Category Archives: Teens

School Outreach: Pounding the Pavement

The school year has begun, and the Rubin’s School Programs and Teen Programs teams are pounding the pavement, visiting neighborhood schools to distribute flyers and share resources with local teachers. We’ve got a free Educators’ Open House on Wednesday, October … Continue reading

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a haiku for summer

summer partnership with english language learners create, discuss art

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On Becoming NYC Pilgrims

We’ve got a fantastic Pilgrimage and Faith exhibition up this summer and teen programming is celebrating by presenting all pilgrimage-themed workshops! Students in the Transformative Treks Teen Art Lab create works of art in response to the theme of pilgrimage … Continue reading

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Introducing the Education Center at the Rubin Museum

Designed by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, this new two-floor, five-thousand-square-foot space includes an art studio, commons room, seminar room, and display space for student art and the museum’s study collection. The design supports and enhances the educational … Continue reading

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Thresholds

Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th’ Almighty Maker … Continue reading

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Hindu Stories Revisited

One of our greatest treasures at the Rubin Museum of Art is a collection of stories about the art that we often use during tours.  Stories such as the Hindu tales of how Ganesh got his Elephant Head, the warrior … Continue reading

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What to emphasize when training teens to give tours at the museum?

This year, we’re really excited to have 17 enthusiastic, talented high school students from last year’s RMA Teens Program back for a second year in our new Teen Guide Council Program. One of their main responsibilities this year will be … Continue reading

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