Teen Programs
Spring 2025
Art Institute of Chicago
Upcoming Programs
Located in the Ryan Learning Center
Teen Studio Workshop
Saturday, March 1st, April 5th, and May 3rd 1:00pm-3:00pm
Join us on select Saturdays from 1:00–3:30 for a series of free workshops created just for teens,
inspired by our latest exhibitions and hosted in collaboration with Chicago teaching artists.
This program includes a visit to the galleries and requires registration on our website.
Teen Open Studio
Ryan Learning Center, Studio B
We’re hosting monthly open studio hours for high school students on Chicago Public School nonattendance days to co-create a communal place that is not home or school, but a youth-centered third space. Explore the museum, make art, eat snacks, and hang out with fellow teen creatives!
All materials will be provided, and no prior experience is necessary.
Teen Open Studio: Print Your Fit
Monday, March 24th 11:00am-3:00pm
Get inspired by the artworks on display in Project a Black Planet: The Culture of Panafrica and design your own T-shirt with fellow teens. Experiment with block printing, screen printing, and fabric paint to express who you are through wearable patterns and images.
Teen Open Studio: Beading Meaning
Friday, April 18th 11:00am-3:00pm
Inspired by works in our Arts of the Americas collection, explore jewelry making as a form of cultural expression with your fellow teens. Style a variety of beads and metals into bracelets, necklaces, earrings, phone charms you can wear.
Teen Open Studio: Larger Than Life
Monday, May 26th 11:00am-3:00pm
Collaborate with your fellow teens and create larger-than-life sculptures using cardboard construction and paper-mache techniques, transforming ordinary materials into fantastical objects.

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Programs
Teen Program RISE
Saturdays from 10:00am-2:00pm
February 1st, 2025 -May 3rd, 2025
9th to 11th youth will do hands-on group activities, meet STEM professionals, learn presentation and career-based skills. Participants will each build on skills and learn something new by self-assigning into a museum “department” that will be responsible for a unique role in the exhibit development—including areas like marketing, facilitation and artifact collections. This program is free.
Spring Break Session
Monday, March 24th – Friday, March 28th 10:00am-3:00pm
For Questions Email: monique.turner@msichicago.org or savion.willis@msichicago.org

National Museum of Mexican Art
National Museum of Mexican Art
Yollocalli Arts Reach
yo∙llo∙call∙i (yō-lō-KÄ-lee) : from the Aztec language, Nahuatl : yolotl (heart) + kalli (house)
Yollocalli Arts Reach is the award-winning youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art, we offer FREE arts and culture programming to teens and young adults.
Located in the heart of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, we serve as an open community center with studio spaces, a computer lab, radio production studio, a large art library, and a creative, supportive staff who are always around to help, encourage, and inspire. We aim to strengthen the students’ creative and cultural capital by engaging them with their own cultural discourses through art making.
Every program and special event offered by Yollocalli is free of charge; This is only possible with help from you.