Register Now for Fall Art Classes October 1, 2008

Registration has already begun for the second fall session of Studio Programs art classes at the Las Cruces Museum of Art. Class schedules and registration forms are available at the Museum and on the website http://museums.las-cruces.org. Classes will begin the week of October 27 and end the week of December 15. Classes will not meet Thanksgiving week.

For adults, a variety of clay classes are available, such as Animal Sculpture, Extreme Hand-Building and Elaborate Surfaces in Clay. The Museum now offers several painting classes: Acrylic, Classical Oil Painting and a one-day Renaissance Oil Painting Workshop. Mixed Media Sculpture, creating art with assemblage and found objects, is also offered. The Museum is proud to introduce Triangular Shawl Weaving, a four-week workshop on creating wearable fiber art.

Classes for young artists include ceramics, with classes to accommodate ages 6 – 12, and Story-Time Art, for ages 9-12, which uses music, stories, and mythology to spark the imagination. For ages 5-8, the Museum now offers Imagination Design Adventures, exploring drawing, painting, and collage. Art-o-Rific Mix-o-Rama, for ages 6-8, is a new class featuring projects inspired by famous painters.

The Las Cruces Museum of Art is located at 491 N. Main St., on the north end of the Downtown Mall. For more information, please call 575-541-2137.