MUSEUM SCHOOL - 2026 SUMMER ART CAMP
Make the Museum your summer classroom! Art classes for ages 6–14. Class Groups: Ages 6–9, 9–12, and 11–14. Get ready for a summer full of creativity, color, and imagination. Each week brings new projects, new materials, and new ways to explore art inspired by exhibitions and the world around us!
The City of Albuquerque uses a registration system called RecTrac. Create your new account now to save time when registration for classes open. Click the button above and "Create an Account." You'll be set to register all your family members for this semester and the future.
Albuquerque Museum seeks to enhance children's artistic and cultural development through year-round classes and workshops in art and history. Classes for all ages from preschool to seniors are offered at nominal fees so that they are available to all.
- Museum members receive a 10 percent discount
- No multi child discounts available.
- No registration by telephone is accepted.
- Due to food allergies, no eating will be allowed in the classroom.
- If your child needs accommodations to participate in the class, please let us know at least two (2) weeks in advance.
- Refunds are available if requested at least two (2) weeks before the start date of class
Child and Young Adult Classes (ages 6 - 14)
Class registration will be available Monday, April 6, 2026
Low and Slow Creations-AM (ages 11-14)
June 1–5; Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Cruise into creativity as we celebrate Route 66’s centennial! Design lowrider-inspired art, experiment with airbrush techniques, and create neon-style pieces. Together, we will share the stories of Route 66—past, present, and future—right here in Burque. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Landis Pulido
Fee: $125.00
Low and Slow Creations-PM (ages 11-14)
June 1–5; Monday-Friday from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Cruise into creativity as we celebrate Route 66’s centennial! Design lowrider-inspired art, experiment with airbrush techniques, and create neon-style pieces. Together, we will share the stories of Route 66—past, present, and future—right here in Burque. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Landis Pulido
Fee: $125.00
Wear Neon Meets the Road-AM (ages 6-9)
June 8–12; Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Let’s turn art into something you can wear! Using fun materials like sticks, shrink plastic, wire, and leather, students will create wearable pieces and miniature artworks. We’ll also design sun-printed T-shirts and decorate them with neon puffy paint inspired by Albuquerque’s history. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $125.00
Wear Neon Meets the Road-PM (ages 6-9)
June 8–12; Monday-Friday from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Let’s turn art into something you can wear! Using fun materials like sticks, shrink plastic, wire, and leather, students will create wearable pieces and miniature artworks. We’ll also design sun-printed T-shirts and decorate them with neon puffy paint inspired by Albuquerque’s history. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $125.00
Familiar Stories-AM (ages 6-9)
June 22–26; Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Tell your story through art! Create colorful mixed-media landscapes inspired by your favorite places in New Mexico. Then, bring those scenes to life with handmade paper and fabric dolls that represent you and your world. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $125.00
Familiar Stories-PM (ages 6-9)
June 22–26; Monday-Friday from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Tell your story through art! Create colorful mixed-media landscapes inspired by your favorite places in New Mexico. Then, bring those scenes to life with handmade paper and fabric dolls that represent you and your world. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $125.00
The Other Sunrise-AM (ages 11-14)
July 6–10; Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Explore our connection to the Southwest landscape we call home through hands-on creative projects. Design wearable sculptures, experiment with mixed-media painting, and create sun-printed T-shirts inspired by the history of Route 66. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $125.00
The Other Sunrise-PM (ages 11-14)
July 6–10; Monday-Friday from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Explore our connection to the Southwest landscape we call home through hands-on creative projects. Design wearable sculptures, experiment with mixed-media painting, and create sun-printed T-shirts inspired by the history of Route 66. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Harley Kirschner
Fee: $125.00
Land-Based Art-AM (ages 6-9)
July 13–17; Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Let’s take art outside! Take walks, observe the environment, and create using the world around you. Through drawing and painting, you will make art that celebrates the land and our connection to it. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Landis Pulido
Fee: $125.00
Land-Based Art-PM (ages 6-9)
July 13–17; Monday-Friday from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Let’s take art outside! Take walks, observe the environment, and create using the world around you. Through drawing and painting, you will make art that celebrates the land and our connection to it. Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Landis Pulido
Fee: $125.00
People, Places, and Puppets-AM (ages 9-12)
July 20–24; Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
From dragons to robots and magical realms, anything is possible in this class. Create masks, build papier-mâché creatures, and design puppets and the worlds they live in. If you can imagine it, you can make it! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Remy Sinegal
Fee: $125.00
People, Places, and Puppets-PM (ages 9-12)
July 20–24; Monday-Friday from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
From dragons to robots and magical realms, anything is possible in this class. Create masks, build papier-mâché creatures, and design puppets and the worlds they live in. If you can imagine it, you can make it! Limited to 12 students. Instructor: Remy Sinegal
Fee: $125.00
Instructor Bios
Gigi Schroeder Yu, PhD, is an assistant professor in art education in the art department at the University of New Mexico. She has over 20 years of experience teaching art with young children to adults in community settings, museums, and public-school classrooms. The early learning programs of Reggio Emilia, Italy and their deep respect for children's artistic languages inspire her creative work and research. Gigi's work with young children inspires her to see her own artistic practices in new ways.
Harley Kirschner (He/They) is a mixed media artist and lead instructor at the Albuquerque Museum School. When not actively instructing young students, he is passionately delving into his own creative works which toe the line between art nouveau fairy tales, robotic technologies and discarded relics. While he learned various art methods on his own, Kirschner's recent BFA from the University of New Mexico gave him a deeper understanding of how to navigate the artworld as well as how to create works he could previously only imagine.
Landis Pulido is an artist, educator, and healing justice practitioner who believes in co-creating a learning environment which strives to meet each community member where they are. Through the lens of Popular Education, she works towards co-creating an inclusive and safe environment. She believes in bringing in the breath, movement and healing into the arts and creative space to invite wholeness and imagination.
Michelle (Shelly) Korte is a multimedia artist-painting, drawing, sculpting, collaging, writing, printmaking, and performing. She is fascinated by the ways in which ecology, industry and ceremony intersect - defining the role of humans as animals, consumers, and healers. As a curious traveler and investigator, Shelly has taught and shown her work around the world for over 20 years. As an educator, she also allows art to be a conduit of self-inquiry, expression, and problem solving. She has lived in the Manzano Mountains of Tijeras, NM with her young son since 2014 where she has been growing a creative, communal arts and healing space.
Remy Sinegal was born in California, coming to the University of New Mexico for college where she received a Bachelors in Art with a minor in Medieval Studies. She is a poet and illustrator, using a variety of media such as pencils, paints, pastels, sculpture and digital media. History both true and fictional inspire the themes of her work. Inspired by multicultural mythology, folklore, as well as modern influences like animated media, wildlife and how everyone's personal experiences shape the world around them. Believing that there is magic in embracing the mundanity of life she tries to create something exceptional and fun every time she picks up a pencil. The art of storytelling to pass on cultural superstitions inspires her to write, and illustrate her own fantastical tales, which she hopes to bring to life one day through graphic novels or animation.
Teen Corner | Ages Up To 17 | Free
Get Inspired. Get Creative.
Make art anywhere at any time! Teen Corner is a resource for teen artists offered by Albuquerque Museum. Expand your art making abilities or try something entirely new. Browse video lessons that explore a variety of techniques, artist designed color pages, and creative exercises to keep your mind active.
Details subject to change.