Make the Museum matter to your class! Connect with colleagues from across disciplines to explore the resources Phoenix Art Museum offers to the higher education community. Have a delicious snack while you brainstorm with colleagues, take a mini-tour of a current exhibition, and find out about the Lemon Art Research Library in a creative, informal setting. 

Scientific studies show the art of Mindfulness can relieve anxiety, depression, pain, and stress and actually change the way you feel, think, work and play by opening new pathways in the brain. Learn how to focus on the present and live in the moment. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979 by physicist Jon Kabat-Zinn.    To learn more about Hospice of the Valley Mindfulness classes or to register, call (602) 530-6900 or visit hov.org/mindfulness.   Mindfulness Sessions are free and open to the public and occur weekly, rain or shine, at the Dorrance Sculpture Garden. If excessive heat or rain occurs, session will be held inside the Wolfswinkel Education Center.&... (View more)

Calling young artists (ages 5-12) and their caregivers! Investigate an atypical art-making material. Gather inspiration from artist Vik Muniz’s photograph in the Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo exhibition.  Consider shape, form, and space as you create your own “sweet” work of art. Studio seating is limited and RSVP is required. Please contact membership@phxart.org or 602.257.2124 with questions. *Family through Fellow-level Members are welcome. Image: Vik Muniz, The Descent from the Cross (After Caravaggio), 2000. Photograph. Ed. 1/3. Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo Collection, MAM Contemporary Nucleus Acquisition. Photo by Romulo... (View more)

Make It! is a monthly drop-in, family-friendly, hands on art-making activity for all. Each month features a different activity inspired by objects in the Museum’s collection or current exhibitions and collaborations with different local artists to create activities that introduce participants to new materials, perspectives and ways of connecting. Make It! is free and part of #PhxArtFamily and #FreeAfterThree (each Wednesday, general admission is free from 3:00-9:00 p.m.).