HiArt!557

These wonderful classes alternate between an exploration of painting, sculpture, and installations at museums and galleries around town, and then "playing" with those same concepts in a spacious studio setting. Classes are small, consisting of nine to 13 kids and their parents or caregivers.

Each HiArt! semester focuses on one contemporary musical masterpiece and the music is integrated into the art, with a little dance and improvisation incorporated as a means of digesting the lesson with gusto. Students visit New York's major galleries and museums one week, with hands-on art, music, and movement the next.

The Culture Bugs Mini Camp program combines an ongoing exploration of painting, sculpture, and installations at NYC museums with in-studio sessions of opera, dance, film, and theater. The program is offered three days a week, Tue-Thu, with both half and whole days options available. Special workshops for older kids run every afternoon during the camp day for the entire summer.

Younger children (ages three through pre-K) come with an adult partner; older children (K-8th grade) are welcome to come on their own. Adult partners participate fully in the program - singing, dancing, gluing, designing, hopping - whatever children do, adults do as well.

HiArt! is also home to the Time In Children's Arts Initiative, a non-profit project committed to the idea that young children grow not from time-outs in under-served classrooms, but from "time-in" the world around them.