Aspen Art Museum

Active Art is a monthly program that provides older adults in the Roaring Fork Valley seasonal opportunities to access and engage with contemporary art and the wider community through art appreciation classes, museum tours, art-making activities, and collaborations.

This monthlong program for kids at the 5–8 grade level is held weekly at the Aspen Art Museum. Taking place on December 2, 9, and 16 from 3:30–5 p.m., these open choice workshops provide the creative room for kids to explore who they are through individual and collaborative projects and art.

Spotlight tours of current exhibitions led by museum staff.

This monthlong program for kids at the K–4 grade level is held weekly at the Aspen Art Museum. Taking place on December 3, 10, 17 from 2:30–4 p.m., these workshops recognize the value of exposing children to the arts at an early age and uses the artist’s process as an educational tool.

In 2000, Odd Klev cofounded the international architecture office a-lab in Oslo, Norway. Since its inception, a-lab has been recognized for their sustainable and innovative range of projects from residential projects to cultural centers and museums to complex urban master plans. Klev will discuss the close relationship between architecture and art, particularly the projects in which the firm has utilized art as part of the conceptualization phase or final display.

Family Workshops are free monthly drop-in opportunities that provide children and adults a chance to explore the galleries and create works of art on their own.

This monthlong program for kids at the 5–8 grade level is held weekly at the Aspen Art Museum. Taking place on December 2, 9, and 16 from 3:30–5 p.m., these open choice workshops provide the creative room for kids to explore who they are through individual and collaborative projects and art.

Spotlight tours of current exhibitions led by museum staff.

This monthlong program for kids at the K–4 grade level is held weekly at the Aspen Art Museum. Taking place on December 3, 10, 17 from 2:30–4 p.m., these workshops recognize the value of exposing children to the arts at an early age and uses the artist’s process as an educational tool.

Join us on Friday, December 19, at 6 p.m., for the opening reception and a free pub­lic walk­through of Gabriel Kuri’s Gabriela and Ramiro Garza Distinguished Artist in Residence exhi­bi­tion, with the artist and AAM Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director Heidi Zuckerman. The evening will also feature the open­ing of Marcel Broodthaers’s exhi­bi­tion Décor: A Conquest—an intri­cate instal­la­tion explor­ing the relationship between con­flict and com­fort, and exam­in­ing the com­plex rela­tion­ship between weapons and objects as symbols of power.