Aspen Art Museum

Learning events

• Jul 30, 2018

  • 9 AM Make

    Collaboration Stations
    Summer Workshop (Ages 4–5)
    July 30–August 2, 9 AM–3 PM

    Many heads are better than one in this highly collaborative workshop where kids will problem solve and build temporary site-responsive artworks for public use. Documentation of our process will be shared with family and friends at the end of the week.

  • 9 AM Make

    Fashion for Real
    Summer Workshop (Ages 12–14)
    July 30–August 2, 9 AM–3 PM

    Expand your skills and style in this advanced workshop for teens. Students will be given the tools and materials needed to conceive and create couture fashion, while stretching current trends using technology with classical garment construction. These unique fashions will be presented to friends and family at an end-of-the-week Fashion Show.

• Jul 31, 2018

  • 6 PM Experience

    Music with a View: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

    Presented in collaboration with the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS), this free chamber concert series features one-hour performances by the most advanced AMFS students and visiting musicians in Aspen.

• Aug 1, 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.

  • 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 2, 2018

  • 5 PM Discuss

    Artist Talk: Rashid Johnson

    Rashid Johnson was born in Chicago, in 1977, and lives and works in New York. A critical theory framework extends across his paintings, sculptures, photography, and video work, investigating legacies of and possibilities for African American intellectual and cultural life. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, the Grand Palais, Paris, the Drawing Center, the High Line, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. He is the recipient of the 2018 Aspen Award for Art.

• Aug 3, 2018

  • 10:30 AM Community

    Active Art: Whitcomb Terrace

    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.

• Aug 4, 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.

• Aug 6, 2018

  • 9:30 AM Make

    Find Your Place (Ages 4–5) FULL

    Calling all naturalists! Bird watching, animal tracking, and mapping in and around Hallam Lake will inspire new drawings, paintings, and environmentally friendly assemblages: artworks that reveal our favorite places and creatively interpret the places that people and animals call home.

• Aug 7, 2018

  • 6 PM Experience

    Music with a View: Aspen Opera Center

    Presented in collaboration with the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS), this free chamber concert series features one-hour performances by the most advanced AMFS students and visiting musicians in Aspen.