1/24/24 Artists in Schools Viewing Henry Taylor at the Whitney Museum CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli visited the Whitney Museum with her after school students from Hudson Guild. Click to expand media gallery. Our after school students from Hudson Guild returned to the Whitney Museum of American Art this week for a behind-the-scenes tour of Henry Taylor: B-Side . This was their second ever visit to an art museum, following last week’s visit to the Ruth Asawa exhibition! We are extremely grateful to volunteer docent Gay Young , who connected with our students on a personal level and offered engaging stories about the people depicted in Taylor’s paintings. Of course, it wouldn't be art class without drawing time. Students can’t wait to make a return trip soon. Thank you to our institutional partners and to CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli for making these field trips happen! 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

9/28/23 News CMA Joins Bloomberg Connects, the Free Arts & Culture App Children's Museum of the Arts, now in the palm of your hand. Click to expand media gallery. We couldn’t be more excited to join the legion of world class cultural organizations on Bloomberg Connects , the free arts and culture app. Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at our recent exhibition sampling , hear the child artists of The Lemonade Stand describe their artworks, read profiles of our Artists in Residence , and so much more – and more to come. Explore CMA anytime, anywhere. Download for iPhone and Android NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

3/15/24 Artists in Schools Brooch Project: 3D Painting Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Noormah Jamal's fifth grade class at Children's Workshop School. Click to expand media gallery. Students finished up their brooch project, which marked the second time that they painted air-dry clay. Last time they painted colors on a flat surface, but this time, they painted on a 3D surface. Students impressed us with their ability to merge colors, gradients, highlights, and shadows. They kept the original prompt front and center – although brooches are small, use color to make them eye-catching! Some students make the same visual in each of their assignments, honing their skills and getting better each time. Others love to experiment and make something completely new each time! 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

11/1/23 Kids Art India Through the Eyes of a Child Celebrate Diwali with 24 artworks from CMA's international collection of children's art. Click to expand media gallery. Sheena Singh The Sunset Age 8 The American Embassy School New Delhi, India Pema Zomkey Games: A Participation for All Age 12 Lower T.C.V. School Dharamshala, India Dorjee Phurbu Beauty of Nature Age 12 Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala, India Sangya Chomphel A Dance Show Lower T.C.V. School Dharamshala, India Ruby Vadakkan Fishermen to Sea Age 10 St. Clare's Convent Girls Higher Secondary School Thrissur, India Tenzin Norgay My Family Age 8 Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala, India Justin Vadakkan Children's Village Age 11 St. Mary's School Kolkata, India Mava V. Drought Age 9 St. Clare's Convent Girls Higher Secondary School Thrissur, India Tenzin Jigme Marriage Age 7 Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala, India Anoop Kumar Cultural and Traditional Celebration Age 12 Hermann Gmeiner School Faridabad, India Ruby Vadakkan Queen of Flowers Age 10 St. Clare's Convent Girls Higher Secondary School Thrissur, India Saji Alone in Life Age 10 St. Clare's Convent Girls Higher Secondary School Thrissur, India Tara Ault-Lowen Happiness Age 8 American Embassy School New Delhi, India Saji Mother's Child Age 11 St. Clare's Convent Girls Higher Secondary School Thrissur, India Amanda Strang Life Age 10 American Embassy School New Delhi, India Sini Sunset Age 10 St. Clare's Convent Girls Higher Secondary School Thrissur, India Navjot Chadha Myself in My Neighborhood Age 10 SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Faridabad, India Tenzin Myandak A Quest for Peace of Mind Age 11 T.C.V. School Lower Dharamsala, India Dewanshi Bhansali Untitled The American Embassy School New Delhi, India Seema Reza Life Age 9 American Embassy School New Delhi, India Rabia Self Portrait Age 12 Hermann Gmeiner School Faridabad, India Mable K. Pooram Festival Age 11 St. Joseph's School Kerala, India Charulata Sharma Classical Traditional Mohiniattam Dance Age 11 Hermann Gmeiner School Faridabad, India Effie Spanellis India Age 10 American Embassy School New Delhi, India Register – it's free! NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

5/31/24 Arts Education Resources Learning Resource: Cubist Self Portraits by Noormah Jamal, CMA Artist in Residence 2023-24, in collaboration with 5th graders at Children’s Workshop School, NYC Click to expand media gallery. View , Download , & Discover More! While self-portrait exercises are traditionally based on observation and realism, this class is devoted to breaking the traditional portrait into shapes and simpler forms. Students will discover the art movement Cubism and the powerful visual techniques it innovated. Georges Braque, Woman Seated at an Easel, 1936 Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914. When looking at Cubist composition you may notice two things: 1) Simple shapes and forms 2) Multiple perspectives. Seemingly familiar subjects like people or objects found in the home (newspapers, breakfast or a guitar) take on a new life and character. Through Cubist techniques, they emphasized the two-dimensional flatness of the canvas instead of creating an illusional space. Rather than copy nature, it aspired to show more. What kind of visual games can you create? Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar in Armchair, 1939 Learning Objectives: Composition and placement are key to this assignment. Introduction to single and multiple point perspective. Participants should be able to compose basic shapes into a portrait. The size of the portrait should also be well composed on the drawing paper. Confidently use and blend oil pastels Materials: Pencils Oil pastels Mixed media Paper Eraser Ruler Looking at Cubist Art: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, b 1881–d. 1963) Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper . 1913, Tate © Succession Picasso/DACS 2024 (LINK) Juan Gris (Spanish, b. 1887–d. 1927) Juan Legua . 1911, oil on canvas, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC ( LINK ) Sonia Delaunay (French, born Ukraine, b.1885 –d. 1979) Simultaneous Dresses (Three Women, Forms, Colours) 1925 Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ( LINK ) David Hockney (British, b. 1937) Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso .1982, composite polaroid, Private Collection, Courtesy David Hockney Foundation ( LINK ) Step 1: Looking at history Following the principles of Look, Make, Share, begin by introducing the class to the Cubist art movement. Share examples across culture and time. Step 2: Introduction to materials Provide students oil pastels and encourage them to explore how they blend and mix differently than colored pencils. Use fingers, q-tips, cloths and found materials with different weights to show how colors can mix on the paper. Demonstrate how oil pastels can also be used to create high-contrast sharp lines. Step 3: Exploring perspective + shapes A Cubist portrait shows different views of subjects using multiple perspectives rather than the single perspective we’re accustomed to. If you look in the mirror you see your face frontally, imagine looking to the right just slightly - what comes into your vision, and what do you lose? Try again a little further to the right. What now? Try drawing each visual addition you see each time you move a little further to the right. Repeat on the left side. The Elements of Art we explore today include Shape , color , line , space , and form . The Principles of Art are contrast , proportion , and perspective . Step 4: Presentation A critical part of the class is sharing the work we made and sharing feedback. How did other students explore the material? Do we recognize familiar themes or subjects? While looking at examples of Cubist Art and while creating your composition, consider the following questions: Does a portrait need to look like the subject? Have you ever seen artworks like these before? Do they remind you of anything? What types of shapes and lines will you use to create your portrait? Is a Cubist portrait more true to life than a traditional portrait? Instructor Notes: Likeness to oneself is encouraged but not the goal of this assignment. Composing various shapes and geometric forms to make a portrait is the goal. Participants should be able to think outside of the box and think of image-making outside of the standard 'drawing' or 'realism'. Think of the space behind the portrait, think of drawing at its most simplified form. Critical Reflections: This class went well. They were excited to be working with oil pastels. With support, some should start using oil pastels differently than how they would use crayons, including pressure applications including smudging, blending, and sgraffito . Examples of student work: NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

5/8/23 Reflections When Life Gives Us Lemons, We Make Art Click to expand media gallery. We harnessed the entrepreneurial spirit of that summertime staple and built our own functioning lemonade stand on the roof of NADA New York art fair! Artists (from emerging to very emerging) created artwork, sold out our booth, and mixed lemonade — all to benefit other children who have lost access to arts education. The New Yorker even stopped by to hear from the young artists who were the first contributors to CMA's Emergency Arts Education Fund , which provides free art education to schools whose art programs have been decimated by recent budget cuts. Join these young artists by making a donation today. NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

6/10/23 Kids Art Celebrate Pride With 4 Rainbows From CMA's Permanent Collection of Children's Art Click to expand media gallery. Stella Untitled Age 11 Kirin Gill Life Age 7 American Embassy School New Delhi, India Layla Mandell Rainbow Blossom Age 8 NADA New York Collection New York, NY, USA Farunka Sinanovic Untitled Age 11 NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now

2/28/24 Artists in Schools Releasing Our Burdens Through Art Dispatches from CMA Resident Artist Maria D. Rapicavoli's after school class at Hudson Guild. Click to expand media gallery. Using the metaphor of “throwing out of the window,” students were invited to consider something they wish they could eliminate from their lives. It could be a tangible item, like an object, or an intangible one, like a feeling or an emotion. Students anonymously wrote down their answers on a piece of paper, folded it, and placed it in a basket. Next, they randomly selected a paper from the basket and created an artwork based on its content. The goal of the game was to understand that sometimes we need others to help us let go of our burdens. Art can serve as a powerful tool for expressing and releasing the things that trouble us. Students loved this project! The diversity of responses was astonishing. One student wrote down that she wanted to get rid of her Barbie Dreamhouse. Other students wrote about discarding “bad negativity” or “my anger and sadness.” As usual, students impressed us with their creativity. One student picked a paper that said “my shower” and ingeniously crafted a three-dimensional representation of a shower using cardboard, wood, and metal wire. Another student visually captured complex emotions through color by representing anger with red and sadness with blue. 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

3/1/24 Artists in Schools Noormah's Reflections: February CMA Resident Artist Noormah Jamal on her February projects at Children's Workshop School. Click to expand media gallery. This month, we finished our animal cloud forms then jumped into observational portrait and gestural figure drawing! I probably say this every time, but I'm always pleasantly surprised when students not only do well, but respond to the assignment in a way that they feel it was made for them. Observational drawing often intimidates my students. However, because these lessons were quick sketches, they slowly eased up and gained confidence. Some students required extra assistance, but most were pretty independent after the initial demo and did exceptionally well. I also really enjoyed seeing the students interacting with each other, responding to each other's work and offering encouraging comments like "You're really good at this," 'You've gotten so much better," "I don't think that looks right, the back has more of a bend to it," and my favorite comment: "You guys are gonna weep when you see mine." 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

4/15/24 Artists in Schools Creating a Gallery at City-As-School Dispatches from CMA Artist Instructors Emma and JT's high school gallery intensive at City-As-School. Click to expand media gallery. Our spring programs in NYC public schools aren’t just for elementary aged kids! CMA Artist Instructors Emma Waldman and JT Baldassarre worked with high school students at City-As-School in the West Village to curate, build, and exhibit their artworks on their very own gallery wall inside the school. First, students headed a few blocks south to R & Company to view Sayar & Garibeh ’s Broomlithic exhibition, which featured distinctive stone carvings that pay tribute to the simple, functional broom. Back at City-As, students created 2D and 3D works that focused on how material juxtapositions can generate new meanings. In the spirit of Sayar & Garibeh’s artistic techniques, they molded, pinched, smoothed, and carved the clay to represent their ideas – some humorous, others abstract. They even took a page from R & Company’s comfortable and inviting exhibition design to build a seamless connection between the wall and table. Together, they came up with the exhibition title City-As: Incohesive . One student remarked that even though each work of art doesn't fit perfectly together, the exhibition represents their differences and individuality. It’s spring in New York City, which means CMA’s Artist Instructors are hard at work in public schools across the boroughs teaching fine arts and stop-motion animation to students who lack access to the arts otherwise. Learn how you can support these programs by donating to CMA’s Emergency Arts Education Fund. NEXT Emergency Exhibition: New Training for Future Artists and Art Lovers Take a Virtual Tour on Bloomberg Connects Donate Now