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Studio Workshops

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Note: For groups of 30 or less there is limited workshop availability during April and May. Contact studioworkshops@nelson-atkins.org to check availability.

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. Due to renovations, objects in the Egyptian and Ancient galleries will not be included in the workshops.

The cost of Studio Workshops is $6.50 per student with a minimum of 15 students.  Also, 1 adult must accompany every 10 students.

Box lunches can be ordered through Rozzelle Court Restaurant or sack lunches may be eaten in the Kansas City Sculpture Park. Please note there is no indoor facility where school groups may eat sack lunches.

Grades
 School Studio Workshops
P, K-2 Shape Up! Draw, paint and collage to learn about shapes
P, K-1 Line Around - Use line variety to create an imaginative sculpture
1-4 Mythical Creatures - Invent a mythical creature in a mixed media collage
1-4 Dragons! Sculpt a three-dimensional dragon using clay
2-4 Museum Safari - Sculpt and paint a three-dimensional animal form using clay
2-6 Life in 3-D Manipulate papers and wire to create a sculpture in the round
2-6 American Indian Patterns - Create a “parfleche” utilizing gallery inspired colors, shapes and patterns (available beginning January 2010)
3-6 Masks - Build a colorful, three-dimensional mask
6-12 Landscape Scrolls - Create a Chinese scroll inspired by the Museum’s collection of Eastern and Western landscapes
7-12 Creating Landscapes- Develop a landscape composition that incorporates collage, watercolor and drawing
7-12 Art and Photography - Create a mixed media collage
7-12 3-D Exploration - Construct a relief sculpture with high-relief and low-relief elements

Studio workshops are supported by Bank of America and Sprint.