Teen Art Project (TAP) FALL 2024
October 10 - December 12 2024
Start Time: 3:00 PM
End Time: 5:30 PM
Thursdays, arrive as early as 2:30, if needed! Registration open!
Make art with a professional artist at MAM!
October 10-December 12 (no TAP on October 17 and November 28)
FREE Program, FREE Materials, FREE Pizza!
Calling all middle and high school students! Make art with a professional artist, Patricia Garcia, on Thursdays after school at MAM. Learn different art techniques such as drawing, mixed media, hand-building with clay, and more. View contemporary art in the galleries at MAM to inspire new ideas and new ways to create. All are welcome! Register by emailing cam@missoulaartmuseum.org.
See what teens made during Summer TAP 2021, 2022, and 2023:
Patricia Garcia
Garcia grew up in the desert bordering Arizona and Mexico. When she found herself in a college ceramics class she discovered the generosity fostered in arts communities. Her enthusiasm for clay now fuels her own community work. Garcia started her work as a teaching artist while earning her Bachelors of Fine Arts at Western New Mexico University and has extensive experience teaching wheel-throwing, hand-building, and tile and mosaic mural creation. Garcia has worked on public art works with youth and larger communities from Arizona to New Mexico to Montana to Mexico. In Missoula, Garcia has served in an artist residency at Wildfire Ceramic Studio and completed a two-year Post-Baccalaureate Program at University of Montana.
Garcia is active in community arts and teaching ceramics, and makes sculptures in her home studio to encapsulate quietness and contemplation.