Classes
Join a friendly teaching artist for an engaging series of on-demand online lessons, intended for young learners in high school school. Take inspiration from works in our collection to learn how different techniques and materials can help you identify the story you want to tell.
Join a friendly teaching artist for an engaging series of on-demand online lessons, intended for young learners in middle school. Build your drawing and painting skills in this series of exploratory exercises and a final project focused on developing a self-portrait that is a unique multi-media artwork.
Discover the ways photography has shaped our reception, reactions, and critique of contemporary warfare in this four-part online course.
Former Carnegie Museum of Art Curator of Photography Linda Benedict-Jones shares her vast knowledge about photography! Throughout history, the bustling complexity of city life—its people, structures, and culture—has intrigued photographers. This two-part class will focus on the nature of this fascination. Choose between Wednesday or Saturday sessions.
This course investigates the shifting terrain of art after the World Wars. Discover how artists interpreted the rapid cultural change and expressed their ideas during a global moment of transition.
This course investigates the shifting terrain of art after the World Wars. Discover how artists interpreted the rapid cultural change and expressed their ideas during a global moment of transition.
Discover how Impressionists, including Monet, Degas, and Renoir, railed against academic tradition to become truly revolutionary, ushering in a new era of visual art.
Discover how Impressionists, including Monet, Degas, and Renoir, railed against academic tradition to become truly revolutionary, ushering in a new era of visual art.
The second in a series of five classes, this course takes you into the formative eras of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art.
The second in a series of five classes, this course takes you into the formative eras of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art.
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the Baroque period and every cultural shift in between, this course traces the major trends in art history from 1000 to the late 1800s.
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the Baroque period and every cultural shift in between, this course traces the major trends in art history from 1000 to the late 1800s.
The first in a series of five classes, this course takes you into the art and architecture of ancient Greek and Rome.
Discover art from ancient times up to our contemporary moment. A prerequisite for becoming a docent at Carnegie Museum of Art, this series only comes around once every few years.
The first in a series of five classes, this course takes you into the art and architecture of ancient Greek and Rome.
Discover art from ancient times up to our contemporary moment. A prerequisite for becoming a docent at Carnegie Museum of Art, this series only comes around once every few years.
Pittsburgh is having a contemporary art moment this fall. Brush up!
Designed in anticipation of the 57th Carnegie International (opening October 13), this course will mine Carnegie Museum of Art’s rich collection of international art since 1970.
Pittsburgh is having a contemporary art moment this fall. Brush up!
Designed in anticipation of the 57th Carnegie International (opening October 13), this course will mine Carnegie Museum of Art’s rich collection of international art since 1970.
Game of Thrones might not be your cup of tea (or mead) but many of the fantastical people, places, objects, and beasts are based in real medieval history. Become familiar with the beasts, buildings, monuments, and manuscripts, influenced by everything from the fall of the Roman empire, to the rise of Christianity, to the ravages of the Black Death.
Game of Thrones might not be your cup of tea (or mead) but many of the fantastical people, places, objects, and beasts are based in real medieval history. Become familiar with the beasts, buildings, monuments, and manuscripts, influenced by everything from the fall of the Roman empire, to the rise of Christianity, to the ravages of the Black Death.
Celebrate the rare showing of Hiroshige’s Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road with a deep dive into the development and pervasive influence of Japanese art.
Celebrate the rare showing of Hiroshige’s Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road with a deep dive into the development and pervasive influence of Japanese art.
Beginning with ancient Greece and ending with the Renaissance in Europe, this 4-week course will explore the styles, meanings, and uses of some of the buildings represented in our majestic Hall of Architecture.
Former Carnegie Museum of Art Curator of Photography, Linda Benedict-Jones, comes out of retirement to share her vast knowledge about the history of photography! As we share some of the first photographs ever made in William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography, learn who came before and after Talbot and examine how images were made and enjoyed.
Ways of Seeing, John Berger’s cultural game-changer of a book, designed by Richard Hollis, will launch an exploration of what typography and design can do to an argument. Cut, paste, and photocopy to create a poster relaunch of the 1971 classic.
Create photograms—camera-less photographs—with Pittsburgh as a backdrop!
Silver Eye Center for Photography’s exhibition, Past Present Future: Western Pennsylvania’s Places and People, will serve as inspiration for this session led by Ashley McNelis, Curatorial Assistant, Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018.
