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Be sure to take part in this fun-for-the-whole-family activity and get a fresh look at the Museum’s Collection. The Kohl’s Art Generation iPod Touch Tours enable young visitors to learn about art through games, videos, and scavenger hunts. Everyone will make surprising connections throughout the galleries while playing art games designed to engage the whole family. Kohl’s Art Generation iPod Touch Tours are available daily, during Museum hours, and are free with Museum admission. Kohl’s Art Generation iPod Touch Tours are also available to be downloaded to your mobile device, for free, through the iTunes Store.
We’ve been busy making masterpieces! Join us for Kohl’s Art Generation Open Studio Sunday’s from 10 AM-4 PM and contribute your work to this priceless collection. Browse the fabulous art work and email your favorite to a friend!
During Art in Bloom the Kohl’s Art Generation Studio invited author and illustrator Lois Ehlert into the studio. Check out the some of the projects from that amazing weekend! Thank you Lois!
Many of Ehlert’s award-winning books are on sale in the Museum Store.
Have we piqued your curiosity? Stop by anytime Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM. Stay two minutes or two hours, or check all our Upcoming Events for specific details.
Kohl’s Art Generation Gallery
Apr 23-Aug 31, 2010
3-D is all the rage at the movies—Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, and Toy Story 3. Learn how moviemakers today make you reach out and even duck in your seats, using 3-D technology. Visit the Kohl’s Art Generation Gallery for more details.
Discover the Art of Nature in the Kohl’s Art Generation Studio every Sunday in April, plus Spring Break, April 6–11! Drop by to create paintings and drawings from a nature still life you create, make a print from a leaf, collage a colorful garden or build a sculpture out of sticks and stones. Try something new each time you visit Open Studio with your family.
Special Open Studio Opportunity—stop by during Art in Bloom, April 10–11 from 1–4 p.m., and meet children’s author and illustrator Lois Ehlert! View some of Ehlert’s original artwork, make your own paper art to take home, plus help create a paper paradise filled with flowers and butterflies. Many of Ehlert’s award-winning books will be on sale in the Museum Store, and Ehlert will be available to sign her books.
Have we piqued your curiosity? Stop by anytime Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM. Stay two minutes or two hours, or check all our upcoming events for specific details.
The scavenger hunt contest is closed. The Milwaukee Art Museum and Kohl’s would like to thank the participants!
What do you see from your street? A crowded city with cars whizzing by, sidewalks full of children playing, or quiet farm fields lined with fences?
Join us in the Kohl’s Art Generation Studio to explore your street and the photographs on view in Street Seen through art making. Experiment with different materials and techniques each week including photo collage, printmaking and painting.
Have we piqued your curiosity? Stop by anytime Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM. Stay two minutes or two hours, or check all our Upcoming Events for specific details.
Spring is here with a whole new palette of colors to explore and inspire. Stop by the Milwaukee Art Museum for any of our Weekend Family Programs where you can make a mess or a masterpiece in vivid color!
In the Kohl’s Art Generation Gallery explore how artists use color to bring their paintings to life. Blooming pink flowers, a swirling river of purple, blue, and green, and an orchestra playing a red song—discover how colors mix and play together to tell their own wonderful story. What color story will you tell?
Ever plant a rainbow? If not, be sure to visit the Kohl’s Art Generation Studio and collaborate on the vegetable garden collage mural. Our rainbow just keeps growing!
And as always you’ll find Story Time and Sketching in the Galleries, featuring works in the Museum Collection by Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko, Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more. Also don’t forget our popular scavenger hunt!
Have we piqued your curiosity? Stop by anytime Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM. Stay two minutes or two hours, or check Upcoming Events for specific details.
What does an artist look like? Artists come in all shapes and sizes. You never know when or where you’ll run into one, but it’s a good bet they might be found wandering around in the galleries at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Six-year-old Lauren, for example, says she has wanted to be an artist ever since she was “really little.” To help her get started, Lauren and her family stopped by the Milwaukee Art Museum for Sketching in the Galleries, one of the Museum’s many Weekend Family Programs. We interviewed Lauren, with a little help from her family, after the session.
- MAM:
- What did you like best about the class today?
- Lauren:
- Drawing Pictures.
- MAM:
- What drawing did you enjoy today?
- Lauren:
- Drawing the picture of the outside, when we looked out the window. I like the trees and the rocks. I just like the way they’re shaped. The trees and the lake have straight lines. Straight lines are best.
- MAM:
- You like straight lines better than curved ones?
- Lauren:
- Well some things just look better with straight lines.
- MAM:
- What makes drawing pictures fun?
- Lauren:
- It’s just fun. I like drawing pictures because you can draw pictures of anything. You can draw them anytime, too.
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