Art Education at Coos Art Museum

Education is a key Museum area of focus. Classes and workshops are held at the Museum and in local public schools.

Coos Art Museum's Winter 2010 online educational brochure - Listings of upcoming workshops, classes and educational events.

Art education is one of the three key areas of endeavor enshrined in the Coos Art Museum's Mission Statement. As such, it accounts for nearly one quarter of the Museum's annual expenditures, and occupies a position of prominence in Museum affairs. The educational emphasis at Coos Art Museum (CAM) is on teaching art skills. Classes and workshops are given regularly at the Museum, and the Museum sends artist/ instructors into Coos Bay and North Bend elementary schools to present art classes to thousands of students.

Classes and workshops given at the Museum, are tailored for various age groups from elementary school age through the adult level. In 2001 over two hundred students attended more than 70 class, studio, and workshop sessions in the Museum's classroom. Workshop subjects have included wood block printing, watercolors, fused glass, oil painting, drawing, pastels, collage, and full color Japanese style wood block printing. Additional subjects will include collage painting, pinhole photography, and advanced woodblock printing, as well as more traditional painting and drawing disciplines.

History of the Museum's in-school educational program.

Basic Composition Teaching Tool: A curriculum subject element used in basic composition classes at the museum and in presentations by CAM instructors at local elementary schools.

The Museum's Educational Classroom: The upstairs classroom is the scene of classes for students of all ages.

Children's Drawing Class: Classes for children are a regular feature of in-house educational programs at the Museum.

Glass Workshop: Fused glass workshops are especially popular at the Museum. Works are fired in the Museum's modern electric kiln.

Woodblock Printing Class: Oregon Artist Walt Padgett, of Grants Pass, instructs CAM workshop participants in the finer points of color woodblock print making. Winter, 2002.

Adult Education: Classes at the Museum are popular with adults as well as with children.

CAM Exhibit, Spring 2001: The Message & The Medium: This section of the educational exhibit featured works in pastels, along with a display showing the relevant materials and techniques.

CAM's Biennial Student Art Show: Students, parents, and the general public flocked to see art created at local schools during Cam's Student Art Show.

For more information on Art Education at CAM, email arted@coosart.org.