Students explore the tactile art of hand-building with clay, learning the proper use of tools, sculpting techniques, surface design and glazing. All projects are kiln fired and will be cherished for years to come! Available for pods of up to 6 kids with 1 adult present. One hour class meets 4 times in the ceramics studio. Includes glazing and firing. Registration includes free admission to visit Museum galleries in-person following the lesson, at your own convenience. All participants must adhere to MAM’s Covid-19 guidelines including mask wearing.

Available Tuesdays 10-11 a.m., Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 p.m. and 4-5 p.m., Fridays 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Get creative with a 1-hour art-making workshop with a MAM art educator, and receive free admission to visit Museum galleries at your own convenience following the lesson. Choose from one of the thematic options below, or schedule a series of 4 classes so your children experiment with a variety of materials and techniques.

Choose a theme:

Color, Shape & Line (Only for Grades K-2)
Calling all museum detectives! Investigate works of art from different times and places to discover how artists utilize the building blocks of art.

Using Your Senses (Only for Grades K-2)
Get a unique, multisensory perspective as you experience art through your eyes, ears, and body.

Celebrating Many Voices
This tour celebrates the work of established and emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or who are in the LGBTQ community. These artists use their art to highlight issues of social justice.

Eco Art
Take a walk on the wild side with a tour focused on sustainability, climate change, and animals in art.

The First Americans
Explore the art, culture, and history of Native North America—from ancient times through today. Learn how Native arts have evolved across vast regions of North America in response to social and political change.

Facetime: Exploring Portraits
Discover how artists depict people, from yesterday to today, through paintings, photography, and in some cases, sculptures.

Places & Spaces: Landscapes in American Art
Discover the many different ways artists engage with the evolving American landscape and built environment.

Available Fridays 9:30-10:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-1:30 p.m., 2-3 p.m., 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Class is limited to 9 or fewer students and must include at least one adult chaperone. All participants must adhere to MAM’s Covid-19 guidelines including mask wearing.

Enjoy a guided gallery tour of Museum exhibitions with one of our knowledgeable docents followed by an art-making workshop with a MAM art educator, for an in-depth 1 ½ hour creative experience. Our participatory tours encourage interaction, as students are guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork in current exhibitions. Students will then have fun in our studio making their own art inspired by the works on view. Choose from one of the thematic options below, or schedule a series of 4 visits so your children experiment with a variety of materials and techniques. Registration includes free admission to visit Museum galleries in-person following the lesson, at your own convenience.

Choose a theme:

Color, Shape & Line (Only for Grades K-2)
Calling all museum detectives! Investigate works of art from different times and places to discover how artists utilize the building blocks of art.

Using Your Senses (Only for Grades K-2)
Get a unique, multisensory perspective as you experience art through your eyes, ears, and body.

Celebrating Many Voices
This tour celebrates the work of established and emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or who are in the LGBTQ community. These artists use their art to highlight issues of social justice.

Eco Art
Take a walk on the wild side with a tour focused on sustainability, climate change, and animals in art.

The First Americans
Explore the art, culture, and history of Native North America—from ancient times through today. Learn how Native arts have evolved across vast regions of North America in response to social and political change.

Facetime: Exploring Portraits
Discover how artists depict people, from yesterday to today, through paintings, photography, and in some cases, sculptures.

Places & Spaces: Landscapes in American Art
Discover the many different ways artists engage with the evolving American landscape and built environment.

Available Fridays 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 12:30-2 p.m., 2-3:30 p.m., 3:30-5 p.m.

Class is limited to 9 or fewer students and must include at least one adult chaperone. All participants must adhere to MAM’s Covid-19 guidelines including mask wearing.

Explore Museum grounds and learn new drawing techniques in our outdoor pod learning experience. Each 1-hour long class is led by a MAM teaching artist with all art materials provided so kids can get creative and have fun. Choose from the following options or schedule a series of all 4 classes, so your children can experiment with a variety of media including graphite, watercolor pencil, and pastel. Registration includes free admission to visit Museum galleries in-person following the lesson, at your own convenience.

Available Fridays 11 a.m.-12 p.m., 12:30-1:30 p.m., 2-3 p.m., 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Choose a theme:

Architectural Drawing
Learn linear perspective and compositional arrangement while focusing on the Museum façade.

Objects in Environments
Learn rendering techniques to depict objects in space while drawing from sculptures on Museum grounds.

Figure Drawing
Students take turn modeling for each other and practice rendering gestures and proportion to convincingly draw the human form.

Nature Drawing
Capture details from nature and the changing seasons through close observational drawing of plant life and other elements of the natural world.

Class is limited to 9 or fewer students and must include at least one adult chaperone. All participants must adhere to MAM’s Covid-19 guidelines including mask wearing, and classes will be rescheduled in the case of inclement weather.

Join us for a thematic virtual museum tour, right from your home or hybrid classroom. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All virtual tours feature artists of diverse backgrounds.
An art-making workshop led by our talented teaching artists will follow the tour. Creativity Kits filled with specialized supplies can be mailed to your school in advance. Please note that students will need access to basic supplies such as pencils, scissors, glue, markers, and crayons.

Choose a theme for your tour:

Celebrating Many Voices
This tour celebrates the work of established and emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or who are in the LGBTQ community. These artists use their art to highlight issues of social justice.

Eco Art
Take a walk on the wild side with a tour focused on sustainability, climate change, and animals in art.

The First Americans
Explore the art, culture, and history of Native North America—from ancient times through today. Learn how Native arts have evolved across vast regions of North America in response to social and political change.

Facetime: Exploring Portraits
Discover how artists depict people, from yesterday to today, through paintings, photography, and in some cases, sculptures.

Places & Spaces: Landscapes in American Art
Discover the many different ways artists engage with the evolving American landscape and built environment.

Join us for a thematic virtual museum tour, right from your home or hybrid classroom. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All virtual tours feature artists of diverse backgrounds.

Choose a theme for your tour:

Celebrating Many Voices
This tour celebrates the work of established and emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and members of the LGBT community, who use their art to highlight issues of social justice.

Eco Art
Take a walk on the wild side with a tour focused on sustainability, climate change, and animals in art.

The First Americans
Explore the art, culture, and history of Native North America—from ancient times through today. Learn how Native arts have evolved across vast regions of North America in response to social and political change.

Facetime: Exploring Portraits
Discover how artists depict people, from yesterday to today, through paintings, photography, and in some cases, sculptures.

Places & Spaces: Landscapes in American Art
Discover the many different ways artists engage with the evolving American landscape and built environment.

Join us for a thematic virtual museum tour, right from your home or hybrid classroom. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All virtual tours feature artists of diverse backgrounds.
An art-making workshop led by our talented teaching artists will follow the tour. Creativity Kits filled with specialized supplies can be mailed to your school in advance. Please note that students will need access to basic supplies such as pencils, scissors, glue, markers, and crayons.
Choose a theme for your tour:
Color, Shape & Line
Calling all museum detectives! Investigate works of art from different times and places to discover how artists utilize the building blocks of art.

Using Your Senses
Get a unique, multisensory perspective as you experience art through your eyes, ears, and body.

Celebrating Many Voices
This tour celebrates the work of established and emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or who are in the LGBTQ community. These artists use their art to highlight issues of social justice.

Eco Art
Take a walk on the wild side with a tour focused on sustainability, climate change, and animals in art.

The First Americans
Explore the art, culture, and history of Native North America—from ancient times through today. Learn how Native arts have evolved across vast regions of North America in response to social and political change.

Facetime: Exploring Portraits
Discover how artists depict people, from yesterday to today, through paintings, photography, and in some cases, sculptures.

Places & Spaces: Landscapes in American Art
Discover the many different ways artists engage with the evolving American landscape and built environment.

Join us for a thematic virtual museum tour, right from your home or hybrid classroom. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All virtual tours feature artists of diverse backgrounds.

Choose a theme for your tour:

Color, Shape & Line
Calling all museum detectives! Investigate works of art from different times and places to discover how artists utilize the building blocks of art.

Using Your Senses
Get a unique, multisensory perspective as you experience art through your eyes, ears, and body.

Celebrating Many Voices
This tour celebrates the work of established and emerging artists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color or who are in the LGBTQ community. These artists use their art to highlight issues of social justice.

Eco Art
Take a walk on the wild side with a tour focused on sustainability, climate change, and animals in art.

The First Americans
Explore the art, culture, and history of Native North America—from ancient times through today. Learn how Native arts have evolved across vast regions of North America in response to social and political change.

Facetime: Exploring Portraits
Discover how artists depict people, from yesterday to today, through paintings, photography, and in some cases, sculptures.

Places & Spaces: Landscapes in American Art
Discover the many different ways artists engage with the evolving American landscape and built environment.

Join us for a thematic virtual museum tour, right from your home. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All virtual tours feature artists of diverse backgrounds. An art-making workshop led by our talented teaching artists will follow the tour. Creativity Kits filled with specialized supplies can be mailed to your group in advance. Limit to two shipping addresses. Please note that students will need access to basic supplies such as pencils, scissors, glue, markers, and crayons. Reach out to us at tours@montclairartmuseum.org to discuss themes or badge requirements.

MAM’s virtual workshops for K-12 educators combine inquiry-based discussion strategies to foster conversations about arts, skill-building and idea-exchange in different artistic media, and thematic engagement across the art, science, social studies, and ELA curriculum. Most workshops include a virtual tour of the galleries followed by an art-making workshop with a teaching artist.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREDITS
The Museum is a registered provider of NJ State Professional Development Credits, and teacher programs are designed to support curricular goals.

Pricing:
$225 for a 2-hour virtual workshop, teachers source their own supplies
$275 for a 2-hour virtual workshop with art supplies provided
*Additional fees for longer workshops will apply.

Choose from the following workshop topics for your group:

Art of Native North America
Celebrating Many Voices
Eco Art: Art & Sustainability
Explorations in Printmaking
Hand-Built Ceramics: Building Your Repertoire
Handmade Books
Life Drawing, Virtually
Writing from Art
Zentangle: Meditative Drawing

Join us for a virtual tour of the museum’s exhibitions, right from your home. In this participatory tour, you will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All levels of art appreciation are welcome.

Does your group want to get creative? Virtual tours can be paired with an art-making studio workshop led by our talented teaching artists. Creativity Kits filled with specialized supplies will be mailed to your group in advance.

Choose one of our special exhibitions:
New York to New Mexico: New Acquisitions
Fragile Freedoms: Maggie Meiners Revisits Rockwell
Federico Uribe: Animalia
Virgil Ortiz: Odyssey of the Venutian Soldiers
Uncaged: Animals in the Collection
Personal Landscapes
The George Inness Gallery
Undaunted Spirit: Art of Native North America
Or choose Insider Highlights—a celebration of MAM’s diverse collection of American art highlighting the best we have to offer in a range of genres and styles.

Join us for a virtual tour of the museum’s exhibitions, right from your home. In this participatory tour, you will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform. All levels of art appreciation are welcome.

Choose one of our special exhibitions:
New York to New Mexico: New Acquisitions
Fragile Freedoms: Maggie Meiners Revisits Rockwell
Federico Uribe: Animalia
Virgil Ortiz: Odyssey of the Venutian Soldiers
Uncaged: Animals in the Collection
Personal Landscapes
The George Inness Gallery
Undaunted Spirit: Art of Native North America
Or choose Insider Highlights—a celebration of MAM’s diverse collection of American art highlighting the best we have to offer in a range of genres and styles.

Join us for a virtual tour of the museum’s exhibitions, right from your home or hybrid classroom. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform.

Does your class want to get creative? Virtual tours can be paired with an art-making studio workshop led by our talented teaching artists. Creativity Kits filled with specialized supplies will be mailed to your group in advance.

Choose one of our special exhibitions:
Fragile Freedoms: Maggie Meiners Revisits Rockwell
New York to New Mexico: New Aqcuisitions
Federico Uribe: Animalia
Virgil Ortiz: Odyssey of the Venutian Soldiers
Uncaged: Animals in the Collection
Personal Landscapes
The George Inness Gallery
Undaunted Spirit: Art of Native North America
Or choose Insider Highlights—a celebration of MAM’s diverse collection of American art highlighting the best we have to offer in a range of genres and styles.

Join us for a virtual tour of the museum’s exhibitions, right from your home or hybrid classroom. In this participatory tour, students will be guided to make observations while looking closely at artwork on view in the galleries. Tours use 3D imagery of the galleries, are live, interactive, and led by the Museum's knowledgeable docents through the Zoom platform.

Choose one of our special exhibitions:
Fragile Freedoms: Maggie Meiners Revisits Rockwell
New York to New Mexico: New Aqcuisitions
Federico Uribe: Animalia
Virgil Ortiz: Odyssey of the Venutian Soldiers
Uncaged: Animals in the Collection
Personal Landscapes
The George Inness Gallery
Undaunted Spirit: Art of Native North America
Or choose Insider Highlights—a celebration of MAM’s diverse collection of American art highlighting the best we have to offer in a range of genres and styles.