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We're now offering a greater number of art classes. We also have need-based scholarships to help make art accessible for everyone.
Learn to connect works of art to history. What was happening politically, socially, and culturally at the time the piece was made? How did these circumstances shape the artist’s formal choices?
The Barnes-de Mazia Certificate Program
This special track offers an immersion in the Barnes method and an introduction to other interpretive approaches.
Matisse: In Color and Light
Explore Matisse’s stunning use of color across major works from the collection.
Building the City of Light: Impressionism in Haussmann’s Paris
Trace the evolution of one of the most famous urban planning projects in European history.
Cézanne’s Card Players in Focus
Join us for an intensive study of one of the greatest masterpieces in the Barnes collection. Learn why The Card Players is so important in the history of modern art and how it fits into Cézanne’s broader career.
Art Deco Fashions of the 1920s
Learn about how influential fashion designers blurred the traditional boundaries between commerce and fine art. Inspired by our Marie Cuttoli exhibition.
The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Explore major monuments of architecture, sculpture, and painting from ancient Egypt in this class taught by our new postdoctoral fellow.
Black American Culture and Albert Barnes: Spirituals, Integration, and Social Justice
In this one-day workshop, explore the complex history of the civil rights movement and Dr. Barnes’s role in championing black culture and integration.
Indigenous and Native American Arts: Albert Barnes and the Spirit of Santa Fe
Look closely at the influence of Native American art on Dr. Barnes and on modern art as a whole.
Van Gogh
Delve into the life and work of one of the greatest—and most mythologized—painters of the modern era.
“Dear Barnes”: Letters Between Albert C. Barnes and His Artist Friends
Archivist and historian Barbara Anne Beaucar shares the history of the Barnes through authentic archival documents—including a few newly discovered letters.
Ab Ex to Pop: American Art of the 1950s and 1960s
Get a better sense of why artists like Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol took the art world by storm in the decades after World War II.
Consumed by Color: Bonnard and Matisse:
A Friendship in Paint
Learn about the long and fascinating relationship between these two celebrated painters.
Holy Faces and Sacred Spaces
Explore the complicated relationship between spiritual belief and artistic production. What does religious art tell us about the people who made it?
On the Run: European Artists/Intellectuals Flee WWII
Examine key artists and intellectuals who fled Europe during the Second World War as well as the work of those who stayed behind.
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray
In conjunction with our spring exhibition, survey the career of Marie Cuttoli, the pioneering entrepreneur who introduced leading modern artists to textiles and tapestry.
Threads of History: European Tapestry from Medieval to Modern
Trace the history of tapestry from its princely beginnings in the Middle Ages to its revival by modernist painters and patrons in the 20th century.
Albert C. Barnes and the Harlem Renaissance
Learn about Dr. Barnes’s dialogue with several key figures of the Harlem Renaissance and how this dialogue impacted his approach to education.
Old Masters at the Barnes Foundation
A close look at the old masters in the collection and an introduction to earlier painting traditions more broadly.
Afrofuturism: Introduction to the Multiverse
Artists and activists from across the African diaspora are imagining new myths and radical visions into reality. Learn about them in this one-day workshop.
Painting Time: Monet and the Pace of Modernity
Is it possible to paint time? Join us for an investigation into how Monet articulated a new cultural understanding of time in some of his key landscapes.
3-D/4-D: Sculpture 1850 to the Present
Inspired by our summer exhibition on Elijah Pierce, this workshop details the various modes of modern and contemporary sculpture.
Matisse and His Palette of Objects
Curator Ellen McBreen brings to light the deeply personal objects that so often found their way into Matisse’s paintings. What is the relationship between 2-D and 3-D in Matisse’s work?
Art History is a Gated Community: How to Open the Discipline to Elijah Pierce and His Peers
How can art historians, museums, collectors, and critics include artists like Pierce in a fuller and more expansive story of American art?
Modigliani, Pascin, and Soutine
In this three-day workshop, investigate the intersecting lives and contributions of these three key modern painters.