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Summer Studio classes offer middle and high school students the opportunity to experiment with a variety of media and acquire innovative studio art skills in a museum environment. Drawing inspiration from The Jewish Museum’s exhibitions, students discuss ideas, experiment with materials and create their own works of art.
Past/Present Portrait
June 18–22
High School: 2:00–5:00 pm
Contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley’s vibrant large-scale paintings serve as inspiration for the creation of personal, mixed media portraits. Drawing from the special exhibition Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel participants examine identity, tradition and self-expression.
Fee: $225
City as Muse
August 6–9
Middle School: 10:00 am–12:30 pm
High School: 2:00–4:30 PM
Inspired by his friends and his environment, French painter Edouard Vuillard painted 20th-century Paris and the people who inhabited it. Using the exhibition Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 as inspiration, take to the streets of New York, reinterpreting the cultural life of your own city through drawing, painting and collage.
Fee: $225
Full scholarships are available.
For more information or to register, please call 212.423.3254 or email teenprograms@thejm.org.
The Jewish Museum reserves the right to cancel the classes in the event that there are not enough students.
