Summer Kids 2009
Workshops for Ages 6-14
Register Now--Workshops Still Available
Jun 22 - Aug 14
Wexner Center for the Arts
All kinds of creative kids and tweens and teens--including those who've never thought of themselves as "artists"--will enjoy these weeklong (Monday-Friday), half-day workshops at the Wex.
Just Photoshop
Registration Open
Jul 6 - Jul 10
Wexner Center for the Arts
Concentrate on Photoshop all week long to really hone your skills, and take your manipulated digital photographs and sassy design efforts to the next level.
Environmental
Registration Open
Jul 6 - Jul 10
Wexner Center for the Arts
Do you prefer to run with the wind, feel the earth under your feet, and see the change of weather up close and personal?
Contemporary Self-Portrait Photography
This workshop is now full.
Jul 13 - Jul 17
Wexner Center for the Arts
Explore identity and the self-portrait through costumes, sets, and metaphors to try to catch a glimpse of who we each truly are. (This workshop is full. Check out the other courses listed at right or follow the registration directions below to join the waitlist.)
Graphic Novels and Comics
The workshop is now full.
Jul 13 - Jul 17
Wexner Center for the Arts
Research the history of comics and learn all the techniques, details, and processes you need to make your own.
| APR 4 - JUL 25 | Saturday Walk-in Tours | EXHIBITION-RELATED EVENTS |
| APR 9 - JUL 23 | Thursday Walk-in Tours | EXHIBITION-RELATED EVENTS |
| JUN 22 - AUG 14 | Summer Kids 2009 Workshops for Ages 6-14 | FOR KIDS & FAMILIES |
| JUL 6 - JUL 10 | Just Photoshop | FOR TEENS |
| JUL 6 - JUL 10 | Environmental | FOR TEENS |
| JUL 13 - JUL 17 | Contemporary Self-Portrait Photography | FOR TEENS |
| JUL 13 - JUL 17 | Graphic Novels and Comics | FOR TEENS |
| JUL 20 - JUL 24 | Architecture and New Thinking: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU | FOR TEENS |
| JUL 20 - JUL 24 | Documenting Your Extreme Life | FOR TEENS |
| AUG 3 - AUG 14 | Make Video Games: Advanced | FOR TEENS |
Subscribe to the Learn CalendarPrograms for Schools
Expand Your Classroom!
Let the Wexner Center help you expand your classroom to encompass our galleries, stages, and screens, along with all the connections the contemporary arts can offer. Our programs emphasize active looking and learning and can complement your curriculum in language arts, social studies, science, foreign languages, math, or history--as well as in the arts. School programs help students at all K–12 grade levels work toward key academic content standards by encouraging the development of critical-thinking and comprehension skills.Check this page for current and upcoming events for schools. Read more about all our school programs on the Additional School Programs and Resources page.
School Tours
School tours feature highlights of the Wexner Center's exhibitions and architecture. Tour content is always age appropriate and can be customized to enhance your classroom curriculum. Find all the details on the Tours page.Pages: Art and Literacy
High School students participating in the Pages program visit the Wexner Center at least three times during the school year, experience visual arts, performing arts, and film projects, and develop their own responses in poetry, prose, and art work. Find out more about the program on the Pages blog.Art & Environment
High school students from all over central Ohio spent winter and spring 2009 exploring art and environmental issues as part of the half-year Art & Enviroment course at the Wexner Center. See the artwork they created in a Flickr photo album from their exhibition, titled Interventions and held in the center's Performance Space May 28–June 2.Additional Resources for Teachers
Click here for resources that can help you enrich your students’ visit to the Wexner Center.
Free for Your School!
All Wexner Center school programs are free for student participants and accompanying teachers and chaperones. We also have two special programs to help make your visit to center possible and affordable for your school.
Bus Subsidies
Bus subsidies for travel to any Wexner Center program are available to schools that can demonstrate the need for such assistance. Documentation is required. Click here to download an bus subsidy application.
Substitute Teacher Subsidies
Subsidies for subsititute teachers to cover classes for instructors on field trips to the Wexner Center are also available to schools that can demonstrate the need for such assistance. Documentation is required.
Call (614) 292-6493 or e-mail edweb@wexarts.org for more information.
Bus Subsidies
Bus subsidies for travel to any Wexner Center program are available to schools that can demonstrate the need for such assistance. Documentation is required. Click here to download an bus subsidy application.
Substitute Teacher Subsidies
Subsidies for subsititute teachers to cover classes for instructors on field trips to the Wexner Center are also available to schools that can demonstrate the need for such assistance. Documentation is required.
Call (614) 292-6493 or e-mail edweb@wexarts.org for more information.
Invite a Wexner center educator to come speak with your school!
Do you or your school’s faculty and staff want to learn more about our education programs? Members of the Education Department can be available almost any day of the week to come right to your school and deliver a short presentation on our programming and ways your school can be involved in the Wexner Center! Call (614) 292-6493 or email edweb@wexarts.org to arrange a special visit.
CONTACT
Please call the education info line at (614) 292-6493, or send an e-mail to edweb@wexarts.org, for more information, to receive a printed brochure with programs for teachers and school groups, or to join our mailing list.
SUPPORT FOR SCHOOL AND TEACHER PROGRAMS
MAJOR SEASON SUPPORT
FOR EDUCATION
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SUPPORT FOR SCHOOL AND
TEACHER PROGRAMS
Ingram-White Castle Foundation
Puffin Foundation
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
Harry C. Moores Foundaion
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR
THE WEXNER CENTER
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
