Deadline to sign up and pay for this event is Monday, December 28th

Nature Lab at RISD: Let’s Draw Animals, Insects, and Plants

When: Wednesday, January 13^th at 12:30 - 1:30

Where: RISD's Edna W. Lawrence Natural History Collection
RISD's Waterman Building. 13 Waterman St, Providence

Who: ages 9 - 19 (this is a drop off class but adults are also welcome to sign up!)

What:
Let’s Draw Animals, Insects, and Plants at the Edna W. Lawrence Natural History Collection!
In this class we will use a variety of materials to sketch and draw from the fabulous collection of
taxidermy animals and natural objects at the RISD museum’s natural history collection!
Bring a sketchbook and your favorite pens and pencils.
Additional materials will be provided.
Art teacher and homeschool mom, Andrea Peitsch will lead this class.

In the 1920s and ’30s, RISD faculty member Edna W. Lawrence would spend summers driving
across the country collecting natural specimens for students to work with in her Nature Drawing
class. In 1937 she founded the Nature Lab with an original collection of 1,286 objects (including
shells, butterflies, minerals, skeletons, seed pods and taxidermy) that grew to more than 25,000
items by the time she retired 38 years later. Today the Natural History Collection includes nearly
80,000 individual specimens.
http://naturelab.risd.edu/collections/edna-w-lawrence-natural-history-collection

Cost: $11 per person

Register here:
https://enrichri.z2systems.com/eventReg.jsp?event=692&