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 MoMA After School
MoMA after school provides a lively forum for high school students that encourages creativity and learning through active engagement with works of modern and contemporary art. Students participate in studio projects, conversations, and debates with peers and museum staff, while learning about careers and practices within the visual arts. All programs are offered free of charge. MoMA provides all supplies and materials.
Spring 2008
View the 2008 Spring High School Programs flyer in PDF format
In the Making: Innovations in Design
Students in this ten-week studio class will discover the ways design impacts our daily lives-from street signs to kitchen utensils. Drawing inspiration from MoMA's extensive collection of design objects, students will create their own design solutions to contemporary challenges.
Wednesdays, February–April, 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Students must apply. Applications are due January 25, 2008.
Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
In the Making: Painting with Color
With a special emphasis on color-its meaning, application, and influence-this ten-week class will engage students in creative experiments with paint. Students in this class will discover the ways in which color can be used to express ideas, emotions, and more.
Tuesdays, February–April, 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Students must apply. Applications are due January 25, 2008.
Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Creating Change: Contemporary Activist Art
From environmental concerns to issues of racial and social injustice, activist or political art has long been used by artists of all kinds to impact social change. Participants in this five-week class will explore how contemporary artists create works of art to address social injustices and inequality. In addition, through a series of multimedia studio activities, students will create their own works of activist art in response to an issue or topic they choose to address.
Tuesdays and Fridays, March to April, 4:00 to 6:30 p.m.
Students must apply. Applications are due January 25, 2008.
Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Museum Studies
The high school museum studies program offers New York City high school students a series of workshops addressing issues related to curatorial and museum work and the opportunity to organize an exhibition of student artwork. The program combines educational and practical experiences, introducing students to various careers in the arts while also addressing methods of presentation. Students meet with museum staff from the education, graphic design, and exhibition design and production departments as well as curatorial and other departments. The student curators select from student artwork submissions to create an exhibition.
Thursdays, January–May
This class is open to New York City high school students in ninth through twelfth grades. Students must apply. Applications are due January 10, 2008. Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Call for Artwork
NYC high schools are invited to submit exemplary student work for consideration for the 2008 High School Museum Studies exhibition. Art must be dropped off by February 11, 2008. Download the submission form and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
 The Art and Science of Conservation
This program is for students who are interested in science and art. Meeting on Tuesday afternoons, this twelve-week class provides a behind-the-scenes look at The Museum of
Modern Art, its collection, and the career and process of art conservation. Students will spend time in the museum's conservation studios, galleries, and classrooms exploring the material characteristics of art and conducting laboratory-based experiments. They will learn how MoMA's conservators preserve and care for the many different kinds of works of art in the museum's collection-objects as diverse as an oil painting by Paul Cézanne, a Formula One racecar, and an ipod.
Tuesday afternoons, February–May
This class is open to students in eleventh and twelfth grades who attend New York City high schools. Students must apply. Applications are due January 18, 2008. Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Friday Night at the Movies
This free Friday night film program is for high school students only. Teens are invited to watch classic, contemporary, and experimental films, talk with their peers, filmmakers,
curators, and educators, and eat pizza!
No application necessary. Students can just show up! Free pizza and soda.
View the full schedule of screenings and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
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Summer 2008
In the Making: Summer at MoMA
Part of the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman education and research program at MoMA, In the Making: Summer at MoMA is a free summer art-making program for high school
Students. For six weeks, students participate in studio activities as well as conversations with artists and MoMA staff, field trips throughout the city, special tours of the museum's collection, writing exercises, and expert art instruction from MoMA educators. Collaborative and individual art activities provide a space for students to create their own works of art, which will be presented in a small culminating exhibit.
Program dates: July 1-August 7, 2008
Information on individual class times is available on the application.
This program is open to all New York City high school students entering tenth through twelfth grades in fall 2008. There is no need for previous art experience—beginners are welcome! Students must apply. Applications are due Friday, April 18, 2008.
Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
High School Summer Internship Program
The high school summer internship program exposes a small group of New York City high school students to museum work and imparts valuable and practical job skills. In addition to their work in a museum department, interns participate in an educational program consisting of lectures by Museum staff and visits to other arts organizations.
This six-week paid internship is only open to students of New York City public high schools who have previously participated in at least one of MoMA's High School Programs. This program is open to students entering 11th or 12th grade in the fall of 2008, or recent high school graduates. Applications are due Friday, April 18, 2008.
Download an application and more information in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
For more information about MoMA's programs for high school students, please e-mail highschoolprograms@moma.org.
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Pictured above, top:
A twelve-month intern and Museum Studies student work together to mat a work of art. Photo:
Heather Maxson
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A high school Conservation student examines photographs under a microscope. Photo:
Heather Maxson
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Members of the Youth Advisory Committee look at the dance floor at MoMA Night Out 2007. Photo:
Sara Bodinson
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