Teens

Scholastic Art Awards-Wisconsin Regional Competition
The Scholastic Art Awards-Wisconsin Regional recognizes and encourages excellence in the visual arts across the state. It features outstanding works by students in grades 7–12. (more)

ArtXpress
ArtXpress brings together a diverse group of Milwaukee teens to create a public work of art to address issues in the community in a positive way. This four-week paid summer internship culminates with a mural that is exhibited on the side of a Milwaukee County Transit System bus for a year following completion. (more)

ARTWORKS
This paid after-school winter internship program in collaboration with the YMCA and Milwaukee Public Schools features a two-tiered "teach to learn" program. On the first level, 15-18 year old artist-interns work with professional artists to learn techniques and create a public work of art. Once they have begun their projects, the artist-interns introduce their projects and the Museum to elementary-age children from the YMCA. (more)

High School Internships
The Milwaukee Art Museum invites arts-interested teens to apply for a paid summer internship. Six students will be chosen to work behind the scenes at the Museum in a department that best fits their interests and experience, and participate as a group in weekly seminars that focus on the inner workings of a museum, the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and careers in the arts. (more)

Satellite High School Program
Using the Museum's Collection, the Satellite High School Program: A Concise History of Western Art is a brisk and succinct survey of Western art, from antiquities to conceptual art. Through engaging discussions led by Museum staff, the story of Western art unfolds in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context. (more)

Milwaukee Art Museum Teen Programs…a path to achievement in the arts!! Read about alumni of the Milwaukee Art Museum Satellite High School Program who are succeeding as working artists, educators, entrepreneurs, designers, and (more)

Milwaukee Art Museum teen programs are supported by the Palmer Foundation, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Mayor Barrett’s Summer Youth Internship Program, the City of Milwaukee Arts Board, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and Milwaukee Public Schools Partnership for the Arts.

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