Aspen Art Museum

Active Art invites seniors to engage in the social dimensions of art. Each month, AAM 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 in the museum’s Roof Deck Sculpture Garden with complimentary refreshments.

Active Art invites seniors to engage in the social dimensions of art. Each month, AAM 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 in the museum’s Roof Deck Sculpture Garden with complimentary refreshments.

Spring Break in Rifle is a free program offered in collaboration with the Rifle Branch Library. Led by AAM Educators, the program includes learning about a contemporary artist, creating with new materials and techniques, a complimentary lunch, and a pop-up art show for family and friends.

Active Art invites seniors to engage in the social dimensions of art. Each month, AAM 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 in the museum’s Roof Deck Sculpture Garden with complimentary refreshments.

Join Teresa Booth Brown on Monday, March 29, 5–6 p.m. (MT) for an Art School Prep session that delves deeper into writing artist statements and admission interview skills that will help you stand out in a crowd.

Please RSVP by emailing education@aspenartmuseum.org.

Aspen Art Museum education workshops are now online! Art Studio is broadcast live every Wednesday at 2:30 pm MST on Instagram. Our team of educators will lead art-making activities with easy-to-follow, step-by-step methods to expand learning and create with materials found at home.

Slow.Look.Live., is a new initiative offering an occasion to slow down and reflect with deeper intention about artistic process and dialogue. Initiated during this period of unprecedented physical distancing, Slow.Look.Live., introduces a series of artists, curators, and thinkers focusing on how perception, creation, and community are shaped by our current geographical location.

Join the online opening of the Young Curators of the Roaring Fork (YCRF) teen-curated exhibition *What We Are Made Of. *

To register for our online reception and for more information email: education@aspenartmuseum.org

Join us on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MDT) for Art Studio Live! This week, we embark on a step-by-step journey into the world of origami—from the Japanese words ori (“folding”) and kami (“paper”)—to create animal sculptures with paper you have around your own house!

Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence Sahra Motalebi invites viewers on a visit to Marfa, Texas, where she reflects on what it means to create work away from her home base of New York state. The artist, composer, vocalist, and writer provides perspectives on how our notions of expression are being updated at this time while sharing the surrounding natural desert landscape with us. Motalebi also introduces Resonators, her current project that addresses the intersections of experience, materiality, and sound.