Aspen Art Museum

Learning events

• Jul 26, 2017

  • 8 PM Watch

    Movies at the Museum:
    Stand by Me (1986)

    After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. Based on Stephen King’s novella The Body, the film embraces nostalgia, adventure, and intrigue.

• Jul 28, 2017

  • 3 PM Experience

    Current Attractions

    Choose your own adventures through the exhibition Wade Guyton Peter Fischli David Weiss. Enticing stations of art making, music, food, and happenings throughout the museum bring unexpected ways to engage with art.

• Jul 29, 2017

  • 1 PM Tour

    Guided Tour

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

• Jul 30, 2017

  • 6 PM Discuss

    Artist Talk: Thomas Struth

    Thomas Struth was born in Geldern, Germany, in 1954, and lives and works in Berlin and New York. He is noted for his innovations in large-scale color photography that explore cityscapes, architecture, landscapes, and other environments. Solo presentations of his work have been hosted at the High Museum, Atlanta, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museu Serralves, Porto, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

• Jul 31, 2017

  • 9 AM Make

    Collaboration Stations
    Summer Workshop (Ages 4–5):
    July 31–August 3 | 9 AM–3 PM

    Let’s join together! This Workshop will encourage collaboration together and alongside 6–8 year olds to create one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by the artwork and artists on view. We’ll explore painting, sculpture, and drawing techniques as a team, and hop from station to station on our journey to understanding and appreciating contemporary art.

• Aug 1, 2017

  • 2 PM Community

    Active Art at Heritage Park

    Active Art invites seniors to engage in the social dimensions of art. Museum educators bring free, memory-enhancing activities to the assisted living community of Heritage Park Care Center in Carbondale.

  • 6 PM Discuss

    Artist Talk: Lawrence Weiner

    Lawrence Weiner was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1942, and lives and works in New York. His language-based sculptures, installations, and ephemeral works explore a radical redefinition of the relationship between the artwork and the viewer. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Stedelijk Museum, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.

• Aug 2, 2017

  • 1 PM Tour

    Guided Tour

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

• Aug 4, 2017

  • 10 AM Community

    Active Art at Whitcomb Terrace

    Active Art invites seniors to engage in the social dimensions of art. Museum educators bring free, memory-enhancing activities to the assisted living community of Whitcomb Terrace in Aspen.

• Aug 5, 2017

  • 1 PM Tour

    Guided Tour

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