Education

In-person and online art education and artist workshops for all ages, gallery tours, online classes and programs that feature artists from around the world. Education at RAM is dedicated to providing learning about the arts to the community.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

ARTIST LECTURE
with Larry Millican

Thursday, March 28,
5:30 – 7:00 pm

Join us for a discussion of photography, art, vulnerability, passion, and creativity. 

$10 fee Non-members
Free for Photo Alliance and RAM Members
Registration Required.

LIGHTED VASE WORKSHOP

Friday, April 12,
5 – 7 pm

Create the perfect spring decor in our DIY workshop! Students will use frosted paint, floral napkins, tissue paper and embellishments to decorate a glass vase.

$25 fee
Ages 16+, All supplies provided

RECURRING PROGRAMS

Ram Sketch Image

DROP IN AND DRAW

Every Thursday

1-3 pm

FREE

A place and a time to draw? A live model for reference? Drop in and commune with other artists and draw (or paint) from a live model every Thursday afternoon.

We provide tables and easels but bring your own art supplies.

 

 

 

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RAM SATURDAYS

Saturday afternoons

12 – 3 pm

FREE

RAM is the place for make-and-take art projects. Currently, the classes are focusing on fun projects while exploring crafts through the decades. 

All art supplies provided. All ages and skill levels welcome. 

No need to register. 

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PAINT ‘N SIP WITH PETRA RADCLIFFE

Once a month

$25/members 

$35/non-members

Recreate works by the great masters, guided by Petra Radcliffe, while you sip your favorite beverages. All skill levels welcome, art supplies provided.

16+ to paint / 21+ to sip  

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HOMESCHOOL ART
CLASSES 2024

 

Every Other Tuesday

FREE

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 ART THERAPY

First Wednesday of the Month,
4 – 5:30 pm

Lisa Clay will guide young
students to a fresh perspective
with art projects. 

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GUIDED TOURS

FREE
Just drop on by!

Sundays at 2 pm

April 14 & 28
May 19

Guided by a trained gallery educator, tours  include our 5 galleries and information about the techniques and processes of multiple artists.

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GALLERY TOURS

Tours for both students and adults (or school field trips!) will be led by trained gallery educators for a 60–90 minute museum experience. The first half will be spent touring the galleries and the second half will be spent finding a favorite artwork and sketching their own works of art from that image  or sculpture.

 

CALL OR  E-MAIL TO SCHEDULE:
479.784.2787
petra@fsram.org

How did we do?

Fort Smith Regional Art Museum has taken steps to limit the possibility of transmission of COVID-19 in our facilities and at our events, but we cannot eliminate all possibility of exposure. Any visit to a public space carries inherent risk, and all visitors in our spaces voluntarily accept and assume that risk.