What Can You Do with Kids at the Getty Center?
Visit the giant bug, create a scavenger hunt on the fly, and help yourself to the giant rolling lawn.
View Article7 Educator-Approved Ways to Play with Art
Energize your next museum visit with charades, sketching, and lots of imagination.
View ArticleLearn, Make, Sing, and Dance this Summer at the Getty
June gloom. Photos of five-year-olds in graduation caps popping up on Facebook. Warnings from the DWP about potential brown-outs. Ah, the signs of summer in the City of Angels! It’s time to plan how to...
View ArticleExhibition on Ancient Buddhist Caves Inspires Storytelling by Cornelia Funke
For the third year in a row, award-winning children’s fantasy author Cornelia Funke joined us at the Getty Center for a storytelling event continuing the adventure of the ghost of real-life pirate...
View ArticleCommunal Art Project Remakes the Flower Still Life
Kids and adults work together to create giant still lifes teeming with flowers, fruit, and insects.
View ArticleWhat Was Your First Memorable Experience at a Museum?
What was your first amazing moment at a museum?
View ArticleHow to Turn Papyrus into Paper
Making paper from papyrus today gives us a way of understanding the ancient world, said Chelsea Hogan, a Getty public programs specialist. She was preparing the plant for an upcoming workshop on the...
View ArticleDrawing With Kids: 5 Ideas to Stay Creative With a Pencil and a Piece of Paper
English sculptor Henry Moore once said: “Drawing, even for people who cannot draw, even for people not trying to produce a good drawing, makes you look more intensely.” The practice of drawing can help...
View ArticlePhotography Fundamentals for the Creative Teenager
Anyone who has been a teenager or raised one knows that self-expression is core to creative development. For families looking for outlets for their stuck-at-home teen, Getty’s Unshuttered tutorials...
View ArticleHow to Make a Getty-Inspired Bouquet for Mother’s Day
If you look closely at this still life of flowers in a basket, you’ll notice a dragonfly, a bee, and butterflies. The insects, like the petals, are still. It’s as if the artist captured the “most...
View ArticleWhat If… A Lesson in Creativity from a Los Angeles Art Teacher
What if cats could fly? If frogs ate rainbows? If dreams were visible? These are just a few of the imaginative scenarios dreamed up by Sarah Perry, author and illustrator of Getty’s first children’s...
View ArticleRediscovering Black Portraiture through the Getty Museum Challenge
As COVID-19 closed in on the United Kingdom in mid-March, opera singer and BBC broadcaster Peter Brathwaite was abruptly left with time he didn’t want: all of his upcoming performances were canceled...
View ArticleDIY Crowns Inspired by Renaissance Manuscripts
Made from gold, silver, or other metal bands and embellished with gems or jewels, crowns are among the most prevalent symbols of royal or saintly status. In the illumination below, King Louis XII of...
View ArticleZoom with Odysseus, Zeus and Other Mythological Stars
Stay-at-home orders or not, nothing can stop the Troubies from giving us some much-needed comedy. The Getty Villa will premiere its first virtual theater presentation of The ODDyssey on Sunday, July...
View ArticleActivities to Spark Creativity, Joy, and Imagination this Summer
Your summer plans are likely in a bit of disarray due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Camps have closed, air travel is on hold, playdates are canceled, but kids still need something to do. We’ve rounded up...
View ArticleHow to Use Your Phone to Virtually Display Art
e To fully appreciate an artwork’s splendor, and all the painstaking details the artist incorporated into it, you need to get up close and personal. Face-to-face with a work of art, you can examine the...
View ArticleThe Enduring Stories of Homer’s Odyssey
The Homeric epics, which tell stories of war, heroism, and coming home, have endured for perhaps 3,500 years. From their start as performances by oral poets to the books we read today, the tales have...
View ArticleGetty Brings Art Education into the Virtual Classroom
If your K-12 class can’t come to the Getty this year, the Getty will come to you. Following the success of a virtual pilot program this summer with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and...
View ArticleAmplifier and Getty Partner to Inspire Teens through Art
The Getty Museum and nonprofit design lab, Amplifier, have partnered to host an open call for art for students ages 13-19 around the theme of “In Pursuit of ____”. Teens are invited to answer the...
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