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Song Writing

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Interested in the music biz? In this class, students will learn the fundamentals of multi-track recording by experimenting with keyboards and vocal recording. Young musicians will study a variety of musical genres including hip hop and rock 'n' roll. They will explore elements of song structure and lyric writing, as well as software like ProTools and GarageBand. In addition, they album's artwork will be created using Photoshop. At the end of the...

(10) All levels 12 - 15 years old
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Here Comes the Sun

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Animate your favorite sunny Spring day with your own paper cutout puppets!

(10) All levels 5 and older
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Bugs

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, lady bugs, and many more insect friends today at the clay bar!

(10) All levels 5 and older
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Shark Takeover

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Animate sharks and their deep sea environment.

(10) All levels 5 and older
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Bears

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Sculpt polar bears, grizzly bears, pandas, etc!

(10) All levels 5 and older
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Sound Booth Theater

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Join us today in the sound booth as we bring our stories to life by creating our own characters, sound effects, and movie score!

(10) All levels 5 and older
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Upcycled Sun Catchers

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Looking closely at the work of Victor Vasarely, young artists will use recycled materials, tissue paper and cellophane to create psychedelic sun catchers! Visitors will learn about the Op Art (optical art) movement and creating optical illusions! Please note: 1 adult is required per every 3 children that enter the museum. Also, to best accommodate all our visitors, we do not offer reentry on busy days.

(10) All levels 5 and older
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Shadow Puppets

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

What kinds of screens did we use for entertainment before TV's, computers, cell phones, and tablets? This traditional Chinese art form (also known as "Shadow Play") involves the use of puppets made in silhouette, their shadow-forms rear-projected onto a screen, thus hiding the puppeteer, and allowing the audience to be immersed into fantastic worlds.  Young artists will spend the week creating their very own stories and intricate moving puppet...

(10) All levels 6 - 12 years old
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CMA Kids Fair 2017

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

Come join CMA outside as it hosts its 2nd annual street fair! Create art and memories alongside friends and family with the guidance of CMA Teaching Artists. Enjoy a fun shopping experience filled with unique artisanal products and services from trendy, local, family-friendly vendors and artists. FEATURING Jam Band: Make Your Own Instrument! Crazy Paper Hats Paper Puppets Murals for Tots Sand Creations Collaborative String Sculpture Sculpture...

(10) All levels 1 - 15 years old
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Look Make Sign

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 103 Charlton St, New York, NY

This workshop is designed for the engagement for children with who are deaf and their families. Children ages 6 to 12 are invited to explore the museum exhibitions with their families. The program will take place in CMA’s gallery with a Teaching Artist and an American Sign Language Interpreter. This is an ASL–only tour for members of the Deaf community. ​CMA is excited to partner with LC Interpreting Services, who will assist in making our...

(10) All levels 6 - 12 years old
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Hollywood Movie

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

Calling all actors, directors and designers! Inspired by classic Hollywood movies, partcipants of this class will write, direct, design and star in their own short films. What makes it even more exciting is that students in this class will collaborate with students from the Set and Costume Design class. This a great experience for young King Kongs and Dorothy Gales. Daily Schedule: 8:45 AM (Drop Off): All campers must be dropped off at the Governors...

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

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Special Effects

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

Want to travel around the world in a day? Fly across New York City? Make it all happen in this exciting introduction to special effects! Students will become familiar with the Green Screen and its many applications in this class, as well as learn special editing techniques in Final Cut Pro. They will also be introduced to After Effects, Dragon Stop Motion, and HDSLR cameras.  Get ready to work collaboratively on a film that features as many...

(10) All levels 12 - 15 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Sculpture

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

Young artists will experiment with all types of clay processes and techniques, including plaster, sculpty, air dry clay and more. Children will explore handbuilding for 2D and 3D decorative and functional works, vessels and wall works, while learning about clay artists from the past and present, such as Kathy Butterly, Anne Chu, and Kenneth Price. Daily Schedule: 8:45 AM (Drop Off): All campers must be dropped off at the Governors Island Ferry...

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Move It! Kinetic Sculpture 2016

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

This week will focus on kinetic sculpture! Children will explore art and science as they create moving sculptures through physical and mechanical processes. Young artists will explore wind power, simple motors and simple physics as they create their own unique works of art that move.  Children will look at and learn from artists, such as Jean Tinguely, Alexander Calder, Peter Fischli and David Weiss looking at different ways that artists...

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Experimental Animation 2016

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

Go beyond narrative animation into an abstract world of moving images! This experimental class will expose young artists to the broad array of animating techniques and materials, including stop motion, sand, rotoscoping, paper, light table and film scratching inspired by artist Viking Eggeling.  Students will explore visual language in motion with the freedom that abstract animation offers, while paying close attention to the technical structure...

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Landscape Painting (Ages 12-15)

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

With the natural surroundings of New York City as their guide, young artists will learn to use a variety of media acrylic, watercolors, and ink to represent the energetic scenes around them.  Students will have the unique opportunity to create their artworks “en plein air”, meaning setting up their supplies and working outside! Lessons will develop student’s composition skills as they learn about sculptural relief, observational technique,...

(10) All levels 12 - 15 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Cardboard Productions 2016

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

Create your own animated film from scratch using cardboard! This class covers all aspects of production including: set design, fabrication, prop-making and animating. Cardboard is one of the best commonplace, multi-purpose recyclable art materials out there!  Young artists will gain the skills and knowledge of how to master this material. The class will learn basic film and animation skills and finish with a screening of their cardboard-only...

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Animating Greek Myths

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

This is a perfect class for the young artist whose haunted by the Hydra, zealous about Zeus and mad for Medusa. With an array of tools, materials and supplies and the rich and powerful world of Greek Mythology as inspiration, participants will create epic stop motion animated films. This experience is not to be mythed! 

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Animal-Mania 2016

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

Jump into a fantastical art-making menagerie! Through mixed media, drawings & paintings, mosaics, and sculpture, young artists will have the opportunity to experiment with depicting both real and mythological animals of the past, present, and future.  Inspired by artists like Deborah Butterfield and Pablo Picasso and their love for furry friends, students will make animal masks, clay and mixed media sculptures, and much more.

(10) All levels 7 - 13 years old
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$850

5 sessions

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Filmmaking: 16mm & Super 8 - Teen

Children's Museum of the Arts @ 10 S St Battery Maritime Bldg, New York, NY

This unique analog filmmaking class will take young artists through the history of film as we explore old-school, vintage filmmaking techniques. Students will create their original analog films with Super 8mm and 16mm film, learn how to shoot with a Super 8 film camera, and learn hand-processing techniques.&nbsp;<br><br>Young artists will learn how to splice film as well as edit and modify footage using fun techniques such as: scratching,...

(10) All levels 12 - 15 years old
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$700

5 sessions

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