FREE VIRTUAL ART MAKING WITH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The Arts Council of Princeton partners with the Princeton University Art Museum to provide free virtual art-making classes. Weekly classes are taught by ACP artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom. Techniques emphasize drawing with pen, pastel paint or pencil on paper. Each week’s lesson features works from the Museum’s collections.

To watch recordings of previous lessons, click here.

Drawing from the Collections: watercolors


Drawing from the Collections | Watercolors
: We’re kicking things off with Impressionism and Claude Monet’s depiction of his treasured gardens in Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge (1899)

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Drawing from the Collections |
Watercolors: For this week’s theme of Realism, we’re finding inspiration in this slender vase with a wisteria design, created by the Meiji-era Japanese artist Gotō Seizaburō.

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Drawing from the Collections | Watercolors:This week’s session will be dedicated to the exploration of texture, inspired by this cheekpiece in the form of a winged mouflon, an Iranian bronze sculpture dating back to 800–650 BCE. 

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Drawing from the Collections | Watercolors: For this week’s theme of creative composition, we’ll take a close look at Jane Irish’s site-specific installation for the new Museum, Cosmos Beyond Atrocity (2024).  

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Events will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the “CC” icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.

Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar “español” o el idioma de su elección.