Children & Family Workshops

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The Creativity Lounge at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY. Photo: © Gary Mamay.

LEARN & ENGAGE

Creativity Lounge

The Creativity Lounge is a place for visitors of all ages and abilities to use their imagination, learn about and make art, engage with the exhibitions on view, and connect with each other. Visitors can read, explore a variety of building materials, draw, learn about being an artist and curator, and much more.

The Creativity Lounge is open most Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays, as well as occasional Saturdays.

Free to visit the Creativity Lounge. Gallery access requires ticket purchase. 

 

 

Kindergarten – Grade 5

After-School Art

After-School Art workshops are designed for children to learn about artists, be inspired by works of art, and create their own artwork.

Mondays | 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Session I: 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24

Session II: 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/17

Session III: 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 6/2

Thursdays | 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Session I: 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13

Grades 1 – 5

Children’s Pottery

Art educator Wendy Gottlieb guides students in Grades 1-5 to create pottery and study the history of ceramics. Hand-built pottery techniques will include coil, slab, and sculpture. All work will be fired. Enrollment is limited.

Thursdays | 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Session I: 2/27, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3

Session II: 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29

Open Studio for Families. Photo: Tiagne Davis

All ages

Open Studios for Families

Create art inspired by Museum exhibitions and works on view in this free Open Studio class for you and your family.

Select Saturdays | 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Open Studios dates: 10/12, 11/9, 12/14

FREE, no advance registration required. Children must be accompanied by adults.

 

The Parrish Art Museum’s educational programming is supported, in part, by the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Milford D. and Janice B. Gerton/Arts and Letters Foundation; Bobbie Braun/The Neuwirth Foundation; The Long Island Community Foundation; Dime Community Bank; The John J. McDonnell Margaret T. O’Brien Foundation; The Romenesa Foundation; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation; donors who wish to remain anonymous; and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and Tuckahoe Common School District. Additional support for education initiatives is provided by the Museum’s annual Spring Fling and Midsummer Party benefit events.
The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Public Funding provided by Suffolk County.