Young learners can grow and learn with Mini Makers, school aged children can gather afterschool for Museum Makers or register for a full day Summer Camp, and older children and teens can hone their skills in the Art Connection and Youth Art Studio. 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.
The Art Connection is the longest continually running series of art classes for young artists in Pittsburgh. Now in its 97th year, The Art Connection will challenge young artists in grades 5–8 to create unique artworks inspired by the work in our galleries, culminating in an exhibition of their own at Carnegie Museum of Art. Each term, educators will facilitate a new art experience in either painting, drawing, ceramics, or photo and film.
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!
