Functional Handbuilding (Ceramics)

Class Title: Handbuilt Ceramics Instructor: WKM Staff Cost: $205 Time and date(s): Thursdays 3/12-4/16 from 4:00PM-7:00PM (6 weeks)* Location: Clay Studio (Art Lab lower level stair access only) Skill level: Beginner/intermediate Audience: Teen – adult Description: L......More

Class Title: Handbuilt Ceramics Instructor: WKM Staff Cost: $205 Time and date(s): Thursdays 3/12-4/16 from 4:00PM-7:00PM (6 weeks)* Location: Clay Studio (Art Lab lower level stair access only) Skill level: Beginner/intermediate Audience: Teen – adult Description: Let’s play in clay! In this class you will be led through tutorials and learn how to use and create templates to build functional pottery pieces. Projects may include: wall pockets, lidded jars, citrus juicer, pour-over coffee mug set, votive candle luminaries, divided dish, flower vase, and more. We will work together on a project the first day of class, explore examples for upcoming projects, then the class will vote on projects desired for the rest of class. Participants will be welcomed and encouraged to come work in the studio on other days to refine projects. *At the completion of 6 weeks of project-making, works will need to dry out and be bisque-fired. Students will return to underglaze and glaze their pieces before a final firing. Dates TBD.

Homeschool Art Classes: Mixed Media Sculpture: Fantasy Relief Sculptures

April 1st: Topic: Mixed media sculpture: Fantasy Relief Sculptures 13-18 project: Fantasy Relief Sculptures: Students will combine a canvas panel with clay and allow them to roll the clay onto the panel and use that as their base to create a fantastical scene into a re......More

April 1st: Topic: Mixed media sculpture: Fantasy Relief Sculptures 13-18 project: Fantasy Relief Sculptures: Students will combine a canvas panel with clay and allow them to roll the clay onto the panel and use that as their base to create a fantastical scene into a relief-style sculpture. Then, they can paint and seal their sculpture after it has dried.10-12 project: Students will combine a canvas panel with clay and allow them to roll the clay onto the panel and use that as their base to create a fantastical scene into a relief-style sculpture. Then, they can paint and seal their sculpture after it has dried.7-9 project: Students will combine a canvas panel with clay and allow them to roll the clay onto the panel and use that as their base to create a fantastical scene into a relief-style sculpture. Then, they can paint and seal their sculpture after it has dried.  9:30–11:00 AM: ages 10–12 11:00 AM–12:30 PM: ages 13-18 2:00–3:30 PM: ages 7–9   Homeschool Art Classes: This series of youth art classes is designed to provide homeschooling students with affordable, quality, and fun arts education. Classes will meet once a week on Wednesdays from September through April. All classes can be taken individually but, when taken consecutively, provide a complete curriculum of fine arts knowledge and techniques. Students who participate in any Homeschool Art classes have the option to submit work to the Homeschool Art Student Exhibition that will be on display in the children’s wing of the museum in May.   Classes begin on September 17th and end on April 22nd.   Projects in the first semester (September-December) will be based on the fundamentals of art. Projects in the second semester (January-April) will be based on combining everything that we learned in the first semester with mixed media and sculpture.

Photoshop Friday!

Instructor: Alice Salyer Cost: $20 Time and date(s): 1:00-2:00 Fridays April 3 Location: Digital Lab Skill level: Some Photoshop experience. Students should be comfortable with basic computer use, such as using a mouse and keyboard, opening and closing applications......More

Instructor: Alice Salyer Cost: $20 Time and date(s): 1:00-2:00 Fridays April 3 Location: Digital Lab Skill level: Some Photoshop experience. Students should be comfortable with basic computer use, such as using a mouse and keyboard, opening and closing applications and saving files, and have a little Photoshop experience. Audience: Teen-Adult For people who are interested in continuing Photoshop learning, we’ll meet up a couple times a month for Photoshop practice. We’ll do a different practice tutorial or mini-project each session. Students are encouraged to bring in their own projects and Photoshop issues as well

Tours at Four | FREE Public Tour of Points of Departure

Join artist Charles Goolsby and curator Russell Facemire for a free public tour of the exhibition– get insights into the process of creation, the artist’s inspirations and the stories behind each work.   RSVP required by emailing [email protected].

Animal Painting w/ Addie Hirschten

Class Title: Animal Painting Instructor: Addie Hirschten Cost: $138 Time and date(s): Tuesdays 4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28 from 5:30PM-7:30PM Location: 3D Lab in Art Lab’s lower level (stairs-access only) Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Description: Learning to paint animals......More

Class Title: Animal Painting Instructor: Addie Hirschten Cost: $138 Time and date(s): Tuesdays 4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28 from 5:30PM-7:30PM Location: 3D Lab in Art Lab’s lower level (stairs-access only) Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Description: Learning to paint animals is a fun way to practice painting techniques. In this class we will learn how to render proportions and play with creating the texture of fur. We will also focus on learning how to paint light and shadow to give your paintings dimension and depth. All supplies included for in-class projects. About the Instructor: Addie Hirschten is a contemporary impressionist painter, art teacher, author of several books and host of the Studio Alchemy Podcast. When working as an art instructor, Hirschten enjoys helping others to develop their own style and artistic voice, not just copy the instructor.  While developing curriculum for the art classroom Hirschten wrote the book, “The Alchemy of Art: Stories for the Classroom,” a collection of folktales and true stories about artists.  Other books written by Hirschten include “The Alchemy of Painting: Developing Your Style and Purpose,” “Start Selling Your Art: A Guide to Starting a Professional Art Business” and “The Alchemy of Symbols.” Hirschten has recently moved to Abingdon and is renovating an old church to be a home and art studio. Find out more at: www.studioalchemy.art https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.of.art.addie.hirschten/https://www.facebook.com/studioalchemygallery/

Homeschool Art Classes: Mixed Media Sculpture: Found Object Sculptures

April 8th: Topic: Mixed media sculpture: Found Object Sculptures. 13-18 project: Found Object Sculptures: Students will create a sculpture or wall art using thrifted and found objects, exploring texture, composition, and storytelling through upcycled materials.10-12 pr......More

April 8th: Topic: Mixed media sculpture: Found Object Sculptures. 13-18 project: Found Object Sculptures: Students will create a sculpture or wall art using thrifted and found objects, exploring texture, composition, and storytelling through upcycled materials.10-12 project: Found Object Sculptures: Students will create a sculpture or wall art using thrifted and found objects, exploring texture, composition, and storytelling through upcycled materials.7-9 project: Found Object Sculptures: Students will create a sculpture or wall art using thrifted and found objects, exploring texture, composition, and storytelling through upcycled materials.9:30–11:00 AM: ages 10–12 11:00 AM–12:30 PM: ages 13-18 2:00–3:30 PM: ages 7–9   Homeschool Art Classes: This series of youth art classes is designed to provide homeschooling students with affordable, quality, and fun arts education. Classes will meet once a week on Wednesdays from September through April. All classes can be taken individually but, when taken consecutively, provide a complete curriculum of fine arts knowledge and techniques. Students who participate in any Homeschool Art classes have the option to submit work to the Homeschool Art Student Exhibition that will be on display in the children’s wing of the museum in May.   Classes begin on September 17th and end on April 22nd.   Projects in the first semester (September-December) will be based on the fundamentals of art. Projects in the second semester (January-April) will be based on combining everything that we learned in the first semester with mixed media and sculpture.

$5 Workshop: Drawing Hands

Class Title: Drawing Hands from Observation Instructor: WKM Staff Cost: $5 Time and date(s): Wednesday, 4/8/26  from 5:00PM-6:30PM Location: Upper level, Art Lab lecture room. Skill level: New Learners Audience: Teen – adult Description: $5 Art Lab Anniversary deals are......More

Class Title: Drawing Hands from Observation Instructor: WKM Staff Cost: $5 Time and date(s): Wednesday, 4/8/26  from 5:00PM-6:30PM Location: Upper level, Art Lab lecture room. Skill level: New Learners Audience: Teen – adult Description: $5 Art Lab Anniversary deals are extended into 2026! It’s so easy to get so caught up in drawing what we know about something, that we forget to really look at it and draw what we are truly seeing. Come learn some approaches to drawing hands to help you see in angles and forms rather than outlines. Registration for $5 classes opens one month before the start of each class and closes one week before the start date. Set a reminder to come back and register for each one! Spots are limited.   Look for these $5 classes throughout the year: Collage Surprise, 1/25, 1:30-3:30PM Folded Books, 2/26 from 5-6:30PM Stamp Carving, 3/8 from 1:30-3:30PM Drawing Hands, 4/8 from 5-6:30PM Cut Paper Portraits, 5/15 from 6-8PM Squeegee Painting, 6/30 from 5:30-7:30PM Bandana Printing, 7/26 from 1-3PM Intro to Canva, 8/12 from 5:30-7:30PM Intro to Printmaking, 9/5 from 10AM-1PM Halloween Arts & Crafts, 10/1 from 5:30PM-7:30PM Collage Surprise, 11/6, from 5:30PM-7:30PM Positive Affirmations in Clay, 12/20 from 10AM-1PM

Through the Lens of Color: Landscapes in gouache and watercolor

Through the Lens of Color: Landscapes in gouache and watercolor with Renee Pitts Thursdays 4/9-4/30/26 from 2:00PM-5:00PM  Various locations on the campus: Lecture room, Red Table youth room, various outdoors $50 per student   Explore watercolor/gouache and landscape wh......More

Through the Lens of Color: Landscapes in gouache and watercolor with Renee Pitts Thursdays 4/9-4/30/26 from 2:00PM-5:00PM  Various locations on the campus: Lecture room, Red Table youth room, various outdoors $50 per student   Explore watercolor/gouache and landscape while taking inspiration from the natural world, architecture, and three exhibitions: The House, The Highlands, and the Great Big Sea and Point of Departure: Recent Landscapes by Charles Goolsby, and Light and Sanctity (Ray Byram). In this 4-session class, Artist-Educator Renee Pitts will lead the group through exercises and projects focusing sketching, color mixing, application techniques to be used in the study of botanicals, landscapes and/or industrialscapes through watercolor and gouache. Upon the completion of these classes, the art that participants produce will be put on display in the reception room of the Town of Abingdon’s Tourism Office (art will be returned to the students at the end of the exhibit period). The special tuition rate for this class is made possible by generous support from the Town of Abingdon arts grant.   About the Instructor: Renee Pitts is a multifaceted artist working in the mediums of oil, watercolor, acrylic and fiber arts. She is a former high school art teacher with degrees in education and art from East Tennessee State University who now teaches people of all ages to enjoy learning and growing in their art pursuits. Nature has always been an endless source of inspiration and teacher. As she has painted plein air she has learned to allow the landscape, its elements of atmosphere and living and changing face through weather and season to influence her style and expression. The discipline of knowing what to leave out and what to record has become an exhilarating dance with brushes, value and brushes. The many factors of the landscape can be reduced to the emotion that is sparked as she paints outside and capturing the essence of the scene is established by balance, simplicity, value, shapes and importantly design. Renee has helped many students learn to paint and apply important principles so that they are able to enjoy wonder in their painting. In this class she will help students discover technique and processes that will lead them to paintings that express the moment they long to record while painting in nature. She will help lead them in exploring the possibilities that the medium of watercolor offers the plein air painter. Renee’s home studio is located in Bluff City with the view of Holston Mountain and surrounding countryside which provides a setting for her own inspiration as well as students who take her classes.  

Dining...fit for a King Kick-Off Party

Dining…fit for a King is an annual fundraiser with proceeds supporting curatorial and educational programming at William King Museum of Art. This series of dining events offers unique culinary experiences ranging from “Brunch on the Front Porch” to “Summer Social at Mid......More

Dining…fit for a King is an annual fundraiser with proceeds supporting curatorial and educational programming at William King Museum of Art. This series of dining events offers unique culinary experiences ranging from “Brunch on the Front Porch” to “Summer Social at Middle Fork Barn.” Join us at WKMA on April 9th for the kick-off party to sign up for the dining events of your choice. Tickets are extremely limited and sell quickly. Don’t miss out! View event listing at williamkingmuseum.org/dffk2026 Kick-Off Party April 9thReception, catered by AtoZ Catering, and drinks begin at 5:30 P.M.Sign-up for individual dining eventsfrom 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. RSVP required.Please reserve a ticket or email [email protected] by April 1st.

Art Business 101 w/ Addie Hirschten

Class Title: Art Business 101 Instructor: Addie Hirschten Cost: $75 Time and date(s): Saturday 4/11 from 10:00AM-4:00PM (with lunch break) Location: Lecture Room in Art Lab Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Description: In this day long intensive workshop you will create......More

Class Title: Art Business 101 Instructor: Addie Hirschten Cost: $75 Time and date(s): Saturday 4/11 from 10:00AM-4:00PM (with lunch break) Location: Lecture Room in Art Lab Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Description: In this day long intensive workshop you will create a plan for your art business.  We will discuss the variety of ways you can sell your artwork and consider what will work best for you.  Topics covered will include marketing, designing websites, Etsy, blogs, email newsletters, writing books, art fairs, cooperative and traditional galleries, commissions, accounting, taxes, finding your perfect clients and more!  We will also create Vision Board Collages to reflect our future plans. Please plan on bringing a sack lunch or be ready to go out during our lunch break.  About the Instructor: Addie Hirschten is a contemporary impressionist painter, art teacher, author of several books and host of the Studio Alchemy Podcast. When working as an art instructor, Hirschten enjoys helping others to develop their own style and artistic voice, not just copy the instructor.  While developing curriculum for the art classroom Hirschten wrote the book, “The Alchemy of Art: Stories for the Classroom,” a collection of folktales and true stories about artists.  Other books written by Hirschten include “The Alchemy of Painting: Developing Your Style and Purpose,” “Start Selling Your Art: A Guide to Starting a Professional Art Business” and “The Alchemy of Symbols.” Hirschten has recently moved to Abingdon and is renovating an old church to be a home and art studio. Find out more at: www.studioalchemy.art https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.of.art.addie.hirschten/https://www.facebook.com/studioalchemygallery/

Homeschool Art Classes: Mixed Media: Student’s Choice Day

April 15th: Topic: Mixed media: Student’s Choice Day 13-18 project: Student’s Choice Day: Students create a piece based on the skills learned throughout the year. This will be their “show stopper” for the end of year art show. It can be based on any theme, material, or......More

April 15th: Topic: Mixed media: Student’s Choice Day 13-18 project: Student’s Choice Day: Students create a piece based on the skills learned throughout the year. This will be their “show stopper” for the end of year art show. It can be based on any theme, material, or process discussed throughout the year.10-12 project: Student’s Choice Day: Students create a piece based on the skills learned throughout the year. This will be their “show stopper” for the end of year art show. It can be based on any theme, material, or process discussed throughout the year.7-9 project: Student’s Choice Day: Students create a piece based on the skills learned throughout the year. This will be their “show stopper” for the end of year art show. It can be based on any theme, material, or process discussed throughout the year.  9:30–11:00 AM: ages 10–12 11:00 AM–12:30 PM: ages 13-18 2:00–3:30 PM: ages 7–9   Homeschool Art Classes: This series of youth art classes is designed to provide homeschooling students with affordable, quality, and fun arts education. Classes will meet once a week on Wednesdays from September through April. All classes can be taken individually but, when taken consecutively, provide a complete curriculum of fine arts knowledge and techniques. Students who participate in any Homeschool Art classes have the option to submit work to the Homeschool Art Student Exhibition that will be on display in the children’s wing of the museum in May.   Classes begin on September 17th and end on April 22nd.   Projects in the first semester (September-December) will be based on the fundamentals of art. Projects in the second semester (January-April) will be based on combining everything that we learned in the first semester with mixed media and sculpture.

Model Magic Dragon Sculptures

Join us for Model Magic Dragon Sculptures! This class is for ages 7-12. April 15th 4:00-5:00pmAges 7-12 $10

Photoshop Friday!

Instructor: Alice Salyer Cost: $20 Time and date(s): 1:00-2:00 Fridays April 17 Location: Digital Lab Skill level: Some Photoshop experience. Students should be comfortable with basic computer use, such as using a mouse and keyboard, opening and closing application......More

Instructor: Alice Salyer Cost: $20 Time and date(s): 1:00-2:00 Fridays April 17 Location: Digital Lab Skill level: Some Photoshop experience. Students should be comfortable with basic computer use, such as using a mouse and keyboard, opening and closing applications and saving files, and have a little Photoshop experience. Audience: Teen-Adult For people who are interested in continuing Photoshop learning, we’ll meet up a couple times a month for Photoshop practice. We’ll do a different practice tutorial or mini-project each session. Students are encouraged to bring in their own projects and Photoshop issues as well

Portrait Drawing, Fridays April 17, 24 & May 1

Instructor: Donna Bird Cost: $144 Time and date(s): Fridays, April 17, 24 and May 1 from 5:30-8:30 Location: Art Lab Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Learn to draw portraits with Donna Bird! With this three-session workshop students will begin to unravel the mysteries ......More

Instructor: Donna Bird Cost: $144 Time and date(s): Fridays, April 17, 24 and May 1 from 5:30-8:30 Location: Art Lab Skill level: Any Audience: Adult Learn to draw portraits with Donna Bird! With this three-session workshop students will begin to unravel the mysteries of drawing the human face. The class will focus on facial proportions, anatomy, and observation. Learn to use line, shape, value as well as volume and texture to develop realistic, expressive portraits. Perfect for beginners or experienced artists.  Donna Bird is a realist painter who uses traditional oil painting methods to interpret contemporary subjects.  Her subject matter covers the disciplines of still life, landscape and portraiture. She prefers to paint directly from life and is particularly interested in pushing the nuances of color in her subjects. The colors are juxtaposed to create atmosphere and convey her response to the moment. Her work is influenced by both modern day and traditional painting masters.

Art Lab – William King, 415 Academy Dr NW, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States