Dates: Wednesdays, September 25-December 4 (No class November 27)

Course Description: Working exclusively in the galleries, use the Museum collection as inspiration to focus on the fundamentals of drawing: line, composition, proportion, perspective, light, and shadow. Enhance observational sensibilites as you learn how to record what you see, while emphasizing creativity. You may bring your own supplies; a list of required materials is distributed during first class.

Instructor: Leila Joy Rosenthal

Leila Joy Rosenthal has been teaching a variety of children's, adult, and the City of Boston's High School Art Scholarship Classes at the Museum of Fine Arts for fifty-one years. Teaching art is her first career and first love; her second love began thirty-five 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 thirty years, she has followed her third love of singing with the Zamir Chorale of Boston.