Staying in the city for the summer? Head up to The New York Botanical Garden to check out Philip Haas’ massive composite portrait busts, Four Seasons, inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s 16th century painting series of the same name. The contemporary artist and filmmaker has taken the Renaissance master’s famous 2-D paintings and re-imagined them as …
Tag: contemporary art
Come by this Saturday for some more fun with Keith Haring…and check out our Jim Dine Hammering Collaboration from Sunday @ #LICFlea:
We’re excited to be back at the LIC Flea & Food this Sunday, July 14th: Bring your kids, shop and EAT + create ART with CCA! Let us inspire your child’s imagination & creativity! Explore artists from NYC’s Museums! LIC Flea & Food is an outdoor market open every Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm. Over 65 …
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 …
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 …