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Studio Workshops

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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s studio workshops encourage interaction by inviting students to look at, analyze, experience and create art.

Using National Visual Art Standards as a foundation, each workshop combines a gallery learning activity with a related art process in the Ford Learning Center. These 90-minute hands-on workshops for Pre-K through 12th grade will complement and enhance your curriculum.

To learn more about Studio Workshops we offer, choose from the list below.

The cost of Studio Workshops is $6.50 per student with a minimum of 15 students.  Also, one adult must accompany every 10 students.

Grades
 School Studio Workshops
P, K-1 Color Me Creative - Discover combining colors to create a mixed media painting
P, K-1 Line Around - Use line variety to create an imaginative sculpture
P, K-2 Shape Up! - Draw, paint and collage to learn about shapes
1-4 Dragons! - Sculpt a three-dimensional dragon using clay
1-4 Mythical Creatures - Invent a mythical creature in a mixed media collage
2-4 Museum Safari - Sculpt and paint a three-dimensional animal form using clay
2-6 American Indian Patterns - Create a “parfleche” utilizing gallery inspired colors, shapes and patterns
2-12 Life in 3-D - Manipulate papers and wire to create a sculpture in the round
3-6 Masks - Build a colorful, three-dimensional mask
5-8 Speaking of Art...- Create a handmade book that combines the written word with visual images
6-12 Landscape Impressions - Create a mixed media painting inspired by Impressionism and related landscapes
6-12 Landscape Scrolls - Create a Chinese scroll inspired by the Museum’s collection of Eastern and Western landscapes
7-12 Art and Photography - Create a mixed media collage that explores design, composition and art elements through photography

Studio workshops are supported by Bank of America and Sprint.

Lunch
Rozzelle Court Restaurant offers $7.50 box lunches for school groups. Orders must be placed and paid for in advance. Call 816.751.1234 or e-mail events@nelson-atkins.org.

School groups may bring sack lunches and picnic on the grounds of the Kansas City Sculpture Park; there are no facilities for students to eat sack lunches inside the Museum. Teachers are responsible for making alternate arrangements in inclement weather.

Click here for a menu of box lunch options