Adult Art Workshops
The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art is pleased to offer a variety of art workshops for ages 16 and up. We generally offer 2-4 workshops per year. All of the workshops are taught by experienced art educators and/or professional artists. The classes are most often offered during the weekend and last one full day. Most of the workshops include the necessary supplies; however, in some cases, attendees will need to bring some every-day objects from home (such as tape, hand tools, paper towels, etc.). If they so choose, attendees may bring their own art equipment and supplies (brushes, pastels, etc.).
Past workshops included:
- Pastel Painting with Becky Way
- Watercolor Wax Batik with Beth Wilhelm
- Leather Masks with Patrick Riley
- Gourd Baskets with Tina Bly
- Basket Weaving with Pauline Asbury
Artists interested in teaching a workshop should contact the MGMoA Education Department.
2012 Workshops
Classical Drawing with Katherine Liontas Warren
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, June 9, 10am-4pm
Registration Required. Open to Ages 16+
Explore the subtleties and techniques of realistic drawing with Katherine Liontas-Warren. Learn to combine additive and subtractive methods of drawing and modeling with charcoal (vine and compressed) and charcoal pencils to capture incredible detail and render a wide range of values, capturing the illusion of mass and volume. These methods are applicable to artists working with landscape, still life, and portrait subjects.
Katherine Liontas-Warren, Professor of Art at Cameron University, holds a Master of Fine Art degree from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Connecticut State University. For the past 27 years, she has exhibited in over 20 Solo shows and 275 national and regional juried competitive exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, and has received numerous purchase and juried awards. In 2011 she was the recipient of the Bhattacharya Research Excellence Award at Cameron University. Many of her prints and drawings are in permanent collections throughout the nation and can be located in university galleries, museums, and private institutions. In 2010, the Paseo Art Association awarded her "Artist of the Year" in Oklahoma City. Recently, she was featured in the documentary Earth Chronicles Project, the Artist's Process: Oklahoma. Her solo exhibit, Oklahoma Perspectives, opens at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art on May 4.
All supplies are included with tuition.
Members $75
Non-Members $85
Senior/Teachers/Students $80
Register Online Now! or call 405-878-5605
Registration Deadline is May 31.
Jewelry Studio, Basic with Patti Eayre
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, July 28, 10am-4pm
Registration Required. Open to Ages 16+
Learn the basics of jewelry hand tools, jewelry materials and techniques for making quality beaded wire, strung, and illusion jewelry using wire wrap connections, crimps and stringing materials, and other findings. In this workshop, create several finished pieces in varying mediums such as copper, artistic wire, natural stone and glass.
Patti Eayre is a jewelry designer and wire artist native to California who moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma in early 2011. She is the sister of Linda Dixon, a well-known local artist and art teacher, in Shawnee. Having attended Humboldt State University's jewelry and metalsmithing program, she has been designing jewelry and wire art since 1992. One-of-a-kind and limited edition jewelry with focus on sterling silver, 14k gold fill and natural stone is her passion. Her work has sold throughout Northern California at art shows and fairs since 2000. Currently she sells these pieces through the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art gift shop. As the owner and designer at Perfect-Match-Bridal-Jewelry.com, a web-based jewelry business, Patti combines her love of jewelry and wire art to create wedding jewelry and hair accessories that are custom color-matched with Swarovski Crystallized Elements. Patti places high value on fine craftsmanship and believes in creating quality jewelry as wearable art.
All supplies are included with tuition.
Members $65
Non-Members $75
Senior/Teachers/Students $70
Tools will be provided for use during the workshop. Participants have the option of purchasing a basic tool kit to take home with them at the workshop for $25.
Register Online Now! or call 405-878-5605
Registration Deadline is July 12.
Cancellation Policy:
The MGMoA relies on confirmed attendance to make important arrangements for the workshop. Please notify the museum of any cancelation no fewer than 14 days prior to the first day of the workshop for a full refund of tuition fees. Refunds cannot be made for cancellations initiated within 14 days of the first day of the scheduled workshop, or for no-shows, for any reason. Workshop registration may be transferred. Please contact the museum education department to make arrangements.
In the extremely rare event that the MGMoA needs to cancel the workshop, participants will be contacted immediately and given a full refund of tuition. The MGMoA will not be held responsible for refunding travel expenses.
Drawings by Katherine Liontas-Warren
Jewelry by Patti Eayre
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