Explore the art of portraiture with our animal friends as the main subject. Experiment with a variety of mixed media materials to capture the perfect artistic style of your favorite animal.
Tag: art
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Art Studio: Mixed Media Exploration
Experiment with classic studio arts materials such as watercolors, sketch pencils, charcoal, and ink. What will you discover on your mixed media exploration?
Pizza + Phone Photography (6th-8th graders)
Join us for a parent-free photography workshop and pizza party at MuseumLab with guest artist Lindsey Palmer!
- Learn to take amazing photos with your phone or tablet
- BYO device to use during the workshop! We will have a few tablets available to borrow.
- Bring a palm-sized object to photograph
- Try out built-in photo editing tools
- Pizza and soda included
Pizza + Phone Photography event is for 6th-8th graders (or equivalent ages) only.
Tickets are $10
Free for mlabPASS holders. Learn more about mlabPASS here.
Pizza + Mini Mosaics with Guest Artist Sarah Cohen (6th-8th graders)
Join us for a parent-free mini mosaic workshop at MuseumLab with guest artist Sarah Cohen!
Thursday, August 14
- Learn mosaic design and techniques
- Create your very own 6×6” mosaic
- Pizza and soda included
Pizza + Mini Mosaics event is for 6th-8th graders (or equivalent ages) only.
Tickets are $10
Free for mlabPASS holders. Learn more about mlabPASS here.
Pizza + Woodburning and Laser Engraving (6th-8th graders)
Join us for a parent-free woodburning and laser engraving workshop and pizza party at MuseumLab!
- Try your hand at surface design on various types of wood using our woodburning tools
- Test out our GlowForge to laser engrave designs on wood
- Pizza and soda included
Pizza + Woodburning and laser engraving event is for 6th-8th graders (or equivalent ages) only.
Tickets are $10
Free for mlabPASS holders. Learn more about mlabPASS here.
Pizza + Wire Wearables (6th-8th graders)
Join us for a parent-free workshop and pizza party at MuseumLab!
- Create wearable accessories from brass and copper wire
- Learn to use metalworking tools like pliers, mandrels, and texture hammers
- Pizza and soda included
Pizza + Wire Wearables event is for 6th-8th graders (or equivalent ages) only.
Tickets are $10
Free for mlabPASS holders. Learn more about mlabPASS here.
Make Lab: Wet Enameling – Ages 9+
Paint with liquid enamels to create a fused glass-and-metal design that can be used as a magnet or pin.
This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 9+.
Made possible with generous support from Arconic Foundation.
Make Lab: Wet Enameling – Ages 9+
Paint with liquid enamels to create a fused glass-and-metal design that can be used as a magnet or pin.
This activity takes place in the Children’s Museum’s neighboring building MuseumLab and is designed for visitors ages 9+.
Made possible with generous support from Arconic Foundation.
Recycle Fest
In honor of Earth Month, join us for a campus-wide recycling festival!
Aluminum Can Drive
Help us get more aluminum recycled in our community by donating empty aluminum cans to our drive. All donors receive one free admission per family of four, good for admission on April 5, 2025.
Aluminum cans are 100% recyclable and when recycled, the metal in an aluminum can will be back on store shelves in just 60 days.
AT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
10:00 am – Noon
- Performance and game show hosted by O’Ryan the O’Mazing
- Learn about sustainability from these local environmental organizations:
- Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
- PGH20
- Rewind Reuse
- PittMoss
- Pennsylvania Resources Council
- City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Environmental Services
Noon – 4:00 pm
- Recycled scavenger hunt
- Papermaking with Katy Dement
- Transforming plastic with Reimagined Recycling
- Glass mosaic-making with Sarah Cohen
AT MUSEUMLAB
1:00 – 4:00 pm
- Recycled dioramas with Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
- Art making with Tough Artist Kelly Jimenez of La Vispera
- Clothing upcycling with The Andy Warhol Museum
- Tote bag upcycling with Rona Chang of Otto Finn
- Eco-Artisans & Maker Market featuring local sustainable vendors, including:
- China Jones Art
- Jess Peña Heberle
- Cathy Olivar Brand
- Homegrown 1910
- Henna by Soni
- True North Creations
- Reading Room Pittsburg
- Emily Krill Studio
- Charmed by Nature
- Art House Mosaic
- Tabulous
- SusanMcclellanArt
- Les Is More 894
- Colorcopia Studio
All activities are included with museum admission.
This event is generously supported by the Ball Foundation and PPG Foundation.
Youth Night: Vacation Mode (6th-8th graders)
Get ready for summer break by shifting into vacation mode at MuseumLab!
Enjoy picnic-themed snacks and drinks, and try your hand at some of these classic and digital summer camp activities:
- Sticker making with Cricut digital cutting machine
- Wood burning
- Laser etching aluminum tags
- Game room
- and more!
This is a parent-free evening for youth in grades 6–8 (or equivalent ages).
Tickets: $7
Free for mlabPASS holders! Learn more here.
Buy tickets here
Youth Night at MuseumLab is generously supported by Arconic Foundation.
This event is part of Remake Learning Days Southwestern PA 2025, #RemakeLearningDaysSWPA. Learn more at https://remakelearningdays.org/.
FREE Youth Night: Spring Carnival!
Celebrate spring at MuseumLab! Get ready for warm-weather fun at this event exclusively for middle school youth.
- Build your own laser-cut planter to sprout seeds at home
- Create a marbled baseball
- Play carnival games and win prizes
- Try flower pounding to decorate a bandana
- Enjoy seasonal snacks
Presented in conjunction with Remake Learning Days.
This is a parent-free evening for youth in grades 6–8 (or equivalent ages); youth may be dropped off.
Tickets:
FREE for everyone! Please register below.
I AM WILD: A Charley Harper Exhibit Opening Weekend
Join us for the opening day of our new exhibit, I AM WILD: A Charley Harper Exhibit, where you can explore six habitats filled with the colorful animals, insects and birds inspired by the artwork of Charley Harper and the ‘I Am Wild’ series of children’s books about biodiversity.
opening weekend activities
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25
Enjoy music and stories by double bass soloist Barry Green about the animals in Charley Harper’s artwork.
11:30 am & 12:30 pm
Learn about animals through their tracks, fur, feathers and scales. Stop by to earn a Charley Harper Habitat Badge!
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26
Have some live animal encounters with our friends from Living Treasures Animal Park and learn how the animals relate to Charley Harper’s art.
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
I Am Wild: A Charley Harper Exhibit was created by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in partnership with Charley Harper Art Studio.
The exhibit was made possible by generous support from PPG, Wild Birds Unlimited, Flyspace and Dentons, Cohen & Grigsby.