Homeschool Days: 2025-2026

Victorian England: Through the Looking Glass

Join us for an exploration of Victorian England—a golden age of dazzling personalities, painting styles, and techniques! Students (ages 5-14) will discover how Victorian artists shaped not only their world but our own. Each 75-minute lesson is interactive and includes a related art activity. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn and create. As Alice in Lewis Carroll’s classic says: “What is the good of a book (or a world) without pictures?”

Parent attendance is optional. Review our FAQs, which cover arrival and even co-op questions.

Registration: Register HERE.

Location: Mack Building (on the campus of Bob Jones University)

Fees per Lesson: Children–$10; adults–$3

Event fees are non-refundable. Adults may choose either to attend with their child(ren) or leave after student check-in for the 75-minute lesson.

Elementary School Lessons (K5-5th grade)

Thursday at 9:30AM and 2PM

Friday at 9:30AM, Noon, and 2PM (September & October 9:30am and Noon and the November Noon and 2pm sessions are FULL)

Middle School Lessons (6th-8th grade)

Friday at 9:30AM, Noon, and 2PM (October & November 9:30am sessions are FULL)

Fall Topics:

September 11-12, 2025

Discovering Who’s Who: Portrait Painting

Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Family Portraits
William Powell Frith and John Collier: Individual Portraits
Augustus Mulready, William MacDuff, and Mary Gow: Children’s Portraits

October 9-10, 2025

Sharing Stories: Children’s Book Illustrators

John Tenniel: Illustrator for Lewis Carroll
Beatrix Potter: Anthropomorphic Storyteller
Randolph Caldecott: Inspiration for the Caldecott Medal
Arthur Rackham: Innovative Ink and Watercolor Artist

November 13-14, 2025

Furry Friends and Fearsome Beasts: Animal Painters

Edwin Landseer: Favorite of the Queen
Charles Burton Barber: Master of the Sentimental
Briton Riviere: Master of the Majestic

Spring Topics:

Registration for Spring semester will open in December.

February 12-13, 2026

Enjoying a Laugh: Caricatures and Limericks

Henry Furniss: The Art of Exaggeration
Leslie Ward: The “Spy” of Vanity Fair
Edward Lear: Painter, Poet, Humorist

March 12-13, 2026

Discovering Nature: Landscape and Still Life Paintings

Thomas Creswick and John Crimshaw: A Distant View
William Henry Hunt and Edward Ladell: A Closer Look

April 9-10, 2026

The Imaginative World: Prominent Women Artists

Kate Bunce and Marie Spartali: The Enchanted World
Emily Osbourne and Emma Brownlow: The Nameless and Friendless
Adalaide Claxton: Invention and Imagination