Dates: Saturday, Ten-week session, March 23- June 8 (no class April 13 or April 27)

Course Description: Sketch in the galleries, then respond to what you have seen with two- and three- dimensional projects in the studio. Learn more advanced art-making techniques, and explore the formal elements of painting, watercolor, printmaking, collage, figure drawing, textiles, soft sculpture, modeling, and more.

Instructor: Leila Joy Rosenthal and Diane Francis

Leila Joy Rosenthal has been teaching a variety of classes at the Museum of Fine Arts for 51 years. Teaching art is her first career and first love; her second love began 35 years ago when she began to study Dental Technology. Combining her drawing and sculpture skills in a more financially practical fashion, she is now a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. For the past 30 years, she has followed her third love of singing with the Zamir Chorale of Boston.

Diane Francis has a BFA in sculpture from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and a Masters of Education from Lesley University in addition to her Massachusetts Certification in Education for grades PreK-12. Diane likes to work in many materials such as ceramics, oil painting, pastels, mixed media, and printmaking. She has exhibited extensively and her work is in many private collections. Besides teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts, she is an instructor at the Carroll School in Lincoln, MA.