Events & Activities

PhxArtKids Days

In addition to daily fun and stimulating offerings for every age, we invite children ages 5 - 12 and their adult companions to these participatory art experiences related to special exhibitions or the Museum's collection.

PhxArtKids Days are included with general admission or free for Museum Members. On PhxArtKids Days, kids eat free at Palette at Phoenix Art Museum with every adult entrée purchased! Additional kids meals (for children 12 and under) are only $3.

Walkabout January 29, Noon - 4pm From hands-on, kid-friendly activities to samples of traditional dishes and a dazzling array of entertainers, Walkabout offers the whole family an amazing cultural experience! Walkabout is an exciting celebration of local traditions, national customs and global cultures that showcases the Museum's international collection of art. Inside the Museum, visitors enjoy live performances by storytellers, artists and musicians that reflect the works on view. Outside, the Valley's most diverse performers and the Museum's new Palette restaurant present the sights, sounds and smells of several continents! Schedule of events coming soon, please stay tuned. Museum Members Only - The Museum, events and activities will open and begin at 11am for Members. Events and activities open 12-4pm for the general public. All Walkabout performances and activities are included with Museum general admission, which is $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens (65+), $10 for full-time college students with ID, $6 for children ages 6-17 and free for children under 6. Free for Museum Members.

Happy Birthday Arizona! February 19, Noon - 3pm Celebrate Arizona's 100th birthday with performances by the Great Arizona Puppet Theater, engaging family tours, looking activities and creative art-making about our great state of Arizona!

PhxArtKids Gallery

Activities and artworks guaranteed to inspire creativity, build skills and encourage thinking!

Step into the Museum and into the open air as PhxArtKids celebrates the Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre, the open-air painting schools of Mexico, with activities and artworks guaranteed to inspire creativity, build skills and encourage thinking. The gallery showcases paintings from its collection created by children who participated in art education programs in Mexico in the early 20th century. Professional artists of the era, including Alfredo Ramos Martinez and others represented in our Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection exhibition, saw the importance of providing access to the arts where children lived – in their own neighborhoods and parks, as well as in their schools. They encouraged students to draw what they saw and what they knew from their history – Mexican subjects, colors, patterns. Gallery activities mirror the philosophies and methods of these schools. Young children can learn to recognize and sequence patterns in artworks and develop fine motor skills as they trace designs. Older children begin to combine patterns to generate full compositions. Using these skills, everyone can create drawings of their world, just as children did in Tlalpam, Mexico City and Xochimilco 100 years ago.

Visit our interactive website just for kids at phxartkids.org.

KidPacks

Children ages 6 to 10 and their adult companions will enjoy exploring the Museum with this child-size backpack full of activity cards, puzzles, looking activities and other creative challenges that correspond to art in the Museum's collection. KidPacks can be checked out for free in the lobby; a limited number of KidPacks are available.