The popular Summer Youth Program gives children ages 5 - 14 a chance to create all summer long Children from ages 6 - 12 years are welcome to create art with their adult companions every first Sunday of the month Children and their parents take a tour of the galleries during first Sunday's Picture This! Art for Families Program. Photo courtesy of Edlynne Sillman. Teen working with an instructor during the Summer Youth Program. Photo courtesy of Jerry Peek.

FAMILY AND YOUTH PROGRAMS

Families and children are especially welcome at the Museum! Offering an active program for children and their adult companions, the Museum is a fun and interesting place to spend an afternoon learning about and creating art together.

Picture This! Art for Families

For children ages 6 – 12 years and their adult companions, this free program is designed to introduce children to the varied world of art through gallery activities and tours, special performances, puppetry and hands-on art making projects. Spend the first half hour touring the Museum with docents and/or educators and then venture to the Education Center to create an art work that can be taken home. Offered in conjunction with first Sunday’s free admission, Picture This! begins at 1:00 pm. Picture This! Art for Families is made possible by Cox Communications.

Summer Art Camp

Inspired by the Tucson Museum of Art’s permanent collection and special exhibitions, children ages 5- 16 years create original works of art in a variety of fine art media at the Summer Art Camp.

Each weekly session is led by local museum educators and teaching artists. Classes of up to 14 children (grouped by age) discover new places and diverse cultures; visit the Museum’s galleries and historic houses; and draw, paint, sculpt, collage, print, and more.

See the Summer Art Camp page for more information on class descriptions, registration, and staff biographies for 2010.

Birthday Parties for Children

Celebrate your birthday with friends and family at the art museum!

Especially for children ages 5 years and up, a party at the Museum may include two fun-filled hours of gallery activities, tours and an art making project. There’s even time for cake!

Children can choose from a variety of entertaining projects:

  • Clay mosaics or sculpture
  • Drawing with pastels, pencils and/or chalk
  • Painting with acrylic
  • Printmaking
  • Comic book art
  • Mask Making

Parties of 10 children or less is $150 for Museum members; $190 for non-members. Each additional child is $15 with a maximum of 20. Cake and beverages are extra.

Parties can be scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays during regular Museum hours. Dates and times are subject to availability. Allow at least three weeks advance notice when scheduling a party.

To learn more about birthday parties at the Museum, contact the Manager of Youth and Family Programs at 520-624-2333 ext. 121 or Tours (at) TucsonMuseumofArt.org