Pre-School

Field Trips

Customized Group Programs

Traveling Programs

Book a field trip or classroom visit with the Mystic Arts Center and inspire your students' creativity and personal expression! Programs include:

• unique hands-on educational experiences in the arts
• in-studio projects
• facilitated gallery discussions
• curriculum-based activities and projects

ART START - Grades Pre-K, K

Children join Mystic Arts Center staff for an artful adventure of stories, hands-on activities, and playful discovery in our galleries. Artworks are explored through the creative windows of storytelling, movement, and imaginative play. Duration: 1 hour.

Fee: $5 per student; $50 minimum

FIELD TRIPS - Grades 1 - 12

Field Trips involve discussions in MAC's galleries and may include a related studio project. Program Fee: $7 per student; $100 minimum.

Writing with Artworks

Students exercise verbal, oral presentation, and writing skills using artwork as a catalyst. Writing activities are included in the gallery while the studio art project focuses on the idea of the written word and language.

Grades 3 and up: 2 hour program

Grades 1 - 2: 1.5 hour program

Exhibition Focus

1-Hour tours in our galleries focus on medium, content, and elements of design.

CUSTOMIZED GROUP PROGRAMS - Grades Pre-K - 12

Have a particular theme or topic you're exploring? Work with our Education Director to tailor a visual arts program to your curricular focus. Visual arts can add cross-disciplinary hands-on creative expression to your non-art curriculum or augment your art curriculum with our specialized staff and object-based inquiry. Program may occur on or off-site and include multiple visits with our staff. Contact the Education Department for more information, scheduling and availability. Fee negotiable.

Art in a Box

Can't make it to the MAC? We'll come to your classroom!

Grades Pre-K to 8

An artist, medium or art theme is the focus of each program - choose from our "Masters", "Media" or "Mixed Bag" series. Using reproductions, storybooks, movement and/or theatre techniques, MAC educators help students make critical observations about artworks and the creative process. Each student then creates an artwork of his or her own using stylistic and compositional elements of the artist, technique or theme studied. Contact the Education Department 3 weeks in advance to book: (860)536-7601 x209, education@mysticarts.org.

Masters

A focus on the artist's work is followed by a project inspired by that
artist~

Media

An immersion in a medium and/or style of art~

Mixed Bag!

A creative exploration of a theme~

Scheduling

Class length: 1-hour. Book a SERIES! Topics above can be explored over 4 - 6 weeks, or mix and match topics of your choice.

Preferred class size 15 students. Up to 25 students possible with minimum 1 chaperone. Materials provided; classrooms with sinks preferred.

Fee: $125 per 1-hour program. Beyond 10 mile radius: Additional charge of $.45 per mile RT*

MAC Grants make it possible for you to participate in programs at a reduced or no fee - please ask when booking for availability!