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Today: July 24, 2008
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Art Mornings (Kindergarten through Grade 5)
Summer Semester (Open to Members and non-Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries.
Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester.
Art Mornings classes are designed to provide children with an opportunity to discover the Museum's collection and explore the processes of art making. All gallery visits will focus on visual art concepts: line, shape, color, pattern, texture, balance, and form. Activities will include painting, collage, sculpting, building, viewing works from the Museum's collection, and listening to related stories and fables.
If you are unable to enroll for the full semester, please join several classes.
Session 1
Tuesday–Friday
July 8–25
This session is sold out.
Fee: $240 for the 12-session semester or $20 per class
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
 
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From Pissarro to Picasso: Impressionism into the Modern Era
Join one of our talented summer interns for a special topic tour, which focuses on a specific theme relating diverse collections of the Metropolitan Museum.
Emma Bernstein
Free with Museum admission
10:15 a.m., Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
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A Book, Then Look (Ages 3 through 5)
Summer Semester (Open to Members and non-Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries.
Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester.
A Book, Then Look is a new program for adults and young verbal children. This class will explore the Museum's collection cross-culturally in conjunction with the Caldecott Medal Books. After reading together, the class will encounter works of art related to the theme or art in the book. Class participants will take home a copy of each book to establish their own children's art library. Full semester registration is required for this class.
Tuesdays and Thursdays
July 8–31
This class is sold out.
Fee: $400 for the 8-session semester
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
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Drawing in the Galleries (Grades 3 through 5)
Summer Semester (Open to Members and non-Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries. Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester. Students will explore a variety of drawing techniques and materials as they visit a new gallery in the Museum for each project and create their own art works based on what they see. Elements of drawing to be introduced include line, shape, value, color, pattern, scale, perspective and composition. Students will create landscapes, still lifes, portraits, figure drawings, and more. Each student's particular interests, abilities, and creativity are encouraged as they learn and draw from the Museum's collection. If you are unable to enroll for the full semester, please join several classes. Session 1
Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 22–August 28
Fee: $240 for the 12-session semester or $20 per class
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
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Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
This exhibition highlights 35 rarely-lent objects from one of the world's finest collections of European decorative arts, including a Donatello bronze statue and a Carolingian ivory book cover.
Barbara Drake Boehm
Free with Museum admission
11:00 a.m., Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1st floor
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Art Mornings for Families—Animals in Asian Art
An adventure in art through conversation and sketching occurs on these weekday mornings for visitors ages five through twelve and their adult companions. Each day's theme focuses on art from a specific place. Tuesdays are devoted to African art; Wednesdays to art from the Americas; Thursdays to Asian art; and Fridays to art from the ancient world.
Free with Museum admission
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Carson Family Hall, Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Summer Intensive I: Art Study at the Met
The history of art can be studied firsthand through masterpieces in the encyclopedic collection of the Metropolitan. With a Museum educator, study and discuss masterworks from ancient times to the present over the course of two weeks. Each student works on an independent research project to be completed by the end of the Intensive.
John Welch
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Art Mornings (Kindergarten through Grade 5)
Summer Semester (Open to Members and non-Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries.
Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester.
Art Mornings classes are designed to provide children with an opportunity to discover the Museum's collection and explore the processes of art making. All gallery visits will focus on visual art concepts: line, shape, color, pattern, texture, balance, and form. Activities will include painting, collage, sculpting, building, viewing works from the Museum's collection, and listening to related stories and fables.
If you are unable to enroll for the full semester, please join several classes.
Session 2
Tuesday–Friday
July 8–25
This session is sold out.
Fee: $240 for the 12-session semester or $20 per class
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
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Summer Intern Highlight Tours
Join one of our talented summer interns for a tour that highlights particular works in the Museum's encyclopedic collection.
Sophie Crawford-Brown
Free with Museum admission
12:00 p.m.
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Art Mornings Family Films
Short films presented in one-hour screenings in conjunction with Art Mornings for Families. Each day's theme focuses on a specific area of the world. Tuesdays are devoted to African art; Wednesdays to art from the Americas; Thursdays to Asian art; and Fridays to art from the ancient world.The Chinese Word for Horse. Chinese characters are animated and become elements in a fable. (13 min.)
The Fox and the Tiger: A Chinese Parable. A hungry fox hunting for his dinner is caught by an equally hungry tiger. Will the cunning fox outwit the proud tiger? (5 min.)
Monkeys Fishing the Moon. Animated tale in which a group of monkeys chase after the bright full moon. (11 min.)
Free with Museum admission
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education
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Garden Tours at The Cloisters
Free with Museum admission
1:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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Drawing in the Galleries (Grades 6 through 8)
Summer Semester (Open to Members and non–Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries. Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester. Students will explore a variety of drawing techniques and materials as they visit a new gallery in the Museum for each project and create their own art works based on what they see. Elements of drawing to be introduced include line, shape, value, color, pattern, scale, perspective and composition. Students will create landscapes, still lifes, portraits, figure drawings, and more. Each student's particular interests, abilities, and creativity are encouraged as they learn and draw from the Museum's collection. If you are unable to enroll for the full semester, please join several classes. Session 2
Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 22–August 28
Fee: $240 for the 12-session semester or $20 per class
1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
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Power, Possession, Translation: Uses of Antiquity in Italian Renaissance Art
Join one of our talented summer interns for a special topic tour, which focuses on a specific theme relating diverse collections of the Metropolitan Museum.
Daniel Zolli
Free with Museum admission
1:30 p.m., Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
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Jeff Koons, the Banality Show (1990)
Directed by Paul Tschinkel. Tours Jeff Koons's groundbreaking exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery (28 min.). This film is shown in conjunction with the special exhibition Jeff Koons on the Roof.
Free with Museum admission
2:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education
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Start with Art Plus at the Met
Kids ages three through seven and their adult companions wake up to fun at the Met through storytelling, sketching, and other ways of exploring art! Start with Art Plus includes art making in a classroom.
Free with Museum admission
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m., Carson Family Hall, Uris Center for Education, ground floor
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Collection Highlights at the Cloisters
Free with Museum admission
3:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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Summer Intern Highlight Tours
Join one of our talented summer interns for a tour that highlights particular works in the Museum's encyclopedic collection.
Emma Kronman
Free with Museum admission
3:15 p.m.
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Please note that all of the events listed above are subject to change. For additional information, consult one of our staff members at an Information Desk upon arrival at the Museum. Events are free with Museum admission unless otherwise noted.
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