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Enjoy your time off from school with a creative, hands-on art experience. During February and April vacation weeks, workshops are offered daily, Tuesday-Friday. Vacation week workshops, for ages 3-17, are generally 2-4 hours in length and combine a gallery visit with studio art activity. All materials are included. Workshops are very popular and fill quickly.
Stay all day by adding Lunch & Extended Day
Extended Day: Constructive, instructor-led activities are available for youth ages 5-13 during the February Fun and April Art Break programs. The Extended Day program is offered mornings, 8:30-10 a.m. and afternoons, 2:30-5:15 p.m. Students must be currently registered in a vacation week workshop to participate.
The Worcester Art Museum provides year-round occasions to learn about and celebrate the arts through creative classes and workshops for all ages and abilities, interpretation in the galleries, art making experiences in the studios, family-oriented activities and performances, and special lectures and tours.
Opened in 1970, the Higgins Education Wing accommodates the creative activities of over 7,000 students annually with studios including professional sculpture, photography, printmaking and computer labs and exhibition space.
Classes and programs run the gamut from traditional studio courses and tours, to creative writing classes and interdisciplinary instruction. Youth, Teen and Adult sessions offered fall, winter/spring and summer, Youth/Teen vacation week workshops in December, February and April, Adult intensive art institute's, teacher institutes and a unique Travel Learning program. Graduate and undergraduate credit and professional development points available. The Worcester Art Museum offers one of the largest art class scholarship programs in the country.
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Program Support
Education programs at the Worcester Art Museum are supported by membership and annual fund donations and by the George I. Alden Trust, Butler Family Foundation, the David J. Freelander Memorial Scholarship Fund, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation, the Nathan and Barbara Greenberg Fund for Education, Robert and Amelia Hutchinson Haley Lectures Fund, the Jacob and Frances L. Hiatt Scholarship Fund, the Hoche-Scofield Foundation, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, the Paine Charitable Trust, the Norman and Dorothy Sharfman Education Fund, the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, the Sudbury Foundation Scholarship Fund, the Isabel B. Carleton Education Fund and the Sally Riley Bishop Education Fund among other endowment funds.
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