The After School program at the Mattress Factory has been
awesome this season!
Pittsburgh-based artist Celeste Neuhaus designs projects and
activities for the stellar kids enrolled in the fall session, entitled SPACE
EXPLORATION. All of the activities center around the museum’s current
exhibitions and permanent installations. Each week there is a new exhibit and
idea to explore, always focusing on mind how we experience the space around us.
Each week when the After School students visit the museum they
are considering what installation art is and how different artists use space.
Each day in After School follows a pattern. The students arrive
and sit down for snacks and homework time together before visiting a new
exhibit, discussing the work, and then making works of our own inspired by the
installation. The students have been exploring the museum, thinking critically
about the work, and translating ideas into their own installation-inspired art
each week--it has been a blast!
Students have had a great time visiting a different exhibit
each week. So far they have made up stories about who might live in RyderHenry’s fantastical city, created their own Yayoi Kusama inspired polka dot installations,
and even had a sit-down discussion with the artist Danny Bracken after
experiencing the double rainbow in his installation What Does It Mean?
As this session is drawing to an end, the kids are getting more
and more excited about the Celebration held the last day of the fall session, the
students invite their friends and family into the museum to see all the amazing
art they have been working on and the installations they have been seeing and
interacting with each week.
It is sad to see the term ending but we know we will have an
amazing adventure with After School in the Winter and Spring of next year!
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