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Available Mondays, Thusdays, and Fridays at 10:30, June 27-August 5, 2022 Summer guided tours for youth and family groups are lively and fun experiences in the museum’s galleries, led by an amazing team of college and graduate student interns. These educators design tours around works of art that stimulate inquiry, exploration, and creative response.

Available Monday, Thursdays, and Fridays at 10:30, June 27-August 5, 2022 This two-hour experience pairs a guided museum visit with a hands-on studio activity. Summer guided tours for youth and family groups are lively and fun experiences in the museum’s galleries, led by an amazing team of college and graduate student interns. These educators design tours around works of art that stimulate inquiry, exploration, and creative response. After the gallery tour, your group will head to a studio to dive into open-ended artmaking.

This two-hour experience pairs a guided museum visit with a hands-on studio activity. Summer guided tours for youth and family groups are lively and fun experiences in the museum’s galleries, led by an amazing team of college and graduate student interns. These educators design tours around works of art that stimulate inquiry, exploration, and creative response. After the gallery tour, your group will head to a studio to dive into open-ended artmaking.

(This virtual experience is currently exclusively available to Chicago Public Schools and Big Shoulders Fund Schools.) This tour is tailored to meet the social-emotional needs of students in inclusive, integrated co-teaching (ICT), or self-contained classrooms. We are able to use the virtual platform to support multi-sensory explorations for students with sensory processing disorders as well as verbal description tours for students who are blind or have low vision. This program is available to transition programs serving young adults aged 18-22. When registering for your program, please select “grade 12” and write in the notes section that yours is a transition program group. *CAPTIONING is available through Google Meet. CAPACITY: 30 Students. TIME: This 45 minute program starts on the hour.

(This virtual experience is currently exclusively available to Chicago Public Schools and Big Shoulders Fund Schools.) Discover how art across time and cultures has promoted change by surfacing issues, communicating perspectives, and posing questions. Learners will explore the choices artists have made to activate audiences and consider how their own art and voice can have an impact. *CAPTIONING is available through Google Meet. CAPACITY: 30 Students. TIME: This 45 minute program starts on the hour.

(This virtual experience is currently exclusively available to Chicago Public Schools and Big Shoulders Fund Schools.) Explore objects from across the museum’s vast collection, highlighting how artists transmit and respond to their own culture through their work. Students will engage with artworks that reflect various worldviews and perspectives and consider their own sense of self and place in the world. *CAPTIONING is available through Google Meet. CAPACITY: 30 Students. TIME: This 45 minute program starts on the hour.