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  • Feb 7, 2018

    • 10:30 AM Community

      Active Art: Heritage Park

      Active Art invites seniors to engage in the social dimensions of art. Each month, museum Educators bring free, memory-enhancing activities to the assisted-living communities of Whitcomb Terrace in Aspen and Heritage Park in Carbondale, and also host art making on the museum’s Roof Deck Sculpture Garden with complimentary refreshments.

    • 1 PM Tour

      Guided Tour

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

    • This after-school program for kids in Grades K–4 is held most Wednesdays during the school year at the AAM. Museum educators lead classes that include activities in the gallery and take-home projects.

      Classes are limited to fifteen participants. Prior registration strongly encouraged.

  • Feb 8, 2018

    • Tod Williams, along with his partner, Billie Tsien, founded their eponymous New York architecture office in 1986. Their studio focuses on work for institutions, including schools, museums, and nonprofit organizations committed to benefiting and inspiring their surrounding communities. Notable projects include the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and in 2015, they were selected as the architects for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Over the past three decades, their dedication to this work has received numerous national and international citations including the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama and the Firm of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects. They are deeply committed to making a better world through architecture.

  • Feb 10, 2018

    • 10 AM Make

      Family Workshops

      Monthly drop-in Family Workshops at the AAM are designed to provide children and adults free opportunities to explore the galleries and create works of art on their own. Families are encouraged to communicate, reflect, and produce as artists together.

    • 1 PM Tour

      Guided Tour

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

  • Feb 14, 2018

    • 1 PM Tour

      Guided Tour

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

    • This after-school program for kids in Grades K–4 is held most Wednesdays during the school year at the AAM. Museum educators lead classes that include activities in the gallery and take-home projects.

      Classes are limited to fifteen participants. Prior registration strongly encouraged.

  • Feb 16, 2018

    • Sarah Cain was born in 1979, in Albany, New York, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her playful, abstract paintings and installations feature a bold use of color, improvisation, and a variety of perspectives. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, NC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Cain has created a large-scale installation at Elk Camp on Snowmass Mountain for the 2017–18 ski season, marking the twelfth consecutive year of the AAM’s Art in Unexpected Places.

  • Feb 17, 2018

    • 1 PM Tour

      Guided Tour

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