Aspen Art Museum

Monthly drop-in Family Workshops at the Aspen Art Museum are designed to provide children and adults free opportunities to explore the galleries and create works of art on their own. Participants get to know one another better through engagement with exhibitions. Families are encouraged to communicate, reflect, and produce as artists together. Artist focus: Ryan Gander

Free, drop-in spotlight tours led by museum staff are offered every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 p.m.

This Short Course is designed to investigate contemporary perspectives on performance raised by the exhibition A Fragile But Marvelous Life. Each two-hour session unpacks a question through the format of a lecture, discussion, and time in the galleries. The course can be taken as a three-part series and is taught by AAM Curator Courtenay Finn and Learning Director Michelle Dezember.

Free, drop-in spotlight tours led by museum staff are offered every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 p.m.

This monthlong program for kids in grades K–4 is held weekly at the Aspen Art Museum. Taking place after school most Wednesdays from 2:30–4 p.m., these workshops recognize the value of exposing children to the arts at an early age and use the artist’s process as an educational tool. Museum educators and teaching artists lead classes that include activities in the gallery and take-home projects.

Rebecca Hart has recently joined the Denver Art Museum (DAM) as the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Prior to the DAM, Hart served for ten years as the curator of contemporary art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Hart received a Master of Arts in Art History from Wayne State University in Detroit and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Free, drop-in spotlight tours led by museum staff are offered every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 p.m.

Since 2005, the Aspen Art Museum
 and the Aspen Skiing Company have collaborated to bring contemporary art to audiences in unexpected places. Each year, an artist is commissioned to produce artworks that are used on lift tickets for the winter season.

Create Your Own Lift Ticket workshops are offered throughout the season for kids and families to respond to these designs by creating a personal lift ticket with the help of AAM educators.

Winter Workshops are designed 
for children ages 4–10 to explore contemporary art. In the spirit of providing a laboratory for young artists, this year’s Winter Workshops take a free, choice-based approach that allows participants time to imagine, experiment, and make, sparked by experiences in the galleries. Sessions can be experienced as stand-alone classes or as part of a three-day workshop. Exhibition Focus: Anna Sew Hoy Magnetic Between

In A Space Program, internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first-person look into his studio and methods. The film is a recording of Sachs’s historic piece, Space Program 2.0: MARS, which opened at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2012. This free, special preview is being presented before the film’s theatrical release in March 2016, and will feature an introduction by Tom Sachs.