By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Arts in St. Joseph offers many different ways to learn or to enhance your drawing abilities.
The museum offers many different drawing classes, from its Drink and Draw event to Colored Pencil Happy Hour.
Museum Executive Director Eric Fuson says he hears from people often wondering if it’s too late for them to learn how to draw. He says it's never too late.
"Honestly anyone can learn how to draw it is a process of just beginning to look a little," Fuson tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr. "If you've ever watched an artist that really is into art and they walk down the street and they're looking at things and you think, what are they looking at, my friends would always say that what are you looking at? Just the way that goes over there, you know the way that building runs into that one, or the color over there and they go your crazy let's go we're trying to get somewhere, but that's what you have to do."
The museum will be hosting Drink and Draw on September 7th at the museum from 5 to 8pm.
There are numerous different ways to experience art at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art... even if you're color blind.
Fuson says the museum does own a pair of EnChroma glasses to help people with color blindness experience the museum.
And for Colorblindness Awareness month in September, Fuson says EnChroma contacted the museum wanting to give away two pairs of the glasses to visitors.
"So, we're going to start August 30th through September 4th so you'll have them for the whole month, and we're going to give away two pairs," Fuson says. "So, anybody that comes in that wants to go through the museum and wants to try out those EnChroma glasses and has a need for them, we'll have two separate jars to put your name in for a drawing to win a pair that fits your colorblindness."
Fuson says it's quite an experience to see someone putting the glasses on and experiencing color in a different way, sometimes maybe even for the first time.
The drawing for the winner of the pair of EnChroma glasses will be held on September 4th.
The museum will feature new exhibits by artists Norman Akers of Lawrence and Heinrich Toh of Kansas City. But it's an exhibition outside the museum that's unique.
New Marketing and Communications Director Kaitly Doolan says twice a year the museum will feature different art pieces all around Mosaic Life Care
"So, these can be photos, paintings, all different stuff just to make the hospital not so sad and you can look at some happy artwork," Doolan says. "I was looking through it with our girl that goes through them all and there's some beautiful pieces, so you'll want to go out to Mosaic and just walk through, there's all sorts of different sections."
Art will be on display at Mosaic starting September 23rd. The exhibits from Akers and Toh will begin on September 17th and run until November 6th.