Here’s what parents are saying about Museum Adventures: “Your tours offer what many parents want to give to their kids and may not know exactly how.” “You do a great job introducing sophisticated material to the kids– without dumbing it down nor having it go over their heads. That’s a tricky balance and you do …
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Our Museum Adventures program is an opportunity to explore art with your children, led by the talented artist and art educator, Claire Munday. Take a peek at our most recent tour of the Met!
Check out the big smailes from all of the fun we had!
Art Adventures Studio embossed and built their own Dali-inspired functioning clocks! Clocks were designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s famous clocks. You and your child can make your own (a great Father’s Day gift) this Saturday, June 1st @4-5:30pm – contact us!
We love Sesame Street, so on April 18th, when the word of the day was SCULPTURE, we couldn’t have been more excited. Children who have been on our Museum Adventures tours may recognize some of the artists: Rodin, Brancusi, and David Smith. Want to learn more about sculpture? Join us for a tour! And check …
Using alginate and plaster to explore negative space, students learned how to mix skin color and painted their hands in their own unique ways. Check out the results of the second part of this project:
Nathalie Djurberg animal sculpture required many steps! Thinking about a skeleton inside of a sculpture to keep it strong, which shape to make it and which animal to build! With the use of armature wire, aluminum foil, plaster wrap and paint, these are our amazing creatures that took 3 weeks! We also made Murakami inspired …
This past Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Adventures explored Color Theory through the work of Robert Ryman, Rothko, and Josef Albers. Take a peek…
Using alginate and plaster to explore negative space, to see humor in art using body parts and learning an extreme amount of self control, students were challenged to create a hand gesture and hold it for up to 10 min. as the alginate mold was created. Check out the results of the first part of …
Happy May Day! Summer will be here before you know it. Join CCA this year for June Art Adventures Summer Camp and experience contemporary art in a whole new way. Our camps engage and inspire through exciting hands-on creative activities and material exploration! With this longer time spent, there is ample time to dive into …