage Techniques
Explore a number of techniques for handling acrylic paint along with collage techniques. Stimulate your creativity and jump into the unknown where we will play, explore, experiment and have fun…
Exploring Color: Color Theory
Develop a deeper understanding of the properties of color through a series of fun and addictive color projects. Working in a variety of materials, learn to mix color, identify the…