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Art, yoga, and meditation soothes the body and calms the mind. Participants at all levels of ability are welcome to come and practice yoga in the Museum of Art. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.  Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 am Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28 | Fe...

Art, yoga, and meditation soothes the body and calms the mind. Participants at all levels of ability are welcome to come and practice yoga in the Museum of Art. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.  Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 am Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28 | Fe...

INTRO TO POTTERY: Throwing for Beginners | MORNINGS with Ron Miller | Beginners Learn skill, dexterity, and coordination using the potter’s wheel as a tool of the ceramic-forming process as you are introduced to hand-building and throwing techniques. Develop aesthetics in a contemporary, soc...

Painting + Drawing Group Open Studio Self-Directed | Intermediate Spring open studio for community painting and drawing students. Work on personal projects from sketches or photographs in a collaborative group setting utilizing easels and pallette tables. There is no formal instruction or de...

**New Day + Time! ** Teen Drawing + Painting With Christina Davis | Ages 13 - 17 Develop and improve drawing and painting skills while working alongside other young artists. Perspective, proportion, and color theory are utilized to create realistic drawings and paintings from observation. T...

Drawing Portfolio Development with Christina Hopkins | All Levels Mondays, 4 - 6 pm  A strong portfolio is essential for art students applying to colleges. Learn the drawing skills essential to translate the 3D world onto a 2D surface, covering projects from still-lifes to figur...

INTRO TO POTTERY: Throwing for Beginners | EVENINGS with Ron Miller | Beginners Develop skill, dexterity, and coordination using the potter’s wheel as a tool of the ceramic-forming process as you are introduced to hand-building and throwing techniques. Develop aesthetics in a contemporary, s...

FASHION SEWING FOR BEGINNERS     with Niki English | Beginners | Adults and Ages 16+ Fashion for the absolute beginner! Discover all the basics of operating a sewing machine, how to read a paper pattern, and to properly prepare and cut fabric. Learn basic construction techniqu...

Beginning Jewelry | EVENINGS with Shannon Stockbridge | Beginners     Learn creative fine metalworking through demonstrations and projects geared toward the beginning jeweler. Techniques include sawing, piercing, texturing, riveting, chain making, soldering, and bezel-set...

INTERMEDIATE PAINTING With Joseph Murphy  Expand acrylic painting skills and techniques for illustration and atmosphere in this chill Monday-evening course. Projects encourage explorations of composition, color theory, and techniques to for creating atmosphere and light to develop a nar...

MINI-COURSE | DRAWING 101     with Annette Gurdo | Beginners A six-week course for first-timers as well as those wishing to improve their drawing eye. Students begin with the basic elements of drawing - line, gesture, mark, mass, shape, value and texture - with emphasis on obs...

Beginning Jewelry | AFTERNOONS* with Shannon Stockbridge | Beginners     Learn creative fine metalworking through demonstrations and projects geared toward the beginning jeweler. Techniques include sawing, piercing, texturing, riveting, chain making, soldering, and bezel-...

LANDSCAPE PAINTING with Annette Gurdo | All Levels Celebrate the outdoors....indoors this winter. Students work from landscape photos and studies in the studio. Painting demonstrations and individualized instruction in acrylic or watercolor are featured. Required materials list provided. ...

CERAMIC SCULPTURE: MOLDMAKING With Veronica Byun | Intermediate to Advanced Learn techniques to make open-face and multi-part plaster molds for slip casting from hand-built forms and found objects. Each student generates cast porcelain pieces that are altered and combined to create ceramic s...

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED POTTERY with Veronica Byun | Intermediate to Advanced Learn various throwing techniques, functional design, and surface treatments through demonstrations and personalized instruction. Advanced students may pursue projects of their own choosing with instructional guidance....

DRESS FORM DRESS: Pattern Drafting Basics with Niki English | Intermediate Get your designs ready to wear! Learn the art of flat pattern drafting for apparel. Students will walk away with basic pattern concepts such as flat pattern manipulation, draping, adding ease, methods for adding...

Screen Print, Dream Print: Intro to Silkscreen  With Andrew Mullally, Assistant Professor of Printmaking | Beginners This 6-week course introduces all the basic printing skills needed to get someone new to screenprinting comfortable with the processes through several projects. Topics...

Throwing + Handbuilding with Veronica Byun | Intermediate - Advanced Focus on creating functional, sculptural, decorative pieces. Explore form, size, refinement, and surface both on the wheel and through hand building techniques like slab, extruding, using hump/slump molds, and more. Special...

Studio Painting | Evenings with Yulia Levkovich | Beginners - Intermediate Boost and learn painting skills in acrylic or oil during this evening studio class. Students complete projects from still-lifes and photographs in techniques such as grisaille (a limited color or grey palette study), ...

MINI-COURSE | SALT-FIRED CERAMICS with Veronica Byun | Intermediate Salt firing is embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful and unanticipated results that come from a salt-fired kiln. These four-week workshops will explore form, function, aesthetic values, textures, tac...

Intermediate/Advanced Jewelry with Chris Irick | Intermediate - Advanced  Students work on individual projects of their own design, supported by demonstrations and practical advice from the course professor in the professional jewelry studios at the School of Art. This class emphasizes ...

STUDIO PAINTING | MORNINGS with Chris Cirillo | Beginners - Advanced This class is designed to accommodate beginners to experienced painters and encourage each artist’s intentions and personal development as they investigate painting as a craft as well as a form of expression. Develop your p...

Intro to Ceramic Sculpture: Construction + Composition With Munson-Williams Artist in Residence Dehmie Dehmlow | Beginning - Intermediate Work with artist Dehmie Demlow in Munson-Williams’ historic ceramics studios. Focus on creating sculptural and functional forms using a range of hand buil...

INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED POTTERY with Veronica Byun | Intermediate to Advanced Learn various throwing techniques, functional design, and surface treatments through demonstrations and personalized instruction. Advanced students may pursue projects of their own choosing with instructional guidanc...

Art + Autism With Hannah Reece | Ages 13 - 21 In Partnership with Kelberman, the leading provider of autism services for children, adults and families in the Mohawk Valley and Central New York. This studio class provides teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder an opportunity to...

ART EXPLORATIONS I With Hannah Reece | Ages 4 + 5 This hands-on exploration of art processes helps our youngest artists discover vibrant compositions through a playful understanding of color, collage, painting, and sculpture. Kids enjoy social interactions through activities surrounding clas...

YOUNG ARTISTS Clay + Sculpture With Paula Caruana | Ages 9 - 12 In this clay exploration for the creative preteen, projects range from hand-built functional pottery to ceramic sculpture inspired by famous artists. Lessons focus on popular and historic artists, sculptors, ceramicists, and cul...

 YOUNG ARTISTS Drawing + Painting With Sarah Kilian | Ages 9 - 12 Develop and expand drawing and painting skills using a wide variety of media while working from observation, memory, and imagination. Visits to the Museum of Art give students the opportunity to connect with works of art wh...

YOUNG ARTISTS Stop-Motion Animation With Meghan Pagano | Ages 9 - 12 Action! Create your own stop-motion animations while learning a wide range of skills including operating a camera and tripod, how the stop-motion process works, creating characters, props, scenery and sound effects. Student...

ART EXPLORATIONS II, Drawing + Painting With Alexandria Kraeger | Ages 6 - 8 Children develop drawing skills using a wide variety of media and tools. They learn to work from observation, memory, and imagination while experimenting with forms of drawing and painting. Students learn about famo...

ART EXPLORATIONS II, Clay + Sculpture Ages 6 - 8 Kids create sculptures continuously with clay and glaze, recyclables, fibers, plaster, wire and more as they build sculptures and create them continuously. Students learn about famous sculptors and ceramists while making art in the School of A...

Home, as a concept or location, occupies a prominent place in everyone’s lives. It is the place we were raised, the rooms we occupy, and the memories formed there. These interpretations are explored in the exhibition No Place Like Home, open now in the 1 West Gallery at the Museum of Art. Theme...

Art Appreciation | Black History Month: A Discussion on Blackness in Art with Michael Parks | All Levels, All Welcome These four sessions in February focus on a different aspect of Blackness in Art History, From early Black African art objects and masking to contemporary Black Artists ...

The PrattMWP Gallery is pleased to host a solo-exhibition from multimedia installation artist, Hernease Davis. Opening Reception: Friday, February 3 | 3 to 5 pm Hernease Davis earned her MFA from ICP-Bard College and widely exhibits multimedia installations throughout the...

Not Rated, 113 minutes Directed by Marie Kreutzer, 2022, Austria, Subtitled Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy in this historical drama from writer a...

Broadway Theatre League of Utica and Munson-Williams will partner to display a replica mural for the musical “1776” during MWPAI First Friday Happy Hour at the Museum of Art’s Root Sculpture Court. Learn about “1776,” which kicks off its national tour at the Stanley Theatre on Feb. 10 ...

Not Rated, 113 minutes Directed by Marie Kreutzer, 2022, Austria, Subtitled Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps) rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy in this historical drama from writer a...

Art, yoga, and meditation soothes the body and calms the mind. Participants at all levels of ability are welcome to come and practice yoga in the Museum of Art. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.  Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 am Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28 | Fe...

The Concerts in the Court Series is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, PhD. With half of the group rooted in bluegrass, and the other half steeped in jamband music, the Wisconsin-based Chicken Wire Empire has become one of the most in-demand groups of the “jamgrass” trend born out of the Midw...

Rated R, 117 minutes Directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2022, United States A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Starring Brendan Fraser and based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hun...

Rated R, 117 minutes Directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2022, United States A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Starring Brendan Fraser and based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hun...

MINI-COURSE | FIGURE DRAWING with Yulia Levkovich | All Levels Drawing the human figure is an enjoyable and powerful exploration that serves as a universal link to the culture of artists and art. This class focuses on visual skills and analysis, investigating gesture, proportions, and anatom...

Rated R, 117 minutes Directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2022, United States A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Starring Brendan Fraser and based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hun...

Rated R, 117 minutes Directed by Darren Aronofsky, 2022, United States A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Starring Brendan Fraser and based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hun...

Art, yoga, and meditation soothes the body and calms the mind. Participants at all levels of ability are welcome to come and practice yoga in the Museum of Art. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.  Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 am Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28 | Fe...

Rated PG-13, 102 minutes Directed by Oliver Hermanus, 2022, United Kingdom A veteran civil servant (Bill Nighy) receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young female colleague who seems to have the pep...

Rated PG-13, 102 minutes Directed by Oliver Hermanus, 2022, United Kingdom A veteran civil servant (Bill Nighy) receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young female colleague who seems to have the pep...

Forming Copper Vessels with Luke Towne | All Levels     Learn the essential techniques to transform copper sheet metal into a dimensional, hollow form. Fabricate two introductory functional and decorative projects, a bowl and a vessel/cup. Processes covered include: annealing me...

Rated PG-13, 102 minutes Directed by Oliver Hermanus, 2022, United Kingdom A veteran civil servant (Bill Nighy) receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young female colleague who seems to have the pep...

Rated PG-13, 102 minutes Directed by Oliver Hermanus, 2022, United Kingdom A veteran civil servant (Bill Nighy) receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young female colleague who seems to have the pep...

Art, yoga, and meditation soothes the body and calms the mind. Participants at all levels of ability are welcome to come and practice yoga in the Museum of Art. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.  Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 am Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28 | Fe...

Rated PG-13, 96 minutes Directed by Sarah Polley, 2022, United States The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Through the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to bui...

Rated PG-13, 96 minutes Directed by Sarah Polley, 2022, United States The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Through the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to bui...

Join us for a season of FREE interactive events for kids and families at the Museum. Discover connections to art with hands-on crafts and delight in entertaining family performances as fun and learning combine for shared experiences. Art Alive! events feature live performances at 11 a.m. by nation...

Munson-Williams opens the vaults to present rare works in photography from its collection in InSight, an exhibition that examines contemporary life through the lens of history, nature, portraiture, and photojournalism.  InSight will feature recent additions to the collection that capture t...

Rated PG-13, 96 minutes Directed by Sarah Polley, 2022, United States The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Through the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to bui...

Rated PG-13, 96 minutes Directed by Sarah Polley, 2022, United States The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Through the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to bui...

Art, yoga, and meditation soothes the body and calms the mind. Participants at all levels of ability are welcome to come and practice yoga in the Museum of Art. Wear comfortable clothing and bring your own yoga mat.  Saturdays, 10:30 to 11:45 am Dates: January 7, 14, 21, 28 | Fe...