Thank you for your interest in the Holter’s upcoming classes and workshops for adults! You may register online by clicking the links below or by calling 442-6400 ext. 115.  The museum is closed for installing new exhibitions until Friday, January 20. If you would like to mail in your registration & tuition payment, please send it to: Holter Museum Education, Attn: Hannah Gilbert, 12 E. Lawrence St., Helena, MT 59601. Be sure to let us know which class you’d like to sign up for!

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Mondays, February 27–March 19, 6-8:30pm
& Saturday, March 3: Photo Fieldtrip, 9am-12noon
Ability: all levels; basic computer skills are essential!
Bring: your own laptop with Adobe Lightroom already installed or download the free 30-day trial version a few days before class begins.

Are you tired of having hundreds or thousands of photographs scattered across your computer’s hard drive, or stuck in the cumbersome iPhoto software! Focus on what you love about photography with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software, an intuitive digital darkroom and efficient assistant designed for serious amateur and professional photographers. You’ll wonder how you ever survived without this remarkable tool that easily organizes, edits, and showcases all of your images. A Saturday morning photo fieldtrip will bring new perspectives to your photography.

Tuition: $115 members / $155 non-members

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Wednesdays, February 29–March 21, 6-9pm
Ability: all levels
Materials: provided

Create large abstract works with acrylic paints and collage techniques. Each session will feature a different approach to making abstract works. Image slides and art books will provide references and ideas for students.

Tuition: $120 members; $160 non-members

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Saturday, February 25, 9am-4pm
(lunch break included)
Ability: Beginner and up
Materials: Please bring new or used set of oil paints, several small flat and rounded oil brushes, a fan brush and rags. Small canvases and odorless cleaning solvents will be provided.

Have fun creating small oil landscape sketches that can be works of art in themselves, or the inspiration for larger paintings. The focus will be on color mixing, simplified composition, gesture and brushwork. Make your own small masterpiece after examining some relevant works of 17th-20th century master painters.

Tuition: $70 members; $110 non-members

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Saturday, March 10, 9am-3pm
Ability: all levels
Materials: provided

Ukrainians are famous for their colorful eggs. Learn the traditional art of Pysanky and create your own beautiful Ukrainian eggs. Pysanky is a wax relief process for the design, followed by layers of dyeing. When waxing and dyeing are complete, the egg is blown, the wax is melted and wiped, and then the egg is varnished.
* Enrollment is limited to 8 students.

Tuition: $65 members; $105 non-members

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Saturday, March 10, 9am-3pm
Ability: all levels welcome
Materials: please bring a sketchbook or drawing paper, pencil, any flat textural items you may wish to use, cheap latex gloves, and an x-acto knife if you have one.

The collagraph is one of the most accessible methods of printmaking. This class will allow students with or without traditional printmaking experience to explore the basics and the possibilities of the collagraph process with Missoula artist Bev Beck Glueckert. Prints are created by experimenting with various textural materials and intaglio/collagraph printing techniques. Non-toxic inks, paper, and other materials included.

Tuition: $70 members; $110 non-members

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Tuesdays, April 17–May 8, 7-9pm
Ability: all levels welcome
Materials: please bring your favorite drawing materials and paper

This class is designed to help you draw better by conquering challenges that help illuminate the principals of drawing. Find your own unique solutions to these exercises as you work from both life and memory, abstractly and conceptually, in miniature and large-scale. Broaden your choice of materials to incorporate colored pencil, pastel, ink, collage, and more.

Tuition: $80 members; $120 non-members

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Saturday, April 21, 9am-4pm
Ability: all levels welcome
Materials: provided

Pastel is a wonderfully versatile painting medium. Participants will explore unique textures and effects using soft “chalk” pastels. With supportive guidance, participants will create a landscape working from a photo of their choice.

Tuition: $80 members; $120 non-members