August 24, 2017
This September the Museum is offering a special hands-on activity for Culture Days.
Hamilton Artist and McMaster Fine Art alumna Leslie Furness will lead painting workshops on September 29 and 30. Following her step-by-step instructions participants will recreate a painting by French artist Claude Monet in a 3-hour lesson!
Light refreshments provided.
Workshop and all materials are FREE
Space is limited.
Friday, September 29,12:30 – 3:30 pm:
https://monet29.eventbrite.ca
or
Saturday, September 30, 1 – 4 pm:
https://monet30.eventbrite.ca
This workshop is presented as part of The N. Gillian Cooper Education Program. It complements the concurrent exhibition A Cultivating Journey: The Herman H. Levy Legacy which includes McMaster’s Monet painting of Waterloo Bridge.
Culture Days is a collaborative coast-to-coast-to-coast volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. The McMaster Museum of Art participates annually with tours and artmaking activities, related to what is on view in the galleries.

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