Open Tues-Sat: 11am-6pm || Sun: 1pm-5pm | 1601 Rogers Ave, Fort Smith, AR

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.

CREATIVE CARTOONING
Spring Break ONLINE Art Camp

Mar 21 – 24

1 PM every day

FREE  |  Ages 10+

LECTURE LIVE

WITH JEFFRY CANTU
Zoom and Facebook Live

April 6, 7 PM

FREE  |  Registration Required

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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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GUIDED TOURS

FREE
No need to preregister.

Pablo Picasso

Sunday, April 2, 2 pm
Sunday, April 23, 2 pm

RAM Invitational Odyssey

Sunday, May 7, 2 pm
Sunday, May 21, 2 pm

Sunday, June 11, 2 pm
Sunday, June 25, 2 pm

Join us for a guided tour led by Marti Corff!

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RAM SKETCH

 FREE AND ONLINE

ZOOM/FACEBOOK LIVE

Tuesdays 7-8 pm

Draw or paint along with the instructor from the comfort of your own home. This class will emphasize and encourage experimentation and fearlessness with your art, and most of all, having fun.

Ages 10 and up. Registration required.

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PLATES TO GO WITH PICASSO

March 11, 2-4pm
April 8, 2-4pm

12 max per class / $30 per person

In collaboration with Arts on Main under the direction of Stephanie Payton.  Come join us at AOM to create clay plates like Picasso.  This will be a 2 hour workshop that will teach you how to use clay and talk about the firing process.

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Toddler Tours (ages 2-5)

Shapes, patterns, colors, and feelings is the theme for our young learners. On this tour the child will practice naming and thinking about elements of art, such as color theory, rhythm, patterns, shapes, and movement.
CALL OR  E-MAIL TO SCHEDULE: 479.785.2787 education@fsram.org

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: 479.785.2787 education@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.