Monday, April 30, 2007
Michelle Lenihan guided a class of six children through the “Sufi Arts in Urban Senegal” exhibition in the Spencer Museum of Art, explaining what “Muslim” meant. The group stopped to study a reverse glass painting of Noah’s Arc.
Liam Hoey-Kummerow, 5, of Lawrence, works on an art project during a children's art appreciation class in Spencer Art Museum. Saturday's class was entitled "art in nature". The students learned about different approaches to art and then created their own masterpieces.
Children ages 5 to 14 gathered Saturday at the museum to learn how contemporary African artists performed reverse glass painting. After the lesson, the participants had a chance to create their own paintings based on the techniques they learned.
Lenihan, Overland Park graduate student, explained that reverse glass paintings were paintings on glass that required the painting process to be performed backward with detail first. The class painted rainbows, faces and animals on their individual pieces of glass.
“Be careful because the paintings have eyes and they watch wherever you go,” 11-year-old Tienna said.
Lauren Kernes, youth and family outreach coordinator for the museum, said the classes were important because they introduced art concepts to children in a way they might not learn otherwise.
Two Saturdays each month during the school year and every Saturday during the summer, participants are invited to the museum for children’s art appreciation classes like this one.
The teachers are visual art students who are employed by the University of Kansas.
The museum offers scholarships to children to help pay for the classes, which cost $12 and last two hours.
The children’s art will be on display in the museum for Family Day on May 12.
Kansan staff writer Bethany Bunch can be reached at bbunch@kansan.com.
— Edited by Ashley Thompson
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