This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Get ready for a morning of team challenges and fun! Discover who can build the tallest tower, explore the Museum with an iPad scavenger hunt, and make your own arcade game to take home. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Practice your fine art skills and watercolor a winter landscape. Also, experiment with stamping, collage, and beading to make sparkling snowflakes and winter scenes. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Mix, measure, and make seasonal snacks and sweet treats. Make reindeer rollups, snowmen on a stick, and mini bagel ornaments to eat. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Spend four afternoons building your toolbox of cartooning skills. Join professional cartoonist Justin Thompson, creator of the online comic Mythtickle, and learn how to draw emotional expression through a character’s face and body. Then, explore how emotions and characters interact on the page to create a comic story.
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Embark on a frosty adventure of creativity by playing with ice boats, making a frozen sensory bag, beading sparkling snowflakes and icicles, and enjoying other wintry cool projects! Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Build sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short LEGO stop-motion movie using iPads. Also, learn how to add sound and use green screen technology. No prior experience required. Instructor: Michael Marquez
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. While the weather outside is frightful, have fun with hot chocolate dip and a movie in the Museum theater. Also, make a winter-weather bird feeder for Woodstock and decorate a graham cracker candy house. Instructor: Michael Marquez
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Work in groups to build sets and characters with LEGOs. Add sound effects and titles, and practice editing to make short stop-motion movies. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Learn watercolor techniques and explore value and color mixing to paint a pointillist landscape, abstract salt paintings, and more. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Have fun in the coolest camp yet! Paint with ice, make mini ice wreaths, and sweet snow snacks that you can eat! Instructor: Michael Marquez
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. It’s starting to look a lot like winter! Build a marshmallow snowperson, make penguin poppers, and create symmetrical snowflakes. Also, search for Snoopy all over the Schulz Museum. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Experiment with shape, color, and different media to make masterpieces. Create Kandinsky-inspired circle art, rainbow geometry paintings, and more. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Discover the science of snow with an afternoon of fun winter-themed science activities! Make fizzy ice, popping snow, and super sparkling snow slime! Instructor: Michael Marquez
This event is SOLD OUT. No waitlist available. Award-winning actor (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) and New York Times bestselling author Bob Odenkirk and illustrator Erin Odenkirk will discuss and sign their new book Zilot & Other Important Rhymes. Tickets Required.
Meet, watch, and talk to Yasmeen Abedifard, an Iranian-American cartoonist, illustrator, and animator based in the Bay Area. Abedifard received the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic in 2023.
Join Bay Area cartoonists, including Rina Ayuyang, Briana Loewinsohn, Thien Pham, Jason Shiga, and Julia Wertz, to celebrate their new books with live comic readings followed by a book signing.
This event is SOLD OUT. Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including pizza, games, crafts, and cartooning. Kids will have the Museum to themselves as they explore the world of animation to make their own short, hand-drawn and stop-motion movies; watch a short Peanuts movie on the big screen (with popcorn!); and more! Recommended for ages 5-10.
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
This event is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Brownies are invited to sleep over at the Charles M. Schulz Museum! Troops will complete all five steps of the Letterboxer badge and receive their badge at the event. Design a stamp and letterbox. Then search the Museum for clues left by other Troops while experiencing the Schulz Museum after dark! Pizza dinner and continental breakfast are included.
Meet, watch, and talk to animator and illustrator Amber Rankin, whose work includes animated ads for mobile games and 2D character animation on the short films Let’s Eat and Amped.
This event is SOLD OUT. Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Plus, watch the brand-new Peanuts animated special Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin! (Apple TV+) about how Franklin makes friends with Charlie Brown and the gang. Recommended for ages 5-10.
Prepare for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition Cowabunga, Peanuts! with hands-on activities about the ocean, water, waves, and more. Make an ocean in a bottle, explore the differences between salt and fresh water, and dive deep into environmental science. Also, ice skate at Snoopy’s Home Ice from 12:30 pm–2:00 pm. Registration required.
This event is SOLD OUT. Adults are invited to have fun learning to draw with professional cartoonist Justin Thompson while enjoying adult beverages, too!
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
Explore over 50 family-friendly activities, including the science of animation at the Schulz Museum table, for FREE at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
Meet, watch, and talk to illustrator Raul Higuera-Cortez, whose work includes the road-trip mystery San Expedito, Paranoir, and others.
Join the Peanuts gang as they head to the beach for fun in the sun, sand, and surf! Throughout Peanuts, the beach became the setting for many memorable and fun days, including the introduction of Franklin, sightings of Joe Cool, Linus’s epic sandcastles, and Sally’s beachball adventures. See original Peanuts comic strip art, animation cels, vintage toys, and more! Generously sponsored by GoGo squeeZ and and Sea Ranch Abalone Bay.
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist.Chill out this spring with a morning of hands-on crafts and an afternoon of ice skating at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Build and paint with marshmallows, make a winter sensory bottle, create a magic watercolor masterpiece, and enjoy winter-themed movement games and activities. Instructor: Michael Marquez
Keep cool this spring with a morning of hands-on winter-themed crafts and an afternoon of ice skating at Snoopy’s Home Ice! Make a marshmallow launcher, orca art, and a soft sock penguin.
Learn cartooning, animation, art, and ice skating! Visit schulzmuseum.org/classes-camps/ for a schedule, or call (707) 284-1263.
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Build sets with LEGOs and work in small groups to create a stop-motion movie with sound effects, titles, and credits. Instructor: Mike Marquez
Get creative with color and explore different watercolor techniques to paint spring scenes. Learn sponging, splattering, scumbling, and other ways to watercolor wonders. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Take a cartoon safari with professional cartoonist and storyteller Joe Wos. Follow step-by-step instructions and learn to draw animals—from aardvarks to zebras!—in a fun, hands-on, engaging environment.
Experiment with photo mix-ups, mash-ups, and editing. Create simple computer animation and learn to draw and design with iPad apps. Instructor: Mike Marquez
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Make meals and snacks that the Peanuts characters would love to eat, including pita pizza and tacos in a bag. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
Spend three mornings building sets and characters with LEGOs to create a short stop-motion movie using iPads. Learn story structure, character development, and how to add lights, cameras, and green screen technology. No prior experience required. Instructor: Mike Marquez
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Join cartoonist and master Maze-maker Joe Wos for a fun, hands-on California adventure! Listen to stories and learn to draw condors, mountain lions, furry friends, and other fierce creatures that have made California their home.
Combine art and science to create chlorophyll paintings, make art that floats, and launch candy PEEPS! Instructor: Mike Marquez
Spring into science and art with a morning of experiments and exploration. Make rain paintings, floating artwork, creative creations with candy PEEPS, and more! Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Build sets with LEGOs and work in small groups to create a stop-motion movie with sound effects, titles, and credits. Instructor: Mike Marquez.
Dig into your imagination while learning to draw the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot, and other mysterious and unproven creatures with professional cartoonist Joe Wos in this fun, hands-on workshop.
Go on a scavenger hunt through the Museum’s newest exhibition, Cowabunga, Peanuts!, and dive into ocean-themed arts and crafts. Discover the layers of the ocean and the animals that live there, make an edible ocean, and craft some ocean creatures to take home. Instructor: Angelica Blancas-Mims
This event is held offsite: Montgomery Village – Courtyard (911 Village Ct., Santa Rosa, CA 95405) Who is Snoopy: Learn about local icon Charles Schulz and his most famous character, Snoopy! By creating several crafts to take home, including a Snoopy puppet, and Snoopy ears to wear!
This class is SOLD OUT. Click here to join the waitlist. Discover Snoopy’s connection to NASA and space and blast off into an afternoon of space exploration. Make constellation viewers, mix out-of-this-world slime, and build a lunar lander for an awesome egg drop. Instructor: Mike Marquez
From Frankenstein’s monster to King Kong, learn to draw classic movie monsters with professional cartoonist Joe Wos. Follow step-by-step instructions to draw Godzilla versus the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and other fun monster movie mayhem!
Enjoy stories, crafts, and activities designed for children ages 1–5 and their caregivers. Held on the last Monday of each month.
Bring the whole family for FREE admission all day! From 10:00 am–3:00 pm, meet Snoopy, visit Sonoma County Library’s mobile BiblioBus, and enjoy hands-on activities with First 5 California. At 2:00 pm, celebrate the 50th anniversary of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, with Jason Mendelson of Lee Mendelson Film Productions.
This event is SOLD OUT. Adults are invited to transform a flat Peanuts image into a layered paper shadow box scene like the ones in the Museum’s Peek-a-boo Box exhibit while sampling wines from Quivira Vineyards, known for their organic farming methods and co-fermentation, phased harvesting and barrel aging.
Meet, watch, and talk to Breena Nuñez, whose comics appear in The New Yorker and in the anthologies Tales From La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology, Drawing Power (Eisner Award Winner, 2020), and Be Gay, Do Comics! (Ignatz Award Winner, 2020).
Drop kids off for after-hours fun, including a pizza dinner, games, crafts, and cartooning. Recommended for ages 5-10.
