Teens interested in arts management can apply for our Youth Art Initiative or the August Wilson Internship; young artists can hone their creative practice in the Youth Art Studio; and those looking for full-day camp offerings can register for our Summer Camp. Read on to learn more about how to enroll in one or more of these programs!
Museum Makers is a weekly studio-based program that provides art-making, discussion, and sensory experiences for children ages 1 –10. Young artists will have exposure to a wide variety of art-making tools and materials but will also practice and stimulate problem solving and integrate learning from other areas of education such as math and reading, in a culturally significant institution.
Your ideas, your voices, your neighborhood art museum.
In its 96th year, The Art Connection challenges artists in grades 5–8 to not only create unique artworks inspired by the work in our galleries but to exhibit their own work in our galleries as well. Educators will facilitate art experiences in painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, and mixed media and students will have access to a wide variety of materials and tools to pursue art-making that is inline with their interests and creative passions. In addition to art-making, artists will make connections to the exhibited artworks, engage in peer discussion and collaborate on the curation and marketing of their student exhibition.
Students in grades 9–12 will gather weekly to learn artistic skills to develop their personal art practices and portfolios as well as gather information regarding continued education and professions in the creative field. Professional artists, educators and other experts will lead students in studio explorations and discussions at the Museum and other off-site spaces like universities and galleries. Students will also be challenged to work as a group to curate and market the culminating art exhibition in which their own work will be showcased.
Become inspired by the works of Raymond Saunders in Flowers from a Black Garden to think beyond realism and traditional techniques to create art in innovative ways.
Study photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris’s body of work in our new gallery archives, compose studio portraits of your classmates, and venture outdoors to tell stories through still and moving images of our neighborhood.
Explore the stories we uncover through the artworks that civilizations leave behind. Pair museum learning and the exploration of diverse sculptural materials and processes for a full arts experience.
Learn the ins and outs of curation, gallery design, and installation from museum experts and uncover how artwork is chosen, hung, and discussed in a museum.
Registration for 2025 Summer Camps at Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History is now open!
We invite all artists and explorers to roam among real dinosaurs, play with clay, uncover the natural history of fantasy worlds, become fashion designers—and more!
