August 31, 2020
for McMaster First Year Students
August 31, September 1 and 2 from 8-9 pm
Join us in the McMaster Museum of Art Sketching Room to learn how an artist begins an artwork by sketching it! Bring your pencil and paper and we’ll examine the composition and history of Emile Bernard’s 1887 painting “Still Life with a Bowl of Fruit.” Welcome Week info
for McMaster Community – All students, staff, and faculty
Thursdays Sept 3 – Dec 10 from 3:30 – 4:30 pm (excluding break week)
Join in an online sketching session led by Master education staff and alumni. Each week, you’ll be inspired by a different work of art from McMaster’s collection. Participants are welcome to sketch independently, or with guidance from the session leaders. A free, drop in event.
McMaster community members may log into Avenue to Learn and register here.
for McMaster Graduate Students
Sept 17 – December 10
Through interactive online sessions over 12 weeks, graduate students build skills in observation, description, and critical writing through examinations of visual art and writing exercises.
Graduate students may log into Avenue to Learn and register here.
These programmes are presented by the Museum of Art as part of the N. Gillian Cooper Education Programme.
Fall 2026 Exhibitions at the McMaster Museum of Art
September 4, 2026
Connected Histories, Research, and Archives—Interview with Nnamdi Nnake
September 1, 2026
What stories can the telegraph tell? More than a century after telegraph lines began to stretch across Nigeria, Connected Histories: The Telegraph in Nigeria invites visitors to take a fresh look at a technology that helped shape modern communications, colonial governance, labour, and everyday life. Drawing on the doctoral research of McMaster University PhD candidate Nnamdi Nnake, the exhibition brings together rare artifacts, archival […]
M(M)A Education Staff Teresa Gregorio Shortlisted in City of Hamilton’s Arts Champion Awards
June 23, 2026
Please join us in congratulating M(M)A’s Educator for Campus & Community Engagement, Teresa Gregorio, for being shortlisted in the Arts Champion Awards in City of Hamilton’s Arts Award 2026. The Arts Champion Awards may be conferred annually to living individuals who are outstanding supporters of the arts in Hamilton as volunteers, advocates, or board members. […]