Art Studio at MoMA

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On Friday 17th April, Thunder & Lightning participated in the Art Studio program at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 
First we divided into two groups and a museum educator led each group through the galleries. Our early start meant we had the galleries to ourselves. The fourth grade were excited to see the original The Starry Night by Van Gogh “It had a lot more texture than pictures of it. It looked a lot cooler.” 


We stopped in front of a selection of paintings and discussed the artist’s intentions and our interpretations. “I liked all the names for the paintings and their inspirations. One of them was called Untitled because the artist wanted you to think of the title yourself because everything can mean different things to different people.”





Students had the opportunity to draw in the galleries. “We studied some pieces and drew what we thought was the most important part of it. I picked The Shooting Paintings”. 



















After touring the galleries we returned to the MoMA classrooms and were invited to create artworks that explored everyday objects in relation to our own individual and group identities. We printed using candy, remote controls, tennis balls and many more, unexpected, objects. “We were talking about using everyday objects to make a self portrait. It could be wacky, silly, anything that expresses yourself. My friend started with a normal person and then changed it into a cartoon, then used the materials and made it into something completely different.”






After our program finished we stayed longer to visit the Jacob Lawrence exhibit. The exhibition combines literature, music and art from the time period, familiar to Thunder and Lightning from our study of the Harlem Renaissance. The students viewed all 60 panels in The Migration Series and explored the interactive screens to learn more about the art. “The touch screens showed all the panels, and a detailed description about each panel. I figured out that the bacon was pork back. It brings out every single detail about every picture.”



One of the best parts of this trip is that each child receives a free family pass to MoMA. The Jacob Lawrence exhibit runs until September 7th and your child can share their expertise with you.

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