Classes
In this rare opportunity, knowledgeable, engaging scholars hand-picked by Carnegie Museum of Art guide you through the famous, the infamous, the mysterious, and the yet-to-be-discovered. It’s a 4-week crash course in a big slice of the history of art.
Pencils in hand, we will write our travel stories and illustrate characters from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola’s 1954 classic novel.
Knowledgeable, engaging scholars hand-picked by CMOA guide you through the famous, the infamous, the mysterious, and the yet-to-be-discovered. It’s a 12-week crash course covering hundreds of years of human creativity unlike any other. Participants get access to museum galleries after each session.
In this rare opportunity, knowledgeable, engaging scholars hand-picked by Carnegie Museum of Art guide you through the famous, the infamous, the mysterious, and the yet-to-be-discovered. It’s a 4-week crash course in a big slice of the history of art.
Develop an Origin Story: use the art in the Carnegie Museum of Art galleries to envision a character and his or her world.
Wite-Out and red pens in hand, mark up, scribble, and ornament the document!
Join curator Magalí Arriola and explore undisclosed sites in the art and natural history museums to draw connections between disparate subjects and ideas, and identify the signs and clues that make a narrative.
Get inspired by video and performance art in addition to paintings and sculptures as you collaborate with your classmates to create, direct, and video-record live performances. Large-scale environments and samba-inspired wearable art by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica will spark your ideas for props and settings. Videos will be compiled on a DVD and mailed 3-4 weeks later.
Build your understanding of architecture as you consider what it takes to make a great social space. Concerts? Soccer? From porches to piazzas, explore public spaces on foot around the museum and in the galleries. Get inspired by creative spaces in Building Optimism: Public Space in South America. Construct an architectural model and work in groups to create a collaborative design.
Walk into some room-sized installation art and imagine your own 3-D world. Get inspired by installations that include tents, parrots, and sand in Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium. Team up with classmates on large-scale installations that fill the studio
These creative sessions are for those who draw and for those who don’t. Explore contemporary art through improvised forms of drawing with artists and organizers of the 2018 Carnegie International. Sketching, doodling, cartooning, mapping, writing, and marking are among the many modes that will bring us together.
Carnegie Museum of Art’s Saturday art classes nurture creative thinking, thoughtful observation, and perseverance towards achieving goals.
Auguste Rodin died 100 years ago, but his influence is still felt today. We will explore in this two-session class what role the French master played in the renewal of sculpture at the turn of the 20th century.
Auguste Rodin died 100 years ago, but his influence is still felt today. We will explore in this two-session class what role the French master played in the renewal of sculpture at the turn of the 20th century.
Join us for this session exploring experimental approaches to drawing, led by Bisi Silva, Artistic Director of Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, and a curatorial companion for the Carnegie International research travels.
Get an insider’s view of Carnegie Museum of Art’s conservation process.
Let our amazing collections spark inquiry and creativity for your young learners. Travel across the globe and throughout history using the world-class exhibitions at Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History.
