May 11 – May 17 is Museum Week, the worldwide festival for cultural institutions on social media! Here’s a look at #NMOAatHOME’s schedule of programming this week.
Art Faceoff Online Edition
– Monday, May 11, 2pm
Let the Newark Museum of Art share YOUR art! Create an original artwork based on a piece from the NMOA’s collection for the chance to be featured on their social media feeds.
This competition takes place twice a month and comes with a $75 prize for the winner. New challenge announced at 2pm. Tag your post with #ArtFaceoffNMOA to enter!
Online Drawing Course: Alternative Mark Making
May 12, May 15, May 19 and May 22, Noon – 1pm
Learn the basics of Life Drawing in a four-part online course. Participants will practice sketching, gesture, perspective, gradient, and composition to translate real objects and spaces onto paper with teaching artist: Esmeralda Vazquez. $45 Adults, $40 members, seniors and students
Register here
After registration, participants will receive links to join the course’s Closed Facebook Group for assignments, discussion, and critiques of work in addition to links to join each session’s Zoom meeting.
Science Pill Live: Chromatics: The Science of Color
Tuesday, May 12, Noon
Explore the beautiful world of color theory and discover how to mix colors without touching them. Find out how colors mix, match or contrast with each other. How does mixing light compare to mixing paints? Here you’ll find out. What colors will you create?.
Click here to register for the Zoom session. This program will also be streamed on Facebook live.
Museum Crawl: The Pre-Raphaelites, with the Birmingham Museums Trust, UK
Wednesday, May 13, 11am
Discover the dramatic works of Victorian avant garde painters, the Pre-Raphaelites, with Victoria Osborne of the Birmingham Museums Trust, UK.
Click here to register for the Zoom session. Will also stream on Facebook live.
Lunch & Learn: Luke Haynes
Thursday, May 14, Noon
Contemporary artist Luke Haynes discusses his work, part of an upcoming exhibition at the Museum—a museum moment in the making! Subverting the traditional quilting form by integrating modern concepts, Haynes transforms the comfortably familiar into the visually evocative.
Click here to register for the Zoom session. Will also stream on Facebook live.
Storytime Live: Harry and Horsie, by Katie Van Camp
Saturday, May 16, 10am
An exciting story about a boy and his adventure in outer space to save his best friend. Led by Museum educator Alyse Petracca, Storytime is followed by a fun art-making activity: create your own cardboard tube rocket!
Materials needed for the activity: cardboard tubes, construction paper, scissors, glue, markers or crayons
Click here to register here for the Zoom session. Will also stream on Facebook live.
