About our Program:
The Visual Arts Program at Munroe Center offers a wide range of classes for all ages and all levels of experience. Our year-round programming is led by a team of professional artists who develop a curriculum that both teaches fundamental skills while helping students evolve their own unique, creative vision. Classes often include painting, drawing, portfolio development, and the fiber arts.
The Visual Arts Program at Munroe Center offers a wide range of classes for all ages and all levels of experience. Our year-round programming is led by a team of professional artists who develop a curriculum that both teaches fundamental skills while helping students evolve their own unique, creative vision. Classes often include painting, drawing, portfolio development, and the fiber arts.
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For more information about visual art classes, email office@munroecenter.org
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Classes:
Meet the Instructors:
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Laurel Smith
Laurel is a working and teaching artist who has been at Munroe since 2013. She founded and facilitates the Life Drawing studio group, and leads ‘In Your Hands’, the teen studio group. She has been active in the visual arts in Lexington since her grown children were elementary students, and is a member of the ArtWalk committee. Her focus is on building an individual’s art ‘language’ through practice, risk, and play. |
Anya Krupnik
Anya Krupnik is an art educator, designer, and artist with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She co-founded Alma Mater, an educational studio in Lexington, where she has taught a wide variety of art classes to children, youth and adults. Anya is passionate about art history and believes that art lessons bring an inspiration that lasts a lifetime. |
Nat Moss
Anyone who attended our exciting Summer Camp this year will recognize Teacher Nat (they/them). In their classroom, they make sure to balance fun with learning plenty of skills, such as design, structure, and detail work. Nat has been a visual artist since they were young, using paint and recycled materials to make puppets, costumes, sculptures, mobiles, and more. Nat's classes expound upon childlike imagination, giving students the tools, skills, and guidance to let their imaginations run wild! 
Alice DelDonno
Alice DelDonno is a life-long art-maker and has been teaching youth art classes in Lexington for the past 20 years. She holds a BA in Studio Arts from the University of Rochsters and an MEd in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University. In her home studio (and backyard), Alice enjoys watercolor sketching, collage art, and hand-making artist books. She finds that guiding children through their exploration of art media and creative expression is a source of inspiration for her own work. Alice is excited to be joining our Visual Arts staff for this fall! Check out her personal work on Instagram. |
Jill Strait
Jill Strait has been teaching art for over 20 years across various local museums and art centers. Her work is largely inspired by her love of Bluegrass, Old Time and traditional country music. Jill has her Bachelor's Degree in Painting and Art History. All Munroe Center visitors can admire the colorful picnic tables at the front of the building, courtesy of Jill! We're so glad to host her classes and workshops again after a successful July week of outdoor public art with our summer camp CITs. 
Emily Passman
Emily is a painter of oils and acrylics, known for her expressive, loose style. She works from observation, both in the studio and plein air, and describes her work as 'a reaction to’ the subject, as opposed to a ‘rendering’. In addition to teaching oil and acrylic techniques, she encourages and teaches students to sketch. She says daily sketching is a great way to heighten one's ability to see, and important to incorporate into one’s painting process. After earning both a fine arts degree and a Master’s in Education, she had a successful career as an educator and graphic designer. She teaches privately in her California barn-studio during winter months, and at various educational venues near Boston. Her work is shown in galleries in New England and private collections internationally. Find out more about Emily's work online. |
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