Events & Activities
PhxArtKids Days
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.
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.