DIY Projects, Classes, & Resources
Virtual DIY Art Instruction Videos, Classes, and Resources
In collaboration with the Johnson Museum, the Museum Club, and SEAM (Student Educations: Art & the Museum), we are offering a series of virtual DIY classes! We are offering different mediums: clay, watercolor, pencil, and more! While supplies are provided to some participants, it is encouraged to use whatever material you have access to!
November 14 Take 'N Make: Clay hands
Join the Museum Club and SEAM (Student Educators: Art & the Museum) for an clay hands class to creat Ernestine by John Ahearn in collaboration with Rigoberto Torres. Register here for the November 14 event and pick up your pre-packaged material kits!
Take 'N Make: Still life with watercolor pencils
Join the Museum Club and SEAM (Student Educators: Art & the Museum) for a still life with watercolor pencils class to draw Still Life with Thistle by Otto Marseus van Schriek. While supplies were provided to some participants, it is encouraged to use whatever material you have access to!
Click here to access the video (coming soon).
Collection Coloring Book
Relax and experiment!
Favorites from across our permanent collection have been adapted for coloring by Sabrina Haertig ’22, the Summer 2020 Nancy Horton Bartels ’48 Scholar for Education at the Johnson.
Virtual Class: Line draw a waterfall!
Looking to tap into your creative side? Madison Albano '22 recorded this instructional video on line drawing an Ithaca waterfall for Cornell Q-Week 2020 events.
The video is a around 1 hour long. You can watch this by yourself, or as a group! Use watercolors, crayons, pencils -- whatever you have! Share with us your results at activities@cornell.edu or Instagram at @cu_campusactivities! We can add your artwork here :)
Click here to access the video.
Virtual Paint & Snack: Paint the Clocktower!
Looking to tap into your creative side? Madison Albano '22 recorded this instructional video on painting our lovely clocktower for a Virtual Senior Days 2020 event.
The video is a little under 2 hours long. You can watch this by yourself, or as a group! Use watercolors, crayons, pencils -- whatever you have! Share with us your results at activities@cornell.edu or Instagram at @cu_campusactivities! We can add your artwork here :)