Explore the exhibition “Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection.” Then make work in personal response. Draw, paint, or sculpt in connection with the exhibition’s themes of threads, thresholds, rest, vibrant matter, and adoration. Discover where these themes intersect in your own life while using the Museum as a resource for discovery.
Students are responsible for providing their own supplies. View the supply list here.
Occurring every Thursday except 11/23
Ticket Information
Registration for February, April, and Summer vacation week classes ends at Noon the Friday before the class starts.
Before registering for classes, please review Program Information and Policies.
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); no in-person ticket sales.
Accessibility
Due to the building’s historic architecture, the third-floor classrooms, 305A, 305B, 305D and 305E, are not wheelchair-accessible and must be accessed by stairs. Please let us know in advance if the student has limited mobility; we can make accommodations, including relocating the class to an accessible space.
To inform the Studio Art Class program of any access needs, please e-mail artclasses@mfa.org or call our office at 617-369-3295.
About the Instructor
Nancy Hart is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the expanded field of Post Modernism in her teaching and studio work. She has an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston / Lesley University of Art and Design and a BFA in painting from Tufts / School of the Museum of Fine Arts She has also studied the history of photography at Radcliffe Seminars, the DeCordova Museum, Zee Mays Printing, Harvard Extension School, and Massachusetts College of Art. In the fall of 2018, Hart was an artist in residence multiple times at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum re-enacting Lee Ming Wei’s Mending Project and Living Room Project. Hart is a mentor to emerging artists, an ambassador for Lesley University, has been a portfolio reviewer for the College Art Association, as well as an academic advisor at SUNY New Paltz, NY. Hart has taught painting, drawing, and 3D courses at MIT, SAA program, teaches multiple studio courses at the MFA and Visual Communications at Framingham State University.