Learn with Us – From the Fort Wayne Museum of Art

April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

Art Term Tuesday: Appliqué

A close up image of the white, red, and green quilt. The red flower petals are next to a longer tan stem with eleven berry-like balls up and down either side. The green leaf coming out to the side of the flower has serrated edges with four points on each side.

This Art Term Tuesday, we're learning about the uses of appliqué! Education Director and sewist, Alyssa Dumire, walks us through the varying appliqué techniques while reviewing quilts from our own collection.

April 11, 2026April 9, 2026

Saturday Studio: Embossing

The cut out smiley face cardboard mold, sitting above the black paper with the identical smiley face impressed into it. To the right of the frame is a wooden tool used to make the impression.

Today we're taking inspiration from Marvin Lipofsky and his embossed works of art. Join in this Saturday Studio to try your making your own!

April 2, 2026April 2, 2026

Playing Favorites: Sadie Boothman and Mia Hastreiter

A close up of the panel art work. In one square the figure is curled in a fetal position, having little skin mostly made of metal, pointing to the last panel that is all machine with the same metal face mask. The red background and deep shadows highlight how ominous this moment feels.

With hundreds of works on display in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, there's a lot to choose from when Playing Favorites! This article highlights a digitally illustrated comic art piece created by a high school senior. Read why it was selected as a current favorite!

March 26, 2026

Now on View: The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2026

A museum pedestal with ten sculptures resting on it. Colors range from browns and tans to rainbow polka dots. The walls in the background are covered in gold and silver papers, and a few dozen paintings. Prominent images include portraits, scenes from nature, and coy fish.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards exhibit is now on view at the FWMoA! Celebrating hundreds of teens across our region, this exhibit highlights our students' personal expression.

March 21, 2026March 19, 2026

Saturday Studio: Cut Paper Pop-up

A green background with lighter green stems, and purple and pink flowers being placed by a white hand in the shape of a bouquet. The flowers are like cartoons, with half appearing like tulips.

Things are popping in the Saturday Studio! Follow along to create your own pop-up card, and learn about creative influences for artist Kirsty Mitchell.

December 13, 2025December 15, 2025

Saturday Studio: Quilting

Three paper "quilt" squares. The largest on the left is made of purple, blue, and yellow triangles, held together with yellow and white polka dotted tape. The square in the upper right is made of two purple triangles and two blue triangles, held together with an "x" of blue and white polka dotted tape. The bottom right rectangle is the asymmetrical rectangle with purple and blue triangles and a yellow square in the center.

Have you ever made a quilt? Follow along with this Saturday Studio to make your own paper patterns! We're inspired by the FWMoA exhibit, "It Was a Time to Sew: A Sampler of Quilts from the Collection," now on view.

November 18, 2025November 20, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Kinetic Sculpture

A stainless steel and stone sculpture, a rock base and stainless top. The shapes created by stainless steel are hollow circles and and organic shapes with pointed ends. The shapes vary in size and width. The sculpture sways the individual shapes from left to right, causing them to overlap each other.

For this Art Term Tuesday, we're looking at art in motion! Follow along to see a sample of kinetic sculptures on display at FWMoA.

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Gauffrage

White paper with an embossed impression. The impression is of several organic shapes next to or inside one another. Similar to the outline of a cartoon lake with islands, the image has several curves and peninsulas. The shadows and highlights on the raised edges give the image its form.

This month, Director of Education Alyssa Dumire tells us about artists who leave a good impression. Read along to see the applications of Gauffrage!

October 11, 2025October 13, 2025

Saturday Studio: Quilling and Día de los Muertos

The completed picture frame, with a purple arch in the center, surrounded by abstracted marigolds, orange teardrop shapes, and blue half circles.

Follow along to make your own quilled work of art! Today's Saturday Studio highlights the remembrance of loved ones as we look ahead to Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

September 16, 2025December 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Lamination

A glass sculpture with varying shapes and sized pieces of glass stacked on top of each other. From bottom to top it is made of a silver disk, glass orb, a slanted square twice the width of the sphere, a smaller square holding up the longest piece of glass that is slanted at the opposite 45 degree angle. The very top holds two chunks of glass and a smaller sphere. The entire work feels like it's balancing itself in a way similar to a jenga tower. The front of the work shows a flat, yellow, hollowed out circle.

It's all things lamination for this week's Art Term Tuesday! Step inside a space of creativity with featured studio glass artists.