12/18/23 Artists in Schools Noormah's Reflections: September & October CMA Resident Artist Noormah Jamal on her first two months at Children's Workshop School. Click to expand media gallery. The first two months of the school year consisted of an introduction to drawing – observational drawing with shapes, drawing outdoors, drawing textured objects and 1-point perspective. We discussed line quality and pressure, while working with various numbered h-hb pencils and charcoal (subtractive drawing). With tone and gradient on our minds, we then moved to color. We started with the color wheel and primary-secondary colors, followed by tints, shades, hue, and warm and cool color tones. I loved how visuals from previous assignments keep making an appearance in my students’ work. Many students incorporated 1-point perspective while creating new works. All kids are artists. But around the fifth grade, some tend to believe that they are not. I learned that there is an ‘assignment' for every child. For instance, some students found observational drawing intimidating, but had the complete opposite reaction to charcoal. Once they realized it was an approachable medium akin to ‘child’s play,’ their curiosity and experimentation was on full display. When I first started teaching, I was afraid of the silence. In my first class, only 3-4 students asked questions. Now, most of my class asks questions – what we are doing next week, wanting to revisit assignments, noticing old drawing errors, learning and focusing on perspective, line quality, and composition. All of it is a joy. Noormah’s work at Children’s Workshop School is supported by the Emergency Arts Education Fund , which provides free arts education to NYC school communities whose art programs have been decimated by recent budget cuts. Children’s Museum of the Arts’ three Residents Artists are currently implementing ambitious arts curriculum at each of our partner sites throughout New York City: Hudson Guild in Chelsea, Sid Miller Academy in Crown Heights, and Children’s Workshop School in the East Village. Come spring, our residents will showcase their students' work through exhibitions and installations across the city. Learn how you can support the work of our residents here . NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

6/17/24 Artists in Schools Repetition and Self Portraits Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Noormah Jamal's fifth grade class at Children's Workshop School. Click to expand media gallery. Students looked to pop art icon Andy Warhol as they created grid drawings of a chosen object. First, they selected their object, then drew it four times. Next, they flipped the colors in the style of Warhol's beloved screenprints. One student, surprised by how well similar their four drawings looked, exclaimed, "How am I even doing that?!" Afterwards, students exercised their portrait drawing skills as they drew portraits of their classmates. We were amazed by their skills — no surprise there! Noormah’s work at Children’s Workshop School is supported by the Emergency Arts Education Fund , which provides free arts education to NYC school communities whose art programs have been decimated by recent budget cuts. Children’s Museum of the Arts’ three Residents Artists are currently implementing ambitious arts curriculum at each of our partner sites throughout New York City: Hudson Guild in Chelsea, Sid Miller Academy in Crown Heights, and Children’s Workshop School in the East Village. Come spring, our residents will showcase their students' work through exhibitions and installations across the city. Learn how you can support the work of our residents here . NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

Children's Museum of the Arts at Youth Pride Free Community Artmaking Saturday, June 24, 2023 12 PM Domino Park Domino Park, River Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA Media Inquiries: adam@culturalcounsel.com RSVP Youth Pride Teens, young adults, and their families are invited to make art and express their identities during Youth Pride , an annual celebration of and for LGBTQIA+ and ally teens. Participants will create their own DIY Pride flags, which will be flown in the NYC Pride March the following day. This event is recommended for ages 12 & up. About DIY Pride: DIY Pride is a series of public artmaking activities celebrating the constantly evolving nature of the Pride flag produced by Children’s Museum of the Arts in partnership with NYC Pride. Artists have long used the flag as a medium to make powerful statements about identity and the issues they care about. Originally introduced in 1978 at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco, the Pride Flag has since undergone continuous revision and adaptation to better reflect its inclusive vision of identity. In this important sense, the Pride Flag is not a singular symbol, but an ever-expanding constellation of the liberating spirit of the Queer community. DIY Pride takes this spirit as its animating charge, inviting children and families to design, make and share new Pride flags with the world. DIY Pride culminates in an intergenerational display of solidarity by sharing these flags created by NYC youth at the annual NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 25. Schedule of Events: Pride Block Party Hosted by Children's Museum of the Arts Sunday, June 17 10 AM to 2 PM Spring Street Park, NYC Ages 12 & under Youth Pride Saturday, June 24 12 PM Domino Park, Brooklyn Ages 12 & up FamilyFest at NYC Pride Sunday, June 25 11 AM Astor Place, NYC All Ages Children's Museum of the Arts at Youth Pride is generously supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, First Republic Bank, The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Google Community Grants Fund, Amazon, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harriet Ames Charitable Trust, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Hammitt, Herschel Supply Co. and the Viniar Family Foundation. Additional support is provided, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Also in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Donate Now

Open Studio: Character Collages Inspired by Deborah Roberts Free Community Artmaking Monday, September 11, 2023 3 PM to 5 PM Pier 57 Pier 57, 11th Avenue, New York, NY, USA Media Inquiries: adam@culturalcounsel.com RSVP Deborah Roberts, The Unseen, 2020. Mixed media collage on canvas. 65 x 45 inches. Artwork © Deborah Roberts. Courtesy the artist; Vielmetter Los Angeles; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Paul Bardagjy. Guided by the work of collagist Deborah Roberts , artists will explore the world of mixed media with a focus on individual character stories. With a colorful array of materials at their fingertips – from paper and clay to pipe cleaners and fabric – young creators will blend and shape their ideas into one-of-a-kind artworks, each with their own story to tell. About Open Studio at Pier 57 Taking place Mondays and Thursdays, Open Studio at Pier 57 invites children to explore hands-on projects across a wide range of artistic disciplines. Specially designed for children on the Autism Spectrum but welcoming to all, each Inclusives session is multisensory focused. Participants will explore art materials (such as clay, paper, or textiles) at their own pace alongside movement breaks and ample time for storytelling and social interaction. What To Expect Sessions are led by CMA Artist Instructors Emma Waldman and JT Baldassarre and are inspired by historic and contemporary New York City art and artists. The program’s curriculum is rooted in accessible artmaking practices and Children’s Museum of the Arts’ pedagogy of Look, Make, Share. Take a peek at one of our virtual Inclusives lessons, catered to children with Autism, that families can try at home: here ! While caregivers are welcome to stay with their children, families are encouraged to enjoy the extraordinary setting of Pier 57 in the adjacent Family Living Room for the duration of the session. Children's Museum of the Arts' Open Studio at Pier 57 is generously supported by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, First Republic Bank, The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Google Community Grants Fund, Amazon, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harriet Ames Charitable Trust, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Hammitt, and the Viniar Family Foundation. Donate Now

See More Children's Museum of the Arts 11/29/23 Interviews "It was thrilling to imagine what it would be like to be an artist with such a unique vision." Artist Marcy Hermansader on learning to draw alongside her father and visiting a Giacometti retrospective as a child. NEXT IN

11/30/23 Artists in Schools Maria's Reflections: November CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli on her November projects at Hudson Guild. Click to expand media gallery. This month was all about color and collage experiments. First, kids learned about achromatic colors by turning a colorful Paul Klee painting into an achromatic drawing. Next, we moved to monochromatic colors, focusing on Picasso' s Blue Period. I asked the students to create a self-portrait expressing their emotions, mainly sadness. A critical moment took place during this lesson. Two students walked into the class crying and very annoyed. They didn't want to work. When I introduced Picasso, I said he used blue to express his feelings. I then invited them to think of those moments when they were unfortunate and to try to release their sadness by transferring it into a monochromatic self-portrait. I mentioned that sometimes art could help us express our feelings, and because sorrow is so strong, it can generate intense paintings. It gave me joy to see that both students were somehow inspired by the lesson and made a lovely self-portrait, and at the end of the class, they were both happy. We also learned how to create value with color combinations. Taking inspiration from paintings by Matisse , Klee , and Josef Albers , and street art by Phillip Saunders , students created paper collages with construction paper. I introduced them to abstract art and discussed the difference between hue, tint, and shade by blending tempera paint colors. The last class of Foundations of Color was inspired by Sam Gilliam 's colorful canvases – the children created a collaborative rainbow by coloring a long line of paper. This project was a big success because students loved working on a large-scale project and painting together to build a common project. They were very enthusiastic about Gilliam's work and life and loved freely moving around the tables and using colors. It was therapeutic and fun at the same time. Our first two-dimensional design activity centered around frottage collage and the work of Max Ernst . Students experimented with the frottage technique, which consists of placing a sheet of paper on top of flat objects and rubbing it with a pencil or crayons to pick up the texture of the object beneath the paper. Students were also fascinated by Ernst's work and surrealism in general because they found it absurd and new. One student was inspired by Ernst's drawing, The Fugitive , and drew a fictional animal that was a mix of a wolf, a porcupine, and an eagle. The last class of the month was all about Dadaist collage. The students created a collage by selecting and cutting images from newspapers and books. I showed them examples of Dadaist and surrealist collages and asked them to make a "nonsense" collage of images with unusual proportions and combinations. I was happily surprised to see how students responded to dadaism. They loved going through all the images that I provided to them. It was interesting to see their selection for their project; some were very rigorous, some very creative, and some lacked rules or schemes entirely! We also worked on symmetry and made "squishy" paintings. Students were so enthusiastic that they wanted to do it repeatedly, so we used paper and colors. The element of mystery was a big part of the fun. We used strings to make it more challenging. Fourth and fifth graders were more capable of working with strings, while second and third graders found it frustrating. I wish I had only shown the strings technique only to the older ones, but that was a great moment of learning! Maria's work at Hudson Guild is supported by the Emergency Arts Education Fund , which provides free arts education to NYC school communities whose art programs have been decimated by recent budget cuts. Children’s Museum of the Arts’ three Residents Artists are currently implementing ambitious arts curriculum at each of our partner sites throughout New York City: Hudson Guild in Chelsea, Sid Miller Academy in Crown Heights, and Children’s Workshop School in the East Village. Come spring, our residents will showcase their students' work through exhibitions and installations across the city. Learn how you can support the work of our residents here . NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

Family Tour of MASA Galeria Private Guided Tour Saturday, June 11, 2022 12 PM to 1 PM Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, USA Media Inquiries: adam@culturalcounsel.com RSVP Children's Museum of the Arts families are invited to enjoy a free private guided tour of MASA Galeria at Rockefeller Center's Rink Gallery . Mexico City's MASA Galeria brings Mexican art + design to the historic 8,000 square foot underground former federal post office at Rockefeller Center. The exhibition will feature all-new contemporary design and functional art from established practitioners such as Frida Escobedo, Alma Allen, and Pedro Reyes to more emerging practices like Panoramma and Xavi Lorand , who have never shown in the US before, alongside historical pieces by artists who lived and worked in Mexico and the US at points (such as Isamu Noguchi and Martin Ramirez ). Programs at Children's Museum of the Arts are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Donate Now

See More Children's Museum of the Arts 10/11/23 Interviews "Children’s curiosity is something we can never get back as adults." Artist Linda Lopez on learning to draw from watching PBS and how viewing her college professor's artwork in an exhibition led to her becoming an artist. NEXT IN

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NADA Presents: Art Without an Audience: The Case for Children’s Art Lecture Friday, May 6, 2022 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Pier 36 299 South Street, New York, NY, USA Media Inquiries: adam@culturalcounsel.com RSVP Fabrizio Cavallo Life Age 8 American Embassy School New Delhi, India Permanent Collection, Children's Museum of the Arts Children's Museum of the Arts is pleased to participate in NADA Presents , NADA’s signature programming series of conversations, performances, and events, at NADA New York 2022 . CMA Executive Director Seth Cameron hosts Art Without an Audience: The Case for Children’s Art, an open forum discussion that encourages participants — young and old — to join in on the conversation around children’s art. Using examples from the museum’s open call, audience members are encouraged to ask: What kinds of audiences can children’s art create? What kinds of institutions can children’s art influence? How can taking children’s art seriously reframe our received ideas of the historical canon? And how can we reimagine arts education beyond the bounds of traditional pedagogical hierarchies? Artists of all ages are encouraged to participate. Programs at Children's Museum of the Arts are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Donate Now