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Darrell Riche’s six-session drawing course brings still-life observation together with lessons informed by paintings in the museum’s European galleries.
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Drawing a convincing object involves more than tracing its outline. In Drawing: Rendering the Real, teens and adults build on basic skills to explore how shading, perspective and composition can give objects and spaces form on the page. The fall 2026 course at The Joslyn Art Museum is closed to registration.
Teaching artist Darrell Riche guides students through more advanced rendering using still-life arrangements as subjects. Working from observation gives the class a way to study value—the range of light and dark—as well as the forms of objects and the space around them.
Class critiques provide detailed feedback, so the course combines individual drawing practice with a chance to consider how those choices are working. It is designed to build on basic drawing skills rather than introduce drawing from the beginning.
Further reading: Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
Paintings in The Joslyn’s European galleries inform the lessons as students use graphite and charcoal to draw realistic objects and spaces. The gallery connection places their own rendering alongside examples in the museum’s collection, while the still lifes provide subjects to study directly.
Further reading: Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
The course meets from late October through December, with no class on November 27.
The listed fee is $144 for the general public or $122.40 for Joslyn members. Studio classes require advance registration and full payment.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗ · The Joslyn Studio Programs | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
The class uses graphite and charcoal. Ask the museum about required supplies or any separate materials cost.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
General museum admission is free during regular hours, though selected temporary exhibitions require tickets.
The Joslyn Visit Detail | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗ · Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
The Joslyn Art Museum is at 2200 Dodge Street in Omaha. The main entrance drive can be reached from James Fous Avenue on the north or Dodge Street on the south; a covered visitor drop-off is directly in front of the main entrance.
On-site parking is free and first come, first served; metered street parking is also available. Bike racks are available, and Metro Transit’s 24th & Dodge ORBT Station NW is just west of the museum.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗ · The Joslyn Visit Detail | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
No. The museum lists registration as closed.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
The course builds on basic drawing skills and moves into more advanced rendering, rather than starting from scratch.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
The class uses graphite and charcoal, but the listing does not say whether supplies are included. Ask the museum about materials before attending.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
No. The course does not meet on Friday, November 27.
Drawing: Rendering the Real (Teens & Adults) | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ↗
2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68102
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