Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 01.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 01.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 02.
Become curator, artist, and exhibition designer of your own museum experience. Explore the diverse displays and subjects on view at Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History for inspiration and use artistry, engineering, and your unique interests to create small scale maquettes, installations, and architectural plans of a gallery concept all your own. Follow in the footsteps of the Carnegie International curatorial team and collaborate with classmates to combine your efforts into one new neighborhood museum.
Learn more about My Museum.
Construct unique artworks by combining varied materials and art processes. Mix colors and apply paint using unusual tools and techniques, create interesting textures by layering and combining materials, and experiment with different forms of printmaking like stamps and transfers. Explore the galleries to discover examples of the processes artists have used worldwide throughout history.
Learn more about Paint, Print, and Paste.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 02.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 03.
Travel across continents and through time without ever leaving the museum! Explore the expansive art forms presented by creatives from around the world in the Carnegie International, discover the geographic origins of a sphinx, or rest in a cool spot on a hot day in France. Create sculptures, paintings, and drawings based on what you find, and fill out an art passport at each stop.
Learn more about Art Passport.
Use the Carnegie International as a source of inspiration as you discover contemporary artists who think expansively about art-making. Explore a wide range of tools to create marks, forms, and textures that can become expressive works of art. Conduct experiments and play collaborative games to generate unexpected results and discover new-to-you and processes and materials that can fuel your creative imagination.
Learn more about Carnegie International Lab.
Push, pull, squish, and turn clay into anything you can imagine—from a bowl you can use to three dimensional sculpted figures of your of your own design. Learn to use the potter’s wheel to shape vessels and hand-building techniques to construct figurative sculptures that stand, sit, or dance suspended in motion. Add texture and design to the surface of your clay works and investigate glazing techniques to include color and luster. Kiln-fired projects will be fired and available for pick-up at the museum 3 to 4 weeks after camp.
Learn more about Ceramics Studio.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 03.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 04.
Journey into the museum’s galleries to uncover artworks that originated in places far from Pittsburgh but all ended up together in the Carnegie International. Discover more about the artists and their creative practices through close observation, art investigation, and expert insider information. Explore diverse art materials and processes through experimentation as you play and map what you discover throughout your journey.
Learn more about Art Around the World.
Create surrounded by your favorite art in your gallery classroom. Learn how to reproduce classical work using academic drawing methods, then transform them into unique compositions using a variety of drawing, printmaking, and painting techniques. Gather with your educators and peers in the morning and receive a museum pass to extend your learning in the afternoons. By the end of the week, you will have a robust sketchbook full of creative expression. Teen programs are designed for students entering grades 9–12.
Learn more about Museum Sketch.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 04.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer pre-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate activities and games.
Learn more about Pre-camp: Week 05.
Push, pull, squish, and turn clay into anything you can imagine—from a bowl you can use to three dimesional sculpted figures of your of your own design. Learn to use the potter’s wheel to shape vessels and hand-building techniques to construct figurative sculptures that stand, sit, or dance suspended in motion. Add texture and design to the surface of your clay works and investigate glazing techniques to include color and luster. Kiln-fired projects will be fired and available for pick-up at the museum 3 to 4 weeks after camp.
Learn more about Ceramics Studio.
Apply left-brained thinking to a right-brained activity for unexpected results. Observe works of art in the galleries for ideas, hypothesize some "what-ifs,” then head to the lab for experimentation. Ink, graphite, rubber bands, straws, paint brushes, paper, wood, plastic—let materials take you on a scientific drawing journey. Record your process and results in your sketchbook and make a series of works based on your findings.
Learn more about Drawing Laboratory.
Calling all wiggle worms! Join us at the museum for a wiggle-and-squiggle-filled art-making week. Use movement as inspiration as you explore the galleries to find ideas for your art. Use your feet, your hands, and your body to create sculptures that shift, paintings that vibrate, and a parade performance through the galleries.
Learn more about Art in Motion.
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History offer post-camp care hours for children ages 6–13 enrolled in camps. Sessions include age-appropriate outdoor activities, games, and library visits—all in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. A light snack is provided at post-camp care.
Learn more about Post-camp: Week 05.