About Virtual Classes
ArtsMuse offers virtual classes via Zoom on a variety of art and culture topics. Classes run approximately 90 minutes, depending upon discussion. No art history background necessary. Sections are capped at 25 students to keep things intimate.
Cost: $30 per class. To secure your spot, you must register. Payment can be made using a credit card (Visa or Mastercard) or Pay Pal in the registration section, or directly through Venmo or Apple Pay.
Zoom links are typically sent out the evening before class - or shortly after you register if it’s the day of. *You may register up to 20 minutes before class.
*Register and pay for classes by clicking on specific time/date links below. If that date/time doesn’t work with your schedule, you can purchase a video.
CLASS OFFERINGS
June 2025
ARTISTS IN WONDERLAND: WOMEN SURREALISTS IN MEXICO – Tues. June 24 at 5:30pm EST-OR- Wed. June 25 at 7:30pm EST ***Special ArtsMuse class with MAYA JIMÉNEZ - GUEST INSTRUCTOR & LATIN AMERICAN ART EXPERT
Proclaimed by French surrealist André Breton as “the surrealist country par excellence,” Mexico became a haven for European emigrés, particularly women like the English-born Leonora Carrington, Spanish-born Remedios Varo, Hungarian-born Kati Horna, and Italian-born Tina Modotti. The convergence of artists in Mexico City, from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, added to the already growing artistic community of local artists like Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Lola Álvarez Bravo. Join Maya Jiménez as she explores the allure of both Surrealism and Mexico City for these women, as well as how they grappled with expatriation, womanhood, and motherhood.
July 2025
OUT OF THIS WORLD: THE “SPACE RACE” AND THE ART & CULTURE OF THE 1960s. – Wed. July 2 at 7:30pm EST (*Repeat Class From 2022)
Fueled by a booming economy, post WWII aspirations, and intense Cold War rivalry, the “Space Race” captured the imaginations of Americans during the early 1960s, evoking a simultaneously frightening and exhilarating proposition. Artists Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, James Rosenquist, Alma Thomas and many others responded to the advent of space exploration with remarkably evocative and forward-looking works – abstract as well as figurative – long before Hollywood ever envisioned the imagery for Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. Looking at the art (architecture, fashion, film, tv, etc.) of the past, we will discover that much of 1960s culture was well … out of this world!!!
MORE SUMMER CLASSES – TBA SOON
MORE UPCOMING TOPICS
*Repeat: Out of This World: The “Space Race” and Art & Culture of the 1960s
Weaving Worlds
James McNeill Whistler
Jack Whitten and Friends
9th Street Women
*Repeat: Faith Ringgold
One Man’s Trash: The Art of Assemblage in the 1950s and ‘60s
Leonora Carrington (British, 1917-2011), And Then We Saw The Daughter of the Minotaur, 1953. Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 × 27 9/16". The Museum of Modern Art.