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: will open in August

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

Fees per Lesson: Children–$9; 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

Middle School Lessons (6th-8th grade)

Friday at 9:30AM, Noon, and 2PM

Fall Topics:

September

Discovering Who’s Who: Portrait Painting

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, William Powell Frith, John Collier, Augustus Mulready, William MacDuff, and Mary Gow

October

Sharing Stories: Children’s Book Illustrators

John Tenniel, Beatrix Potter, Randolph Caldecott, and Arthur Rackham

November

Furry Friends and Fearsome Beasts: Animal Painters

Edwin Landseer, Charles Burton Barber, and Briton Riviere

Spring Topics:

February

Enjoying a Laugh: Caricatures and Limericks

Henry Furniss, Leslie Ward, and Edward Lear

March

Discovering Nature: Landscape and Still Life Paintings

Thomas Creswick, John Crimshaw, William Henry Hunt, and Edward Ladell

April

The Imaginative World: Prominent Women Artists

Kate Bunce, Marie Spartali, Emily Osbourne, Emma Brownlow, and Adalaide Claxton