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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.
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Ravenna: City of Mosaics
Explore the glittering mosaics, the buildings that house them, and the fabulously wealthy patrons who commissioned them.
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Manet, Women, and Paris
Delve into the artist's depictions of modern Paris and the fashionable women inhabiting the rapidly changing city.
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The World of Giotto
A look at his most famous paintings, sculptures, and buildings, and how his innovations inspired modern artists such as Renoir and de Chirico.
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On the Run: European Artists/Intellectuals Flee WWII
Examine key artists and intellectuals who fled Europe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.