Vitality Arts Workshops for Adults 55+

This workshop is currently at capacity. Registration is closed, but we hope you’ll join us for a future program.

Explore drawing and painting using watercolor pencils as tools for personal storytelling. Through mini demonstrations, learn to create artwork that reflects your aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, and or spiritual responses to museum art. Novice and experienced participants alike will experience the joy of translating emotional and sensory responses into a deeply personal visual narrative.

Course Date and Times
Two-hour workshops will be held on six Wednesdays from 11am-1pm:

• March 4, 11, 18, and 25
• April 8, and 15
  

Location
All sessions will be held in the Neuberger Museum of Art’s Skylight Gallery.

Class Size
Limited to fifteen (15) registrants.

Culminating Event
The workshop will culminate with an art showcase and reception on May 6 from 12pm–2pm in the Museum’s Open Classroom gallery featuring the projects created by participants during this workshop series.

Teaching Artist
Maxine Nodel, Teaching Artist Maxine Nodel is an award-winning art educator and professional visual artist with 35+ years of extensive exemplary experience as an adult and high school multimedia art educator, and writer. She holds a B.F.A. from Cooper Union and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College where she studied writing privately with Allen Ginsberg.

In 2002, Maxine was awarded Bill and Melinda Gates, Carnegie, and Annenberg Foundation grants to create an art high school in NYC’s Millennium Art Academy (MAA). In 2009, MAA received The Lincoln Center Institute  First Place Award for Most Imaginative Curriculum in NYC.

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Workshop Fee
$350 (inclusive of all course materials) + $25 nonrefundable registration fee paid once per semester.
No refunds for missed sessions.

This workshop is currently at capacity. Registration is closed, but we hope you’ll join us for a future program.

Reimagine how ordinary materials can be transformed into imaginative, expressive sculptures. This hands-on workshop introduces beginners to the core principles of three-dimensional design through experimentation with found and reused objects. Explore ideas of form, balance, texture, and spatial relationships while developing their own visual language.

Using personal materials from home alongside provided studio supplies, you will create three sculptural projects: a low-relief wall piece, a box sculpture, and a free-standing sculpture. Novice and experienced participants are welcome; curiosity, play, and creative risk-taking are encouraged.

Course Date and Times
Two-hour workshops will be held on six Wednesdays from 11am-1pm:

• September 23, and 30
• October 7, 14, 21, and 28

Location
All sessions will be held in the Neuberger Museum of Art’s Skylight Gallery.

Class Size
Limited to ten (10) registrants.

Culminating Event
The workshop will culminate with an art showcase and reception on November 18 from 12pm–2pm in the Museum’s Open Classroom gallery featuring the projects created by participants during this workshop series.

Teaching Artist
Amber Heaton creates colorful, geometric installations, mixed media works, paintings, and works on paper. She received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking in 2012, a BFA from the University of Utah in Printmaking and Sculpture in 2009, and a BUS in Human Diversity from the University of Utah in 1998. Her work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Susquehanna Art Museum, International Print Center New York, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Musée Des Beaux-Art, Le Locle, Switzerland, and other venues internationally. In 2019, Heaton had solo exhibitions at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA and Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA. Heaton participated in the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, was a scholar at the Center for Book Arts, NY, and an artist-in-residence at Wassaic Project, NY. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in South Korea from 2001-2003. She currently teaches at Purchase College, SUNY, and has taught at RISD, Rutgers University, and Brown University, as well as, workshops at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, The Center for Book Arts, and Anderson Ranch Art Center. Heaton lives and works in New York, NY.

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Workshop Fee
$350 (inclusive of all course materials) + $25 nonrefundable registration fee paid once per semester.
No refunds for missed sessions.

Registration for this workshop will open in July 2026.