Aspen Art Museum

kids ages 5–10, with adults

Using scrap pieces of found materials, like paper and cardboard, and oodles of imagination, we will create 3D landscapes in an egg carton! Create a landscape that you’ve seen and love, or something completely out of this world!

Join us this Wednesday for a visual gratitude journal prompt. Take a moment and think back at a memory that fills you with immense joy. Choose magazine or newspaper images that can evoke that same mental image or feeling.

Teen Council meetings happen every other Tuesday from August to May. Through this program led by AAM Educator, Elisabeth Strunk, local teenagers create and implement events for their peers. The Council follows the motto, “For teens, by teens,” to make the Aspen Art Museum a fun place for youth in the Roaring Fork Valley.

Please join us on Wednesday, December 2, at 10 AM MT, where Art Basel Miami Director Noah Horowitz will introduce this year’s digital edition of the fair. We will then visit five galleries, selected by the AAM, and introduced by art advisor and AAM National Council Member Mary Zlot. The directors of each gallery will lead us through a short highlights presentation of their virtual booth.

You’ve heard of pop-up books, but have you heard of book sculptures? Tune in every Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (MT) during the month of December as AAM Educator Vanessa Porras teaches a four- part, step-by-step series on the many options in creating one! Materials are super-simple, all you really need is a little patience and copious amounts of creativity!

This activity is suited for those old enough to safely work with an X-acto style knife.

The Teen Curators program allows participants to gain insight into different styles of curatorial practice. In this brand-new iteration of what has become a signature AAM highlight for teens, each curator will design their own creative project with support from museum staff.

Teen Artists will meet with and learn from AAM staff, guest artists, and our creative community partners at Anderson Ranch. They will explore and build their art-making skills and present their work to the public in the spring.

Tune in this Wednesday, and to learn how to make the most out of the pages in your book as we begin to carve. You will witness the transformation of a book into art as we guide you through each step of the process.

We are excited to present an Artist Conversation between Barbara Kasten and fellow artist Irena Haiduk (b. Belgrade, 1982, lives and works in New York) on December 10 at 4 p.m. in conjunction with this exhibition. In this live Zoom conversation, Kasten and Haiduk will discuss the role of the studio in their work, and the vital distinction between taking pictures and making images. Multiple facets of Kasten’s prolific career add dimensions to Haiduk’s understanding of the camera as a public place where everything lives and acts.

Click Here to join the webinar.

Te Quiero (casi siempre) by Anna Llenas is a book about learning to accept others’ differences and loving them fully (even if we don’t always love everything they do). Using the book as inspiration, care providers and students create a collaborative friendship mural.