Teens
Passionate about art? Explore how art history, art making, and museum studies relate to the world today in one of the many teen programs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Look closely at artwork, create public works of art, interact with practicing artists, and experience the Museum behind the scenes, with other high schoolers from across the Milwaukee area.
Satellite High School Program
Save the date! Teen Night December 6, 2018 from 5–8pmThis event is free for students, teachers, and families!
Fall: October 4–December 20, 2018Select Thursdays, 4:45–7:30 PM
Ages 16-18
Satellite interns delve into the Museum, engaging deeply with works of art, creating collaboratively, and activating their community, while developing their communication skills and forming friendships city-wide. Interns learn about careers in the visual arts, meet practicing artists, and throw an artful party for their peers at Teen Night.
Free program with dinner and bus tickets provided; students must apply by completing an application and submitting a letter of recommendation.
Fall application due: September 14, 2018
Teen ArtXpress
During the ArtXpress program for teens, we create a mural positively addressing a social justice issue in the city of Milwaukee. We engage with the primary exhibit in the Baker/Rowland Gallery for inspiration, and we mentor elementary school students from Milwaukee Public Schools, guiding them through the exhibition and creating art with them. RedLine Milwaukee partners with us for this program, and we work with artists in RedLine’s printmaking studio to create the pieces for our mural. When completed, the mural is displayed on a Milwaukee County Bus, traveling on its route for the following nine months. This is a paid intership program, providing lunch and bus tickets.
Teen Arts Council
The MAM Teen Arts Council (TAC) is an expansive initiative to support Milwaukee-area teens through leadership training. The program is designed to develop teen leadership skills, build teen career connections to museum- and arts- related professionals, and bring about systemic change within the Milwaukee Art Museum. During the 2018-19 academic year, TAC will be taking a recess. Please look forward to future Teen Arts Council projects.
More Information
Milwaukee Art Museum Teen Programs are supported by the Milwaukee Public Schools Partnership for the Arts & Humanities, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund, the Milwaukee Arts Board, the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Milwaukee Public Schools Recreation Department Arts Internship Program, the Helen Bader Foundation, Northwestern Mutual, and SC Johnson.
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