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Take a free class at MoMA. Join other teens in creating art, curating exhibits, and designing multimedia resources for other teens.

  • Make and discuss modern and contemporary art
  • Collaborate to design programs and exhibits for other teens
  • Explore what happens behind the scenes at MoMA

MoMA In the Making, free art classes for NYC teens. Apply now for Summer 2013! Complete course descriptions below. Apply Online or Download the application in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Please note: All applications and letters of recommendation are due on Friday, June 7. More info below.

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Fall 2011

In the Making

Drawing inspiration from artwork in MoMA’s collection, In the Making students discuss ideas and experiment with materials to create their own works of art.

Classes are free, and MoMA provides all materials. Open to NYC teens. Applications are required, but no experience is necessary.

There will be four In the Making classes available this fall that take place 4:00 p.m–6:30pm on either Tuesdays or Thursdays. Classes start the first week in October and culminate December 16 with a Teen Art Show at the Museum.

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¡Muralistas! Large-Scale Painting from Around the World

Tuesdays, October 4–December 13, 4:00–6:30 p.m.

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Coinciding with our upcoming exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art, this workshop looks at the politics and power behind the creation of murals and other large-scale paintings. Pablo Picasso's epic Guernica, Keith Haring's Crack Is Wack mural in Harlem, Banksy's building-sized stencils and installations—artists of all sorts have experimented with expanding the size and scale of their visions to increase impact. How does the relationship between viewer and artwork change as an image becomes larger and larger? Create your own work and learn about international artists, public art projects, politics, censorship, painting techniques, and more. Get up and fight for your right to be seen!

Applications are due Friday, September 16.

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A Class with No Name: An Experiment in Studio Arts

Tuesdays, October 4–December 13, 4:00–6:30 p.m.

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No theme, no set materials, no syllabus—no rules. For the first time ever, the power to create an entire class of In the Making is in the hands of the participating teens. Students in this experimental workshop will create the focus and structure of their artistic experience. Will you be sculptors, performers, curators, or something else entirely? Working with a teaching artist, the group will develop its own unique creation—but what exactly will it be? Join the experiment of building a collective art project from scratch. Not for the faint of he(art)!

Applications are due Friday, September 16.

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Body/Building: Sculpture as Self-Portrait

Thursdays, October 6–December 15, 4:00–6:30 p.m.

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Sculpt your body without setting foot in a gym! In this hands-on studio workshop, self-image and self-expression meet the messy, lumpy, drippy world of plaster, clay, and papier mâché. Why are so many of MoMA's self-portraits painted and drawn rather than sculpted? Is there something creepy about building exact replicas of ourselves, or do we prefer to avoid looking at the realities of the human form? This class takes you beyond mannequins and wax figures into a world where ID and 3-D collide.

Applications are due Friday, September 16.

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CLICK@MoMA: Digital Media Classes for Teens

Thursdays, October 6–December 15, 4:00–6:30 p.m.

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Babycastles’ Arcade

This fall, CLICK@MoMA teams up with the mad scientists behind Queens-based indie arcade Babycastles to imagine the future of independent video-game culture in New York City. Participants will discover, play, and learn about independent video games; get to know the people who make them, how they talk about their work, and how they approach the medium; curate and build exhibitions in established venues; and work with artists and computer hackers to build arcade installations and invent new formats for presenting video games. Come experience what the Los Angeles Times calls "the birth of indie video games." No prior experience is necessary; all skill levels are welcome.

Applications are due Friday, September 16.

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CLICK@MoMA: Making Things That Make Things Happen

Tuesdays, February 5–April 18, 4:00–6:30 p.m.

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Collaborate with the design firm CW&T (artists Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy) to explore the world of creating switches, hacking objects, and converting physical motion into digital actions. Bust things apart and see how they work, change their function, and then connect your creations to the Internet to create artwork that bridges the physical and digital divide. Send an e-mail that makes a paintball gun fire, or tear open your shirt Superman-style to send a text message to a friend. Anything’s possible when you make the things that make things happen!

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Playing with Materials: Games and Experiments across Multiple Mediums

Tuesdays, February 5–April 16, 4:00–6:30 p.m.

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Are you sick of being told that you need to make a choice and stick with it? Led by visual artist Mark Joshua Epstein, participants in this workshop explore and experiment with a completely different art material each week—getting messy, making mistakes, and finding new ways to bring their individual artistic visions to life. Try your hand at charcoal and chalk, sculpt using plastic or rubber, paint with wax and oil, try this, try that—it's an all-you‐can‐eat buffet of art‐making materials and techniques!

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Clubs, Gangs, and Secret Societies: The Art of Working Collaboratively

Thursdays, February 7–April 18, 4:00–-6:30 p.m.

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Artists have been hanging out with each other since the beginning of time—talking, thinking out loud, borrowing, sharing, stealing, and improving upon each other's ideas. Led by artists (and frequent collaborators) Kerry Downey and Douglas Paulson, participants in this course explore a vast array of experimental and collaborative methods, teaming up to form their own art collectives and working on communal art projects. What kind of world can you build together?

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Take It Back! Reclaiming and Reusing Corporate Imagery

Thursdays, February 7–April 18, 4:00–-6:30 p.m.

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Working with printmaker Yashua Klos, participants in this workshop investigate the visual language of advertisements and corporate logos, exploring the reasons we respond to their visual codes and finding ways to subvert their messages by making them our own. Using traditional woodblock printing techniques, the class will create their own hybrids—blurring the lines between propaganda, politics, advertising, and art!

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Summer 2013

In the Making

Drawing inspiration from artwork in MoMA’s collection, In the Making students discuss ideas and experiment with materials to create their own works of art.
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Free hands-on art classes for NYC high school students, ages 13–19. No experience necessary! Applications and letters of recommendation are due Friday, June 7, 2013. MoMA provides all materials, food, and transportation costs. Each course meets three times a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for six weeks and culminates in a Teen Art Show of participants' work.

Applications for Summer 2013 In the Making classes are available now!

Apply Online or Download the application in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

Applications are due on Friday, June 7.

Death Metal: A Metalworking Studio about Destruction and Decay

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 9–August 15, 2:00–5:00 p.m.

Just like ancient warriors covering themselves with metallic armor to shield their bodies during battle, artists have attempted to harness the powerful and protective elements of this durable material. But, like the human body, metal can be deceivingly delicate and fragile: it melts, it bends, it dents, it dissolves, it rusts, and it decays. In collaboration with sculptor Keith Mendak, this studio course takes participants through everything from junkyards to graveyards, exploring the dangerous side of creating art and the various techniques surrounding breaking metal down and building metal up.

Materials Explored: Copper, Steel, Found Objects, Plaster, and Wood

(Em)Power Tools: Using Art Materials to Create Social Change

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 9–August 15, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

We know that artists use an array of tools to create their work—brushes and easels for painting, chisels and molds for sculpting, cameras and lights for photography and film. But can an artwork be used as a tool as well? Can real-world social and political change be stimulated and sparked by a painting, a photograph, or a sculpture? Using a wide variety of art-making materials and techniques, members of this course work together alongside artist Leah Wolff to think critically, experiment creatively, and make art that empowers viewers to get up and take action.

Materials Explored: Ceramics, Painting, Collage, Photography, and Printmaking

Rated ART: Scandal, Censorship, and Creating Controversy

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 9–August 15, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

No! What? They didn't! They did?!? The tabloids and gossip columns have nothing on the shocking behavior of artists and the artworks they create. From so-called "degenerate" paintings of the 1930s to psychedelic happenings, nude performances, violent protests, and more—the art world has been at the cutting-edge of controversial behavior since before any of us were born. Artist Alan Calpe leads this hands-on art-making course through the dark and seedy underbelly of art's most twisted (and talented) provocateurs.

Materials Explored: Performance, Video, Papier Mâché, and Drawing

CLICK@MoMA: 3-D Printers and Artistic Hacking

Digital Media Classes for Teens

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 9–August 15, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

You don’t have to leave NYC to experience inter-dimensional exploration. From the very beginning, modern art has been obsessed with the idea of space and perspective—pushing the boundaries of human sight and destroying our ideas surrounding the “proper” way to construct an object. Created in collaboration with Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, participants in this workshop receive hands-on experience using 3-D printers to create sculptural objects, collaborating with Eyebeam technologists to explore ideas surrounding artistic hacking and the creative misuse of digital tools in the process.

Materials Explored: 3-D Printers, Design Technology, and Computers


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