educational programs

TAG (Teen Art Group)

Mondays, September-June, 2009

3:45 - 5 p.m.

TAG is a year-round program comprised of teens from throughout the Coachella Valley. The goal of TAG is for teens to be truly involved in art activities and active participants at the museum. Members help create and design teen workshops and programs, create an altar installation as part of the museum’s Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead celebration, plan the annual Teen Meet the Museum event, engage in special artistic opportunities and explore their intellectual and creative potentials.

TAG On the Go!

On February 8, TAG took a field trip to the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens to explore The Last Full Measure of Devotion: Collecting Abraham Lincoln exhibition and the various gardens. After a picnic lunch, they went to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles for a behind the scenes tour of Dan Graham: Beyond and participated in an art project led by the Teens of Contemporary Art. This trip gave TAG a chance to visit different types of museums, meet other creative teens and learn how to curate an exhibition for their upcoming Teens Inspire(d) show.

FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION, THE JEANETTE C. MCINTYRE AND FREDERICK (LASH) MCINTYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST AND THE COETA AND DONALD BARKER FOUNDATION.

Teens Inspire(d)

TAG (Teen Art Group) Exhibition

March 20 - April 19, 2009
Zone 101 in the Hoover Gallery

TAG's exhibition features eight artworks that were purchased from the Fine Arts Creativity Awards and Scholarship program over the past eighteen years and eight artworks that TAG members were inspired to create in reaction. Working independently and in collaboration, the teens created work in both visual form and written word.

TAG Members:

Maddy Castellion, Home School
Crystal Thorne, College of the Desert
Views of Age, Pencil on paper, acrylic and marker on canvas

Cristine Westerhoff, Palm Desert High School
Reaching Heaven, Acrylic on clay

Darius Zarenejad, Home School
Greedy Hands, Acrylic, paper-mâché, and dollar bill on canvas

Leah Oakes, Cathedral City High School
Renaissance, Digital photograph

Taylor Powell , Palm Springs High School
Faces of Evil, Digital photograph and acrylic on canvas

Nora Hammond, Palm Springs High School
Untitled, Paper-mâché, plaster, spray paint

Will Kain, TAG Member

FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION AND THE JEANETTE C. MCINTYRE AND FREDERICK (LASH) MCINTYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST AND THE COETA AND DONALD BARKER FOUNDATION.