Free art-making classes for NYC teens ages 13–19. No experience is necessary, but applications are required. MoMA provides all materials, and each season culminates with selected student work being shown in the MoMA Teen Art Show.

Applications for Summer 2012 In the Making classes are available now!

Apply Online or Download the application in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

Applications are due on Friday, June 1.

Dumpster Diving: Making Art from Found and Scavenged Materials

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 10–August 16, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Some of the most beautiful art in the world has been made from the cheapest, ugliest, and most overlooked materials. Join our group of renegade recyclers and jump into the world of material scavenging and found object accumulation. Members of this class will scour the nooks and crannies of our city streets, hunting for inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, and turning people’s preconceived ideas about art making materials upside-down. Turn a back alley into an art gallery, a mess into a masterpiece, and see if you have what it takes to hunt down creativity wherever it exists.

Crossing the Border: Travel, Exploration, and Movement in Art

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 10–August 16, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Feel like your life is getting too small and self-contained? Are you sick of seeing the same things everyday—running with the same crowd of people and hanging out in the same places again and again? Then get off the couch and get into MoMA where we’ll be traveling throughout New York and investigating artists and art movements that have made the entire world their canvas. This hands-on, art-making course will explore digital photography, mapping, painting, drawing, earthworks, performance, video, and more. How far from home will your artistic practice take you? Sign up, get up, get in, and get out!

Double-Jointed: MoMA's Wood Shop

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 10–August 16, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Cutting, piling, stacking, carving, sawing, splicing, burning, and chopping! Wood is one of the contemporary art world’s most incredible raw substances—it grows, it moves, it ages, it changes, it lives, and, eventually, it dies. Countless artists and designers have tapped into the creative potential of this often undervalued material. Members of this class will gain hands-on experience constructing both sculptural as well as functional objects out of wood, using the tools and techniques of the present and the past to inform their artistic process. No previous experience is necessary, and all skill levels are welcome.

CLICK@MoMA: Robots are People, Too!

Digital Media Classes for Teens

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, July 10–August 16, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Given two dots and a line, the human mind will quickly convert them into a face. :) In fact, people attribute human qualities to non-human objects and phenomena all the time. Working with interactive artist Kacie Kinzer, whose Tweenbot project was featured in MoMA’s recent exhibition Talk To Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, participants will explore electronic artwork and installations with human-like physical characteristics, behaviors, and qualities—using mixed media, digital technologies, and simple circuitry to bring their unique artistic visions to life. Take your relationship with technology to the next level!