School Programs
Tours
Guided exhibition tours are always offered free of charge to school groups booking in advance. Optional hands-on art activity following tour, $2 per student. For more information or to schedule your class, call 237-5230. Maximum group size is 60.

Art Off the Wall
Includes an exhibition or sculpture garden tour, storytelling performance with James McCarthy and hands-on art activity. $2 per student. For more information or to schedule your class, call 237-5230, Space is limited.

Transformation and Transportation: FREE buses and more!
Each year TCM offers this program to a group of teachers and their students. The program includes: a FREE Teacher Workshop, FREE bus transportation for your students, FREE art activity and FREE one-year museum membership for teachers. To join this program, please call 237-5217.

Summer Workshops for KIDS!

June 10,11,12,13 (4 day) 2-4 pm - Ages 8 -12 

Imaginative Product Design–Melissa Torres

Participants will learn to become designers as they research, sketch, make models, draw and present their ideas for a unique, new product in this 4 day workshop.

June 17, 18, 19 (3 day) 2-4 pm – Ages 8-12

Creative Illustration and Book Making – Erica Johnson and Rob Molyneux

In this class, students will learn new ways of drawing and make a flipbook based on personal interests.

June 27^th (1day) 2:00-4:00  Ages  6-12

Fanciful Flora - Jacqueline Rush Lee

Inspired by Biennial artitst, Ellie Baxter’s dark, organic forms and Ernst Haeckell’s Art Forms in Nature, workshop participants will create imaginary botanical paintings inspired by nature and found object prints. The expressive applications of color, line, space, texture and composition will be emphasized.
 

July 15,16,17 (3 day) 2:00-4:00   Ages 6-12

Japanese Kite Making - Abigail Romanchak

During this three day course students will consider elements of design and detail, learn various methods of relief printmaking and construct a Japanese kite that really flies.

July 1,2 (2 day) 2-4pm  Ages 6-12

Signs and Symbols – Jacqueline Rush Lee

In this workshop participants will create an imaginary sign of their own making based upon the sign systems of Wayne Zebda and the imaginative creations of Cade Roster. Participants will then scour TCM’s grounds to intervene and replace selected signs with their own artistic creations. Workshop participants will each receive a photograph of their artistic sign intervention at TCM.

July 24, 25 (2day) 2-4pm  Ages 6-12

Foiled: Contemporary Sculpture – Jacqueline Rush Lee

*Space is limited. Priority will be given to public and charter school teachers. In this workshop participants will focus on the use of multiples to experiment and create a layered and painted sculpture inspired by the found Road Stripe sculpture of Wayne Zebda.