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.
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.
Join us for a fun and very hands-on Art Studio Live!, this Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MDT). We’ll be making our own dough and turning it into nature handprints inspired by the work of Kelly Akashi. Be sure to go outside and gather some natural materials. Looking forward to “seeing” you then!
Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s Director of Programs and Artistic Director of Photography and New Media, Andrea Jenkins Wallace, speaks about the new virtual program at the Ranch and how engagement with local and global audiences is being redefined. Wallace also introduces her ongoing practice as a photographer, which emphasizes and responds to her experiences of daily life.
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General operating support is provided by Colorado Creative Industries. CCI and its activities are made possible through an annual appropriation from the Colorado General Assembly and federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
General operating support is provided by Colorado Creative Industries. CCI and its activities are made possible through an annual appropriation from the Colorado General Assembly and federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.